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Versant saw revenue and profit dip as it retools its assets base in a transitional June quarter that included the divestiture of SportsEngine and the acquisition of interactive sports business Full Swing to bolster its Golf offerings. It’s transitioning ticketing app Fandago to an AVOD service and preparing digital launches and products around MS NOW […]Переглянути повний текст

Versant delivered mixed results in its second quarter after spinning off from Comcast, with revenue and earnings per share both declining from the year-ago period. Total revenue slipped 4% to $1.64 billion, while EPS dipped to $1.49 from $2.09. The company, whose assets include cable TV networks like MS NOW and CNBC and digital platforms […]Переглянути повний текст

Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has been given the green light by UK authorities. Lisa Nandy, the British culture secretary, has said she will not intervene in the industry-reshaping merger, despite previously saying she was “minded” to examine the deal in more detail. The Competition and Markets Authority has also cleared the […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: ITV has greenlit Inside Iran: War & Revolution. The one-off doc goes undercover and inside Iran, with testimony from journalists and civilians during the 2025-2026 protests and, more recently, the conflict with the U.S. The film comes from UK-based doc studio Zandland. It marks another ITV-Zandland project following their BAFTA-nominated film Breaking Ranks: Inside […]Переглянути повний текст

Warner Bros. Discovery fell short of Wall Street expectations in the second quarter, as Supergirl and the lack of the NBA dragged total revenue down 11% to $8.7 billion. Analysts had projected $9.2 billion in revenue. Diluted earnings per share of 6 cents topped estimates of a loss of 10 cents a share. The company […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wright’s latest feature Mission, starring George MacKay and Rosy McEwen, debuts in competition at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival and Deadline can unveil a first look clip. The film’s official synopsis reads: “Dylan (MacKay) has reached the end of his tether with his dead-end job and lonely, unfulfilling existence. Over the course of […]Переглянути повний текст

Rainn Wilson is lending his voice to Settling, a rom-com series out of New Zealand. Wilson, best known for playing Dwight Schrute in the U.S. version of The Office, provides the voiceover for the series. The show is for Sky New Zealand’s free TV net Three and its streaming counterpart ThreeNow. Settling is billed as a contemporary […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Piperplay has boarded sales on Edoardo Gabbriellini’s true crime drama The City of the Living (La città dei vivi) ahead of its world premiere in Venice’s Orizzonti competition and North American debut in Toronto’s Centrepiece, and also unveiled the trailer. The feature is freely inspired by Italian writer Nicola Lagioia’s award-winning, best-selling true-crime work […]Переглянути повний текст

Microdrama platform ReelShort is on track for a 34% increase in revenue to $1.05BN in 2026, according to a report from Asia-based analytics firm Media Partners Asia. The report, ‘ReelShort/Crazy Maple Studio: Inside the $1BN Micro Drama Machine’, found that ReelShort revenue grew from $97M in 2023 to $400M in 2024 and $785M in 2025. […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Johnson, the British actor who starred in Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, has written and will lead UK indie The Sacrifice. Filming has wrapped on the psychological thriller, which also features Saffron Burrows (Troy), Steven Berkoff (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Michael Landes (Cruel Summer) and Hugo Stone (Prisoners of Paradise). […]Переглянути повний текст

ProSiebenSat.1 revenue slipped 9% in the first half with the German broadcaster blaming disposals, a declining TV advertising market and the fact that its competitors had the rights to the soccer World Cup. It did, however, post an EBITDA profit in the period amid cost cuts and reorganization. The Group revenue figure was €1.5BN ($1.73BN), […]Переглянути повний текст

Michelle Yeoh has been named ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year’ at the 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). The annual award honors an Asian film professional or organization for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Asian cinema. The festival commented: “Versatile, commanding, and fiercely resolute – Michelle Yeoh’s performances are transcendent in every aspect: technique, […]Переглянути повний текст

The Edinburgh Film Festival’s industry programme returns this year in an expanded format, centered around a new symposium on the state of independent filmmaking in the UK, aptly titled the UK Film Conference. The festival launched the conference earlier this summer and tapped BFI CEO Ben Roberts as the inaugural keynote speaker. Roberts will take […]Переглянути повний текст

This year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival will debut 21 feature films, 10 of which will screen as part of the festival’s official competition strand, which is set to run from August 13 to 19. Titles competing for the festival’s Sean Connery Prize include Mission, the latest feature from Scottish filmmaker Paul Wright (For Those […]Переглянути повний текст

With her child star days behind her, Bella Thorne has found perspective on her behind-the-scenes friendship with Zendaya. The Disney Channel alum recently recalled being pitted against each other while making their 2010-’13 series Shake It Up, during which they “escaped to another set” to work out their differences. “It got pretty bad,” she recalled […]Переглянути повний текст

With his latest MCU theatrical outing crossing the $1B mark in record time, Destin Daniel Cretton is left in the dark about his canceled Marvel series. The Wonder Man co-creator admits he doesn’t “fully understand the why” after Disney and Marvel canceled the series, four months after renewing the show for Season 2 at Disney+. […]Переглянути повний текст

A federal judge tossed out an antitrust challenge to the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger that was brought by a group of consumers. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote that the plaintiffs in the case had failed to establish standing, but she will allow them to file a revised complaint. “Plaintiffs’ standing theory amounts to little […]Переглянути повний текст

Last Christmas, David Harbour’s Santa nearly gave his heart to the wrong Mrs. Claus, but the very next day, the Violent Night writers threw that scene away. As Kristen Bell debuts her Mrs. Claus in Violent Night 2, premiering Dec. 4, producer Kelly McCormick revealed that the character was almost introduced at the end of […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: With the Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger hung up in a pending antitrust trial that’s set for March 2027, Regal Global Entertainment’s Eduardo Acuna, CEO of the No. 2 theater chain, is throwing his support behind the union of the two historic studios, saying tonight, “It is time for all parties to sit down and […]Переглянути повний текст

Perez Hilton’s self-harming TikTok livestream horrified viewers, prompting some to contact police and report the content. Despite the content going against the platform’s community guidelines, the stream was not immediately removed and persisted for about 15 to 20 minutes. A U.S. spokesperson for the digital platform told Deadline that a “moderator error” caused a delay […]Переглянути повний текст

SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the entirety of Sterling Point, which is now streaming on Prime Video. One of the final twists in Sterling Point’s first season involved a personal touch from co-showrunner and creator Megan Park’s own life — the rarity of colorblindness in girls. Park and co-showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The […]Переглянути повний текст

Isabella Rossellini followed in the footsteps of her legendary late director father Roberto Rossellini and producer half-brother Renzo Rossellini as she was feted by the Locarno Film Festival with an Honorary Leopard (Pardo) at its opening night ceremony on Wednesday. “The prize I am receiving tonight is the excellence prize, which is something I haven’t […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: The Bonfire Of the Vanities is looking for a new home. The high-profile series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel from top showrunner David E. Kelley and Batman director Matt Reeves, which had been set up at Apple TV for development, is no longer going forward there, Deadline has learned. The studio behind it, […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Georgiou of Love Island USA has signed with Innovative Artists for representation in all areas. After Georgiou’s time in the Fiji villa on the Peacock dating series, the agency will work with him to expand his career in brand partnerships, unscripted television, hosting, and entrepreneurial ventures. Georgiou was one of the breakout Islanders […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Eve has inked with Artist International Group for management. The British actress has starred in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness and the Marvel TV series Iron Fist. She will next be seen alongside Nicolas Cage, Matthew Goode, Ed Skrein, Michael Sheen and Ben Kingsley in Simon West’s World War II espionage feature […]Переглянути повний текст