Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is getting Steven Spielberg’s seal of approval. The Oscar-winning director is praising not only the film, but the Canadian filmmakers vision and creativity. Speaking to Villeneuve for DGA’s The Director’s Cut podcast, Spielberg started by putting him in a list of directors he calls “builders of worlds.” “Let me start […]
Martin Scorsese is exploring the journeys of eight men and women toward sainthood in a new docudrama series for Fox Nation. The Killers of the Flower Moon director is launching Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints on the streaming service in November 2024. He will host, narrate and exec produce the eight-part series. Developed by Scorsese […]
EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired domestic rights to the comedy Not Another Church Movie, starring Jamie Foxx, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Daniels, Mickey Rourke and more, slating it for a wide release in theaters on May 10th. Daniels leads the ensemble as Taylor Pherry (his P is silent), an ambitious young man given a holy […]
Deadline already told you two years ago that A Simple Favor 2 was happening with Paul Feig back in the director’s chair and Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick starring, but today Amazon MGM Studios has made it official that the movie is a go and with the original cast members returning, read Henry Golding, Andrew […]
EXCLUSIVE: Food Network is about to launch another culinary competition — and this one is taking place in the city of lights. Next Baking Master: Paris will give 10 American bakers access to iconic pastry shops and French baking mentors in the new competition premiering May 6. Hosted by pastry chef Stephanie Boswell and French-born chef and restaurateur Ludo […]
EXCLUSIVE: After wowing with her muscular turn in A24’s Love Lies Bleeding, Kaity O’Brian has joined the cast of the eighth Mission: Impossible for Paramount Pictures and Skydance, sources tell Deadline. Details as to the plot of the latest spy actioner in the series remain under wraps, as does her role. But it follows up […]
UPDATED: The Paley Center for Media has revealed new additions to the lineup for the 41st PaleyFest LA, which runs from Friday, April 12 through Saturday, April 20 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Joining The Morning Show on opening night, April 12 are Karen Pittman (Mia Jordan); Nicole Behaire (Christina Hunter); Charlotte Stoudt, Showrunner & Executive Producer, and Mimi Leder, Executive Producer & […]
EXCLUSIVE: Coming off a busy award season, Erika Alexander (American Fiction, Living Single) has landed a series regular role in Apple’s Invasion for Season 3. Production is currently underway on the Simon Kinberg and David Weil-created series. Alexander joins the ensemble cast that includes Golshifteh Farahani, Shioli Kutsuna, Shamier Anderson, India Brown, Billy Barratt, Azhy […]
EXCLUSIVE: Liliane Bedford has joined Confluential Films (Fancy Dance), the Black-founded and Black-owned banner of Tommy Oliver, as Senior Vice President of Film and Television, the company announced on Wednesday. Bedford joins from Stacey Sher’s Shiny Penny Productions, where she served as Vice President of Development and Production. In her new role, she will help […]
Ariana DeBose will return as host of this year’s Tony Awards, marking her third consecutive year fronting Broadway’s biggest night. The 77th Annual Tony Awards airs live nationwide (8 pm ET/5 pm PT) on Sunday, June 16, on CBS, streaming on Paramount+. As previously announced, the ceremony will take place at the David H. Koch […]
Point Grey Pictures, the production company run by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, is staying in business with Lionsgate Television. The company has extended its first-look deal with the company. It comes five years after Point Grey signed a deal with Lionsgate. The move also comes a day after Apple confirmed a series […]
EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has renewed The Steve Wilkos Show for an 18th season in national syndication. The Steve Wilkos Show tackles issues such as relationship conflicts, family disputes, social issues and true crime. The show is hosted by Steve Wilkos, a former Chicago police officer and U.S. Marine. “For 17 seasons, Steve Wilkos has […]
A Governor Ron DeSantis-selected special district board the oversees The Walt Disney Co.’s Florida theme park properties has settled its litigation with the company today. This deal in the long and bitter battle between the mouse house and the failed GOP presidential contender comes just days before an increasingly hotly contested shareholder vote for Disney […]
EXCLUSIVE: Just ahead of its Season 9 finale, hit dating show Ready To Love has been renewed for a 10th season by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The current season follows singles searching for a love connection in Fort Worth, Texas. The renewal comes amid solid ratings for the series, which ranks as Friday night’s No. […]
Netflix has slotted Friday, April 12 for the premiere of Good Times, the animated series reboot of the late Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom. We’re also getting a first look in the trailer above. J.B. Smoove (Reggie Evans) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Beverly Evans) star along with Jay Pharoah (Junior Evans), Marsai Martin (Grey Evans), Gerald “Slink” […]
EXCLUSIVE: ATX TV Festival is expanding its 2024 programming. The lineup will now feature several screenings and conversations from series including Industry Season 3, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, and Fargo. Other events will incorporate shows like Girls5eva into the programming as well. HBO and Max are planning several panels. Fantasmas, which premieres this summer, […]
Fritz Wepper, a German actor with a prolific TV career in his native country but known to American audiences for his funny and heartfelt performance as a German Jew is Bob Fosse’s hit 1972 Oscar-winning musical film Cabaret, died Monday at a hospice facility in Munich. He was 82. His death was announced by wife […]
James Brown will be presented with Lifetime Achievement honors at the 45th Annual Sports Emmy Awards ceremony on May 21 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall in New York. Brown is a three-time Emmy Award-winner, best known as host of pregame shows including CBS Sports’ The NFL Today, NFL on Fox and Inside the […]
EXCLUSIVE: The production outfit behind Netflix’s Prince Andrew feature Scoop is working with Sarah Lancashire on an “ambitious, contemporary returning series” that Lancashire will star in. Lighthouse Film & Television is teaming with Lancashire’s recently launched Via Pictures on the show, we can reveal, which Lighthouse co-founder Radford Neville teased is a “research heavy project […]
Here’s the striking first trailer and image for Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie Kinds Of Kindness, which has a June 21 release date. The Searchlight Pictures charge stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. The anthology movie is described as a “triptych fable, following a […]
Bill Maher is expanding his Club Random podcast into a network, with plans to launch a new show with sports journalist Sage Steele. Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time, is teaming with his co-creators and executive producer Chris Case and Chuck LaBella in the venture, with plans to feature celebrity talent who want to “try […]
Disney’s streaming bundle combining Hulu and Disney+ in one service officially launched Wednesday morning, ending a three-month beta period described by the company as a success. The “duo” plan, Hulu on Disney+, is priced $2 higher than each individual subscriptions alone. It follows in the the estimable footsteps of the three-service Disney Bundle first introduced […]
The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film is launching a new initiative, bannered Cannes Remakes, aimed at fostering remake opportunities for European feature films that have proven successful in their home territories. The inaugural program will include a pitching session of a curated selection of IP titles with potential, sourced from France, Spain and Italy. […]
Proxy advisor Egan-Jones on Wednesday became the second independent firm to support activist Nelson Peltz’s effort to secure seats on the Disney board. The endorsement follows that of ISS earlier this month, which was a notable win for Peltz’s Trian Fund Management as it is the biggest advisory firm and highly influential. While ISS backed […]
The ten film programmers who led a mass exodus this week out of Canada’s Hot Docs Film Festival have said a “toxic workplace” environment was the central issue behind their public exit. In a joint statement shared across social media platforms, the ten programmers, including Senior International Programmer Myrocia Watamaniuk, said: “We consider ourselves to […]
