SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Season 3, Part 1 of Bridgerton. Dearest gentle readers, the time has come for more Bridgerton. Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) finally take center stage in Season 3 of the Netflix series. Fans have been chomping at the bit to see Polin’s love story […]
Former CBS Media Ventures licensing and distribution executive Jonathan Bingaman has been named President, Domestic Multi-Platform Licensing & Distribution for Paramount Global Content Distribution. He will report to Dan Cohen, Chief Content Licensing Officer, Paramount Global and President, Republic Pictures, who announced the appointment in a note to staff. Bingaman will continue with many of […]
Broadway’s Stereophonic and Hell’s Kitchen were named the season’s Outstanding Play and Outstanding Musical by The Drama League, with Sarah Paulson winning the Distinguished Performance Award for her work in the Outstanding Play Revival Appropriate. Drama League Awards, considered the oldest theatrical honors in America, were also presented today to Merrily We Roll Along, named […]
EXCLUSIVE: Out at the Cannes market, LA-based production company Convergence Entertainment Group is launching There There, which is being written and directed by the Polish brothers in their first collaboration in more than a decade. The film has begun principal photography and the duo are hopeful it will premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. […]
Now that the upfronts are over, it’s time to hand out much-deserved accolades to those who made this year’s presentations truly unforgettable. Just remember, everyone’s a winner here. But these folks made the week extra special in New York. Most Ominous Overture: Kelly Clarkson kicking off a week of upfronts that used to be the […]
When Adi (Ciprian Chiujdea) is beaten up outside the one dance club in the village where he grew up, his father takes up the cudgels, chivvying the local police chief into finding out who did it. It would be obvious enough to anyone but dad Dragoi (Bogdan Dumitrache) that this is a straight-up case of […]
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Netflix has landed for development Forever, Interrupted, a limited series based on the 2013 bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, sources tell Deadline. Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley are set to star in and executive produce the project, from A24 and company-based producer Jessica Rhoades. Julia Bicknell is writing the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Alonzo, a two-time SAG Award winner known as one of the top action design professionals in Hollywood, is getting into producing at the action-focused production company Tremor House. His partner in the endeavor is longtime friend and collaborator Jonathan Spano, an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose film technology and stunt work have also earned […]
Following four Oscar wins just a few months ago for his Emma Stone-starrer Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos unveiled his latest feature at Cannes’ Grand Theatre Lumiere this evening. His three-hour absurdist anthology Kinds of Kindness, also starring Stone as well as Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, reaped a six-minute ovation. The Searchlight Pictures title also […]
EXCLUSIVE: Thad Luckinbill is roaring into Season 2 of Lioness as a newly minted series regular. He will continue to play Kyle, a CIA Officer. The Taylor Sheridan drama starring Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Oliveira was renewed for a second season by Paramount+ earlier this month. Season 1 is available to stream in its […]
If you’ve been keeping up with distribution news recently, there’s been one name you’ll have seen pop up again and again: Vertical. Since the pandemic, the bottom has fallen out of the film business, with more quality indie packages hitting the marketplace than there are distributors willing to take them on. Stepping up, in the […]
“I’m not going to sit here and be called a liar!” In what was one of a number of acidic exchanges today between lawyers, that’s what clearly heated Rust Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey told a virtual hearing today on a motion by Alec Baldwin’s defense to see the involuntary manslaughter charges against their client dismissed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Vince Vaughn is in negotiations to star in the 20th Century pic Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. BenDavid Grabinski will write and direct with Andrew Lazar producing. Deadline first reported last spring that 20th Century landed the project following a heated bidding war. While plot details are vague, the spec is described […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kaplan/Perrone is elevating managers Lindsay Perraud and Hannah Ozer to Partner. Perraud joined KPE in 2016 from UTA where she was an agent in the TV Literary Department. Her clients include Christopher Storer and his American Light & Fixture banner, Rachel Shukert, Chris Bremner, Danielle Henderson and Celeste Ballard. Ozer worked in development at […]
Elon Musk has completed the rebrand of Twitter, the dynamic social media platform he acquired in 2022, as the URL, or site name, officially changes to X.com. “All core systems are now on X.com,” he said in a post today. Twitter.com links now redirecting to the X.com. A message at the bottom of login and […]
Fox’s nascent sales house has struck its first third-party distribution agreement for a TV series, taking rights to Australian docu-soap Billion Dollar Playground. Fox Entertainment Global (FEG) will sell tape and format around the world to the show that is scheduled to launch on Foxtel’s streamer Binge over the summer alongside returning series Selling Houses […]
Young Sheldon went out with a bang. Or, should we say, a bazinga. The Big Bang Theory prequel series wrapped things up on Thursday night, and the two-episode finale scored 8.95M viewers, according to live + same-day Nielsen data. Not only was it the top broadcast of the night, it was also the most-watched episode […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Susan Park has signed with Prototype Talent Agency for theatrical representation. Park was most recently seen on the AppleTV+ dark comedy High Desert starring Patricia Arquette, and in Starz’s thriller Shining Vale, opposite Courteney Cox. Park is known for her lead role as “Jinju” on Season 1 of TNT’s Snowpiercer and for her role as Christine, Walton Goggins’ wife, […]
Who is RMF? We never do find out. Yorgos Lanthimos’ trio of stories in Kinds of Kindness are titled The Death of RMF, RMF is Flying and RMF Eats a Sandwich. RMF is a silent, bearded man identified by the monogram on his shirt. In the first story, he arrives at a Georgian mansion to take […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the spec Queen B, a college comedy written by Giovanni M. Porta. Cameron Fuller will produce along with Brad Fuller for Fuller Media. Becca Gleason is rewriting for the script and while no deal is closed the plan is to develop it for her to potentially direct. Netflix had no comment. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Whitney Peak (Hocus Pocus 2, Molly’s Game, Gossip Girl) has been cast in Aisling Walsh’s Ethel, alongside the previously announced cast of Shira Haas and Sarah Paulson. Bankside Films first launched the title, which is currently in pre-production, earlier this year and has completed a number of international pre-sales in Cannes. The project, which is a true story […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Pierre (Walker) has landed one of his first major film roles in Mercy, Amazon MGM Studios’ sci-fi thriller from director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted). Details as to his role are under wraps. But Pierre joins an ensemble led by Chris Pratt, which also includes Rebecca Ferguson, Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan, Kenneth Choi, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Justin Lin has rounded out the cast for his next film Last Days with five additions: Toby Wallace (Babyteeth), Ciara Bravo (Cherry), Claire Price (The Capture), Dieudonné Ngabo (Forever) and Marny Kennedy (Between Two Worlds). As previously announced, Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, Naveen Andrews and Ken Leung will also star. Based on the Outside […]
Cynthia McFadden, longtime senior legal and investigative correspondent at NBC News, said that he is leaving the network. She wrote on Instagram this morning, “It is hard to leave a job you love but this is the right time- I have a list of things I have often said I wanted to do ‘someday.’ Well, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Even though his traditionalist strategy made him an unlikely candidate, we included Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman in our 2022 Cannes Disruptors magazine. At a time when every other major prioritized the building of streaming services above all else because of the Netflix juggernaut, Rothman was invited to defend his model. The […]
