EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Stupid Love directing duo, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are returning to their roots as the two have come on to direct the Sony pic Misadventure. Sources close to the project say it is very early development with Jimmy Miller producing. Ficarra and Requa will exec produce alongside their Zaftig Films producing partner […]
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for Season 3 of sci-fi series Foundation, adding Emmy winner Cherry Jones (Succession), Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones), Synnøve Karlsen (Last Night in Soho), Cody Fern (American Horror Story), Brandon P. Bell (Dear White People), Tómas Lemarquis (Bladerunner 2049), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (Really Love) and Leo Bill (Becoming Elizabeth) will join returning stars Lee Pace and […]
NBC has renewed all three One Chicago series—Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.—for the 2024-25 season. Med was renewed for Season 10, Fire for Season 13 and P.D. for Season 12. The trio of shows returned in January following a long break due to the dual writers and actors strikes with shortened seasons. New […]
Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU will be back for the 2024/25 season after NBC renewed the pair of shows but spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime is in a slightly more precarious position. The network has renewed Law & Order for Season 24, while Law & Order: SVU will be back for […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following the news of David Schwimmer and Ana Ortiz starring in the Disney+ anthology series Goosebumps, the project is rounding out its series regulars with Sam McCarthy (Dead to Me) and Jayden Bartels (Side Hustle) as fraternal twins Devin and Cece, respectively; Elijah Cooper (That Girl Lay Lay) as CJ; Galilea La Salvia (Party […]
Hot on the heels of his first Oscar win for Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is locked in to reprise his starring role in BBC/Netflix’s Peaky Blinders for a follow-up film to shoot in September, according to series creator Steven Knight. Knight revealed the news in conversation with Birmingham World at the premiere of The Town, his […]
EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman is moving into podcasts via his 30 Ninjas studio. The Swingers and Road House director’s company has teamed up with podcast network Realm to launch thriller Chinook starring Sanaa Lathan, who played Kendall Roy’s lawyer Lisa Arthur in Succession, and Kelly Marie Tran, who played Rose Tico in Stars Wars films The […]
Ana Ortiz (Love, Victor) is joining David Schwimmer in the Disney+ anthology series Goosebumps for Season 2 as a series regular. From Disney Branded Television and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series is based upon R.L Stine’s bestselling Scholastic series. Each season features a new story, setting and cast. Season 2 will follow teenage […]
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Lion Forge Entertainment has won the rights to Sarah Mlynowski’s New York Times bestselling tween book series Best Wishes, tapping Eydie Faye (The Slumber Party) to adapt the first installment of the same name for film. The intention is to build a multi-picture, live-action franchise around the books, with Founder […]
The prospect of another Hot Labor Summer in Hollywood just became a little less likely. “Today marked the conclusion of our bargaining team’s in-person local negotiations with the AMPTP regarding our Camera and Publicist Agreements,” the leadership of the International Cinematographer’s Guild wrote in a note to members late last night. “We’ve reached a tentative agreement […]
Nicole Kidman will be joined by Henry Golding, Mark Strong and Lena Olin in season two of Nine Perfect Strangers, the Hulu series that’s based on the bestselling book of the same name by Liane Moriarty. Kidman will reprise her role as Masha in the show that takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that […]
Channel 4 has said “two new worrying allegations” were received about Russell Brand after a Dispatches investigation aired in September last year, while two people have reported that “serious concerns” about his behavior had been in “circulation” when he joined Celebrity Bake Off in 2018. The network has in the past few minutes delivered its […]
George Miller’s anticipated sequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been confirmed as the opening film of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes premiere for the fifth instalment in the Mad Max franchise comes nine years after Warner Warner successfully launched Mad Max: Fury Road at Cannes in 2015. The new instalment – starring […]
Hyphenate Media Group co-founders Cris Abrego and Eva Longoria have set the company’s executive leadership team. Jada Miranda will serve as President of Television, Karla Pita Loor as Chief Strategy Officer and Alex Chang as Chief Operating Officer. All executives will report to Abrego and Longoria. Most recently, Miranda served as President of Scripted Television […]
EXCLUSIVE: The rebirth of the 1999 cult favorite film The Boondock Saints is upon us. Thunder Road, the producer behind the John Wick films, has stepped in and joined rights holder Dragonfly Films to make what they are calling a reimagining of the action film franchise about the fraternal twin Irish brothers who raise holy […]
Disney pushed back on a report today by leading proxy advisory firm ISS recommending shareholders vote activist investor Nelson Peltz to the board, and withhold votes for company board nominee Maria Elena Lagomasino. “We strongly believe that ISS reached the wrong conclusion in its recent report when it comes to adding Nelson Peltz to […]
(Updated with Laurene Powell Jobs statement) The fight for the future of the Walt Disney Company got very fast and furious this morning. Just minutes after influential proxy advisory board Institutional Shareholder Services recommended adding activist investor Nelson Peltz to the Disney board, the chairman struck back with a blunt dismissal. Rolling out the really […]
The boss of one of the world’s biggest TV distributors has predicted streamers will return to commissioning originals in bulk once they “break even.” Cathy Payne, who runs Big Brother and Black Mirror seller Banijay Rights, said there is “no doubt” the deep-pocketed U.S. giants are currently ordering less originals, preferring to strike alternative deals […]
Jennifer Hudson, who guest starred on NBC’s Smash, is now joining the producing team of its upcoming stage musical adaptation. Hudson, a Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winner, announced her participation today on her daytime talk show The Jennifer Hudson Show. (Watch the announcement below.) Smash is expected to arrive on Broadway in spring 2025. […]
The film Academy’s annual membership survey hit email in-boxes on Monday. As usual, it promises to be something of a nonevent. Most of the questions are inside-y, a bit trivial and generally preoccupied with awards minutiae. Is having in-person Membership Screenings important to you? In preparing for finals voting, about how many films in consideration […]
The Justice Department and more than a dozen state attorneys general have sued Apple, claiming that the tech giant has an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market. Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters this morning that Apple “has maintained monopoly power in the smartphone market not simply by staying ahead of the competition on the […]
The wait for Max’s European launch is nearly over. The Warner Bros Discovery streaming service will launch in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe — where HBO Max is already available — on May 21, with launches in Poland, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium following closely after. House of the Dragon season 2 […]
Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar winning animated movie, The Boy and the Heron, will stream exclusively worldwide on Netflix. A premiere date will be announced. It’s part of a new deal between Netflix, Goodfellas and GKIDS, the latter extending their global catalog of streaming rights (ex-US and Japan) for pics from Oscar-winning Japanese studio Studio Ghibli. As […]
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in the Deadline series Hollywood Contraction, which examines the toll the job losses caused by the ongoing industrywide cost-cutting has had on different sections of the entertainment community. Matthew Hobin, a producer who has worked on series including Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen, was driving for Uber Eats when he […]
ISS, the most influential proxy advisory service, has recommended shareholders vote to put Trian’s Nelson Peltz on Disney’s board, saying the activist investor, “with his considerable experience on other boards and fiduciary duties owed to a large shareholding group, appears best positioned to bring a shareholder perspective to the board.” “The events leading up to […]
