EXCLUSIVE: TV and film writers will want to circle this one in their calendars: Poor Things and The Favourite producer Element Pictures is launching Storyhouse, a new Dublin-based screenwriting festival that will celebrate storytellers and storytelling. Speakers at the first edition include Poor Things writer and Oscar nominee Tony McNamara, Arthur Harari, who won a […]
The Kinepolis Group – which operates 109 cinemas worldwide with 1,131 screens and more than 200,000 seats – has posted record results for 2023. The Belgium-based international exhibitor said it had achieved its highest ever revenue, thanks to a 20.6% hike in visitors to 35.3M, adding that the results were a sign that it had […]
Kevin Macdonald Helming Klitschko Doc For Sky Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald is helming a Vitali Klitschko documentary feature for Sky. Produced by Docsville Studios and Sky Studios, Klitschko: The Fight of his Life (working title) will gain access to the former heavyweight boxing world champion along with his brother Wladimir, who together dominated the sport for more […]
EXCLUSIVE: ITV is on the hunt for a Mr Bates vs the Post Office successor and has landed on the devastating contaminated blood scandal, with Peter Moffat attached. Double-BAFTA winner Moffat is writing the untitled series based on what took place in the 1970s and 1980s, which ITV is describing as the “biggest health scandal […]
Viaplay has posted organic group sales for Q4 up 3.4% and saw comparable losses shorten, as the Scandi streamer continues to reshape its business after a brutal 2023. Sales stood at SEK4.3B ($419M) in Q4 of 2023, compared with SEK4.67B a year prior, and the operating loss (before associated company income and items affecting comparability) […]
Raine Allen Miller’s debut feature Rye Lane, Adjani Salmon’s Dreaming Whilst Black, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical were among the top winners at the sixth edition of the CDG Casting Awards. Scross down for the full list of winners. Kharmel Cochrane picked up the Best Casting in an Independent Film award for her work […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bodhi Talent, the UK talent agency accused of sending clients fake auditions and paying actors late, has filed for closure. The company, which boasted clients including soap stars Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks) and Nicola Stapleton (EastEnders), has applied to the UK’s Companies House to be dissolved. It follows a Deadline exposé on Bodhi earlier this […]
London’s Metropolitan Police will take no further action against suspended GB News anchor Dan Wootton. The police had examined allegations that Wootton used fake online identities and offered money to others for explicit material of themselves. Wootton has previously said he made “errors of judgement” but denied criminality. A Met Police spokesman told the BBC: […]
Vice Studios docs boss Alex Moore is exiting to join Banijay label Dragonfly. The two-time Oscar winner will take up a newly-created role as Executive Vice President Documentaries and Unscripted as the Ambulance and Then Barbara Met Alan label, which is being given more funding of late, pushes into the premium space. Reporting into MD […]
Welcome to Deadline’s London TV Screenings list, our definitive look at next week’s buzzy event taking Soho by storm. If you’re wondering who’s exhibiting, what’s on offer and want to dive deeper into the distribs’ strategy, we’ve done the hard work for you, presenting profiles from nearly 30 exhibiting sales houses. Below, check out profiles […]
The Visual Effects Society bowed before The Creator tonight. New Regency’s sci-fi flick scored a leading five trophies including Outstanding VFX in a Photoreal Feature at the 35th annual VES Awards. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — hot off dominating the Annie Awards over the weekend — picked up four awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in […]
Zendaya is about to take her image and shake it up, judging from the steamy second trailer for her new film. Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on […]
Micheline Presle, the French actress whose controversial Devil in the Flesh role was the start of a career that included starring opposite John Garfield, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Paul Newman, has died at 101. Presle died Wednesday in the Paris suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, her son-in-law, Olivier Bomsel, told Le Figaro. Presle portrayed a nurse having an […]
The LAUSD Education Foundation is embarking on a major capital campaign to benefit the musical instrument repair operation documented in the Oscar-nominated film The Last Repair Shop. The $15 million campaign, revealed at an event at Hollywood High School Tuesday night, will invest in the repair workshop’s skilled craftspeople and support staff, and fund “a […]
In great times of despair, come great surprises. That’s what happened in early 2022 as the specialty box office was looking to regain its footing after the Omicron variant: Just when we thought all was lost, A24 showed up with a rare gem, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and provided arthouses some much-needed heat. The […]
Barbie, Poor Things and Saltburn took the top film prizes at the 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at NeueHouse in Hollywood. Poor Things costume designer Holly Waddingham won for Period Film, and Saltburn‘s Sophie Canale took Contemporary Film. The night’s first film prize went to last year’s biggest film, with Jacqueline […]
Even though they’d save money on clothes, Mark Ruffalo feels a sequel to The Incredible Hulk might be too expensive. Speaking with GQ, Ruffalo said he thought Marvel’s “expansion into streaming was really exciting. But the thing about Marvel movies is, you had to wait three years and that created a mystique.” That’s been somewhat diluted in […]
American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault for the third time in less than two months. “What should have been a quick two-minute ride ended up being a ten-to-fifteen minute sexual assault and battery in which plaintiff was trapped in Lythgoe’s vehicle,” alleges a battery, gender violence and emotional distress complaint […]
We’ll be seeing more of Kayla and Jimmy in the upcoming third season of Hacks. Megan Stalter and Paul W. Downs, who have recurred as the characters since Season 1, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming season set for premiere this spring. Downs, who serves as co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer, writer and […]
If it’s the end of the film industry as we know it, Natalie Portman feels fine. In a Vanity Fair interview, Natalie Portman said she is thankful that cinema is shifting among younger viewers. “The striking thing has been the decline of film as a primary form of entertainment. It feels much more niche now,” […]
“Please make me a good wife to Wolf,” murmurs Agnes (Anja Plaschg) on her marriage night, head bowed in front of the crucifix she has already set up in the conjugal bedroom of the tumbledown stone farmhouse where she will live from now on. Wolf (David Scheid) is meanwhile carousing with his fellow villagers at […]
ABC and Disney might be feeling a little under the weather right now. The network and Mouse House owners have lost their attempt to dismiss a discrimination suit by two General Hospital crew member over Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Now, the religious discrimination action will go to trial unless ABC wants to make a deal to […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Chief Communications Officer Robert Lawson is being upped to SVP, Corporate Communications for the entire Sony Group. The new job will bring Lawson, a nine-year vet of the Culver City lot who was a key consigliere during the 2014 cyber-attack, to Sony HQ in Tokyo, Japan, reporting to Sony Group Corp Chairman […]
SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers won’t be going to the animated mattresses. The union and the studios have a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract extension covering toon features. The deal basically extends their contract reached in 2020. SAG-AFTRA called it, verbosely, “a tentative agreement on successor agreements to […]
Roku has released the first trailer for The Spiderwick Chronicles, ahead of the fantasy series’ April launch. “This town is full of stories,” says Christian Slater’s’ Mulgarath as he sets the scene at the beginning of the teaser. “Some are darker than others. What kind of creatures are lurking inside Spiderwick?” Per the series official […]
