EXCLUSIVE: BritBox International has picked up Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated menopause comedy The Change. The show from Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation is created, written by and stars Bridget Christie, and has already been recommissioned for a second season. The Change follows Linda Jenkins, who is convinced she’s got early onset dementia but is informed by her […]
EXCLUSIVE: Angela Sarafyan (Westworld) will exec produce and star in Ponchik, a semi-autobiographical dramedy marking the narrative feature debut of writer-director Natalie Shirinian. Set to go into production next spring, the film delves into the life of a 30-year-old first-generation Armenian American (Sarafyan) residing in the neighborhood of Little Armenia, Los Angeles with her immigrant […]
EXCLUSIVE: David Guion and Michael Handelman (Harold and the Purple Crayon) have been tapped to script The Mouse and the Motorcycle, a live-action/CGI hybrid based on the novel from beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary, in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Originally published by HarperCollins in 1965, The Mouse and the Motorcycle is the first book […]
Disney’s inspirational sports drama Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley (The Marsh King’s Daughter) as Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel, has been set to stream on Disney+ July 19. While initially intended to go straight to streaming, Young Woman got a limited release via Disney on May […]
You might say it’s a wedding to remember. Netflix has dropped the first trailer for The Perfect Couple, its upcoming murder mystery series based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestseller. Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Meghann Fahy, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning, Ishaan Khatter, Billy Howle, and Jack Reynor star in the limited series which premieres September 5 on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is going big in Mexico with a TV series about five nerds who run a high school business selling homework in the 1990s. Watch the trailer above. No One Will Miss Us comes from Fremantle-owned The Immigrant, which is having a good week after Disney+ boarded its comedy-drama Shared Custody from Champions […]
EXCLUSIVE: It wouldn’t be Comic-Con without The Penguin and the HBO Original series will be taking over San Diego Comic-Con from Thursday July 25 to Saturday July 27 with several experiences. The Penguin premieres on HBO and Max in September. Among the stunts are a recreation of Gotham’s famed Iceberg Lounge, a Gotham Ice Truck […]
Netflix is developing Barbaric, a TV series adaptation of the best-selling Vault comic, sources tell Deadline. Sam Claflin (Daisy Jones & the Six, Peaky Blinders) is set to star and executive produce and Patrick Stewart (Star Trek, X-Men franchises) is attached to star in the project, from A+E Studios and Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Director Sam Neave (The Jinx: Part Two) and Academy Award-winning producer Charles B. Wessler (Green Book) commenced production in May on a feature-length doc surrounding the Scottish football club, Partick Thistle. Neave’s documentary will follow Partick Thistle FC and its fans during the 2024-2025 season as they attempt to gain promotion back into the […]
Prime Video has formally ordered The Greatest limited series, from executive producer Michael B. Jordan (The Creed franchise) and executive producer/showrunner Ben Watkins (Cross). Considered the first authorized scripted series about the life of Muhammad Ali done with access to his estate, The Greatest will star Jaalen Best (All American: Homecoming) as the boxing legend. […]
Paramount has laid out some terms of its planned merger with David Ellison’s Skydance including what happens if another bidder appears. The deal includes a so-called “go shop” period during which other interest parties can submit offers. It runs for 45 days from the announcement of the deal, which was unveiled late Sunday night. The […]
NFL chief Roger Goodell indicated today a Paramount-Skydance merger may not impact football on CBS, although he didn’t commit, and that matches on Netflix may expand beyond the streamer’s recent pact for Christmas Day games. In an interview with CNBC from Sun Valley, the Commissioner also opined on the Sunday Ticket verdict, and said the […]
EXCLUSIVE: It appears Peacock has a bombshell on its hands with the new season of Love Island USA. Season 6 began attracting an unprecedented audience for the American version of the well-loved reality dating series after premiering on June 11. According to Nielsen, for the week of June 24 to 30, Love Island USA was […]
