EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has added to the cast of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner’s series, from The Disaster Artist‘s producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Caviar. Christopher Stanley (Mad Men), W Earl Brown (The Book of Boba Fett), Josh Pais (The Dropout), and Irina Maleeva (The Merchant of Venice) will recur, while James Remar (Yellowstone), Paul Ben-Victor (Pam […]
Paul Coker Jr., whose character and production designs for the classic Rankin/Bass stop-motion and animated holiday specials and his many years as one of Mad magazine’s “Usual Gang Of Idiots” endeared him to generations of fans, died following a brief illness at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 23. He was 93. […]
To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s hit stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel currently on a lengthy Covid-prompted hiatus, will not return to Broadway after all, and both Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher are blaming the original lead producer Scott Rudin. According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Sorkin and Sher notified […]
Before the prolonged agony of his multimillion dollar defamation trial with ex Amber Heard, Johnny Depp had some fun doing what he does best: creating a delightfully eccentric character. The project was a trailer for a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Sea Of Dawn from Changyou, the Chinese company behind the hit free-to-play MMORPG Dragon […]
EXCLUSIVE: Director Drew Walkup, and writers Adam Armstrong and Marcus DeVivo—the creative team behind the upcoming indie thriller Endangered—have signed with Zero Gravity Management for representation. The trio’s debut feature centers on an aspiring architect, who spends her evenings trying to make ends meet as a ride-share driver. While wrapping up her shift, she decides […]
EXCLUSIVE: E! has released details on its first of six original scripted romantic comedy movies. The network has begun production on Married By Mistake (working title), with Chloe Bennet, Blair Penner and Anthony Konechny set to lead the cast. Married by Mistake follows Riley (Bennet) who, after learning that her dream job has fallen through, has a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco (Crash) and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have partnered with Midnight Run scribe George Gallo and John Gotti Jr. to develop the series Betrayal examining John Gotti and the Fall of La Cosa Notra. The New York gangster—otherwise known as the Teflon Don, the Dapper Don—was a Caesar, an Emperor… a […]
Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in an adaptation of David Grann’s book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder from director Martin Scorsese that has been set up at Apple, Deadline can confirm. The project follows their collaboration on Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which is likewise based on a non-fiction […]
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve just learned about the remaining cast for Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate’s adventure horror thriller Creepers with Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Laurence O’Faurain, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Skylan Brooks and Kai Caster joining. The film, which begins production this week in Bulgaria, is directed by music video and commercial filmmaker Marc Klasfeld. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American right to Genevieve Adams’ dramedy Simchas and Sorrows, along with worldwide rights to Peter Curtis Pardini’s doc The Last Band on Stage, and North American rights to Jaclyn Bethany’s queer thriller, The Falling World. The Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company will release the former title at the Laemmle […]
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey is set to star in Dallas Sting, the fact-based story of how a group of Dallas high school girls headed to China in 1984 as the ultimate underdog and beat some of the best women’s teams from China, Australia and Italy. The film was developed by Skydance and Berlanti Schechter Productions. Apple, […]
Warner Bros is looking to excite family audiences that have OD’ed on Minions: The Rise of Gru with a new animated movie this weekend, the Dwayne Johnson- and Kevin Hart-voiced DC League of Super-Pets. The pic directed by Jared Stern and Sam Levine made $2.2M in Thursday night previews at 3,200 theaters. Industry estimates earlier […]
UPDATED throughout: In a just posted video that is 5 minutes, 44 seconds long, Will Smith has broken his silence about the regrettable “slap heard around the world,” in which he struck Oscar presenter Chris Rock after he made fun of Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith. This before Smith was awarded Best Actor Oscar honors. […]
Charter Communications followed Comcast’s uneven financial report on Thursday with its own mixed batch of results, which featured an unusual decline in broadband subscribers but also key metrics above Wall Street expectations. Revenue increased 6% to $13.6 billion, edging Wall Street analysts’ consensus forecast of $13.4 billion. Earnings per share of $8.80 far outpaced the […]
Paramount Global has unveiled Pamela Kaufman as an effective replacement for Raffaelle Annecchino, overseeing international. Kaufman takes up one of the biggest roles within the U.S. studio in the newly-created position of President and CEO of International Markets, Global Consumer Products & Experiences. She will be responsible for driving the continued growth of Paramount’s international […]
Hello and welcome to another week that was in international entertainment. Jesse Whittock here, back to guide you through the big stories and scoops. Also, a warm welcome to another new face in our London office, Zac Ntim, who’s joined us as International Film Reporter. Drop him a note and say hello. Festival Fever Returns Very nice, […]
Comcast-owned Sky has become the first major British network to greenlight commissions of scale written and directed by a person with Down Syndrome, the pay-TV giant has said. The network has ordered two shows from Otto Baxter, short film The Puppet Asylum and companion doc Otto Baxter: Not a Fucking Horror Story. Both will be […]
YouTube EMEA Regional Boss Ben McOwen Wilson is stepping down after more than a decade leading the Google-owned platform across the region. McOwen Wilson is departing YouTube but staying with Google, as he gets set to lead the Google Play app store in EMEA next week. McOwen Wilson delivered the news on Twitter earlier, stating […]
International sales agents Hengameh Panahi, Grégoire Melin, producers Philippe Rousselet, Didar Domehri and directors Jacques Audiard and Michel Gondry have been named as the members of France’s new-look Oscar committee. They will be joined by veteran Gaumont executive Ariane Toscan du Plantier. The announcement by the National Cinema Centre (CNC) follows news this week that the […]
Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro is gearing up for the lakeside event’s 75th-anniversary edition from August 3 to 13. In his second year in the job, he has pulled together an eclectic programme spanning mainstream Hollywood and experimental filmmaking. David Leitch’s action-comedy Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, makes its international festival premiere as […]
Jeremy Kyle is to deputize for Piers Morgan on Morgan’s Talk TV show Uncensored over the summer. Kyle’s Talk Radio show is simulcast on Talk TV during the days and he also hosts opinion show The Talk with Sharon Osbourne, meaning his face will dominate much of the Rupert Murdoch-backed network’s summer coverage. Kyle will […]
I Hate Suzie star Billie Piper’s back injury will have no impact on filming of the BAFTA-winning show’s second season, as the incident took place during a post-filming promotional shoot. I Hate Suzie network Sky and Piper’s reps have clarified that, contrary to earlier reports, the fall sustained during a Strictly Come Dancing-style scene happened […]
The latest UK TV and film studio is to open in October in Anglesey, North Wales, a £1.6M ($2M) facility that will contain 20,000 sqft of filming space. Facilities have been popping up all over the UK over the past year to take advantage of the current production boom and Aria Studios is being established […]
Only a week after the head of the BBC pledged never to broadcast again its discredited Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, it emerges that extracts from the 1995 program will be included in a documentary to be shown on Sky and Now TV next month. The Princess, a documentary directed by Ed Perkins […]
Sir Christopher Meyer, the UK’s former ambassador to the US, has died aged 78. UK press reported that Sir Christopher died after suffering a stroke while on holiday in the French Alps. The long-time diplomat’s six years in Washington came during the Bill Clinton and George W Bush eras of presidency. He was sent to […]
