Sonia Rovai and Annamaria Morelli have been named as the new bosses of Wildside and The Apartment, respectively. Former Sky Italia exec Rovai has become CEO of Wildside and Morelli CEO of the Apartment, following the exits of Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli, who today unveiled co-production deal with Fremantle through their new business. The two […]
Following their departures as CEOs of Fremantle’s Wildside and The Apartment, Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli have struck a co-production deal with their old employer Fremantle on several projects as they unveil their new company. More details about the new company, whose name was not revealed today, will be “announced in the near future.” Gianani […]
Dave Myers, one of half of the Hairy Bikers TV presenting duo, has died aged 66. He has passed away two years after revealing a cancer diagnosis. The much-loved star passed away “peacefully at home” yesterday, his Hairy Bikers co-star Si King said in a message on social media, surround by his wife, King and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rebel Moon star Staz Nair is replacing Sacha Dhawan as lead of upcoming Bradford-set BBC crime thriller Virdee. Doctor Who star Dhawan has dropped out due to scheduling issues, Deadline is told, and will be replaced in the Harry Virdee role by the actor who has also appeared in Game of Thrones and Supergirl. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ghana’s fast-developing film sector has received a significant vote of confidence from the country’s government as President Nana Akufo-Addo sets plans to introduce a new tax rebate system for film productions. As part of the new law, the country will offer a 20% tax rebate for strategic film productions alongside a series of film […]
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson, now best known as the director behind beautiful, taut features like Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, wrote to Swedish screen legend Ingmar Bergman sometime in the early 2000s with an idea. Bergman’s response was characteristically colorful. “What the hell is this? What do you mean?” […]
Former HBO Europe execs Johnathan Young and Ioanina Pavel have resurfaced with their own indie. The pair have launched May One, which will be based in Bucharest, Romania — one of the former homes of HBO Europe. They are out of the gate with Subteran, a Netflix series announced last October that is produced alongside […]
EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film’s Crown-esque high-end drama series Maxima has sold to networks in Lat Am, Israel and across Europe. The series, which is one of the German major’s biggest being shopped at the London TV Screenings, will air on Hot in Israel and on Warner Bros. Discovery networks across Latin America following the deals. Other […]
It’s 50 and counting for Dragon’s Den. The Sony Pictures Television and Nippon TV entrepreneurial business format, known in the U.S. as Shark Tank, has scored a remake in Bangladesh, marking its fiftieth version around the world. The Bangladeshi version, Shark Tank Bangladesh, will launch on Bongo and Deepto TV this spring, having first launched […]
American Cinematographer Ed Lachman will be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival. Lachman was born on March 31, 1946. His grandfather owned several vaudeville theatres in the 1920s, which were later converted into movie houses, co-managed with Lachman’s father, a film theatre distributor who later acquired a small […]
Ray Winstone appeared in Marvel’s Black Widow, which came out in 2021 and which starred Scarlett Johansson as the titular character. It was not fun, he said in this week’s issue of Radio Times, as he revealed his experience playing the film’s villain, Russian general Dreykov. “It was fine until you have to do the […]
The *NSYNC reunion at the MTV Video Music Awards wasn’t the last hurrah. Justin Timberlake, 43 has teased a new song, Paradise, with JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone, which will appear on his upcoming album, Everything I Thought It Was. Timberlake teased the project today when he responded to a fan’s […]
The late Alan Watts, a philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation, is getting a new publishing deal more than 50 years after his death. Independent music publisher Third Side Music (TSM) has signed a new global creative publishing deal with The Alan Watts Organization to foster creative music […]
AMC Entertainment’s much talked about preshow commercial starring an earnest Nicole Kidman in a glittery pantsuit will have three new iterations, CEO Adam Aron said today, as the exhibitor plans to start rotating a trio of 30-second spots in theaters nationwide on March 1. That campaign “took on like a cult-like nature, and became […]
Electronic Arts, which makes such games as Madden NFL and Apex Legends, said today that it plans to lay off five percent of its employees and will discontinue work on several games. The announcement continues the ongoing downsizing in the gaming and tech space, a development that has seen thousands of jobs lost. EA said […]
In honor of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airing its 25th season, Rockefeller Plaza is celebrating Mariska Hargitay, aka the show’s Detective Olivia Benson. She is now the longest-running female actress on primetime television, and will receive an immersive exhibit dedicated to all things Benson and SVU. The exhibit is planned for two days (March […]
Alan Ritchson is opening up about why he lost two major roles in Thor and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In a new interview, the Reacher actor is looking back at his career and talking about what led Marvel to not cast him in the titular role that ultimately went to Chris Hemsworth. “I didn’t […]
How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie? Instead of the most wonderful place in the whole world, angry customers and event participants from a botched “Wonka World” immersive experience held this weekend in Glasgow, Scotland, are angry and seeking a refund. Today, a cast member from the show took to social media to explain […]
Moving away from the crowded June 7 weekend which now has Sony’s Bad Boys 4 and Lionsgate’s The Crow, New Line’s Ishana Night Shyamalan horror movie The Watchers is going a week later on Father’s Day weekend, June 14 which is where Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 resides. It’s OK, an adult film and a Pixar […]
Despite her years on The Sopranos, Drea De Matteo had two kids, a mother with dementia, a flooded house, a massive unpaid mortgage bill and $10 in the bank when she decided to post racy photos on the subscription site OnlyFans. The impact was immediate. “I was like, holy sh*t,” recalled the actress in a […]
Happy Valley, Slow Horses and BBC drama The Sixth Commandment dominate the nominations for this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The final season of the BBC/AMC+ epic thriller has picked up four nods, for Best Drama Series, lead Sarah Lancashire, James Norton and Sally Wainwright. Happy Valley is […]
Adam Aron and the AMC Entertainment board have agreed to reduce the CEO’s target compensation by 25% this year, he said, as he’s bombarded with hostility by the theater chain’s large group of retail shareholders angry at the sinking stock. It means the target amount that he’d be eligible for would be lower. Aron didn’t […]
