Новости за 02.03.2020

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate won a multi-studio and streamer auction for the film rights to Judy Blume’s classic novel Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Essentially, Lionsgate has committed to a green light on a film with a budget in the $30 million range, with Kelly Fremon Craig directing her scripted adaptation and Gracie Films’ James […]

American Idol featured another batch of hopefuls Sunday, and although ABC’s reality singing competition led broadcast primetime in ratings, the two-hour episode stumbled a tenth from last week for a 1.3 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.99 total viewers. It was the same story for the network’s The Rookie (0.7, 4.53M), which dipped in the demo. […]

Shares of Twitter surged nearly 9% Monday on reports activist hedge fund Elliott Management has acquired a $1-billion stake, or around 4%, of the social media giant and is pushing for change at the company, including the possible replacement of founder Jack Dorsey as CEO. Elliott has nominated four directors to Twitter’s board in an […]

20th Century Fox Television has appointed Apple TV+ executive Michelle Mendelovitz as SVP and head of Drama Development. The position had been vacant since Chloe Dan stepped down in July after two years in the top drama post. Mendelovitz will lead the label’s drama team, reporting to EVP of Development, Comedy and Drama Jennifer Gwartz. […]

Antonio Banderas, who was recently in the running for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Pain and Glory, has signed on to co-star in Uncharted, Sony’s film adaptation of the bestselling PlayStation action-adventure video game created by Naughty Dog. Sophia Ali (Truth or Dare, Grey’s Anatomy) and Tati Gabrielle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) […]

EXCLUSIVE: Rochelle Aytes (Mistresses) has been tapped as a lead in The Lost Boys, the CW’s retooled pilot from Heather Mitchell and Rob Thomas based on the 1987 Warner Bros. movie. In The Lost Boys, written by Mitchell and Thomas and directed by Marcos Siega, when a mother, Jackie (Aytes) and her Gen Z sons, Garrett (Branden Cook) […]

Talent and literary hub Abrams Artists Agency has officially rebranded as A3 Artists Agency. The announcement was made over the weekend at the company’s annual retreat. The name change comes 18 months after Robert Attermann, Brian Cho and Adam Bold acquired the agency, and reflects a new identity that transformed the over 40-year-old traditional talent […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ian Gomez, Collette Wolfe, James Earl and Joe Massingill are set to co-star opposite Shanola Hampton in NBC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Night School, based on the hit 2018 Universal movie. The project hails from Marlon co-creator Christopher Moynihan and the film’s star-producer Kevin Hart, producer Will Packer and director Malcolm D. Lee. Penned by Moynihan, NBC’s Night […]

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood and Marriage Story producer David Heyman’s Heyday Television is adapting Greg Howard’s book Middle School’s A Drag, You Better Werk! for television. Deadline understands that Heyday Television, which produces series including BBC One thriller The Capture, is working with its joint venture partner NBCUniversal International Studios on the project. […]

CNN is placing restrictions on employee travel in the wake of the coronavirus. Jeff Zucker, chairman of WarnerMedia News and Sports, wrote to employees on Monday that they would ensure that staffing needs are met for coverage of major upcoming political events, debates, NBA and NCAA coverage, but will “limit any participants that are not […]

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Brendan Walsh’s contained Arctic thriller Centigrade, which is based on true events. Genesis Rodriguez (Big Hero 6) and Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire) star in the story about a 2002 incident when a young American couple traveled to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during […]

Banijay Rights, the sales arm of French production giant Banijay Group, has inked a first-look deal with British indie Chatterbox. The company is run by Nav Raman, a former Channel 4 commissioner who also used to work at Sky-backed producer Sugar Films, and Ali Quirk, a producer/director who has worked on shows including Gogglebox. The […]

UPDATE: The second coronavirus mortality has reported in Washington state. On Sunday evening health authorities in King County reported that one of six residents with the coronavirus at a nursing home has died. The nursing home resident with the virus died at the EvergreenHealth Hospital in Kirkland which is also the same facility of the […]

After skewering the clip of former presidential candidate Tom Steyer dancing with rapper Juvenile to his song “Back That Azz Up”, John Oliver did a deep dive into the coronavirus on Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight and how the world — specifically Donald Trump — has been responding to the virus which is will […]

Public Enemy announced that it is “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, after he raised objections that Bernie Sanders campaign was making it appear that the entire group was endorsing his campaign. “Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the group, led by Chuck D, said in a statement on […]

The Ellen DeGeneres Show will welcome Judge Judy Sheindlin on Monday and in a preview of the episode, Sheindlin will be striking the gavel for the last season of the long-running and wildly popular court series Judge Judy after 25 years — but she’s not hanging up her robe just yet. She already has her new series Judy […]

UPDATE: Pete Buttigieg ended his presidential bid with a speech that touched on the historic nature of his candidacy and the political reality that he didn’t see a route to the Democratic nomination. “The path has narrowed to a close for our candidacy if not four our cause,” he told a crowd of supporters, who […]

The coronavirus outbreak in Italy has prompted Netflix to search for other locations for the forthcoming heist pic starring Dwayne Johnson, Deadline has learned. We hear that production has yet to begin in Italy and Netflix is mulling over what to do with the Italian portion of the shoot and if there are other options. […]

Pete Buttigieg made history as the first openly gay presidential candidate to win a presidential nominating contest and after running a trailblazing campaign which included winning the race for delegates in Iowa, he announced that he would be dropping out of the race on Sunday. As reported earlier, the news was revealed as Buttigieg was […]