EXCLUSIVE: Alex Moffat (Saturday Night Live), Joel David Moore (Avatar franchise), Lizze Broadway (Gen V), Urzila Carlson (upcoming Ozi: Voice of the Forest), and Francis Benhamou (Arranged) are the final additions to the cast of Netflix and Happy Madison’s rom-com Kinda Pregnant, starring Amy Schumer. Details as to their roles are under wraps. Directed by […]
Travis Kelce has made no secret of his interest in an off-field career when he retire from the NFL. The Kansas City Chief tight end is now in talks to host his first game show – a reboot of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? for Amazon. Sources told Deadline that there are conversations […]
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour broke records on Disney+ with 4.6 million views, making it the No. 1 music film ever on the platform per the studio. Swifties watched 16.2 million hours of the blockbuster 3.5-hour concert film this past weekend. The Disney+ edition of the concert featured the performances of new songs by the […]
Rhys Ifans (The King’s Man), Olivia Cooke (House of Dragon), Paapa Essiedu (The Lazarus Project), Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex) and Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor) have all joined new comedy-horror feature The Scurry from Eternal Beauty helmer Craig Roberts. The project, which is penned by The Mash Report’s Tim Telling, follows two pest controllers who are called to an […]
As Deadline revealed last night, former Verve CEO Bill Weinstein has joined Paradigm along with former Verve colleague Devon Schiff. Both join as agents in the Literary Content department and will be working out of Paradigm’s Los Angeles office. Appointed as CEO of Verve last January, Weinstein co-founded the agency in 2010 alongside Bryan Besser and […]
Murder In A Small Town, Fox’s psychological crime drama starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk, has added to its cast. The show is rounding out its cast with stars including James Cromwell (Succession) and Stana Katic (Castle). Mya Lowe, Savonna Spracklin, Aaron Douglas and Fritzy-Klevans Destine have also joined the series. Deadline revealed that Fox […]
EXCLUSIVE: Level 33 Entertainment has taken domestic on H.P. Mendoza’s The Secret Art of Human Flight, which made its world premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. A July theatrical release has been set followed by a debut on digital platforms. Pic written by Jesse Orenshein centers around a children’s book author, Ben Grady (Grant Rosenmeyer), […]
Peak TV just got put into perspective. Asked at a Series Mania session about the volume of TV being made, European Commission official Lucia Recalde broke out an estimate that it would take over three centuries to watch everything currently on streaming services. “We have estimated the amount of time that would take you to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse is spicing up the opening weekend of their documentary Carol Doda Topless at the Condor on March 22-24 with a live revue of top burlesque dancers before the movie screens. Carol Doda Topless at the Condor documents the life, history and impact of the legendary topless dancer who ignited the 1960s sexual revolution. The “Doda-esque […]
EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell has signed with Buchwald for representation. Parnell is also known for his standout role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on seven seasons of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning 30 Rock. In addition, Parnell starred on three seasons of ABC’s Suburgatory as Fred Shay and has appeared in numerous series including Grown-ish, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Black-ish, Inside Amy Schumer, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Sutter’s upcoming Netflix Western drama The Abandons is rounding out its recurring cast with 10, including Patton Oswalt (A.P. Bio), Sarah Grace White (The Bastard Executioner), Michael Ornstein (Sons of Anarchy) and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers (Three Pines). Additional recurring stars include Brían F. O’Byrne (The Bastard Executioner), Haig Sutherland (Lucky Hank), Jack Doolan (The […]
Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin have joined Oprah Winfrey in speaking out about using weight loss medications, with Goldberg saying she made the decision after hitting almost 300 pounds during the filming of the 2022 film Till. “I weighed almost 300 pounds when I was made Till,” Goldberg said during the Hot Topics segment of […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Network is the latest free streaming service to launch in the U.S. The ad-supported service, which was set up by Aram Rappaport, founder of the creative ad-agency The Boathouse, is launching April 30. However, the service, which has backing from BH Media Holdings, part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway empire, is not launching […]
The entire 400-episode catalog of true-crime unscripted series Forensic Files has been acquired by Content Partners. Originally called Medical Detectives, the series ran for 14 seasons on TLC, Court TV and TruTV and repeats are still available on Warner Bros Discovery’s HLN. A revived version, Forensic Files II, has aired since 2020, first on HLN […]
The psychics in Look Into My Eyes claim to communicate with the departed, passing messages to their loved ones among the living. Whether that’s true or not must remain a matter of speculation, but one thing can be said with certainty: the documentary has passed into another world – from the snows of Sundance to […]
The WGA East has penciled in Emmy winner Wanda Sykes for its 2024 Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence. She’ll be presented with the honor during the East Coast presentation of the strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards on April 14 at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan. Sykes, a 17-time Emmy nominee who co-created, writes for and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Isaach De Bankolé (Godfather of Harlem), Phoebe Fox (The Great), Silvia Dionicio (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), and Coral Peña (For All Mankind) are the newest recurring cast members set for HBO’s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title). De Bankolé will play Father Daniel Georges, the oldest and best friend of lead Mark […]
Lady Gaga is heading back to Las Vegas for another of her extremely popular “Jazz & Piano” residencies at the Park MGM Dolby Live. The eight-show residency will run from June 19 through July 6. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Saturday. Billed as featuring Gaga’s performances of music from the Great […]
As far as the next James Bond is concerned, it seems the name’s Taylor-Johnson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Or at least that’s what British tabloid The Sun would have us believe. The newspaper has sparked viral speculation that the Kick-Ass star is just moments away from signing a deal to play one of cinema’s most iconic characters. […]
“A slap in the face” was the verdict of broadcasting union Bectu to Channel 4 bosses’ decision to accept bonuses this year amidst a 250-staff layoff program. Deadline revealed yesterday that the network’s CEO Alex Mahon, content boss Ian Katz and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Allan would be taking their bonuses in 2024, although at […]
Illinoise, the acclaimed dance-musical stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois, will transfer from Off Broadway’s Park Avenue Armory to Broadway’s St. James Theatre next month, arriving just a day before this season’s Tony Award eligibility cut-off date. The musical, with direction and choreography from Justin Peck and a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
Netflix is moving from quarterbacks to wide receivers and tight ends in its latest NFL docuseries. The streamer has ordered Receiver from the team behind Quarterback – NFL Films, Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions and Patrick Mahomes’ 2PM Productions. The series follows stars such as Las Vegas Raider Davante Adams, Minnesota Viking Justin Jefferson, San Francisco […]
Former President Donald Trump has again filed a defamation lawsuit against a major media outlet, this time over comments that ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos made during a contentious recent interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, claims that Stephanopoulos defamed him during his questioning of Mace during […]
India has driven more subscribers to Amazon than any other country bar the U.S. over recent years, according Head of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Mike Hopkins. As Prime Video announced its latest local content slate at a ‘Prime Video Presents India’ showcase, which comprises nearly 70 films and shows, Hopkins told an audience […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Keasey, the scribe behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel and Demi Lovato’s Tow, has signed on to adapt The Barracks Thief, a novella from award-winning author Tobias Wolff. Keasey joins playwright Tyler Rivenbark on the project. The pair will collaborate on the screenplay based on Wolff’s novella. Wolff, a professor at Stanford, is best known […]
