EXCLUSIVE: We understand that Marvel underwent a handful of layoffs today with 15 employees impacted across Marvel Entertainment in New York and Marvel Studios in Burbank. Those let go include junior employees in production and development at Marvel Studios. These cuts are due to Marvel reassessing and reducing their slate. Duly note, Marvel Studios only […]
King Charles, CNN’s once-a-week talker featuring Gayle King and Charles Barkley, ended last week with no plans to extend the limited series. The show averaged about a half-million viewers in its debut, but trailed its rivals in its 10 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesdays. It was announced as a limited run series to begin […]
Keanu Reeves (John Wick franchise) has been tapped to voice the role of Shadow in Paramount Pictures’ Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Deadline can confirm. Paramount had no comment, but Reeves joins an ensemble led by Ben Schwartz, who plays Sonic. In all three films, James Mardsen plays Sonic’s human ally, Sheriff Tom Wachowski, with Jim […]
IATSE is looking to wrap up local-specific negotiations with the studios this week before the guild turns its attention to general contract talks. There are just three locals left to strike tentative deals with the Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers on craft issues. Locals 44 and 705 are slated to begin talks Monday, and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Physician turned #1 NYT bestselling author Robin Cook is partnering with Euro Gang Entertainment, the entertainment company of Gianni Nunnari and Simon Horsman, on a pair of new projects for film and TV. The first, Bellevue, will be a feature based on Cook’s forthcoming novel of the same name, which marks a departure for […]
Two days after he made a surprise appearance at Coachella as Childish Gambino, five-time Grammy winner Donald Glover said today that he will retire his musical alter ego after two more albums. The double-Emmy-winning Atlanta alum said he’ll release two more albums under the Childish Gambino persona — his first solo projects since 3.15.20, which […]
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Kip Williams, the adapter and director of the buzzy West End production of the Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray starring newly minted Olivier Award winner Sarah Snook. Williams is the youngest-ever Artistic Director of the STC. The company’s Dorian Gray, featuring Succession‘s Snook in all of the roles, […]
The Rookie will be back for another go-round. Ahead of the Season 6 finale, ABC has renewed the Nathan Fillion drama, produced by Lionsgate Television, for a seventh season. The renewal comes amid strong ratings for Season 6. The Alexi Hawley-created crime drama kicked off its sixth season with its most-watched episode in nearly six […]
Just a few days after revealing how The Talk will wrap its 15-season run this December, CBS announced today that it has ordered the new daytime drama The Gates to series and will premiere the soap in January 2025. The specific time period and launch date will be announced at a later date, but it seems […]
EXCLUSIVE: Director, Writer, and Producer Brad Peyton has signed with Grandview for representation. He has brought Grandview onboard ahead of the premiere of his upcoming film Atlas which stars Jennifer Lopez, Simu Lui, and Sterling K. Brown with Netflix releasing the pic on Memorial Day and buzz for the film is already incredibly strong. The […]
NBCUniversal has launched a new personalized broadcast experience for viewers on its NBC and Telemundo stations in New York, LA, Miami and Philadelphia. The offering relies on NextGen TV technology, the more felicitous handle for tools developed as ATSC 3.0, the set of standards introduced several years ago by the Advanced Television Systems Committee. NextGen […]
CBS just announced that the network will rebroadcast Billy Joel: The 100th – Live at Madison Square Garden special in its entirety this Friday, April 19, after Sunday’s presentation cut out in some parts of the country as the singer was in the middle of his signature hit “Piano Man.” “A network programming timing error […]
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced just now to 18 months behind bars over the October 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Santa Fe set of the Alec Baldwin starring indie Western. “You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” said Judge Mary Marlow Sommer in her sentencing Monday after rejecting defense […]
EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Jones is set to star in Michael Showalter’s holiday comedy Oh. What. Fun. for Amazon MGM Studios, joining Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz and Dominic Sessa. Showalter, who co-wrote the script with Chandler Baker, is producing via Semi-Formal Productions alongside Jordana Mollick; Tribeca’s Berry Welsh and Jane Rosenthal; and Kate Churchill. The script […]
Suits, a long-running mainstay on cable’s USA Network that became a streaming phenomenon last year, will make its broadcast debut this fall on MyNetwork TV. The show’s slot in Fox’s Monday-through-Friday syndicated programming block, which reaches 97% of U.S. TV homes, will mark the first time it will be available on free television. A premiere […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gangs Of London and Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole is set to lead action-thriller He Bled Neon, which will mark the feature debut of music video filmmaker Drew Kirsch who co-directed videos You Need to Calm Down and Lover with Taylor Swift, and also helmed videos for Shakira, Charlie Puth, John Legend, Imagine Dragons […]
EXCLUSIVE: Joel ‘Kachi Benson (Madu) has been tapped to direct the documentary The Harvest, on Nigeria’s infamous Boko Haram Kidnappings of 2014, for Hunting Lane and Impact Partners. A first-look still can be found above. Following four Nigerian mothers as they fight to educate their children in the wake of tragedy, the film marks the […]
EXCLUSIVE: YMU’s chief financial officer Anthony Zarmakoupis has left the British talent agency following its £60M ($75M) debt sale to Permira Credit. Zarmakoupis stepped down as a YMU director in March after little more than a year with the agency, which reps stars including Simon Cowell and Claudia Winkleman. Zarmakoupis has been replaced by Lauren […]
Former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano says she has not watched Investigation Discovery’s docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV and has not participated in similar ventures because the filmmakers are typically “outsiders” and “trauma tourists.” The former Disney Channel star says on this week’s upcoming episode of the podcast Mayim […]
VOD streaming outlet Fandango at Home, formerly known as Vudu, has set a new partnership with Turner Classic Movies. In addition to offering TCM titles available for rental or purchase on demand, the new digital storefront will allow viewers to watch a rotation of 30 titles available for free through the end of May. The […]
EXCLUSIVE: Don Johnson is set to star opposite Joshua Jackson in Dr. Odyssey, a new ABC drama series from Ryan Murphy, which is targeting a fall launch. It hails from 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television. As is the case with any Ryan Murphy series, no details about the premise are being revealed. […]
Robyn Dixon is leaving The Real Housewives of Potomac after eight seasons. The reality TV personality and entrepreneur confirmed she was exiting the Bravo series on the latest episode of her podcast Reasonably Shady, which she co-hosts with her RHOP co-star Gizelle Bryant. “Yes, I will not be returning to season nine of The Real […]
A day after wrapping its two-day, 35-panel Contenders Television extravaganza to kick off the small-screen awards season, Deadline has launched the event’s streaming site featuring the full panel videos. Click here to launch the streaming site. This year’s Contenders, live from the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, features 20 networks, studios and streamers showing off […]
Prime Video has released the official trailer for the second season of Outer Range, the Josh Brolin starrer that follows a rancher who discovers an unfathomable phenomenon at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness. Returning May 16, Outer Range will go deeper into the mystery surrounding the enigmatic void on the west pasture of the Abbott family […]
The Belgian distribution company behind the Kristen Stewart thriller Love Lies Bleeding has denounced what it described as “homophobic, discriminatory” disruptions during a weekend screening of the pic at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. “We are shocked and disappointed by the events during the screening of ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ last Saturday during the BIFFF […]