Mammoth Screen’s World on Fire exec Helen Ziegler has joined the ITV drama commissioning team along with two other staffers to expand new streamer ITVX. Ziegler, a UK drama veteran, will help lead on the streaming service, which kicked off earlier this month and is aiming to stream one new show a week, with a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Cox (Succession), Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) and Emilio Villa-Muhammad (The Man Who Fell to Earth) are heading up the all-star cast of Audible Original title Oliver Twist, produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (1917). Released today on Audible, the adaptation of Dickens’ classic will also star Kit Connor (Heartstopper), Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy […]
The Real Housewives of Miami is returning for Season 5 and Peacock just released their brand new taglines. Alexia Nepola: “In Miami, the sun brings the heat but I bring the fire.” Larsa Pippen: “Hate all you want ’cause if I were you, I’d hate me too.” Guerdy Abraira: “The only thing that moves faster […]
Samuel L. Jackson on the comments made by Quentin Tarantino regarding actors that participate in Marvel films getting overshadowed by the characters they portray. “It takes an actor to be those particular characters,” Jackson said on The View when asked about Tarantino’s remarks. “And the sign of movie stardom has always been, what, asses in […]
Joe Pesci is looking back at his time filming Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and recalled getting “serious burns” during one of the memorable scenes from the holiday movie. “In addition to the expected bumps, bruises, and general pains that you would associate with that particular type of physical humor, I did sustain […]
MGM COO Chris Brearton, who was just named VP, PVS (Prime Video Studios) Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative, has unveiled his team. In a company memo (you can read it below in full), he confirmed Deadline’s reports that Michael Wright will remain head of MGM+ and MGM’s head of unscripted Barry Poznick also will […]
It’s official – Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, will also oversee MGM, the venerable film and TV studio, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year for $8.5 billion. Additionally, MGM’s COO Chris Brearton will take on a new role, VP, PVS Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television. Mike Hopkins, SVP, Prime Video […]
Jake Flint, a country music singer-guitarist from Oklahoma, has died at 37, his manager Brenda Cline announced on social media. No cause of death was revealed. “With a broken heart and in deep grief I must announce that Jake Flint has tragically passed away,” Cline shared on Facebook. “I’ve tried several times today to make […]
It’s been a busy week at Amazon as the restructure involving MGM takes hold. Deadline revealed earlier today that Lindsay Sloane and Rola Bauer were handed key roles within MGM’s new scripted TV structure. The company is also known for producing a swathe of unscripted series including The Voice, Survivor and Shark Tank as well […]
Christina Hall is trading the California coast for a Tennessee farm in Christina in the Country. The designer is expanding her business across the country in the Christina on the Coast spinoff that is set to premiere on Thursday, January 12 at 8 p.m. ET on HGTV. “My new favorite project EVER,” Hall posted on […]
A media sector squeezed by streaming losses, anemic stocks, layoffs and executive turmoil unveiled its latest casualties Tuesday: 20% of AMC Networks’ U.S. staff, or about 200 people, along with the departure of CEO Christina Spade. The news follows Bob Chapek’s equally sudden departure last Sunday from Disney after a quarter of hefty streaming losses […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fox has a lot to be thankful for this week. After three days of delayed viewing, The Masked Singer‘s Thanksgiving episode drew the network’s highest-rated Thursday original telecast in over six years. The episode, which was the Season 8 semifinals, scored a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic, according to Live+3 Day Nielsen data. […]
Disney said an upcoming restructuring under new/old CEO Bob Iger could result in impairment charges. It also noted that, as expected, it’s acquired the remaining 15% of streaming tech company BamTech it didn’t already own, paying $900 million. The news was tucked in a long year-end SEC filing today after a tumultuous ten days for […]
Jen Shah of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has signed with CGEM Talent in all areas. The Bravo star is an original cast member of the franchise since its inception in 2020 with three seasons under her belt. News of Shah’s signing with CGEM comes as her sentencing was recently pushed back until […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Big D, the dating competition hosted by The Bachelorette alums JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rogers, has found a new home after its surprising cancellation at TBS. Deadline understands that USA Network is picking up the ten-part series. We’re hearing that a deal is on the verge of closing. It comes after the entertainment format was […]
The Motion Picture Sound Editors said today that Gwendolyn Yates Whittle will receive its 2023 MPSE Career Achievement Award during the group’s 70th annual Golden Reel Awards in February. Supervising sound editor Whittle is a two-time Oscar nominee for Avatar and Tron: Legacy and has won six Golden Reels on 20 career nominations spanning 1998-2022. […]
Winter in Los Angeles means cold nights, Santa Anas, a traffic crush around malls and, for the past few years, a surge in Covid cases. Over the past two weeks, the 7-day average test positivity in L.A. County has grown more than 100%, from 6.5% the Wednesday before last to 14.7% today, public health officials […]
On this Giving Tuesday, the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation is asking the entertainment industry to dig a little deeper to help those in need. The Foundation assists members of the motion picture distribution and exhibition community in need of help. This year alone, more than 700 people affected by Hurricanes Fiona and Ian […]
EXCLUSIVE: Two rising all-star lit managers, Harry Lengsfield & Sam Warren, have joined Grandview effective immediately. They bring with them a blockbuster roster of clients working across film and tv, including:Emmy-winning creator Michael Waldron, Emmy-winning creator Jeff Loveness, Kaz & Ryan Firpo, Independent Spirit Award winning writer/showrunner Andy Siara, writer/director Christy Hall, Colby Day and […]
EXCLUSIVE: After recently restructuring Amazon Studios’ original content operations, Head of Television Vernon Sanders is now setting up the MGM scripted TV leadership with new roles for Lindsay Sloane, Senior EVP of MGM Scripted TV, and Rola Bauer, President of International TV for MGM. He laid out the reorganization in an internal memo, a copy of […]
The Nintendo Direct YouTube channel unveiled the second trailer today for Illumination’s Super Mario Bros Movie. In it, we see Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) entering a cheering arena where he faces off with Donkey Kong voiced by Seth Rogen. Mario jumps and the big ape catches the little guy in mid air before whacking […]
