Imax saw revenue surge to $74 million in the June quarter from $51 million the year before as ticket sales jumped. The stock rebounded too, up nearly 3% in after-market trading on the news. Profit was squeezed by a $3.2 million impairment of a film investment, the company said, due in part to Covid-related lockdowns […]
Let’s get after it. That was the name of former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s SiriusXM show, but it also might be the tagline for his sit down with Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time this Friday. It will be Cuomo’s his first one-on-one TV interview since it was announced earlier this week that he will […]
Roku delivered second-quarter result well below Wall Street’s expectations, blaming a slowdown in TV advertising amid economic uncertainty. The streaming giant said it lost 82 cents a share, compared with a profit of 52 cents in the year-earlier period and posted revenue of $764 million. Analysts had expected a loss of 68 cents and revenue […]
STX is shuttering its UK operation, we understand, with most staff currently in consultation about their options. There will be a number of layoffs. STX declined comment on the situation, which by our estimate could impact at least a dozen employees. When it opened in 2017, STX’s impressive and large London office was a talking […]
Amazon swung to a net loss of 20 cents in the second quarter compared with earnings of 76 cents in the year-ago period, but revenue rose a better-than-expected 7% to $121.2 billion. Investors rewarded the beleaguered stock of the tech giant in after-hours trading, sending it up 11%. The markets had been bracing for worse […]
Mary Alice, an Emmy-winning actor for I’ll Fly Away and a Tony winner for her performance in 1987’s Broadway production of August Wilson’s Fences, died yesterday in New York City. Her age has been variously reported as 80, 84 and 86. Her death was confirmed to Deadline by the New York Police Department. No additional […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman), Darrell Britt-Gibson (We Own This City) and Taissa Farmiga (The Gilded Age) will star in the upcoming romance She Taught Love, which music video helmer Nate Edwards is directing for Marginal Mediaworks, in his feature debut. The film written by Britt-Gibson—in his feature screenwriting debut—is billed as the love story […]
After a bidding war, ABC Signature has secured exclusive TV rights to the extraordinary story of the 2021 football team from the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, CA. ABC Signature and Disney Branded Television are developing the untitled project for Disney+. Oscar winner Troy Kotsur (CODA) will play the team’s coach and executive […]
The moon colony continues. AMC+ has renewed Moonhaven for a second season. The series, which comes from Lodge 49 showrunner Peter Ocko, premiered at the start of July and runs through August 4. It will return with another six episode-run in 2023. The company said that the show has become its number one most-watched AMC+ […]
The final two mega-episodes of Season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things earlier this month ended up giving the series the second-highest weekly viewing total ever in the relatively short history of Nielsen’s streaming ratings, the company said Thursday in releasing numbers for the week of June 27-July 3. The two Season 4, Volume 2 episodes […]
More than 400 prominent female writers and showrunners sent a letter today to the heads of the major studios expressing their “grave concerns” about the companies’ “lack of specific production protocols” to protect their workers in anti-abortion states. The letters, which state that “it is unacceptable to ask any person to choose between their human […]
Focus Features’ Book Club 2 – The Next Chapter, which will see the reteam of Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, will be hitting theaters on Mother’s Day, May 12, 2023 as a wide release. There are no other wide releases on that weekend. Focus Features is distributing the movie stateside, while […]
Disney+ is developing a live-action television series adaptation of Eragon, based on Christopher Paolini’s popular YA book series The Inheritance Cycle. Eragon is the first book in the series. Paolini will co-write the series and executive produce with Bert Salke executive producing via his Co-Lab 21 banner as part of his deal with Disney Television […]
The time has come to bid farewell to the South by Southwest Film Festival. Well, the name, at least. SXSW said today that its annual ode to the screen is rebranding as the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, owing to the growing number of episodics in the screening program. It’s been a decade […]
EXCLUSIVE: Summer of Soul producer RadicalMedia has hired New York attorney and business strategist Candice Cook Simmons as Chief Strategy Officer. Cook Simmons joins the company from the Cook Law Group, which she founded in 2010. Her professional background includes entertainment, consumer products, technology and fintech. She has served as an adviser to Venmo co-founder Iqram […]
EXCLUSIVE: Faraway Road Productions, the production label founded by Fauda creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff and which was acquired this year by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media, has hired Salome Peillon and Adi Ezroni, as Chief Operating Officer and EVP of Content, respectively. With offices in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles, Peillon will oversee […]
Abel Ferrara, Shia LaBeouf And Steve Buscemi Head To Venice Sidebar Giornate Degli Autori Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio, starring Shia LaBeouf as the controversial 20th-Century monk, will be among the 10 films world premiering in competition in parallel Venice sidebar Giornate degli Autori (August 31 to September 10). Other contenders include Canadian filmmaker Graham Foy’s […]
The Toronto International Film Festival is back this year. Seriously, they’re really back. Unlike last year which was a significantly quieter festival with fewer stars and feature films at a count of 130, this year TIFF will see the celebratory closing down of King Street (sans streetcars), full capacity maskless theaters, no proof of vaccinations, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Key programming continues for the 20th annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF) taking place August 5th – 13th. The festival continues its slate of programming with featured content celebrating Black voices, with documentaries and the signature Q&A series, Color of Conversation from Run & Shoot Filmworks, and Festival Co-Founders Floyd and Stephanie […]
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell sees considerable “choppiness” in the advertising business, but believes the increase in competition in ad-supported streaming is a “validation” of the model chosen for Peacock, the company’s 2-year old streaming service. While he didn’t mention Netflix or Disney+ by name, both have announced their high-profile entry into ad-supported streaming, but Shell […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fortress star Kelly Greyson has joined the cast of MR-9, the Frank Grillo-starring spy action-thriller adapted from the James Bond-influenced Masud Rana novels. Greyson will play Gia, lead henchwoman and mistress of villain Roman Ross, who is being played by Captain America star Grillo. Greyson has just starred in Fortress and Fortress 2 alongside the likes of Bruce […]
In recent years, the global TV landscape has been shaken up by some of the most talented, British and Irish female auteurs to have braced this planet. The likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Michaela Coel have wowed audiences around the world, lending new credence to the term “authenticity” and forging disruptive shows that have little […]
France’s TF1 Group has posted a positive set of results for the first half of 2022, as Covid-19 pandemic challenges which weighed on turnover in 2020 and 2021 continue to subside. The results followed news on the Wednesday (July 27) that the France’s competition authority had raised concerned about the group’s plans to merge with […]
The long-gestating Peaky Blinders feature film spin-off is to film at writer Steven Knight’s studios in Birmingham. Speaking to British radio station Heart FM, Knight also confirmed he was close to completing the script for the film, which will follow on from the final sixth season that dropped earlier this year. The film has long […]
eOne Hires Universal International Studios’ Christopher Kennedy For Development Post Entertainment One has hired Christopher Kennedy from Universal International Studios as Development Executive – UK, Television. In the new role, Kennedy will oversee development for the studio’s original scripted drama slate, with a focus on relationships with top-tier UK talent. He’ll be based in London […]
