The upcoming sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery has found its boss. The service, which doesn’t have a name yet, has appointed Pete Distad, a former Apple and Hulu exec as CEO. The streamer was revealed last month and is set to launch later this fall. Distad, who most recently served […]
Actor and producer Omar Sy (Lupin), director-producer Louis Leterrier (Fast X) and producer and Pulse Films founder Thomas Benski (American Honey) are launching Carrousel Studios with bases in Paris, London, LA and Senegal. The film and TV company will develop and produce projects for the global market and look to work closely with emerging and […]
Doctor Who has a date. The BBC and Disney+ will launch the latest season of the classic sci-fi – the first since the Disney streamer came on board – simultaneously around the world. The show, which stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor with Millie Gibson as his companion Ruby Sunday, will launch on Disney+ in […]
Fani Willis, the Fulton County, GA district attorney who brought criminal charges against Donald Trump and a host of other defendants over their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, can remain on the case, a judge ruled today. But Judge Scott McAfee wrote in his decision that the special prosecutor with whom […]
Veteran producer and sales agent Rosa Bosch has joined the Madrid-based distributor and international sales agency Begin Again Films. Bosch will serve as part of the company’s international department. Bosch has previously held roles at AFI FEST, the London Film Festival, the National Film Theatre in London (Deputy Director), and the San Sebastian Film Festival. […]
We’re back again, Insiders. Jesse Whittock with you this week, as Netflix showcased its latest wares, Hong Kong welcomed the entertainment world and Argentinian film was plunged into crisis. Here we go. Sign up to the newsletter here. Slates Of The Nations Netflix struts: At times, the past year has felt like a succession of bad […]
Danny Cohen, executive producer of Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest, has said he “fundamentally disagrees” with the director’s politically-orientated Oscars acceptance speech. Accepting the International Feature Oscar last Sunday, Glazer spoke at length and highlighted what he described as the shared ideology behind the film’s subject matter and contemporary world events. “All […]
EXCLUSIVE: “Quite a can of worms,” observed a British casting director of a scandal that, until February, was unknown to his profession. The 30-year industry veteran was talking about the practice of agents sending clients fake invitations to record self-tape auditions. Deadline first exposed the issue in an investigation on Bodhi Talent, a boutique agency […]
The Alice Group has sold its media arm, which includes the BFM and RMC TV channels, to French Lebanese billionaire Rodolphe Saadé in a deal valued at $1.68B (€1.55B). French media reported the sale had been announced to Altice Media employees on Friday morning, following the signing of a legally binding promise to purchase the […]
Squid Game star O Yeong-Su has been convicted of sexual misconduct over allegations he hugged and kissed a woman on the cheek against her wishes. O was one of the stand-out performers in Netflix’s global megahit Squid Game, garnering a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Oh Il-nam. According to reports in Korea, O […]
Here’s a first look at J-Hope’s Prime Video doc, Hope on the Street. The trailer opens with BTS’ J-Hope tracing his roots as a dancer and how dancing opened up a whole world of opportunities for him. “I started with dance and that dancing led to many other things,” muses J-Hope, at the beginning of […]
EXCLUSIVE: France TV Distribution will be at Series Mania next week with Enjoy!, a drama series based on Benoit Marchisio’s novel Tout Complices!. The series was originally created for France Télévisions’ streamer France.tv Slash and is now headed for the international market via the sales arm of the public broadcast network. It follows a delivery […]
Alex Garland’s latest film, Civil War, from A24 and featuring a star-studded cast including Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Offerman, aims to hold a mirror up to a society spiraling out amongst civil war. In a time when flipping through the news or scrolling through social media […]
The Los Angeles ceremony tonight for the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, hosted by Wayne Brady, revealed 16 of the year’s 33 category winners spanning film, TV, music, theater, podcasts, video games, comic books and journalism. The list includes Ted Lasso, Yellowjackets, Ru Paul’s Drag Race and Reneé Rapp. The night also featured special performances […]
Three weeks after Law & Order bid farewell to Sam Waterston, the NBC procedural on Thursday introduced Tony Goldwyn as the newest District Attorney. Usually, the legal part of the drama doesn’t happen until later in the episode, but Goldwyn’s Nicholas Baxter joined the action at the top of the hour as Detectives Jalen Shaw […]
One of the most highly anticipated movies in a contentious red vs. blue election year, A24’s Civil War, made its grand splash Thursday night in Texas democratic stronghold of Austin, TX — and the media, which this feature casts a spotlight on, savored it like a stack of beef ribs. The dystopian future movie is […]
Dancing with the Stars judge Derek Hough is determined that his wife, Hayley Erbert, will be rejoining their Symphony of Dance tour once she fully recovers from an emergency craniectomy In a conversation with E News, Hough remained steadfast in his belief that his wife will come back. “Because if there’s a moment where she’s […]
UPDATE, with video: Climate activists disrupted tonight’s Broadway performance of An Enemy Of The People, bringing the production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli to a brief halt as protesters shouted “No theater on a dead planet” before being subdued and escorted out by ushers and cast members. The interruption came during a scene in […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from the Station 19 Season 7 premiere. Station 19 returned tonight, airing the Season 7 premiere titled “This Woman’s Work,” and as everyone knows, this will be the final season of the firefighter drama created by Stacy McKee. As sad as that is, let’s look at the […]
In her Season 20 preview for Deadline, new Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis called it “back to basics,” and the season premiere, which she wrote, offered just that. In a return to Grey’s early years, the episode ended with Bailey retaking charge of the surgical interns. The opener started with the interns facing the music […]
Apparently eight seasons together was not enough. The cast of comedy-drama Brooklyn Nine-Nine gathered for a meet-up that was heavy on reminiscing. Chelsea Peretti posted reunion photos on Instagram with the show’s other stars: Dirk Blocker, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Joel McKinnon Miller, Joe Lo Truglio, Melissa Fumero, and Andy Samberg. Of course, it was […]
A temporary guardian argued in a lawsuit filed last month that Lifetime’s documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? was a “blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition,” and that the talk host had lacked mental capacity to enter a contract to do the show, according to newly unsealed documents. The guardian, Sabrina […]
To say The Notebook had a devoted, built-in audience before it sang so much as a note on Broadway would be an understatement this romantic tear-jerker never attempts. Based on Nicholas Sparks’ 1996 bestseller about a young – then older, then much older – couple who survive a lifetime of tribulations (until they don’t), the […]
This weeks 20 Questions on Deadline guest is Dan Stevens. Of course we all remember his first major foray onto our screens as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey, and the untimely death of his character that had fans raging for his return. But Hollywood called, and since then, Stevens has accrued a long list of […]
EXCLUSIVE: One Tree Hill alum Bryan Greenberg rounds out the series regular cast for NBC drama pilot Suits L.A., a new extension of the Suits universe from Aaron Korsh, creator and writer of the original series. Production is scheduled to start in late March in Vancouver. He joins previously announced lead Stephen Amell as Ted Black, along with […]
