In a surprising moment during a regularly scheduled press briefing about public safety statistics, the Columbia University protests, migrant centers, the proliferation of illegal weed shops and Mayor Eric Adams’ upcoming trip to meet the Pope in Rome, a curveball question pressed Adams on the possible, if unlikely, jailing of former President Donald Trump. Asked […]
EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire original cast member Eamonn Walker is stepping away from his series regular duties on the hit NBC series after 12 seasons portraying boss Wallace Boden, Deadline has learned. While there have been multiple cast changes of late on OneChicago, we understand that the decision to step back was his own. The Boden […]
EXCUSIVE: Passing along this confidential information: CNN and BBC Studios have reteamed on a new docuseries that details the inner workings of Cold War operatives in the 1980s. The news network will air Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game at 10 p.m. Sunday, June 2. Watch the trailer above. Produced by BBC Studios, the four-part […]
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some buzzy casting. Greta Lee (Past Lives) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) are in negotiations to star in director and producer Louis Leterrier’s (Now You See Me) upcoming sci-fi horror film 11817. Both actors are on a roll. The former is coming off a string of hits including Oscar nominee Past Lives, […]
The great Broadway Crunch of Spring 2024, when 18 new productions opened between mid-March and late April – 19 if you count the commercial transfer of Appropriate – seems to be showing early signs of the inevitable shake-out, with one show (Lempicka) closing soon and a few others already playing to houses with attendance at […]
EXCLUSIVE: Pascal Caucheteux’s Why Not Productions is joining Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content to produce Beanpole helmer Kantemir Balagov’s first English-language film Butterfly Jam. Goodfellas is set to launch sales on the project in Cannes next week. The project, which is financed by AR Content, is set to go into production later this year with casting still underway. Based on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Production studio Vanishing Angle has announced the production of the ensemble drama Under The Lights, directed by Miles Levin in his directorial debut. Based on an award-winning script by Levin, the film is produced by Vanishing Angle’s Natalie Metzger, and is executive produced by Levin, Matt Miller and Carlos Quesada. UTA is handling world sales. […]
It was supposed to be a uniformly joyous occasion. The 22-year-old college hoops phenom and overall No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, Caitlin Clark, was being introduced to the media and fans of the Indiana Fever, which had drafted her. Then came a back and forth with longtime Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyel. Doyel […]
Round 1 of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs is in the books, and the ratings are anything but icy. The games averaged 934,000 viewers in the U.S. across multiple networks, making it the second-most-watched first round ever, the league said today. The numbers are better for North America, averaging 2.2 million viewers, a 6% surge […]
Baby Reindeer has become a sleeper hit for Netflix. While viewership dipped slightly versus the week prior, Richard Gadd’s stalker series still amassed 18.6M views from April 29 to May 5, easily placing it atop the streamer’s TV charts. In fact, it was the most-watched title of the week again, as well. Baby Reindeer is […]
The first Planet of the Apes movie under the Disney regime after absorbing Fox hits theaters this weekend with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes poised to do $50M+ domestic, and $130M WW. After the dull opening of Universal’s Fall Guy, Jesus, God, Saint Mary and Joseph, let’s hope those projections stay steady. Apes […]
EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Hatosy (Animal Kingdom) and Ian Anthony Dale (Accused, The Resident) have joined the cast in heavily recurring roles on the network’s upcoming Rescue: HI-Surf, the long-in-the-works lifeguard drama from John Wells and Matt Kester. Hatosy will play Clayton Emerson, a natural politician and the father of rookie lifeguard Kainalu (Alex Aiono). Councilman Emerson is a shoe-in as […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin-hosted version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is officially coming to ABC after the Disney-owned network handed the show a series order. It comes nearly a year after ABC revealed that the show was in development with new hosts after its brief dalliance with HGTV. Shearer and Teplin created the global […]
Mexican musician Peso Pluma has signed with CAA in all areas. His debut album, Génesis, won the “Best Música Mexicana Album” award at the 2024 Grammys and landed No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, marking the highest-charting Mexican music album in the chart’s history. The album has also garnered a variety of other […]
EXCLUSIVE: Amplify Pictures, the indie studio behind HBO’s Emmy winner 100 Foot Wave and the upcoming Legends for Nat Geo/Disney+, has greenlighted development on LA Native, a new half-hour comedy series written and created by Siena East (Clone High). The show centers on Genoa Now, an unruly Native twentysomething in Los Angeles trying to make […]
Film financier BondIt Media Capital has closed a new co-financing partnership with Cineverse for North American production, acquisition and distribution of film projects. First up under the deal is distribution support for Cineverse (and its horror division Bloody Disgusting) for upcoming Terrifier 3, the third installment in the worldwide cult horror phenomenon featuring Art the […]
New York’s Public Theater announced its upcoming season at their Astor Place home as well as Central Park’s to-be-reopened Delacorte Theater where the Public will stage Twelfth Night, directed by Saheem Ali, in summer 2025. In its 2024-25 season, the Public will feature productions by playwrights Caryl Churchill, Lisa Sanaye Dring, David Finnigan, James Ijames, […]
EXCLUSIVE: After landing the villain role in Ryan Coogler’s next project, Jack O’Connell continues to full out his future dance card. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to join the cast of 28 Years Later, a sequel to the original 28 Days Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes are also on board the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Critical Content, the production company run by Jenny Daly, has landed a new show at A&E. The company has scored a series order for New House No Debt from A&E’s daytime lifestyle block Home.Made.Nation. The series follows the personal and emotional journeys of homeowners from across the U.S. who are seeking to sell their […]
CSI: Miami is getting the docuseries treatment. CBS has ordered an unscripted series based on its iconic crime drama – The Real CSI: Miami. It comes from CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer, who has produced the franchise and Nailed It! and Top Chef producer Magical Elves. The series will feature real-life crime cases and […]
CBS has revealed its 2024 summer schedule, which includes the broadcast debut of the Paramount+ drama Tulsa King, the 26th season of Big Brother and the new true-crime series The Real CSI: Miami. Specials are also planned for the dog days, including Greatest @Home Videos: Father’s Day Edition hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, along with […]
Oscar winner Peter Farrelly will direct and former Warner Bros Motion Picture Boss Toby Emmerich will produce I Play Rocky, a film about how Sylvester Stallone bet on himself to play the star-making title role in Rocky. CAA Media Finance and FilmNation are selling at Cannes. Emmerich and Farrelly are producing with Christian Baha, and […]
A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms has found one of its directors. Owen Harris, who has directed episodes of Black Mirror including the San Junipero episode, will helm three of the episodes for the Game of Thrones spinoff. It comes as HBO revealed that the adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight novella will […]
Paramount’s Tony & Ziva NCIS spinoff is untitled no more. The two stars of the Europe-set series, Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, got on Zoom to unveil the moniker of the offshoot Tuesday. After referencing a couple of titles that had been floated, NCIS: Europe and NCIS: Trust No One, the duo announced that […]
EXCLUSIVE: Danny Huston (The Dead Don’t Hurt) has signed on to star alongside Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser and Kevin Durand in the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures. Details as to the film’s plot, as well as Huston’s role in it, are under wraps. But Neeson will play Detective Frank Drebin, […]
