EXCLUSIVE: Comedian and podcaster Chad Daniels announced on Tuesday morning that his latest stand-up special, Empty Nester, is set to premiere on Netflix on July 16th. In his tenth comedy special, Daniels explains that he’s an empty nester, as his kids are now 20 and 24. His new hour sees him head to St. Paul, […]
Amazon MGM Studios just dropped the trailer for Jackpot!, the upcoming action-comedy starring Awkwafina, John Cena and Simu Liu. Jackpot! debuts on Prime Video August 15. Directed by Paul Feig, Jackpot! stars Awkwafina as Katie, a wannabe actor who, in 2030, wins the lucrative, multi-billion-dollar “Grand Lottery” jackpot. She has until sundown to collect her […]
HBO has released the official teaser for the third season of the HBO Original drama series Industry debuting Aug. 11 at 9 p.m. on HBO. The drama gives an insider’s view of the blackbox of high finance following a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment of international […]
Gary Striewski is staying in business with ESPN. The cable sports channel has re-signed the SportsCenter anchor and studio-host to a new, multi-year deal. Under the pact, Striewski will continue his hosting duties on SportsCenter, a position he’s been in since 2022, as well as appearing in other ESPN programs. Striewski will continue his weekday role on the […]
The investigative office of the Paris Appeals Court has rejected a request by the lawyers of French Culture Minister Rachida Dati for an end to prosecution procedures related to the Carlos Ghosn affair. In charges dating back to 2021, Dati is under investigation for payments totalling $950k (€900K) that she is alleged to have received […]
Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will be bestowed with the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. The actress and producer will also participate in an In Conversation With… event looking back on her career. The TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award winner is given to a leading woman in the motion picture industry […]
The cast of Blade Runner 2099 is coming together. Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II) and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) are joining stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer on the Alcon Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios action-thriller as series regulars. Johnny […]
EXCLUSIVE: ScreenX, a chain of multi-projection cinemas using a three-wall format developed by Korea’s CJ 4DPlex, is opening its largest global location just outside New York City. B&B Theatres, the fifth-largest movie theater chain in the U.S., said it will open the ScreenX auditorium at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, NJ, about seven […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the recently announced Dolly Parton musical Hello, I’m Dolly, set for Broadway in 2026. “How lucky I am to have the great Bartlett Sher direct my Hello, I’m Dolly musical,” Parton said in a statement. “When you decide to […]
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track. So […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Lapkus has hosted a number of podcasts but this time it’s scripted, sort of. The Orange Is The New Black star is to lead Haunting, a hybrid scripted/unscripted paranormal podcast. The series is told by those who witnessed incomprehensible, extraordinary, and spooky encounters with the dead. The podcast, which launched on July 9, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Santa Monica-based The Kennedy/Marshall Company has optioned the feature adaptation rights to breakout UK racehorse documentary It’s Showtime!. The real-life tale of a group of friends from Darlington in the Northeast of England who collectively bought a bargain racehorse without any sort of pedigree after one too many drinks, first aired on ITV1 in […]
The Berlin Film Festival is launching a new section called Perspectives, a competitive strand devoted to international fiction feature debuts. The strand is being launched with an eye on strengthening the breadth of new talent at the festival, which will also discontinue its Encounters strand, first launched back in 2020 under the previous leadership. The […]
Netflix UK Picks Up Idris Elba Doc About Gold Netflix has picked up UK rights to Idris Elba’s doc feature about gold. Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba sees the Luther star embark on an adventure that explores the precious metal’s meaning, how it has shaped cultures, religions, and entire economies around the world. It […]
UPDATED: The 81st Venice Film Festival has been set to open with the world premiere of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux and Monica Bellucci, with Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe. The Warner Bros sequel will be screened out of competition on Wednesday August 28 at the Sala Grande. […]
EXCLUSIVE: PBS Documentaries has launched a Prime Video channel in Canada. Echoing its U.S. counterpart, the channel will kick off with a wealth of docs from pioneering filmmaker Ken Burns’ collection. These will include The Vietnam War, Baseball, The American Buffalo, The U.S. and the Holocaust and Muhammad Ali. In addition to the Burns library, […]
It wouldn’t be a film festival without at least one timely, harrowing emigrant story, but just when you might think the stylistic possibilities have been exhausted — from documentary, to vérité-style fiction and occasionally a dash of deadpan comedy (like Ben Sharrock’s wonderful Limbo, 2020) — along comes Noaz Deshe’s audacious, delirious feature Xoftex. Perhaps […]
Jodi Matterson has left Made Up Stories, the Australian production house she ran with Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky, to launch her own venture. Matterson is setting up a business called Silent Firework, which will operate out of Australia. “I am so excited to be taking on the challenge to continue to tell bold, entertaining […]
London-based The DNEG Group has secured a $200M capital injection from Abu Dhabi investment firm United Al Saqer Group (UASG). The UK-Indian company said the new funds would be used to accelerate the group’s strategy of innovation and diversification and plan to become a sector-agnostic content production and AI-powered technology partner. Next steps in this […]
Daniel Brühl is returning to the director’s chair for bio-pic Break starring Felix Kammerer as real-life German tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm who found himself in the crosshairs of the Nazi regime as his sporting star rose in the 1930s. The production reunites the team behind German WW1 drama All Quiet On The Western Front, […]
Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be feted by the upcoming Locarno Film Festival with a career achievement award, celebrating his more than 100 credits across a multitude of genres. The Bollywood star will receive the award in the festival’s Piazza Grande on August 10. He will then also participate in a public conversation the […]
Natasha Lyonne is back in the driver’s seat as her Peacock procedural Poker Face begins production on Season 2. Rian Johnson celebrated the the first day of filming the sophomore season on Monday, sharing a photo of the show’s clapboard, which listed Lyonne as the director for episode two. “Day one season two,” wrote Johnson […]
Antony Starr‘s thirst is real when it comes to a good running joke. The star of The Boys looked back on his pseudo-superhero character Homelander’s unexpected milk fetish that emerged in the first season and has since become his and showrunner Eric Kripke‘s humorous wink to die-hard fans. “So my memory is it came up […]
A Disney company tradition calls for longtime employees to be recognized with Service Awards on their major anniversaries. Popular collectable items, the awards come in the form of intricate — and somewhat creepy — bronze statuettes of famous Disney characters. The tradition travels all the way to the top, with CEO Bob Iger today sharing […]
Lindsay Lohan was hit with a major sense of déjà vu on the set of her upcoming sequel. The Freaky Friday 2 star opened up about feeling like “a little kid again” amid the nostalgic experience of returning to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California to film the sequel to her 2003 body-swap family comedy. […]
