EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the participants of the 2024 Episodic Lab, which focuses on preparing women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing. “Coming out of an incredibly challenging year for our industry, the Black List and WIF are dedicated to ensuring talented writers of all […]
Jelly Roll was last year’s most-awarded artist at the CMT Music Awards and it looks like he has a chance to repeat. He’s among the top nominees for the 2024 edition, a list that also includes Cody Johnson (who won the most awards in 2022), Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson and Megan Moroney. All have three […]
Saturday Night Live has booked Ken. Ryan Gosling is heading to Studio 8H to host the long-running NBC show for the third time, fresh from his Barbie Oscar performance. Gosling will host on April 13 and will be joined by musical guest Chris Stapleton. Meanwhile, Kristen Wiig is returning to her old stomping ground on […]
Andy Cohen is clarifying whether there’s any beef with Mauricio Umansky over what he’s opening up about on Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills. Umansky, who is married to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards, has been featured on Bravo’s reality series since its premiere in 2010. In the lead-up to the premiere of […]
Let me state right out that I am a sucker for dog movies. I still can’t get over My Dog Skip. I learned valuable lifelong lessons from Old Yeller. I consider Lassie a personal friend. I took selfies at the Oscar nominees luncheon with Messi, the French border collie I was pushing for Best Supporting […]
The Rock has been heating things up for WWE. Since Dwayne Johnson returned to the ring in January, Friday Night SmackDown has seen some significant audience growth. The average demo audience for the first quarter of 2024 has been around 900,000 viewers. That’s up about 16% versus last year’s first quarter demo audience, which averaged […]
EXCLUSIVE: There is a change at the helm of Peacock’s Based On a True Story, starring Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina. Physical creator Annie Weisman is joining the upcoming second season of the dark comedy thriller, from Aggregate Films and UCP, as new showrunner. She succeeds series creator Craig Rosenberg who remains an executive producer […]
A24 and Imax have teamed up to bring past A24 titles to large format fans in a new monthly screening series kicking off March 27. The Imax debut of Alex Garland’s 2014 sci-fi classic Ex Machina is first up with the presentation including an “exclusive sneak peek” at Garland’s upcoming Civil War. Civil War, also […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nowhere Special by director Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty, Still Life), and starring James Norton (Bob Marley: One Love, Little Women, Happy Valley), is set for theatrical release on April 26. The film from Cohen Media Group had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 and comes back around after Norton’s recent appearance […]
In the realm of religious horror, one filled with tales of divine terror, Immaculate emerges as the latest contender. Yet despite its promising setup within the shadowy confines of an Italian nunnery and a cast led by Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli and Simona Tabasco, the film struggles to carve out a niche for […]
EXCLUSIVE: Details have emerged about the circumstances surrounding DJ Nurre’s rather abrupt exit from Endemol Shine North America. As Deadline reported exclusively Monday, Nurre, one of the company’s top unscripted executives, has left after six years. According to sources, Nurre was let go for violating company policy following an investigation into alleged misconduct. I hear […]
HBO is staying in the Bill Maher business. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned cable network has renewed Real Time with Bill Maher for two more seasons. It means Maher will stay on the network through the end of 2026 and take him close to 700 episodes of the show, which launched in 2003. It’s somewhat of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ is staying in business with one of the men behind its latest sports docuseries The Dynasty: New England Patriots. The streamer has struck a first-look deal with director Matthew Hamachek. It is the latest first-look deal for the tech company following similar deals with the likes of David & Jessica Oyelowo, The […]
Found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last week out of the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will find out her incarceration fate in just over a month. Today New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer designated a sentencing hearing for April 15 at 10 am local time. Relatively inexperienced armorer Gutierrez-Reed was charged […]
Disney’s latest salvo in a proxy fight with activist investor Trian Fund Management highlights the firm’s “silent partner” Ike Perlmutter and his “difficult history with Bob Iger.” That critique came in a 20-page slide deck, a follow-up to an anti-Trian video released by Disney earlier this week. The clash has intensified ahead of Disney’s annual […]
Amazon is doubling down on home renovation. The streamer has ordered Going Home with Tyler Cameron, fronted by The Bachelorette star. It comes on the back of series such as Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis, which just aired its second season. The eight-part series launches on April 18 and comes from ITV America’s High Noon […]
EXCLUSIVE: Steven Lightfoot (Shantaram, The Punisher) has been tapped to develop a series adaptation of the Scot Harvath books from New York Times bestseller Brad Thor, under a relatively fresh overall deal with Sony Pictures Television that has previously gone unreported, Deadline has learned. We’re told that the deal for scripted drama development across cable […]
Drops of God creator Quoc Dang Tran is getting into business with HBO. The writer-producer has signed a two-year overall deal with the premium cable network to create and executive produce content exclusive to HBO. Dang Tran recently gained recognition for creating Drops of God, Apple TV+’s eight-episode international series from Legendary Entertainment, an adaptation […]
EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Morel, the veteran action director behind Taken, has been tapped to direct a feature based on the popular racing NFT Reactor Motors from the company of the same name, Deadline has learned. The film will be produced by Morel, Mike Bundlie and Barry Levine (Oblivion, Hercules) of Abstract Entertainment, and Renee Tab of […]
Elon Musk may not like talking with Don Lemon about all the lawsuits against him, but the world’s second richest man could be facing possible new legal action after “cancelling” the ex-CNN anchor’s much hyped new show on X just days before its debut. “Elon Musk is mad at me, and I just put out […]
EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner (Alias) is set to star with Golden Globe winner Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) in true-crime movie Fruitcake. Max Winkler (Flower, American Horror Story) is directing the true story about Sandy and Kay Jenkins, a seemingly upstanding middle-class couple who went on to embezzle millions from popular Texas-based business […]
“Choices, choices…,” says the narrator, a young seamstress, in this strange and striking debut from Freddy Macdonald. A neo-noir in the early Coens tradition, Sew Torn also features a bold tri-part structure in which the heroine, Barbara (Eve Connolly) — like Lola before her in Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run — gets three standalone chances […]
In The Fall Guy, directed by David Leitch and penned by Drew Pearce, audiences are treated to a kinetic journey through the lens of Hollywood’s most daring yet often overlooked contributors: stunt performers. Starring an ensemble cast led by Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke and Teresa Palmer, this […]
Max has set April 4 for the U.S. premiere of its new animated children’s series Hop from Arthur creator Marc Brown and fellow Arthur alums Peter K. Hirsch and Tolon Brown. The 26-episode series will debut with six half-hour episodes, with the remaining episodes to roll out this year. Co-created by Marc Brown, Hirsch and […]
Olivia Munn revealed today that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and has undergone four surgeries including a double mastectomy. In an Instagram post today, the 43-year-old actor said, “I hope by sharing this it will help others find comfort, inspiration and support on their own journey.” Munn said on the post that […]