Новости за 22.04.2020

Disney+ is developing a female-centered Star Wars series that will be written and showrun by Lesley Headland, a co-creator of Netflix’s Emmy-winning dramedy series Russian Doll. Deadline has confirmed the gist of the series. While the exact plot is under wraps, but the series is understood to be a female-driven action thriller with martial arts […]

EXCLUSIVE: AMC has put in development The Burying Place, a thriller drama series based on Brian Freeman’s novel, from writer Kelly Masterson (Killing Kennedy), director David Semel (Goliath), producer Aaron Kaplan (A Million Little Things) and his Kapital Entertainment and AMC Studios. Written by Masterson, The Burying Place is set in the haunting North Country […]

Netflix’s Ozark was one of the streaming service’s best-performing original series on its Season 3 premiere day last month, and drew an average minute audience of 8.7 million viewers for its first 10 days. The crime drama almost tripled its Season 2 premiere day audience and doubled last season’s 10-day total. The data released Wednesday […]

Anderson Cooper had an extended interview on Wednesday with Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who is calling for casinos, hotels and restaurants to reopen in the city given the wrenching loss of jobs and revenue. The CNN anchor, however, had a lot of questions over just how wise such a move would be at this […]

Abigail Disney posted a 25-tweet thread ripping the Walt Disney Co.’s plan to furlough 100,000 workers, mostly in its theme park division, in a move she says is about preserving executive bonuses and shareholder dividends. “What the actual f–k?????” she wondered in one of the initial tweets kicking off the thread, which is pinned to […]

EXCLUSIVE: A feature film on the life of iconic songstress Whitney Houston is fast forming. The Whitney Houston Estate, Primary Wave and Grammy-winning music producer Clive Davis have teamed up for I Wanna Dance With Somebody. They are negotiating with The Photograph helmer Stella Meghie to direct. Scripting and producing is Anthony McCarten, the Oscar-nominated […]

The American Film Institute announced on Wednesday it has received a $3 million gift from AFI Trustee Emeritus Lawrence Herbert to establish the Lawrence Herbert Alumni Center on the AFI Campus in Los Angeles. The gift will also establish a digital portal, called AFI Backlot, to magnify the center’s reach to AFI alumni globally. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that CAA has signed director David S.F. Wilson, who recently made his feature directorial debut on Sony’s Vin Diesel feature Bloodshot, based on the Valiant Comics character. Wilson is set to next direct the upcoming film adaptation of the Daniel Suarez sci-fi thriller novel Influx for Escape Artists at Sony. Deadline broke that […]

As the world continues to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, audiences are binging many forms of entertainment, primarily TV and films. But there is another binge-worthy medium that is providing a more personal form of entertainment: podcasts. There are thousands upon thousands of podcasts out there, ranging from comedy to news to scripted dramas to docuseries […]

A wide-ranging Daily Distancing Show by Trevor Noah saw the host questioning, questioning, questioning the moves and motivations of everyone involved in making decisions on the pandemic. Take, for example, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp, who said that bowling alleys would be among the businesses allowed to reopen in the first phrase of getting back to […]

Facebook Tuesday announced a $5.7 billion investment in Jio Platforms Limited, part of Reliance Industries, making the social media giant its largest minority shareholder. In a blog post  FB said the sizeable investment “underscores our commitment to India, and our excitement for the dramatic transformation that Jio has spurred in the country. In less than […]

UPDATE: Dave Chappelle was the “special guest” on The Comedy Store’s live broadcast, which is raising money to support The Comedy Store Family Fund. The special, currently airing now on YouTube, Twitch and www.comedystore.com, will be followed by an “on demand” broadcast through The Comedy Store Channel on Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku and Xbox. EXCLUSIVE: LA’s Comedy […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Empire series finale. You have been warned! “I think it’s a fulfilling finale in the sense that it has the spirit that we want,” declares Empire showrunner Brett Mahoney of tonight’s end to the hip hop drama created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong. “But no, it’s […]

It’s April, the month when Deadline usually launches its Pilot Panic feature, where we track buzz on the broadcast pilots as they go through production and testing. This year, there is no pilot production or testing, there actually isn’t much of anything typically associated with pilot season besides the panic, which has been setting in […]

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end […]

As Georgia prepares to reopen parts of their economy as soon as Friday, one of the big questions at the latest White House press briefing was whether it is a wise decision. On Monday, Gov. Brian Kemp announced a plan to reopen gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys and tattoo parlors as long as they continued […]

Rob Gronkowski, the All Pro tight end who retired in 2018 after winning three Super Bowls as the main target for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, is rejoining his former quarterback in Tampa Bay. The popular Gronkowski, who retired at age 30, returns to the sport after he had been ramping up a […]

Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said the streaming giant’s global content machine is not entirely shut down but currently in production in South Korea and Iceland, and that the company can take what it’s learning there around the world as more areas start to open. The situation is fluid, Sarandos said, but “those two countries […]

EXCLUSIVE: Casual alum Tommy Dewey is set as a male lead opposite Eliza Coupe in Fox’s comedy pilot Pivoting, from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV. Written by Astrof and to be directed by Tristram Shapeero, Pivoting follows three women, Amy (Coupe), Jodie and Sarah, after the death of their […]

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has hit a milestone. On Sunday night, the HBO talk show delivered a season high in viewership, netting 1 million viewers when it aired at 11 p.m. Meanwhile, the talk show, now in its seventh season, added more eyes with a replay on the cabler and HBO Go/HBO Now […]

ITV has set the cast for its Isolation Stories, a series of short lockdown dramas executive produced by Jeff Pope, the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated producer behind Stan & Ollie. Each of the four, 15-minute episodes in the ITV Studios-produced series is written and performed by established British drama talent and reflect on how the coronavirus […]