Новости за 17.02.2020

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took some time off from being ribbed at the Oscars and purchasing pricey real estate to do something really big — announcing a massive private venture in the form of a $10 billion fund to fight climate change. The mogul, the world’s richest human, announced Monday the launch of the Bezos […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ruth Wilson and Matt Bomer are attached to lead The Book of Ruth, a feature based on the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a devout Christian divorcée and single mother from Arkansas who became a champion and caregiver for AIDS sufferers in 1980s America. Michael Arden, the two-time Tony Award-nominated theater director who […]

American Idol returned for its third season on ABC on Sunday, with the venerable music competition show scoring a night-leading 1.5 Live+Same Day rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 8.05 million total viewers. It led a night of primetime that otherwise took a breath after a stretch that included the Grammys, the Super Bowl […]

Tomorrowland Winter, one of the largest dance music festivals in the world, is to be livestreamed via Insight TV. It marks the first time that the winter edition of the festival, which takes place in France’s Alpe de’Huez Grand Domain Ski Resort and features artists including Afrojack and Charlotte De Witte, is being livestreamed. Insight […]

The UGC Writers Campus by Series Mania, an immersive week-long writing workshop for 20 emerging TV drama writers throughout Europe, will run from March 20-27. Now in its third year, UGC has selected 20 screenwriters from more than 100 candidates and 30 different countries. The Series Mania Festival runs from March 20-28 in Lille, France, […]

Entertainment One has begun the process of sizing up which of Hasbro’s brands could be transformed into television or movie franchises after formally being acquired by the toymaker for $3.8 billion in January. Pancho Mansfield, eOne’s president of global scripted programming, told Deadline that Hasbro has a “treasure chest” of IP that warrants investigation, and […]

The Tribeca Film Festival on Monday unveiled plans to kick off its 19th installment with the world premiere of director Mary Wharton’s Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President – a rockumentary-style presidential portrait that shows how popular music helped propel the folksy peanut farmer from rural Georgia to the White House. The film will launch […]

David Byrne’s American Utopia will be back on Broadway this fall, producers have announced. The smash concert-style production – a commercial and critical hit – ended its limited run at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre last night, having recouped it’s initial $4 million in mid-December 2019 just ten weeks after opening. Producers Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson, Patrick […]

MGM Television is expanding its international unscripted division with the hire of The Bible showrunner Richard Bedser. Bedser joins the company, based out of London, as EVP of Factual Series, Documentaries and Specials, reporting to MGM’s President of Unscripted & Alternative Television and Orion Television, Barry Poznick. This comes after Bedser’s All3Media-backed scripted producer Two […]

EXCLUSIVE: A Sky News board member is set to recommend a series of changes to the BBC’s editorial complaints procedures following a huge row over on-air remarks presenter Naga Munchetty made about Donald Trump last year. Deadline can reveal that Chris Banatvala, a consultant who worked at UK media regulator Ofcom for seven years, carried […]

Actor and director Stanley Tucci is to voice a BBC Radio 4 series on some of the highest-profile Californians over the past century. In The Californian Century, the Hunger Games and Fortitude star will play a cynical screenwriter, narrating the stories of 10 people who have helped shape the U.S. state. Those featured in the 10-part […]

Edoardo Ponti’s The Life Ahead, the Italian drama that marks the big screen return of Sophia Loren, has had its worlds rights snapped up by Netlfix, with the streamer planning to release later this year. The pic, co-written by Ugo Chiti (Dogman) and Ponti, sees Loren play a Holocaust survivor who takes in a 12-year-old […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s latest documentary feature, The Accused: Damned or Devoted?, will receive its first UK broadcast on BBC Four on March 2. The BBC Storyville project focuses on Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws by following ambitious Cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, examining the cases of those accused of disrespecting Islam, including Asia Bibi, the Christian […]

Oliver Stone will preside over the International Competition jury at the first Red Sea International Film Festival, which takes place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 12-21. The Platoon filmmaker’s jury will hand out six prizes: the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film (which comes with $100,000), and Silver Yusrs for Best Director ($50,000), Best Screenplay, Best […]

Disney has struck a multi-year film and TV deal with Nordic Entertainment Group that covers the latter’s Viaplay streaming service and linear channels. The contract extension will give Viaplay and Viasat pay-TV channels the exclusive first-pay window for 20th Century Studios’s latest blockbuster films from in the Nordic region. The slate includes Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, […]

A petition to “save our BBC” has attracted more than 100,000 signatures in less than 24 hours after unnamed government sources threatened to “whack” the British broadcaster by scrapping the licence fee and forcing it to radically scale back its services. The 38 Degrees petition is a response to a report on the front page […]

EXCLUSIVE: New York investment firm KKR began its remarkable German buying spree 12 months ago. When it was done, one of the world’s biggest film and TV markets looked dramatically different. The ambitious studio it created, Leonine, is an accumulation of companies including film and TV powerhouse TMG, film distributor Universum, Dark producers Wiedemann & […]

John Oliver opened his seventh season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight by taking aim at the media hyping a potential rift between William Barr and Donald Trump, after the attorney general complained last week about the president’s tweeting about Justice Department matters. Oliver even gave credit to Fox News host Laura Ingraham for telling her […]

Dr. Amie Harwick, a well-known Hollywood family and sex therapist, was killed Saturday at her home in the Hollywood Hills, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. “On Saturday, February 15, 2020, around 1:16 a.m. Hollywood patrol officers responded to a radio call of a ‘woman screaming’ in the 2000 block of Mound Street in […]

Jason Davis, a former child star and voice actor on the Disney Channel animated series Recess, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 35. On Recess, Davis voiced the character of Mikey Blumberg from 1997-2001 during the show’s six-season run. In addition to his voice work, he appeared on Dave’s World and Roseanne as a child, […]

Jennifer Hudson turned in an emotional tribute to late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Chicago. The award-winning singer and actress sang “For All We Know” just before the game got underway. As images of Bryant and his daughter Gianna played on a screen behind her, the Chicago […]

International Women’s Day arrives on March 8, and NBC Sports Network will celebrate by using an all-female crew to broadcast and produce game coverage of the St. Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks National Hockey League matchup. The game will mark the first NHL contest broadcast and produced solely by women in the US. Kate Scott (play-by-play) […]

A woman who claims singer/songwriter Rick James raped her at a group home in 1979 is suing his estate. The woman, who was not identified in court papers, said  James raped her at a group home in Buffalo. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday against the James Ambrose Johnson Jr. 1999 Trust, which is run […]

Grammy winner and actress Queen Latifah performed Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today at the National Basketball Assn.’s Saturday Night skills competitions. But she added a rap verse to the song in honor of the late Kobe Bryant, who had four MVP awards at the event and had the MVP trophy renamed […]

The NBA All-Star Weekend 2020 Saturday night coverage showed gains across all platforms, the network claimed. The preliminaries to the actual All-Star game today saw the Skills Challenge, a unique obstacle course that tests the participants’ ball-handling, passing and dribbling abilities while under pressure; the 3-Point Contest, a competition of shooting ability; and the Slam […]