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UPDATED with more details from cross-examination. Harvey Weinstein defense attorney Damon Cheronis spent more than two hours Monday trying to poke holes in the testimony of Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. In a steady series of jabs, Cheronis stressed the larger narrative outlined by the defense […]

Horror maestro Stephen King, clarifying his recent remarks that judging creative excellence should be blind to issues of diversity, writes in today’s Washington Post that whatever progress has been made in expanding the demographic makeup of Oscar voters is “not good enough.” “Not even within shouting distance of good enough,” he writes. The awards “game,” […]

EXCLUSIVE: Leah Remini, creator, host and producer of A+E’s Emmy-winning docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, has signed an exclusive first-look deal with independent content studio Critical Content to develop and produce unscripted programming through her No Seriously production company. Under the pact with Critical Content, led by CEO Tom Forman and Studio President […]

Apple and A24 have acquired Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s documentary Boys State for $10 million, according to industry estimates. The deal is for global rights. Boys State is a political coming-of-age story, examining the health of American democracy through an unusual experiment. A thousand 17-year-old boys from across Texas gather together to build a representative government […]

Harvey Weinstein isn’t anywhere near the Sundance Film Festival this year, but the now-disgraced producer’s ongoing criminal trial for rape in New York is front of mind for many at the gathering he dominated for years. “I was at screenings he was at here, I was at parties he was at here, I worked on […]

Netflix is expanding its relationship with animation studio Titmouse, signing a multi-year overall deal to produce multiple original adult animated series. Under the pact, Netflix will also have a first look at adult animated series developed and created at Titmouse. The two companies have previously partnered on several adult animated series, including critically-acclaimed and Emmy […]

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna has signed a three-year-old overall pod deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, Brosh McKenna will develop projects across all platforms for ABC Studios, part of Disney Television Studios, through her newly launched company, Lean Machine. The first project Brosh McKenna has set under the deal is comedy Hit, which […]

The Motion Picture Sound Editors elected veteran Mark Lanza as its new president for a two-year term. The award-winning supervising sound editor, whose credits include Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July and JFK, Amazon’s Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams and Showtime’s On Becoming a God in Central Florida, is currently the MPSE’s treasurer […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kelli Berglund (Now Apocalypse) is set as a lead opposite Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig and Alison Luff in Heels, Starz’s eight-episode hourlong drama set in the outrageous world of independent professional wrestling. Written by Michael Waldron and directed by Peter Segal, with Mike O’Malley as showrunner, Heels is a story about the men and […]

Putting her stamp on an iconic DC villain with Joker, makeup designer Nicki Ledermann’s task on the project was to develop a gritty, colorful and compelling look that could be applied to actor Joaquin Phoenix in no time flat. “Joaquin is not really a person that loves to mingle and be social, and he is […]

EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Production is teaming with HBO to develop the comedy House of Chow from Ken Cheng (Wilfred, Betas), who wrote the pilot and will serve as executive producer alongside Head of TV Development at JuVee Andrew Wang and pilot director Jude Weng. Davis and Tennon also will serve as EPs. Based on Cheng’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Rivers has signed on to direct Into Thin Air, a feature drama that explores the unsolved mystery behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The film is a co-production of Illusion Media Entertainment, K. JAM Media, and Altit Media Group and it is being financed by Avi Nakash. He’s the owner of […]

Comcast’s British pay-TV broadcaster Sky is plotting a major return to unscripted television, with plans to invest around £30M ($40M) a year in the genre and launch two brand new channels. Sky will pounce on audience research showing increased demand for factual content by launching Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature in spring this year. They […]

While there wasn’t much doubt about Paddington star Hugh Grant’s feelings towards the outcome of the UK general election last month, the actor has reaffirmed his position by publicly declaring the result “a catastrophe”. Speaking on the promotional tour for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, in which he co-stars with Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam, Grant, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning Fleabag director Harry Bradbeer has co-created a Rear Window-esque crime drama with Manhunt writer Ed Whitmore for ITV. The pair have devised five-part thriller Viewpoint from Ripper Street producer Tiger Aspect, ordered to series by the British commercial broadcaster. The drama follows a police surveillance investigation into a tight knit community in Manchester […]

UK acting and filmmaking talents have weighed in with their picks for an ‘alternative BAFTA list’ that highlights more diverse candidates. The campaign, launched by the UK wing of Time’s Up, is designed to recognize the number of women and people of colour who were overlooked in this year’s awards race. The BAFTA nominations were […]

The BBC has apologized for mistakenly including footage of LeBron James in an obituary on Kobe Bryant, just hours after the decorated LA Lakers basketball star died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. BBC One’s flagship 10PM bulletin led on Bryant’s death and 30-seconds into Chris Buckler’s report, footage of James on the basketball court […]

The documentary community has been rallying around Syrian-born filmmaker Feras Fayyad, director of Oscar-shortlisted film The Cave, after he was denied a visa to enter the United States. The situation escalated 10 days ago when Fayyad was detained on his way into Copenhagen, where he lives in exile, by immigration police and was forced to miss The […]

BREAKING: Amazon Studios announced wide it has acquired North American rights to Herself, directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady). The inspirational story about hope, perseverance and community world premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. Amazon Studios is planning a theatrical release later this year. This becomes the second deal tonight, as […]

EXCLUSIVE: In the first major deal on the ground at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Searchlight Pictures is closing a worldwide rights deal for around $12 million for the David Bruckner-directed thriller The Night House, sources tell Deadline. Scripted by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the film stars Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Evan […]

Nipsey Hussle loomed large over the Grammy Awards on Sunday night as the late rapper was honored with a star-studded tribute. Hussle, real name Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019. He was 33 years old. On Sunday night at the Staples Center, director Ava DuVernay introduced the tribute to […]

In the wake of her bruising reelection, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is calling for unity in advance of the 160,000-member union’s upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract. “Labor solidarity is crucial, and in many ways it is our superpower,” she said at Saturday night’s national board meeting. “Our strength is in our […]

Los Angeles County officials held a news conference this afternoon on the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others. Bryant was 41. The helicopter crashed into a hillside above Calabasas in foggy conditions just before 10 a.m. PT. L.A. County Fire Dept. Chief Daryl L. Osby said at […]

Showtime’s The Circus returns on Sunday, and a focus on the debut is on the senators running for president who are being forced to leave the campaign trail to be present for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. In one clip, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is shown sitting down to hold a “tele-town hall” in […]

Los Angeles Lakers basketball legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal and Magic Johnson detailed their memories of Kobe Bryant’s life and meaning to the larger world today in their online tributes. The Lakers team has yet to issue a statement, but Johnson in particular was effusive in his praise for Bryant. Most people will remember Kobe […]