After hustling for nearly two decades to build a career as an actor and stand-up comedian, Adam Ray has recently hit on an entirely new level of exposure. The person he has to thank for it, you might be surprised to hear, is none other than Dr. Phil. For many a performer, Ray tells Deadline, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Raven-Symoné is extending her relationship with Disney, which she has called home for many years, with a new multi-year overall deal at Disney Branded Television. Under the pact, she will produce, direct, and develop projects across linear and streaming, with a focus on multi-cam comedies. First off, she will executive produce and direct sitcom […]
Cameras are rolling on Kangaroo, an Australian family comedy inspired by the true story of an Alice Springs animal sanctuary. Ryan Corr (House of the Dragon, Catching Dust, Holding the Man) will stars as ex-TV weather presenter Chris Masterman, who becomes stranded in an Outback town after a car accident and forms an unlikely friendship with […]
In our first encounter with Una (Elín Hall) and Diddi (Baldur Einarsson) in the long dusk of a Reykjavik spring night, they are thinking only of the future. The immediate future: will they be able to sleep overnight together without Diddi’s flatmate noticing? The near future, meaning the next couple of days, when Diddi officially […]
EXCLUSIVE: Activist Artists Management has signed Chilean actress Renata González Spralja (The Wave) for representation, with Bernie Cahill and Justin Deanda to run point for the new client. Most recently, Spralja wrapped production on The Wave (La Ola), a musical feature directed by Oscar and Goya winner Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman). Produced by Pablo […]
Gerhard Zeiler, president of Warner Bros. Discovery international, said an HBO output deal with Sky overseas will likely not look the same if it’s renewed. Sky has licensed content through the end of 2025 but it comes as no surprise that WBD will look to tweak that as Max expands globally. The streaming service wants […]
George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the anticipated latest installment in his apocalyptic franchise, had its world premiere here at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. The film received a standing ovation of 7 minutes and 50 seconds after the final frame played in Cannes’ massive Palais, which hosted the buzzy premiere and the […]
Netflix’s upcoming comedy series from Erin Foster, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, has gotten a title, release date and a first-look photo. FKA Untitled Erin Foster Show, the series is now titled Nobody Wants This. It’s slated to premiere on the streamer September 26. You can see a first-look photo of Bell and Brody […]
Sundance may be moving out of Utah, Hot Docs may be going away, and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival has dissolved. It’s a challenging time for film festivals in North America, but into this space comes a new cinematic event: the Round Top Film Festival in Texas. The inaugural edition of Round Top will […]
It’s a longstanding tradition: Get the cool kid to sign your yearbook. Castmember Marcello Hernández tries to do just that as he asks host Jake Gyllenhaal to sign his SNL Season Finale yearbook. The affable Gyllenhaal generously agrees and spends quite a while agonizing and rhapsodizing as he writes with Hernández looking on. When he […]
A small group of advertisers were serenaded by Metallica’s Master of Puppets (one of those songs that Stranger Things brought to a new generation) as they walked into Netflix’s first in-person Upfront. Held at Pier 59 Studios in New York, the event had the feeling of an immersive theater experience with a lot of black […]
Since their beginnings in 1979, George Miller’s hyper-jacked Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson had not received a single Oscar nomination, not even for Tina Turner’s great signature song “We Don’t Need Another Hero” in 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome. But then, 30 years later, when finally the fourth and Gibson-less edition appeared, the snooty Academy got […]
Hours after Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s campaigns swiftly finalized plans for two presidential debates, the president’s team is already warning that his rival is “playing games.” “No more chaos, no more debate about debates,” Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement this afternoon. It came after Trump posted on Truth Social […]
EXCLUSIVE: Grey Sloan is losing a surgical intern. Midori Francis, who has played Mika Yasuda on Grey’s Anatomy for the last two seasons, is departing the medical drama as a series regular, Deadline has learned. According to sources, Francis is in negotiations to return next season to wrap up the story of her character. I […]
UPDATED with latest: Selena Gomez revealed the Wizards of Waverly Place sequel title at Disney’s upfront Tuesday. The spinoff will be called Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. She also shared two first-look images which can be found below. Deadline broke the news of the sequel series in January. Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas serve as writers […]
Paramount+ announced on Wednesday that South Park: The End of Obesity, its latest South Park exclusive event, will premiere in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, May 24, debuting in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria the following day. Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, The End of Obesity watches […]
Charlyne Yi alleged on social media that they were “physically assaulted multiple times by an actor, as well as psychologically abused” on the set of Taika Waititi’s upcoming Apple TV+ series Time Bandits, produced by Paramount Television Studios. Yi also claimed they were “coerced to quit” and “was gaslit by coworkers, producers, and HR.” “HR […]
ABC News plans to make its coverage of the second presidential debate in September available to other networks for simulcast. The network announced today that it will host a debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Sept. 10. That followed an earlier announcement by CNN that Biden and Trump had agreed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Radhika Apte (Sister Midnight), Naveen Andrews (The Dropout) and Ken Leung (Avatar: The Last Airbender) have signed on to star opposite the previously announced Sky Yang in Last Days, the next film from the Fast & Furious franchise’s Justin Lin. Based on the Outside Magazine article The Last Days of John Allen Chau by […]
Donnie Yen has inked a deal to reprise his role as Caine, the highly skilled, blind assassin introduced in John Wick: Chapter 4, in a new film from Lionsgate set to shoot in Hong Kong next year, the studio announced on Wednesday. While the logline is being kept under wraps, the new film will continue […]
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios keeps adding to its all-star cast for its upcoming The Fantastic Four movie as sources tell Deadline Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne is set to join highly-anticipated Marvel pic. She joins a cast that already includes Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn is Johnny […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Kenneth Branagh looks to have found his next director outing as well as landing an top tier star to lead the film as sources tell Deadline Emmy and BAFTA winner Jodie Comer is set to star in Branagh’s new film The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, which he wrote and will direct. […]
Nickelodeon and Victorious alum Victoria Justice is breaking her silence on Dan Schneider following the docu-series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. In a new interview, Justice recalls her “complex” relationship with Schneider and feels she’s owed an apology. “Something that was very evident in the documentary is that Dan had a […]
Will Ferrell (SNL, The Shrink Next Door) is making a rare foray into scripted television in a big way. The former SNL star, whose acting credits have mainly focused on films, is co-creating the new Netflix comedy series GOLF alongside Ramy Youssef (Ramy) and Josh Rabinowitz (The Carmichael Show). Ferrell and Youssef are set to […]
“Hater says I’m superficial,” muses one of the TikTok influencers who rule the version of the world that obsesses 19-year-old Liane in Agathe Riedinger’s Cannes Competition entry Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut). “Yes, I’m superficial,” continues the influencer, “but that doesn’t mean I’m a moron.” Maybe not, but there aren’t many prospects for young women like […]
