As part of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association weekend, Deadline gathered the creator and cast of Netflix’s The Diplomat for an event hosted by the Irish ambassador to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason. Stars Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell, creator Debora Cahn and Nason sat down for a panel with Deadline’s Ted Johnson, […]
Paramount has just unleashed its first quarter financials with although all eyes are on a shakeup in the C-suite. Revenue was higher across the board, albeit a hair shy of Wall Street expectations. Operating losses narrowed After a bleak Q4, TV and media group advertising jumped 14%, buoyed by Super Bowl XVIII on CBS in […]
Paramount Global’s CEO Bob Bakish is out. The executive who has been a presence at several iterations of the company since 1997 will exit, effective immediately. A triumvirate of division heads — Brian Robbins, George Cheeks and Chris McCarthy — will step in to lead the company for now in a new office of the […]
A classic Warner Bros. IP is headed to Netflix with a reimagining from one of the studio’s top TV producers. In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, the streamer has landed Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television where the company is based, sources tell Deadline. Written by Josh […]
Sony’s SVP of Corporate Communications for the Motion Picture Group, Tahra Grant, has been upped to EVP, Chief Communcations Officer for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Grant succeeds Robert Lawson in a top Corp Comm post that reports directly to Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra. As we told you back in February, Lawson was […]
EXCLUSIVE: Artist International Group has signed renowned Japanese filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura for representation. David Unger and Chris Prapha will run point for the new client. First coming onto the scene in Japan with his ultra-violent zombie samurai action flick Versus, Kitamura directed his first English-language feature with the Bradley Cooper-led The Midnight Meat Train, an […]
Alden Ehrenreich (Fair Play) is the newest addition to the cast of Weapons, New Line’s horror thriller from writer-director Zach Cregger. While details as to the film’s plot and Ehrenreich’s role are under wraps for now, the actor joins an ensemble that also includes Julia Garner and Josh Brolin. Pic is Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian, […]
UPDATED, 12:30 PM: Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton, and Lainey Wilson will be among the performers at the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards, it was announced today by the ACM, Prime Video and Dick Clark Productions. Hosted by Reba McEntire, the 2024 awards will stream live on Prime Video from […]
Zack Norman, a veteran character and producer who appeared in films including Romancing The Stone, Cadillac Man and several for director Harry Jaglom along with guested on The Nanny, The A-Team, Baywatch and other series, died April 28 of natural causes. He was 83. His son-in-law Jeff Briller confirmed the news to Deadline. Born Howard […]
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering […]
Just days after saying the movie business “is over” as a cultural force, Jerry Seinfeld is decrying the decline of comedy on television. He blames “the extreme left and P.C. crap.” In a new interview with David Remnick for the New Yorker Radio Hour, the Seinfeld creator maintained that “people always need comedy” in their […]
Fallout has made quite the impact on Amazon. The series, which was already renewed for a second season, debuted 16 days ago and has since lassoed more than 65M viewers, making it the second most-watched title ever in that time frame on Prime Video, according to the streamer. Through 16 days, it’s also the most-watched […]
Zoya Akhtar (The Archies), Fawzia Mirza (Queen of My Dreams), and Roshan Sethi (A Nice Indian Boy) are set to join the 1497 Features Lab as Mentors. Returning for its fourth year, the nonprofit 1497’s annual Features Lab will once again offer robust mentorship, script development, and industry access to elevate and advance the careers […]
UPDATED with trial and date details: French actor Gérard Depardieu will stand trial in October on charges of sexual assault allegedly committed against two women on the set of the film The Green Shutters in 2021, the Paris Public Prosecutor said on Monday. The announcement came after Depardieu was taken into police custody on Monday […]
Monday marks the start of general negotiations for IATSE’s new three-year contract with the studios. Last week, the Affiliated Property Craftspersons Local 44 became the 13th and final local to reach an agreement on craft-specific issues in the Basic Agreement. Now, the union is laying out some of the proposals it will bring to the […]
One America News Network has retracted a story that claimed Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness at Trump’s hush money trial, had hired Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey LLP, the lead attorney in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Travis and Felix Avitia are set as the final two series regulars in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. They join previously announced Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge and Aja Naomi King The drama follows four […]
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains a major plot point that was revealed on the April 29 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful. EXCLUSIVE: Talk about a major do-over on the CBS daytime drama. On the April 29 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, fans learned that a character they loved to hate isn’t […]
Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges is set to return for Tron: Ares, his third film in the long-running sci-fi franchise from Disney, sources have confirmed to Deadline. The actor revealed the news in a recent appearance on the Film Comment podcast, stating, “I’m heading off this Saturday to play a part in the third installment […]
EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Distribution has acquired French rights for Argentinian director Federico Luis’s first feature Simon of the Mountain ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Critics’ Week in May. The coming-of-age tale stars rising Argentinian actor, singer and song writer Lorenzo Ferro as a young man grappling with the challenges of a mental disorder. Cannes […]
A shake-up on The NFL Today. Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms are both leaving the longrunning CBS pregame show, with Matt Ryan set to join fellow co-hosts James Brown, Nate Burleson, Bill Cowher and JJ Watt, the network confirmed Esiason announced the news Monday morning on his WFAN radio show, saying that his 22-year run […]
WME Independent has signed on to rep world sales rights on Nuremberg, a historical thriller set in post-war Germany from filmmaker James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Truth), and will introduce the pic to buyers at the upcoming Cannes market. The film is led by Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), and Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Revolutionary […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive situation with what we hear were four offers, TriStar Pictures has snapped up film rights to Wesley Wang’s nothing, except everything., a short film that Wang will adapt for the big screen as writer and director, with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa producing. A 19-year-old currently studying economics at Harvard, Wang made nothing, […]
NBCUniversal is hiking the price of Peacock for the second time in two years, tacking $2 onto the cost of the streaming service this summer, around the time of the Paris Olympics. Beginning in July, the monthly price for Peacock Premium will increase to $7.99. Premium Plus, which offers limited advertising, download capability and live […]
Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, showing off the full panels of all 20 shows that participated in Saturday’s all-day showcase of the year’s best in nonfiction, unscripted and late-night programming as Emmy season ramps up. Click here for the streaming site. This year’s panel lineup featured a […]
