Новости за 04.03.2020

Don’t tell President Trump but Twitter is testing a new kind of tweets called Fleets that disappear after 24 hours, offering tweeters more control and less pressure, the company said Wednesday. “Some people say they feel insecure to Tweet because Tweets are public, permanent and exhibit public engagement counts (likes and Retweets),” wrote Mo Al […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the family dramedy Mother’s Little Helpers directed by Kestrin Pantera. The pic will have a limited release on May 1 at Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles and select theaters nationwide before heading to VOD on May 5. Mother’s Little Helpers premiered at SXSW last year and marks the second […]

Mixed-ish showrunner Karin Gist has re-upped her overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. As part of the new pact, she has launched a production banner, The Gist Of It, with Claire Brown as her EVP of Production and Development, and will create and supervise/develop new projects with the studio, part of Disney Television Studios. […]

Disney+ has tapped Adam Shankman, the director behind titles such as What Men Want and 2007’s Hairspray, to helm Hocus Pocus 2, the sequel to the 1993 cult classic, which starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. TV writer-producer Jen D’Angelo penned the screenplay which is being produced by Lynn Harris. The original, […]

The CW has set premiere dates for its new DC Universe series Stargirl, the second season of In The Dark and the seventh and final season of The 100. Stargirl, starring Brec Bassinger, Luke Wilson and Amy Smart will premiere Tuesday, May 12 at 9 PM, following a new episode of The Flash as its […]

UPDATE, 11:45 AM: The Democrats are still split over who their Presidential nominee is going to be, but Fox News Channel and CNN split the small screen spoils last night or Super Tuesday. Snagging an audience of 4.17 million for its primetime coverage of the 14-state battled between ex-Veep Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie […]

Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls World Tour is going where No Time to Die vacated: April 10. Originally the DWA pic, released via Universal, was to go April 17. This is the first major studio move in the wake of MGM/Eon/Universal moving the global day and date release of the 25th 007 pic this morning, which Deadline exclusively broke. It also […]

A volatile market rallied Wednesday but not so the exhibition sector which was swimming in red after Deadline reported that the next James Bond film, No Time To Die, was pushed from an April release to November. Studios MGM, Eon and Universal said they moved the U.K. and international release date of April 2 and […]

Shannyn Sossamon (Wayward Pines, Sleepy Hollow) has been cast as the the lead in  The Cleaning Lady, Fox’s drama pilot based on the Argentinian series. Sossamon will play the title character in the project, from Miranda Kwok, Melissa Carter, Shay Mitchell’s Amore & Vita Productions, Warner Bros. TV and Fox Entertainment. Written by Kwok and directed […]

FX Networks has set their first documentary feature AKA Roe which puts the spotlight on the real-life Norma McCorvey who was known as “Jane Roe” in the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case. The docu will premiere May 22 at 9 pm ET/PT on FX and will be available the following day on FX on Hulu. […]

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said the company will look for strategic alternatives for publisher Simon & Schuster as it seeks to exit non-strategic businesses and build up cash to invest in content, streaming and other areas of focus. The storied publisher is not a core asset, Bakis said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Horror legend Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re Next) has wrapped filming on her latest genre feature, Jakob’s Wife, after an under-the-radar shoot in Canton, Mississippi. Travis Stevens (Girl On The Third Floor) directed. The project comes from production and sales outfit AMP International, which recently premiered its latest movie, Romola Garai’s Amulet, in Sundance’s Midnight program. […]

Disney has put to bed weeks of speculation by confirming that it will make The Simpsons available to stream in the UK when Disney+ launches on March 24. In a tweet on Wednesday, the House of Mouse said more than 600 episodes of the iconic Fox animation will be featured on Disney+ alongside content from […]

Little Dot Studios has acquired content agency Wing as the All3Media-owned digital studio embarks on a mergers and acquisitions spree. Wing took flight in 2007 and specializes in sport, making branded content for partners including the International Olympics Committee, The America’s Cup, Formula 1, Coca-Cola, Hugo Boss and McLaren. It is run by husband and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Brit scribe Rebecca Frayn, whose latest feature is the Keira Knightley-starring Misbehaviour which hits UK cinemas next week, is set to direct Spies, based on her father’s 2002 Whitbread Prize-winning novel. Michael Frayn is handling the adaptation of his own work. The book follows a man as he relives his childhood experiences of the […]

Spitting Image is returning after BritBox handed the puppet comedy reboot a two season order – its first original commission in the UK. The SVOD service ordered the series from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver producer Avalon. It will air in the autumn with the second season to follow in 2021. Development of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: At this evening hour, we’re hearing that Amazon Studios is pulling out of this year’s SXSW, ten days before the festival kicks off in Austin, TX on March 13. This includes all Amazon related activities at the festival, including two world episodic premieres including Greg Daniels’ sci-fi show Upload and Matt Reeves and Nathaniel Halpern’s […]

Despite voting glitches in parts of Southern California and results too close to call in Maine and Texas at 11:59 p.m. ET, both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders walked away with bragging rights after Super Tuesday. Tonight on The Daily Show’s special live election edition, host Trevor Noah sifted through the results and the similarities […]

Voting in California underwent a major overhaul this year, and with those changes came some Super Tuesday headaches. Voters across Los Angeles County reported long lines at newly designated vote centers, with some residents waiting up to three or four hours to cast ballots. Deadline’s Pete Hammond happened to be at the Sherman Oaks Galleria […]

States are being called all over the country in tonight’s Super Tuesday primaries, but Bernie Sanders picked up some strong support from a Central Florida God, at least a fictional one. As voting continues in delegate rich California, Kirsten Dunst came out swinging for the Vermont Senator. A John Kerry supporter in 2004 and backing […]

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Busy night for Jason Statham. He just parted company with WME, the agency that signed him away from CAA early last year. Trying to get to the bottom of this, but it happened right on the heels of Statham exiting the Sony Pictures comedy The Man From Toronto, weeks before the film started […]

UPDATE, 6:05 PM PT: Bernie Sanders got a bit of good news by winning Colorado, his first Super Tuesday win outside his home state of Vermont, the Associated Press projected. Joe Biden, meanwhile, added Oklahoma to his wins, after being declared the victor in Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama. But the race is still too […]

This Super Tuesday may be dominated so far by the intense fight for Democratic delegates between Sen, Bernie Sanders and former Vice-President Joe Biden, but never forget the constant bubonic sideshow of Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg. As the ex-New York City mayor captured his first delegates this election season with a win in American […]

CBS’ drama pilot Out the Door has been pushed due to difficulties casting the lead in the short time frame allotted by the broadcast pilot season. The project, from 24 veteran Evan Katz and Jerry Bruckheimer Television, is expected to fall outside of the traditional development cycle, with casting ongoing. I hear most — if […]

British actor Maxim Baldry (Years and Years) has signed on for a lead role in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series, I have learned. Baldry was first linked to LOTR last fall but he didn’t have a deal for the show, which was why Baldry was not part of Amazon’s LOTR cast announcement in […]