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“But I wanted to be the sea hag!” We’re at the Deadline shoot for Widow’s Bay in a New York studio. The cast are clustered around a table of props and despite her disappointment at the lack of hag wigs, Dale Dickey is flapping a fishing net like a seafaring matador. Then she finds a […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Gibbs is joining Netflix as Director, Original Series. He will be covering IP and tentpole franchises, reporting to VP, Scripted Series Teddy Biaselli. His start date is Aug. 17. Gibbs is moving to Netflix from Amazon MGM Studios where he was a Senior Television Development Executive for the past four years. This is […]Переглянути повний текст

On Widow’s Bay, a show currently decorated with 19 Emmy nominations, the line between cozy New England charm and creeping dread is often found in the details. Set against the remote, insular world of its titular island, production designer Steve Arnold and set decorator Jennifer Engel created a lived-in, slightly stuck in time and, when […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Firebird and Kingsman: The Secret Service actor Tom Prior has signed with Independent Creative Management (ICM) in the UK. Prior is best known for his lead role in romantic war feature Firebird about a forbidden love between a private and a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War. He was […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: International sales and distribution agency Lightdox has acquired Giuseppe Schillaci’s documentary Auber 89 ahead of its world premiere at the Giornate degli Autori’s Notti Veneziane (Venetian Nights), a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival. The nonfiction feature examines the experience of Fatsah Bouyahmed, a French Algerian actor who suffered memory loss after an accident. […]Переглянути повний текст

Nigel Farage defeated an ‘independent space warrior’ with a bin for a head in a bizarre British by-election this morning, and now Paramount’s 5 is asking more questions about the under-fire Reform UK politician. Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From? is a classic quick turnaround 5 doc, which will go out on Saturday, August […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Mark McKenna (Sing Street) and Stephen Lang (Avatar) are among cast to lead thriller Isolation Booth, which has recently wrapped filming in Minnesota. Heralding from producers Shifted Industry (Showtime’s Basketball County: In The Water) and Witchcraft Motion Picture Company (IFC & Shudder’s Dolly), the psychological thriller from first-time feature director John Beckham follows a […]Переглянути повний текст

Welcome. It’s another week, another Insider. Jesse Whittock at the wheel this week, speeding along the highway of international film and TV news. Let’s get going. Sign up to the newsletter here for the full Insider experience. Canada’s Streaming Stress “Preserve the principle”: Canada’s film and TV industry thought they had fought and won their […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Following its Tribeca premiere and North American deal with Vertical, Myriad Pictures has acquired international rights to Clean Hands, the true-life drama starring Zach Braff and Esther McGregor. Holt McCallany, Abigail Spencer and Lucas Till round out the ensemble cast in the feature written and directed by Jake Allyn. Myriad will be selling at […]Переглянути повний текст

Megan Park grew up without a television in her family home. It is an unlikely origin story for the actor-turned-filmmaker behind Sundance sensation My Old Ass and current YA Prime Video hit Sterling Point, but Park admits that while growing up in Lindsay, Ontario, the prospect of a career in Hollywood wasn’t on her bingo card. “I come […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: The 38th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) will feature new films starring Alan Cumming, Matthew Morrison, Dylan Mulvaney and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and exec-produced by Jane Schoenbrun, Lily Wachowski and Bob Odenkirk. Scroll down for the lineup in full. Running September 10–20, before streaming September 21–27, the event will comprise 87 feature-length and […]Переглянути повний текст

New films by Jesse Eisenberg, Fred Cavayé, Amanda Kernell and Gabriel Martins, together with the feature film debuts from Ah Biao and Tony Vahl, will compete in the Official Selection of the San Sebastián Film Festival. Les Misérables,The Debut, Garrat du váimmu (Brace Your Heart), Vicentina pede desculpas (On Behalf of My Son), Bian Jing […]Переглянути повний текст

Ally Pankiw certainly won’t be working on HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. The Black Mirror director shared an Instagram post that appears to show an SMS exchange with her agent in which she emphatically turns down an opportunity to board the series. “I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask,” […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ is not proceeding with its live-action Power Rangers series. The project, written and executive produced by Percy Jackson and the Olympians executive producers/showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz, was set up for development at the Disney streamer about a year and a half ago with sibling 20th Television as the studio. It […]Переглянути повний текст

He wasn’t there in person this time, but he was there in spirit. And spirit is what the night was all about. Kevin Costner provided the narration for an intro to tonight’s Field of Dreams game on Netflix. It’s the third edition of the Hollywood-MLB mashup played on a field near the Iowa farmhouse where […]Переглянути повний текст

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on Big Brother Season 28, Episode 19, which aired on Thursday, August 13. Julie Chen Moonves returned to host another live eviction of Big Brother Season 28 as the competition heats up in a divided house. La Trice Verrett was the Head of Household (HOH) in Week 5 of […]Переглянути повний текст

As Julianne Nicholson prepares to reprise her Mare of Easttown role, she’s had to get back in touch with the character. The 2x Emmy winner, who won her first in 2021 for playing Lori Ross on the HBO series, explained that she “was concerned about expectations” for bringing the character back in the upcoming second […]Переглянути повний текст

This weekend will belong to Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but the bright new shiney event title hopeful is Warner Bros/Bad Robot’s The End of Oak Street which in U.S. previews tonight is estimated to do around $2M+ after showtimes that began at 1PM at 3,200 sites. Note it’s still early on that forecast, […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is developing Just One Day, a series starring Kathryn Newton (The Devil’s Mouth, Big Little Lies) based on the Gayle Forman YA romance novels. Patrick Moran executive produces the project, which was originally set up at Amazon under his company PKM Productions’ first-look deal there, with Beauty & the Beast co-creators Sherri Cooper […]Переглянути повний текст

Reality TV star Tyler Duckworth, who first appeared on MTV’s The Real World: Key West and went on to compete on six seasons of The Challenge, winning twice, has died. He was 44. His mother, Joni, announced her son’s death Thursday on Facebook. “My son, Tyler, passed away earlier this week,” she wrote. “Cause of death […]Переглянути повний текст

There’s a 1970s movie sensibility in Steve Conrad’s HBO limited series DTF St. Louis, which tells the story of a bromance between two co-workers, a River City TV weatherman played by Jason Bateman and his hearing-impaired interpreter played by David Harbour. The former gets the latter into a kinky dating app. In between them is […]Переглянути повний текст

The DGA and IATSE may want to play footsie with Paramount over the state Attorney Generals antitrust lawsuit and hopes for a settlement. However, as the WGA has joined the charge against David Ellison’s currently stalled $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros Discovery, a very strong arm of Hollywood labor has declared it’s time to […]Переглянути повний текст

As Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its day in court, John Cena has a pretty levelheaded reaction to the once-shelved movie premiering in theaters. The Emmy nominee explained how he “can accept both the positive and the negative” of the situation after Ketchup Entertainment saved the Dave Green-helmed Looney Tunes movie, which premieres Aug. 28 […]Переглянути повний текст

This week has been dominated by headlines about Paramount’s threat to leave California, by unions and other officials urging a settlement and by Capitol Hill Democrats warning of investigations. But on Thursday, attorneys completed the rather routine step of proposing key dates and deadlines in advance of an antitrust trial over the proposed merger of […]Переглянути повний текст

ABC and NBC will combine to air 90 NBA games during the 2026-27 season, a 14% increase over the broadcast networks’ total of 79 in the prior season. The uptick will continue the squeeze on general-entertainment programming, extending a long-term shift toward live sports, unscripted fare and news and away from traditional dramas and comedies. […]Переглянути повний текст