The Fox News chyron blared, “Tempers flare as Hunter Biden crashes contempt hearing.” But on Wednesday, the network was joined by the two other major news networks in focusing on the legal travails of the president’s son. Biden unexpectedly made an appearance at the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on whether to hold him in contempt […]
The BBC has given additional credit to the man who discovered the fossilized remains of the pliosaur at the center of a critically acclaimed David Attenborough doc, after facing criticism for “airbrushing” him out. The lack of credit for amateur fossil hunter Philip Jacobs in Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monsters caused more than 5,000 […]
Nominations for the 30th annual SAG Awards are being announced Wednesday morning in a presentation hosted by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani, who are revealing nominees in five movie, eight TV and two stunt categories beginning at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET. Already, the guild’s stunt nominees have been revealed. Check below as the noms […]
Keanu Reeves and British writer China Miéville will co-author a novel, The Book of Elsewhere, with Random House imprint Del Rey set to publish in July, the imprint announced today. The novel – Reeves’ first – is set in the world the BRZRKR comic series Reeves created with writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney. […]
Prime Video and Amazon Studios will see layoffs affecting several hundred workers, according to an internal memo this morning from SVP Mike Hopkins. In Hopkins’ memo, provided to Deadline by Amazon (read it below), he alludes to a review of the company’s business operations across all of its divisions. As a result of that process, […]
EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films is returning its Oscar-shortlisted documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President to select cinemas over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. The film directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp will play at IFC Center in New York, the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, CA, and San Francisco’s […]
Mean Girls 2024, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., and starring a vibrant ensemble including Renée Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, Angourie Rice, Tina Fey (who also wrote the screenplay), Jaquel Spivey, and many others. This musical adaptation brings the classic 2004 teen comedy into the modern era with updated cultural references and a more […]
Gold House and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) debuted the fourth annual Gold List to guide voters during the awards race by honoring the most outstanding work in film by Asian Pacific creatives in the past year, as voted on by the community’s industry leaders. Notable winners this year include Past Lives (including […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Crown‘s success has helped bestow gifts upon the employees of Left Bank Pictures. As the curtain fell on the Netflix series, staffers at the British production company pocketed bonuses totaling more than £10M ($13M) in March last year. The payday was disclosed in a UK Companies House filing by Sony Pictures Television, which […]
The European Film Academy has unveiled its new board which has been voted in under updated guidelines aimed at ensuring a more balanced geographical representation of its members. Three incumbent board members have been re-elected for a fresh two-year term running from 2024-25. Mike Downey (Ireland/UK) will continue as chair of the board with Joanna […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures International Productions is ramping up two sequels to 2023 German box office hit The Three Investigators – Legacy of the Dragon (Die Drei ??? – Erbe des Drachen). Both adventure mysteries are co-productions from Wiedemann & Berg Film and Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion in cooperation with Kosmos Verlag. The sequels, The Three […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Whishaw will reunite with director Ira Sachs to shoot an “intimate” movie about photo artist Peter Hujar. Until his death from AIDS in 1987, Hujar was a leading figure in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers at the forefront of Manhattan’s downtown cultural scene. The untitled film follows Passages, the acclaimed picture Sachs […]
The ink has dried on SAG-AFTRA’s deal with the AMPTP but, in the UK negotiations between union and producer will soon kick off, and the threat of strike action looms large for the first time this generation. While the British system works very differently to its cousin on the other side of the pond, this […]
Apple TV+ exec Jay Hunt has been confirmed as the next chair of the British Film Institute (BFI). Hunt, who has commissioned the likes of Slow Horses, Bad Sisters, and Tiny World at the streamer, joins the BFI for a term of four years commencing 16 February 2024 at the appointment of the UK’s Culture, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has taken a £39.7M ($50.5M) hit on Silvergate Media, the Peter Rabbit producer it acquired for $195M in 2019. Sony declared the impairment in accounts for Columbia Pictures Corporation Limited, the parent company for its operations in the UK, where Silvergate was founded in 2011. Columbia Pictures Corporation did not provide […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jodie Comer starred in one-woman play Prima Facie and won a slew of major awards. The actress is now narrating an audiobook based on the stage show’s eponymous novel. The audiobook, which comes from Macmillan Audio, comes out on January 30. Suzie Miller, Prima Facie’s playwright, adapted it for the page. It comes after Comer won both […]
Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor, Jacob Elordi and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri have been nominated for the prestigious BAFTA Film Rising Star Award 2024. The quintet is completed by Mia McKenna-Bruce, who led hit British indie pic How to Have Sex, and Talk to Me’s Sophie Wilde. Nominees were announced by actor and producer Stephen Graham […]
The Governors Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is always one of the annual Hollywood nights I look forward to, one that delivers Honorary Oscars in a non-televised but always warm, fun, and inspiring evening. I have attended every single one of them, and even wrote the 2nd Governors Awards, but […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Spanish Civil War drama being helmed by The Handmaid’s Tale EP Matthew Hastings has found its scribe. Irma Correa, whose past credits include Netflix Spain hits Alba and If Only, is penning the drama, which was first revealed by Deadline in 2022 and is produced by My Life with the Walter Boys indie […]
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video’s UK arm has pre-bought a suite of true crime docs about some of Britain’s most notorious crimes. The deals with London-based distributor Abacus Media Rights also include acquisitions of two completed series. On the pre-buy front, the Amazon streamer has taken Woodcut Media double Murder in a Tea Cup and Murder at […]
Greta Gerwig may be coming off a record-breaking year with box office smash Barbie but the screenwriter and director has revealed she is feeling intimidated by her next project, the adaptation for Netflix of C.S. Lewis children’s classic The Chronicles Of Narnia. “I’m slightly in the place of terror because I really do have such […]
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about Bible John, one of Britain’s most notorious unidentified serial killers. The as-yet-untitled show is understood to be in early-stage development with the BBC drama division. Buccaneer Media, which produces the likes of Irvine Welsh adaptation Crime and Paramount+ series The Burning Girls, is behind the development. […]
Masked gunmen stormed a live studio broadcast in Guayaquil, Ecuador last night. The group broke into public network TC’s studio and terrified staff, holding a program host at gunpoint and showing off their guns and grenades before the broadcast was cut off. The terrifying scene shows the masked gunmen shouting at staff and holding shotguns, […]
Longtime Love & Marriage: Huntsville star Martell Holt was arrested today on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office said he was booked into its jail for third-degree domestic violence and harassing communications around 4 p.m. local time and released about three hours later. Deadline has reached out to OWN, which airs […]
Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon’s blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let’s not give the playwright overmuch credit for foresight: The play, opening tonight at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after a sold-out run Off Broadway in 2022, would have been as […]
