EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff Ballerina starring Ana de Armas will be delayed a year from June 7, 2024 to June 6, 2025. The move comes as John Wick architect Chad Stahelski has inked a new deal with Lionsgate to oversee the franchise. He’s working with Ballerina director Len Wiseman on additional action sequences for […]
2500 Media, the Los Angeles-based production company founded by former WME non-scripted packaging agent and partner Sean Perry, has named its senior management team. Perry launched 2500 Media early last summer and a few months later signed a deal with Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media, which includes an exclusive unscripted agreement between 2500 Media and Pilgrim, as […]
A coalition of leading feature directors led by Juno‘s Jason Reitman has finalized its acquisition of Westwood’s historic 93-year-old movie palace, the Village Theater. Other top filmmakers joining him as investors in the deal, first spotlighted recently by The Ankler, include J.J. Abrams, Judd Apatow, Damien Chazelle, Chris Columbus, Ryan Coogler, Bradley Cooper, Alfonso Cuarón, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television has landed the rights to Django Wexler’s fantasy novel How to Become a Dark Lord (and Die Trying) and is developing it with Godzilla vs Kong director Adam Wingard. The company snapped up the rights to the book in a competitive battle. Wingard has history with Legendary, having directed Godzilla vs Kong […]
There’s an old saying that the back rules the man. Sylvester Stallone knows it, having undergone seven surgeries to fix a back problem that started with wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin and a stunt that went bad. In the second season of The Family Stallone, Stallone talked about his battle with a back injury first […]
Los Angeles’ Ethics Commission has rejected Les Moonves’ $11,250 settlement with the city over information leaked to the once powerful CBS CEO by an LAPD officer about sexual assault allegations. The vote against Moonves was unanimous. The Ethics Commission also voted 4-0 to “disapprove” a $2500 settlement with ex-CBS VP Ian Metrose. In an agreement […]
Skydance Sports is bolstering its team with the promotion of Ashley Nendick to chief financial officer, and the addition of Marjorie Williams as SVP, Business & Legal Affairs. Nendick joined SkyDance in 2016, most recently serving as SVP, Corporate Finance & Strategy Williams, an entertainment lawyer, has worked in business affairs at Amazon Studios, UTA, […]
There will be more wide releases at the box office this weekend –three, in fact– but they’re not expected to make a dent before Legendary/Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Two brings everybody back on March 1 with a hopeful $80M start. Focus Features’ Ethan Coen-directed femme comedy caper Drive-Away Dolls, Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba […]
BuzzFeed is selling Complex to NTWRK for $108.6 million in cash plus $5.7 million for use of NYC office space, severance and other employee costs. It also announced a strategic restructuring including laying off 16% of its workforce that it expects will save $23 million a year. The company will discuss details on Feb. 28 […]
Paul D’Amato, the actor who played the gloriously vicious Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken opposite Paul Newman in Slap Shot, has died after a long battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain condition which is similar to Parkinson’s disease. The news was shared online by his longtime partner (and fellow actor) Marina Re. He was […]
Nic Pizzolatto, creator of the True Detective franchise, has been vocal about his distaste for Season 4 of the HBO drama that stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Although Pizzolatto is credited as executive producer for the fourth season, he was not involved with the series that Issa López wrote, executive produced, and directed. Following […]
Joe Biden wrapped up his Los Angeles visit today with brief remarks at a Culver City library to talk about the administration’s plans to cancel the student debt of more than 150,000 borrowers. The original plan was blocked by the Supreme Court, but was revised so that borrowers who have been in the Saving on […]
Jay Pharoah (SNL, The Blackening) has been set as the host of Fox’s new game The Quiz with Balls. The series is set to premiere this summer. As Deadline exclusively revealed earlier this month, the quiz show pits brains against balls combining a high-stakes quiz show with a large-scale physical competition. Each episode features two […]
EXCLUSIVE: Julia Fox is set to star as the female lead alongside Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers in Monkeypaw’s Goat for Universal Pictures. Justin Tipping is directing. The project, based on a Black List script by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie, centers on a promising young athlete who is invited to train with a team’s […]
Fabrizio Guido (Good Burger 2), Toby Sandeman (Power Book III: Raising Kanan), Chet Hanks (Your Honor), Keyla Monterroso Mejia (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Roberto Sanchez (Queen of the South) have joined the cast of Mindy Kaling’s Netflix series, set in the world of pro basketball, starring Kate Hudson. In addition to Hudson, they join previously announced cast Brenda […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in […]
