Roku has sealed a multi-year deal for rights to Major League Baseball, setting a slate of 18 games to stream live and for free every Sunday. Billed as Sunday Leadoff, the early-window games appeared last season on Peacock. The shift to Roku marks a milestone in the ongoing migration of sports to streaming, with Roku […]
There will be no 2024 MTV Movie & TV Awards. Deadline has confirmed that the awards show is skipping this year. It is expected to return in a reimagined format in 2025. The news comes after the 2023 edition of the MTV Movie & TV Awards was impacted by the WGA strike and had to pivot […]
David Sanborn, the six time Grammy-winning alto saxophonist who played at Woodstock, composed music for the Lethal Weapon movies, played in the SNL and Late Night with David Letterman bands and worked with everyone from Stevie Wonder to David Bowie, died Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications. He […]
EXCLUSIVE: Iranian-American multidisciplinary producer James Shani launches creative studio, RICH SPIRIT, which will partner with BIPOC artists and filmmakers to produce a wide range of original projects from narrative films to documentaries, music videos, donate its services to nonprofits, execute commissioned work for brands, and fund early-stage founders in the technology and media space. Shani […]
It has been more than 20 years since Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s The Simple Life premiered. The reality series followed the wealthy socialites as they struggled to do manual, low-paying jobs such as cleaning rooms, farm work, serving meals in fast-food restaurants, and working as camp counselors. The pair has now reunited on a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran literary agent David Lubliner is switching to management and has joined Untitled Entertainment. Lubliner, who starts in his new role as manager effective immediately and will be based out of Untitled’s Angeles office, was most recently a literary agent at UTA. “We are thrilled that David is taking the leap into management and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tuanh Dinh has joined Zealot, the award-winning trailer agency behind campaigns for Bridgerton, Hacks and Anatomy of a Fall, as the company’s new Head of Digital. A strategic digital marketing executive with over 10 years’ experience, Dinh started her work at Zealot today. In her new role, her immediate focus will be fortifying Zealot’s […]
Fresh from skewering his employer, Seth Meyers has been rewarded with a new contract at NBC. Meyers will continue to host Late Night with Seth Meyers through 2028 and has extended his overall deal with Universal Studio Group. It comes three years after NBC struck a deal with the former SNL star and head writer […]
Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski has assembled a star-studded lineup of celebrity friends who will accompany him on a global culinary adventure in his upcoming Nat Geo docuseries No Taste Like Home. Awkwafina (A Real Bug’s Life), Henry Golding (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare), James Marsden (Jury Duty), Florence Pugh (Oppenheimer), Issa Rae (Insecure) and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mansa, the ad-supported streaming platform highlighting Black content for a global audience, has partnered with Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing on a licensing agreement to distribute a curated selection of ARRAY’s independent feature films directly to audiences via the Mansa Streaming Service and on the Mansa Mix FAST channel. The platform delivers a curated selection […]
EXCLUSIVE: Three and a half decades into his career as a playwright and film and TV writer, Jon Robin Baitz has never been busier, coming off one series, with three others in production or preproduction. Baitz has now signed a big multi-year deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the four series, which all hail […]
Julia Roberts also will be joining George Clooney for a Los Angeles fundraiser next month for Joe Biden’s campaign, headlined by the president and his predecessor, Barack Obama. Clooney and Roberts will be part of a contest — run across social media and via digital ads — to try to boost small-dollar donations, according to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of her most recent Sony pic Anyone But You, the studio isn’t wasting any time staying in the Sydney Sweeney business as sources tell Deadline Jane Goldman and Honey Ross are in negotiations to pen a new Barbarella pic starring Sweeney with Edgar Wright In Talks to direct. The film is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran manager Leonard Torgan, formerly of Cohn Torgan management, has joined forces with Brett Carducci as a partner in his new shingle, Aligned Entertainment Group, which will both manage and produce projects alongside clients. Joining Leonard at Aligned are longtime clients Russell Hornsby (BMF), Ash Zukerman (Succession), Tequan Richmond (Everybody Hates Chris), Samm Levine […]
The spring sun blazed down on London’s Royal Festival Hall for the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday and the conditions were right for Baby Reindeer to bask in its success. Richard Gadd’s dazzling “true story” of his experience with an alleged stalker won’t be eligible for prizes until next year, but he attended the 2024 […]
Shares of GameStop and AMC Entertainment exploded Monday, up close to 80% and 50%, respectively, as Roaring Kitty, aka Keith Gill, the trader and Reddit celebrity who sparked the so-called meme stock revolution on Wall Street starting in early 2021, posted on X (formerly Twitter) for the first time in almost three years. Gill, a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) has signed on to star in My One and Only, a psychological thriller from writer-director Wayne Kramer (The Cooler) that’s being presented for worldwide sales at Cannes by Film Bridge International. Set to go before cameras in July, the film centers on Molly (Hale), a recently widowed young woman, […]
Judge Judy wants inquiring minds to know that a recent National Enquirer article claiming she is seeking a new trial for the long-convicted Menendez brothers is “unequivocally false.” So false in fact, that longtime small screen magistrate is taking the Enquirer and InTouch Weekly owner Accelerate360 to court for defamation. The lawsuit that the never […]
NBCUniversal says ad technology it rolled out earlier this year helped drive a 38% increase in sales for Domino’s in a recent trial. The media giant closed its upfront presentation with the statistic and other findings detailed for the first time by Mark Marshall, Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships, at the NBCU upfront Monday in […]
Doug Belgrad is joining Netflix as Vice President of Film. He’s Dan Lin’s first hire after Lin replaced Scott Stuber and laid off a bunch of staff. Stuber courted top filmmakers for years with hopes Netflix would embrace theatrical releases. We’ve heard rumors of buyer regret as films like Knives Out: Glass Onion sacrificed chances […]
EXCLUSIVE: Leviathan Productions has acquired the remake rights to L’Homme de la Cave (The Man in the Basement), the French psychological thriller from director Philippe Le Guay, which was released just last year. Inspired by a true story, the film is about a Jewish couple who sell their basement to a history professor, only to […]
In speaking today at the annual Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit, Vice President Kamala Harris had some words of advice for those in the crowd: Don’t be timid. Harris, the first female and first Black and Asian-American elected vice president, told the group, “So here’s the thing about breaking barriers. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ellen Pompeo is lining up another project as she scales back her presence on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. The SAG Award-winning actress is combining forces with noted documentary producers Glen Zipper and Sean Stuart for the nonfiction feature The Way Home: Dogs of the Last Frontier, a film about Alaskan sled dogs preparing for retirement. […]
Ellen Degeneres will return to Netflix with a new hour-long comedy special later this year, Deadline has learned. This will mark Degeneres’ second special for the platform, on the heels of 2018’s Relatable. Ben Winston and Fulwell73 will serve as the special’s producers. “There is nobody quite like Ellen,” stated Robbie Praw, VP of Stand-Up […]
EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Cream Productions has made some changes to its development team. Veteran exec James Farr has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Development, and will led a team comprising former Blue Ant Studios producer Zachary Frank, who has joined as Vice President of Development, and Jane Churchill-Smith, who has been upped to Director […]
