Новости за 19.06.2020

Hello, and welcome to International Insider, Jake Kanter here. In the week where the Premier League returned to our screens and Ian Holm sadly left them, here are the seven things we want you to know about the global film and TV business. If you want to subscribe, sign up here. 1. Cannes Hot Packages Deadline […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is talks with Black-ish and BlackAF creator Kenya Barris and Happy singer Pharrell Williams to develop a feature-length musical about Juneteenth – the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Deadline understands that the streamer and the pair are in the early stages of working up a plan for the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tobias Menzies’ performance as Prince Philip in The Crown was one of the highlights of Season 3. He captured the royal in all in his belligerence and twinkling mischievousness, earning him a Golden Globe nomination earlier this year and putting him contention for the Emmys. The British actor, who has also appeared in Outlander […]

EXCLUSIVE: British broadcaster Channel 4 and Hulu are preparing to work together again on a second season of This Way Up, the comedy from Living With Yourself star Aisling Bea. Produced by Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s company Merman, the first season features Bea as an English-as-a-foreign language teacher trying to pull her life back […]

Veteran British actor Ian Holm, star of Lord Of The Rings and Alien, has died aged 88. In a message to the Guardian, Holm’s agent said: “It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88. He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and […]

A group of 700 Black, Asian, and minority ethnic TV workers have written to UK networks and streamers, including Netflix, the BBC and Sky, and the government demanding action on racial equality. The letter, which Deadline has made available to read in full here, is the work of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic TV […]

EXCLUSIVE: Star Wars star Daisy Ridley and Brit national treasure Stephen Fry have boarded the voice cast of The Inventor, a feature stop-motion animation about Leonardo da Vinci written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated scribe of Ratatouille. Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French Princess Marguerite. Pic will follow the […]

Twitter has placed its latest fact check on a Donald Trump tweet after the U.S. president posted a video, purporting to show a clip from a CNN report on a Trump-supporting “racist baby.” Twitter labeled the tweet “manipulated media,” linking off to a fact check that states: “Video being shared of CNN report on toddlers […]

The UK’s Cinema First has announced that 450 films will be made available for theatrical screenings once movie theaters re-open for business in the coming weeks. The content has been collated by the Film Distributors’ Association with the aim of aiding programmers and cinema operators to choose the widest possible mix of product that will […]

John Bolton, described as a full-time “Got Milk” ad by Trevor Noah, has a new book expected to be out soon, The Room Where It Happened. No, it’s not an homage to the musical Hamilton, which has a song of roughly the same name. But the bits that have leaked from it do provide a […]

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has reportedly withdrawn from consideration as the Democratic vice presidential candidate to Joe Biden, saying he should use the “moment to put a woman of color” on his team. “America must seize on the moment and I truly believe — as I actually told the VP last night when I called […]

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran WME agent George Freeman has been let go by the agency today because of an e-mail he meant to send to an individual but mistakenly dispersed to a large number of colleagues. The e-mail contained strong language and insensitive comments at the expense of a fellow WME agent we won’t name here. The […]