The numbers are in and Beckham and Squid Game: The Challenge have topped the charts in terms of Netflix viewership when it comes to non-scripted titles. The two series, a docuseries and reality competition, were the seventh and 15th most-watched non-scripted shows to debut in the second half of 2023, respectively. But as Netflix continues […]
Young Sheldon is now gone from CBS but he’s finding a whole new set of nerd lovers on Netflix. According to the second edition of What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report, the single-camera comedy that just said its last goodbye on broadcast TV has generated 88M views on the streamer. More than 26 million […]
This evening the Cannes Film Festival welcomed another world premiere of an ambitious French title with Beating Hearts (L’Amour Ouf). Gilles Lellouche’s competition entry from Studiocanal was greeted with a 15-minute standing ovation inside the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The modern Romeo and Juliet tale co-stars François Civil, who featured as D’Artagnan in last year’s Three […]
Disney director James Gorman, who retired as CEO of Morgan Stanley in January after a smooth succession process, will also be stepping down as executive chairman of the financial giant. One of the longest tenured top executives on Wall Street, Gorman told Morgan Stanley’s annual meeting of shareholders today that he plans to exit the […]
Dear Child (Liebes Kind) is a German miniseries that is about to become even more high-profile outside of its local territory. The limited series became the second most-watched title for Netflix over the second half of 2023 as it published its latest tranche of viewing data. The series clocked up 253M hours viewed since its […]
Netflix has just released another round of viewership data. After pulling back the curtain on its data for the first time last year, the streamer quietly dropped the insights for the second half of 2023, publishing the second What We Watched report on Thursday without as much fanfare as the last round. As Netflix pointed […]
Disneyland’s popular Fantasmic! show will return tomorrow, nearly a year after it went on hiatus due to a fire that engulfed the attraction’s giant prop dragon. The show will include a “reimagined battle scene between Sorcerer Mickey and Maleficent,” according to the park. It no longer includes the dragon. Fantasmic! has officially been on hold […]
Canadian director Matthew Rankin’s Persian and French-language drama Universal Language has won the inaugural Audience Award of Directors’ Fortnight. This is the first official prize launched by Directors’ Fortnight which does not have a jury. The €7,500 ($8,100) cash award, is also the first audience award to be launched in Cannes, across the Official Selection […]
Take your pick. There have been countless film and TV productions adapting Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th century tale of revenge and deception, The Count of Monte Cristo. We have seen it in different versions in 1934, 1954, 1975, 2002 and probably up to 15 more iterations. Now we have the latest, the lavish widescreen French […]
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to Night Call, a French thriller marking the feature directorial debut of Michiel Blanchart, whose live-action short You’re Dead Hélène was shortlisted for the 94th Oscars. Slated for release later this year, the film follows a young locksmith who gets way more […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dove Cameron (Schmigadoon!) and Avan Jogia (Orphan Black: Echoes) have been set to topline Obsession, a thriller series produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Atomic Monster, which was ordered at the end of last year. Written and executive produced by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, the show is based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s 2021 […]
Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention. Ron Nyswaner has written movies for more than four decades, earning an Oscar nomination for Philadelphia, and has worked on shows like Homeland and Ray Donovan. He made his debut as a TV creator with Showtime’s […]
The Hollywood Commission, led by Anita Hill, Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw, on Thursday announced the launch of MyConnext, a secure, all-in-one online tool, resource center, and reporting system for entertainment industry workers exploring their options when confronting harassment, bullying, or any type of workplace abuse. An independent nonprofit corporation with its own management committee, […]
NATAS has revealed its 2024 Gold and Silver Circle Honorees in daytime TV. Inductees are chosen for their achievement, mentoring, and leadership in the industry. The 2024 Gold Circle Inductees are Jerome Dobson, writer (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, General Hospital, Santa Barbara); A Martínez, actor (The Bay, Santa Barbara) and Suzanne Rogers, actress […]
Over a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, she has found ways to keep the show fresh and new for those who have been waiting since she opened in Phoenix, Arizona in March 2023 to see her. Since the tour began in the United States last year, Swift has released two rerecorded albums — Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in addition to a […]
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Judd Apatow, the prolific hyphenate responsible for a ton of comedy box office and the launch of many stars and filmmakers in that space. As Deadline exclusively revealed, Apatow ended a 30-year relationship with UTA, and took meetings with the other majors before deciding his next chapter will be with WME. […]
Carlos King is making another show for OWN. The producer, who runs Kingdom Reign Entertainment, is behind series including the Love & Marriage franchise. He is now making Family Empire: Houston for the network. The series follows the multi-generational Braden family of Houston, Texas. Exploring themes of generational wealth and the building of a family […]
Spanish director Jonás Trueba’s The Other Way Around (Volveréis) has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. The prize is judged by four members of the Europa Cinema network representing independent exhibitors operating 3,121 screens across Europe. Under the prize, the film will receive the support of these cinemas […]
Laura Linney (Ozark), Ben Semanoff (Ozark) and Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) round out the director lineup for Netflix’s upcoming limited series Black Rabbit, starring and executive produced by Jude Law and Jason Bateman, the streamer announced Thursday. Each is slated to helm two episodes of the 8-episode series, which hails from Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Aggregate […]
A background in D.C. politics just might be better preparation for Survivor than any wilderness training, at least former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett had better hope so. Lovett, the speechwriter-turned-Pod Save America regular turned up in a rather unlikely place last night: The preview trailer for the Season 47 installment of CBS’ Survivor. Lovett was […]
EXCLUSIVE: After a rapturous world premiere at the Palais des Festivals on Saturday night and an 11-minute standing ovation, Jacques Audiard’s latest Cannes Competition entry Emilia Peréz is nearing a deal with Netflix for North America and the UK. The Spanish-language musical crime comedy, starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Édgar Ramirez, has been […]
Netflix has tied up a deal in the $34M range for the John Lee Hancock-directed package Monsanto, we can reveal. The pic will star Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Oscar winner Laura Dern. CAA Media Finance cut the presale after launching with Rocket Science last week. Netflix has been quieter at recent markets but is back at the table with the […]
EXCLUSIVE: AI firm Flawless, distributor-financier XYZ Films (Mandy), and producer Tea Shop Productions (The Fall) have acquired Michel Gondry’s 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight movie The Book Of Solutions for all English-speaking territories. Directed and written by Gondry, the French-language comedy is the first film in seven years from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science […]
EXCLUSIVE: With a new last name, Naomi is stepping into the spotlight. Ever Carradine has been promoted to a series regular for the upcoming sixth and final season of Hulu’s flagship drama The Handmaid’s Tale. Carradine joined The Handmaid’s Tale in Season 1, recurring as Naomi Putnam while being a series regular on another Hulu […]
EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 came on tracking this AM and sources are telling us it’s bound to be the highest opening at the domestic box office year-to-date, inching out Dune Part Two ($82.5M) and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire ($80M) with a 3-day between $80M-$85M. Inside Out 2 opens over the Pixar tried-and-true […]