Last month, Warner Bros. Discovery shifted three of its highest profile Max Originals – Harry Potter, Lanterns and IT prequel Welcome To Derry – to become HBO Originals. The company is now continuing this shift with the move of The Penguin and Dune: Prophecy. Both shows will now premiere on HBO as well as launching […]
EXCLUSIVE: Laughing Dragon Studios recently grabbed a skateboard for a Tony Hawk toon, and now the Canadian production house focused on the festive season. The company has unveiled Christmas series Coal, which is due to drop in December 2025. Shaftesbury is signed up for international distribution, with Muse Distribution handling Quebec. The Shaw Rocket Fund […]
EXCLUSIVE: Owen Wilson is to play Yeti hunter Tom Slick in a new scripted podcast that also stars the voice talent of Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk. The trio star in Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter, which comes from School of Humans and iHeartPodcasts. The eight-part series, which launches on July 18, based on the untold, mostly true […]
‘Midwich Cuckoos’ Composer Hannah Peel To Curate Mentor Program EXCLUSIVE: The European branch of First Artists Management (FAM)—the international talent agency representing composers, music supervisors, and music editors— has announced a second edition of its UK Composer Assistant and Mentor Programme (C.A.M.P.). Ivor Novello award-winning composer Hannah Peel (Midwich Cuckoos) will be the C.A.M.P. 2024-25 […]
EXCLUSIVE: Succession actor Ashley Zukerman is among cast of new feature Song Of Songs, which will be exec-produced by Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur. The Anita Lester-directed identity drama, developed by Screen Australia and sold by LevelK, is one of three development projects being backed by a new fund for Jewish Australian features, launched by producer […]
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has boarded Shared Custody, the comedy-drama series that marks Champions maker Javier Fesser’s first directing gig in TV. We can reveal that the streamer will launch Shared Custody in January 2025, with filmmaker Fesser (Campeonex, Camino, La Gran Aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón) directing the eight-episode series, which was announced over two years […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ilker Çatak, whose The Teachers’ Lounge was nominated for an Oscar as Germany’s International Feature Film submission, completed shooting his new film Yellow Letters in Hamburg on Wednesday night, the production’s producer Ingo Fliess has revealed to Deadline. Yellow Letters was filmed under strict security precautions because of what Fliess referred to as the film’s cultural and political “sensitive […]
EXCLUSIVE: Motive Pictures had acquired the rights to develop popular British economist and YouTuber Gary Stevenson’s autobiography The Trading Game into a limited TV series. We understand Motive Pictures landed the rights following a competitive and lengthy option process. The Sunday Times bestseller will be adapted by screenwriter Gregory Burke (Atomic, Rebus, ‘71). The deal […]
EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy star Kevin McKidd has been cast in CBBC’s adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s The Primrose Railway Children. The Scottish actor-director, who has played Dr. Owen Hunt in 16 seasons of Shonda Rhimes’ hit drama, will portray Rob Robinson opposite Nina Toussaint-White (Bodyguard), who is his wife Sarah. Their three children will be played […]
Wilshire Boulevard may no longer allow a straight shot to downtown L.A. from the west side. City leaders have proposed eliminating vehicles on a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard bisecting MacArthur Park. Over the coming year, planners will study ways to permanently shut down that portion of road. The idea is to reunite the two areas […]
Composer Nomi Abadi has filed suit for defamation against composer Danny Elfman, according to media reports In the Los Angeles Superior Court suit, Abadi claims statements Elfman made to Rolling Stone last year “peddled appalling lies for publication to Rolling Stone about Nomi.” The statements made by Elfman and his representatives dismissed Abadi’s allegations of sexual misconduct. […]
A jury in New York has found Wall Street investor Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang guilty of fraud and market manipulation. The jury found Hwang guilty on 10 of 11 criminal counts after beginning deliberations Tuesday afternoon. Hwang’s co-defendant and deputy, Patrick Halligan, was also found guilty Hwang’s family office, Archegos, lied to banks to conceal […]
