Новости за 23.04.2020

Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for […]

EXCLUSIVE: The story of WeWork and its controversial founder and former CEO Adam Neumann is to be the subject of a feature documentary from Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire, Forbes Entertainment and Olive Hill Media. Jed Rothstein, who directed the Oscar-nominated short Killing In The Name, as well as an episode of Netflix’s recent true crime docuseries […]

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran executive producer/showrunner Tim Hobert has signed with APA. He was previously with UTA. Hobert is currently writing The Griswolds, a half-hour single-camera comedy in the works at HBO Max based on National Lampoon’s Vacation films, with Johnny Galecki’s Alcide Bava Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Hobert’s The Griswolds brings the iconic family home […]

Episodes of unscripted juggernaut The Masked Singer will stream on Tubi, Fox Corp.’s free, ad-supported service, the companies have announced. Tubi, whose acquisition by Fox closed Monday, will add the first two seasons of the competition series to its platform starting Thursday night. As to current-season episodes, the plan is to put them on Tubi […]

EXCLUSIVE: FX Networks has given a formal pilot green light to Little Demon, I have learned. The half-hour animated comedy stars Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito and Aubrey Plaza. It comes from the Danny DeVito’s Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, ShadowMachine and FX Productions, with Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon executive producing. I hear […]

RLJE Films has secured North American distribution rights to The Owners, a 90’s-set thriller starring Game Of Thrones alum Maisie Williams. Based on the comic book from artist Herrmann and written by Yves H, the film is aiming for a theatrical and digital release in the fall of 2020. First-time feature director Julius Berg directed […]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) took a portion of his daily coronavirus press briefing on Thursday to blasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s suggestions that struggling states and cities should go bankrupt rather than seek federal assistance in another relief bill. “If there was ever a time to stop your obsessive political bias and […]

The Masked Singer saw a boost from last week’s sing-along spectacular to win Wednesday. The incognito singing competition delivered a 2.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 7.88 million viewers. This led to the premiere of The Masked Singer aftershow After The Mask which delivered a 1.4 in the demo and 5.52 million viewers. At CBS, […]

Billy Porter, Pete & Chasten Buttigieg, Rosie O’Donnell, Jonathan Van Ness, Brian Michael Smith, Ross Mathews, and Tyler Oakley are the newest additions to GLAAD’s upcoming event Together in Pride: You are Not Alone. The online special, which will be co-hosted by Billy Eichner and Lilly Singh, will stream live on GLAAD’s YouTube channel and […]

Pluto TV, the ad-supported streaming service owned by ViacomCBS, has appointed a new head of product and SVP of programming. Shampa Banerjee, who had been at Eros International, is joining Pluto as Chief Product Officer. Scott Reich, most recently GM of Fullscreen, is the company’s new SVP of Programming. Acquired by Viacom in early 2019 […]

The Bundesliga, Germany’s top soccer league, is ready to resume fixtures from May 9, if the government ratifies its plan to play games with coronavirus restrictions in place. The league met today to discuss plans and has now outlined its strategy. According to Sky in Germany, matches would be played without fans, with a maximum […]

Yellowstone is moving to Sunday nights as the Paramount Network drama returns for its third season on Father’s Day. The new season of the Kevin Costner-fronted drama will launch on Sunday June 21. The previous two seasons of the show aired on Wednesdays. This comes as Lost alum Josh Holloway is joining the series as […]

SAG-AFTRA is hosting a webinar at this hour with Hollywood’s talent agents to discuss the industry shutdown and the contractual obligations of employers who declared the coronavirus pandemic a “force majeure” event when they shuttered film and TV productions. In a message to agents, the union said that it has had “many conversations with its […]

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 […]