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Producer Manny Halley through his Imani Media Group has taken over Pacoima Studios with a long-term lease for the San Fernando Valley facility formerly operated by Quixote North Valley Studios. It will be rebranded Imani Studio. Halley has a 25-year lease with an option to buy the complex of four sound stages across 125,000 square […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired Grandmasters, a documentary from award-winning filmmaker Liza Mandelup that uncovers drama roiling the world of top-tier chess. Grandmasters premiered as a documentary series at Tribeca Festival in June but will launch in theaters as a nonfiction feature told in three chapters. Good Deed plans to release the film nationwide […]Переглянути повний текст

Donald Trump reported more than 1,000 purchases and sales of corporate securities in June, including those of Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Co. and Comcast. The White House has previously said that the president’s stock and bond portfolio is independently managed. According to the president’s latest financial report, released by the Office of […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann looks to have found his Charlene for his upcoming sequel to Heat, as sources tell Deadline the director has tapped Odessa Young to play the character in Heat 2. Sources say it is unknown where things stand in negotiations but add she is the choice for the role originally played by Ashley […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) has closed a deal to join Lily James, Jack Reynor and Ron Perlman in the new horror film Seasons from Amazon MGM Studios. No word on McGovern’s role. Marking the sophomore feature of Companion‘s Drew Hancock, Seasons follows a husband and wife who buy their dream ranch, only to discover the land is alive with ancient […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Cloverfiel and The Unborn star Odette Annable is leading cast in horror Postmortem alongside Allegra Leguizamo (Tin Soldier), Julio Cesar Cedillo (Sicario), Andres Londono (Fear the Walking Dead) and Tony Revolori (Scream VI). LA-based Sublimity Entertainment is launching international sales on the under-the-radar feature written and directed by Colombian genre filmmaker Andrés Beltrán (Quicksand). The […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is exploring the world of maternity wards in its latest docuseries. The streamer has greenlit Born in the USA (w/t) from Million Dollar Secret producer Wheelhouse. The series has been birthed over the last few years as producers secured access to a busy maternity ward. Born In The USA “unlocks a high-stakes hidden world: […]Переглянути повний текст

Paramount Television Studios has closed an exclusive overall deal with The Wheel of Time creator/showrunner Rafe Judkins to create, develop, and produce original scripted series for the studio. The pact at Paramount’s streaming-focused studio comes amid an effort by the new regime at sibling Paramount+ to find a platform-defining world-building genre series. Paramount Television Studios […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning musician and actor Jon Batiste is inviting audiences on a spectacular journey through natural wonders of a part of the country he knows very well, “the vast network of wetlands spanning Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and the Carolinas.” MacGillivray Freeman Films announced Thursday that New Orleans-area native Batiste will narrate and serve as […]Переглянути повний текст

Prime Video has greenlit a six-part limited series based on Stephen King’s Crouch End short story. The series will also be titled Crouch End and produced in the UK. The official synopsis reads: “London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. When global movie star Doris Freeman bursts into a London police station claiming […]Переглянути повний текст

Cameras are going behind the scenes on the lives of Peter Crouch and Abby Clancy. Prime Video has greenlit access doc series The Crouches, which will follow former footballer-turned- broadcaster Crouch and his wife, model and content creator Clancy, over a year. The show, which is the second docu-series Prime Video has unveiled today at […]Переглянути повний текст

Veteran media and entertainment executive Steve Shikiya has been named Chief Operating Officer of Anonymous Content. Reporting directly to President and CEO Darren Walker, Shikiya will oversee Anonymous’s day-to-day business operations, including finance, corporate development, business affairs, and human resources. He will work closely with leadership across the management, production and brand studio businesses and […]Переглянути повний текст

Sharon Horgan’s Alex is struggling with getting older as she searches for sex and love in HBO comedy Youth. “It looks like it’s arthritis in your lower jaw,” Harriet Walter’s character tells Alex at the beginning of the trailer. “So what next,” asks Alex. “Or is this just the start of a general decline?” “It’s […]Переглянути повний текст

Peter Cullen, the Canadian voice actor who voiced Optimus Prime in the original 1980s Transformers animated series, later reprised the role in the film and TV franchises and also voiced Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh franchise, among many others, has died. He was 85. His family told TMZ Cullen died Wednesday in Los Angeles but did not provide […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Cercamon has acquired international sales rights to South African director and writer John Trengove’s Apartheid era drama The Smell of Apples and released a first trailer ahead of its world premiere in Toronto. Based on Mark Behr’s eponymous 1993 Booker Prize-nominated novel, the film follows a young boy growing up in a white utopia […]Переглянути повний текст

Samuel Monroe Jr., who made his acting debut in 1993’s Menace II Society and went on to appear in Tales from the Hood, The Players Club and various TV roles, died Wednesday, August 26, months after first battling a severe case of meningitis and MRSA pneumonia. He was 52. His mother Joyce Patton, announced his […]Переглянути повний текст

A federal judge is holding a hearing on Thursday on another challenge to the Kennedy Center’s plans to add Donald Trump’s name to the complex. On Wednesday evening, attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) reacted to the most recent filing by the center, in which they suggested that the complex may have to be torn […]Переглянути повний текст

Toy Story 5 will begin streaming on Disney+ on September 23. The Disney/Pixar feature opened on June 19 to a whopping $160 million, the best opening any movie has seen this year, the second-best opening ever for an animated film stateside behind Pixar’s own Incredibles 2 ($182.6M), and the third-best June has had following Universal’s […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Rosie O’Donnell, a longtime autism advocate, has joined the producing team of Indigo, a new original musical about an unconventional family as seen through the eyes of a non-speaking autistic teenager. O’Donnell, who spoke candidly in her recent Off Broadway show Common Knowledge about parenting a a child on the autism spectrum, decided to […]Переглянути повний текст

The Nanny McPhee stage musical with a book by Emma Thompson, first revealed by Deadline back in 2024, will open in London in summer 2027. Based on the Universal Pictures/Working Title Nanny McPhee films, and the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand and Edward Ardizzone that inspired them, the new musical will take the tale […]Переглянути повний текст

Prime Video is on the starting grid with a docu-series about Formula 1 driver Lando Norris. Lando (working title) is being billed as a “a never-before-seen look at the current F1 World Champion: a man who is not only defending his crown but also giving unprecedented access to a more personal side of his life, […]Переглянути повний текст

Here There Are Blueberries, the acclaimed play and Pulitzer finalist by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, will open on Broadway this fall for a strictly limited engagement, producers announced today. Conceived and directed by Kaufman, Here There Are Blueberries will begin previews on Monday, November 2 at the Barrymore Theatre in a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse. Opening night […]Переглянути повний текст

It’s all smiles in the tent – at least according to the team behind The Great British Bake Off. A story in the Daily Mail from last month that reported new judge Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood were clashing, with a source telling the paper they were “not getting on too well.” However, British broadcaster Channel […]Переглянути повний текст

Six, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that uses modern pop styles to retell the stories of Henry VIII’s wives from the women’s point of view, will close on January 3, 2027, after nearly six years and 2,178 performances. The closing was announced today by producers Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes, George Stiles, and Kevin McCollum. The musical […]Переглянути повний текст

Amol Rajan, the BBC Radio 4 Today show presenter, has called for urgent action to save the UK national broadcaster from an existential emergency. In a blistering speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday, Rajan argued that the BBC is “screwed” unless there is a radical rethink of its funding and governance. Rajan has […]Переглянути повний текст