EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has rounded out the cast of its coming-of-age musical teaming director Michel Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams with four additions: Tim Meadows (Dream Scenario), Jaboukie Young-White (C’mon C’mon), Jamilah Rosemond (Rustin) and Jayson Lee (61st Street). Details as to the roles of the newcomers are under wraps, as all roles so far […]
Disney and the BBC really don’t want any spoilers revealed for today’s debut of the latest season of Doctor Who. Fair enough, but I’m here to tell you that you will hear some of the worst music ever in these opening episodes of Ncuti Gatwa’s hopefully long run as the famed Time Lord. Crossing timelines […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the Showdown Productions feature In Flight, which the company is bringing to sales at the Cannes Film Festival. From director Bo Youngblood in her debut, the indie thriller is written by John Ierardi and Drew McAnany and stars Tiffany Smith (Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 3) Cristo […]
A special to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is planned for February on NBC. The network is planning a celebratory weekend that culminates with a live primetime special on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025 from 8-11 p.m. ET. Another new special planned for the 2024-15 season is Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on […]
Four years after NBC revealed it was moving into big-budget wildlife programming, the fruits of its labor are finally heading to the screen. The Americas, the network’s ten-part tentpole wildlife series narrated by Tom Hanks, will premiere in February. The show will kick off with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, February 23. It will be […]
NBC has made subtle changes to its schedule for fall, which features three new series, medical drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto; medical comedy St. Denis Medical, headlined by Wendi McLendon-Covey and David Alan Grier; and Reba McEntire’s new sitcom, Happy’s Place. NBC is creating two clearly defined 8 PM comedy blocks next season — […]
EXCLUSIVE: Natasha Behnam (The Girls on the Bus), Pete Ploszek (Parks & Recreation), Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard) and b (Station 19) are set for recurring roles in the fifth and final season of Netflix’s hit psychological drama You. Based on Caroline Kepnes’ best-selling novel of the same name, You revolves around the question, “What would you […]
Sam Rubin, who was a Los Angeles news mainstay as the longtime entertainment reporter for KTLA-TV and KNX-AM, died today, the station announced. He was 64 and was on the air at KTLA yesterday. Rubin also regularly appeared on BBC television and radio in the United Kingdom and also did radio and TV reports in […]
After seeing Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire gross over $548 million and counting worldwide since its March 29 debut, Legendary has tapped Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi) to script the next film in its Monsterverse franchise, Deadline can confirm. Detail as to the threequel’s plot are under wraps. Directed by Adam Wingard on the heels of […]
The Native American Media Alliance announced the selections for the inaugural cohort of the Native Media Apprenticeship Program In Collaboration with the California Workforce Development Board, High Road Training Partnership and the Bric Foundation. This is a multi-month program that provides career and creative development for indigenous opportunity youth. This program supports California-based Native American […]
Following Sam Waterston’s shocking exit from Law & Order earlier this year, fans of the hit NBC series will also say goodbye to Camryn Manheim, whose final appearance will be in the Season 23 finale airing May 16, Deadline has confirmed. Manheim joined the show as Lieutenant Kate Dixon in the Season 21 premiere “The […]
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) will play the title role in Grendel, a live-action monster flick from The Jim Henson Company, for which Palisades Park Pictures is launching international sales ahead of Cannes. Grendel is the tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic poem who steps forth to tell his side […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a Season 3 pickup to Alert: Missing Persons Unit. The renewal of the procedural drama, starring Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez, has been expected. To make filming more cost-efficient for series producers Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment, Alert will remain in continuous production, segueing from the abbreviated-by-the-strikes second season to […]
James Laurenson, the British actor whose 50-year career included roles in Coronation Street, Midsomer Murders and The Crown, had died. He was 84. His death was reported by multiple UK news outlets today. A cause of death and other specifics have not been reported. First appearing in 1968 as the Reverend Peter Hope in the […]
It’s an indie grab bag and a fun one this weekend with the widely pummeled TIFF-premiering Poolman, (the people will decide), Jamie Foxx in comedy Not Another Church Movie, and Eric Bana’s Force of Nature: The Dry 2 sequel. Mubi and Strand Releasing are testing the market with limited openings Gasoline Rainbow and A Prince. […]
EXCLUSIVE: International and indie film distributor Well Go USA Entertainment acquired North American rights to Little League baseball film You Gotta Believe directed by Ty Roberts (12 Mighty Orphans) and starring Luke Wilson (Horizon: An American Saga) and Greg Kinnear (The Present). In addition to Wilson and Kinnear, other cast members include Sarah Gadon (Ferrari), Etienne […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Cannes market, Lionsgate has taken North American rights off the table on one of the bigger-budget new packages that’ll be on sale next week: that’s action-thriller Mutiny, which will star action evergreen Jason Statham (Fast & Furious) and be directed by Jean-François Richet (Plane). Lionsgate, which we understand stumped up eight […]
Gordon Ramsay and Fox Entertainment have teamed to launch Bite, a food and entertainment brand featuring culinary and lifestyle content, products and more. Created under Fox Entertainment and its Gordon Ramsay production partnership, Studio Ramsay Global, Bite is touted as offering culinary content, and giving advertisers and brand partners greater reach to engage with Ramsay and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Florent Lamy and Daniel Blanc’s Paris-based talent agency Elevate Management is expanding into sports and digital and is also opening offices in Miami and London. The French management firm has carved out a niche for itself over the past decade as one of the only management companies representing U.S. talents in Europe with a […]
Andy Serkis has joined of the cast of Oren Moverman’s WW2 psychological thriller The Man with the Miraculous Hands in the role of leading Nazi Heinrich Himmler opposite Woody Harrelson, as France’s SND boards the project for a Cannes market launch. As well as international sales rights, Paris-based film company SND has also taken distribution rights in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tanner Beard, actor, writer, director and Emmy nominated producer, has signed with Link Entertainment for representation in all areas. Beard is headed to the Nice International Film Festival as an actor with his film Fluxx, and then to Cannes as part of the production team on Horizon: An American Saga films. Beard has also been cast in the film Blood […]
It’s official: Writers Guild members at the Sesame Workshop have got a new contract. The writers “overwhelmingly” approved the five-year collective bargaining agreement, the guild announced on Friday. Sesame Workshop writers reached a tentative deal in April, but not before unanimously voting to authorize a strike against the nonprofit organization. The deal was struck just […]
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has closed a North American rights deal for A Sacrifice, writer-director Jordan Scott’s gripping thriller. The film, originally titled Berlin Nobody, is from Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and augenschein Filmproduktion. A Sacrifice stars Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down), Sadie Sink (Stranger Things & The Whale), Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049), Jonas Dassler, […]
It’s official, Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm has broken Amazon Prime Video’s UK ratings record. The Season 3 premiere of Jeremy Clarkson‘s farming show was streamed by 5.1M viewers over the past seven days, according to Barb, the UK’s official audience research group. This puts the episode nearly a million viewers ahead of the Season […]
EXCLUSIVE: Freida Pinto and her Freeboard Films Entertainment label have boarded Kiranmala & the Kingdom Beyond, the animated kids TV show we first told you about earlier this year. Pinto will voice the Moon Maiden, the biological mother to the lead character, Kiranmala, and will executive produce the series alongside her producing partner Emily Verellen […]
