Новости за 11.06.2020

Matt Duckor, who led lifestyle programming for Condé Nast, has left the company in the wake of a storm at Bon Appétit and the reappearance of past tweets from Duckor making racist and homophobic comments. Former Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport resigned earlier this week after a photo of him in brownface resurfaced online and […]

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign launched an online petition and open letter targeting Facebook’s policies, telling CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the platform has taken “no meaningful action” to root out misinformation. In the letter, the Biden campaign writes that Facebook “continues to allow Donald Trump to say anything — and to pay to ensure that his […]

After nearly 11 years at ICM Partners, veteran agent Dana Sims has joined CAA. Sims, who previously spent over 10 years at WMA (William Morris Agency before it became William Morris Endeavor) will be based in Los Angeles. Clients who will be joining Sims at CAA are Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Pearl Thusi, Alyssa Goss, and […]

SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract. No details of the deal were announced. The two sides began bargaining via video teleconference on April 27. Their current contract had been set to expire on June 30. In a joint statement, they said that “the tentative agreement […]

Santa Monica-based game giant Activision Blizzard has appointe Dawn Ostroff to its board as an independent director effective immediately. The longtime entertainment executive currently oversees content and advertising at Spotify. Previously she co-founded and served as president of Condé Nast Entertainment through 2018. Before that she held a number of leadership positions in the industry […]

Keke Palmer has signed on to executive produce and star as the title character in Alice, written by Krystin Ver Linden, who will also direct the feature, marking her directorial debut. The character-driven thriller is inspired by the true events of a woman of servitude in 1800s Georgia, who escapes the 55 acre confines of […]

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Blithe Spirit starring Leslie Mann (This is 40, The Other Woman), Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast, Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum, Confessions of a Shopaholic) and Judi Dench (Philomena, Skyfall). Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Restless) directs a script written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth  […]

Hulu has landed for development The Other Typist, a TV series adaptation of the novel by Suzanne Rindell headlined and executive produced by Keira Knightley. Written and executive produced by Ilene Chaiken (The L Word, Empire), the project, which I hear has a big commitment, comes from Searchlight Television and 20th Century Fox Television. Set […]

The multiple-Grammy\-winning country music band Lady Antebellum has changed its name to Lady A due to the word antebellum’s association with slavery. “When we set out together almost 14 years ago, we named our band after the southern ‘antebellum’ style home where we took our first photos,” the trio of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and […]

Fox’s Ultimate Tag and the CBS comedy game show Game On! shared the top spot in Wednesday primetime, with both delivering a 0.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. The extreme version of the classic playground game netted 1.86 million viewers, but Game On! surpassed it, tallying 3.58 million viewers. On the CW, Bulletproof (0.1, 386,000) returned […]

Long before Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names, before Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness turned into one of the most successful documentary series of all time, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin embarked on something they little suspected would become a cultural mega-hit. “We sort of thought it was our own little […]

Cape Cod-set drama Hightown, starring Monica Raymund and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, has been picked up for a second season by Starz. The Lionsgate-backed broadcaster said that the crime drama had set a new record for series premiere viewership across its digital platforms internationally. The series, which is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Lionsgate […]

Women in Film Los Angeles on Wednesday launched Hire Her Back, an initiative to call on entertainment companies to continue to seek gender and racial equality in their hiring as the the industry looks to return to film and TV production after the COVID-19 shutdown. Key to the initiative is the Hire Her Back Fund, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Even if New York City theaters aren’t opening, and even if Warner Bros. decides to move Tenet to August, Solstice Studios’ Russell Crowe road rage movie Unhinged will still open on July 1. While Tenet is being pinned as the long-awaited launch of the summer season after exhibition’s great shutdown since mid-March, Unhinged is the warm-up act to get turnstiles primed […]

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, who once was infamously told to “shut up and dribble” when he talked about politics, is now stepping into the topic in a major way. Along with several other entertainment stars and prominent athletes, he is forming a new political action group aimed at protecting African-Americans’ voting rights and […]

Stacey Abrams didn’t pussyfoot around about the problems that plagued Georgia’s presidential primary this week. “It was an unmitigated disaster,” the state’s former gubernatorial candidate told Stephen Colbert on tonight’s homemade episode of CBS’ The Late Show. “What was it?” he asked her. “Why was it such a clustermunch?” The Fair Fight founder expanded on […]

The Wendy Williams Show is taking a pause on @Home editions for now. Williams took to social media today to reveal the show will hold off on remotely-produced shows as it awaits word that it can go back into production in the studio. “I’m waiting for the state of New York to say that we […]

Jas Waters, TV writer and journalist, who was a writer on This Is Us and most recently on Kidding, has died. The news was confirmed Wednesday in a statement from the This Is Us writers Twitter account. No cause of death was given. She was 39. “The entire #ThisIsUs family was devastated to learn of […]

The Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, has issued its protocols for the safe return to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, including a “guiding principle” that “employers are prohibited from asking or otherwise requiring any crew to sign liability waivers.” The guild’s craft-specific recommendations are in addition to the health and safety protocols issued last week […]

On today’s Crew Call podcast we speak with Marc Cherry who after a long-running streak with ABC’s Desperate Housewives and Lifetime’s Devious Maids returns to the underbelly of Americana bourgeoisie in CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill. Working with a streamer is bliss for Cherry, free from the fences erected by a network’s standard and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions has optioned television rights to George M. Johnson’s bestselling memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue to develop as a series with Sony Pictures TV, where I’ll Have Another is under a first-look deal. In his book, published April 28 by Macmillan, journalist and LGBTQ+ activist Johnson explores his childhood […]

Amazon Wednesday put a one year moratorium on police use of Rekognition — its controversial facial recognition technology — to allow Congress time to implement “appropriate rules.” It’s the latest in a flood of actions and reactions by businesses across media, entertainment and tech following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis two […]

Editor’s Note: Don Winslow is the author of bestsellers including The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Force and most recently the novella collection Broken. He writes occasional columns for Deadline, including a recent week’s worth on his experiences in Hollywood. Today, he expresses his outrage over the ineptitude of yesterday’s […]

Despite a worrisome uptick in COVID-19 cases in California, Disney’s theme park division has set plans for a phased reopening of the Disneyland Resort. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure will start to welcome guests again on July 17, the company said, a bit more than a week after Downtown Disney District leads the charge on […]