Новости за 01.07.2020

EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Chris Paul is teaming up with Roadside Entertainment to produce a docuseries rooted in basketball programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The show will unfold over the course of the 2020-21 season, with exact participants and schools still to be determined. The goal is to provide an intimate look at […]

Hillary Clinton and Nanette Burstein first met in 2018, two years after the presidential election that shook the world. Burstein (American Teen, The Kid Stays in the Picture) was chosen to make a documentary based on behind-the-scenes footage captured in 2016 by Clinton’s staff. Hillary, a four-part series, premiered on Hulu in March, and in […]

Have a look at Fortune and Glory, the cover of the first Janet Evanovich novel under the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria, her new home in an eight-figure deal. It’s the twenty-seventh book in the Stephanie Plum series which has sold 100 million books worldwide. That was a big move, as Evanovich is one of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Home entertainment specialist Signature Entertainment releases 90-120 movies every year, making it the UK’s most prolific independent distributor. Recent releases have included Synchronic, Mr. Jones, Persian Lessons, and The Peanut Butter Falcon. Upcoming on the slate are Liam Neeson actioner Honest Thief, Shailene Woodley drama Endings, Beginnings and Sundance horror Relic. We spoke to […]

EXCLUSIVE: The largest film festival acquisition deal in film history is now closed. Apple Studios has acquired world rights to Emancipation, the film package with Antoine Fuqua directing Will Smith in a Willam N. Collage-scripted action thriller about the harrowing escape of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix hit Sex Education is on track to go back into production again next month after work on Season 3 was halted amid the coronavirus pandemic. Deadline revealed in May that Netflix and Sex Education producer Eleven had set a hopeful target of August to get cameras rolling again on the teen drama. Now, […]

Fox News said Wednesday it’s fired host Ed Henry of America’s Newsroom after an outside investigation of a complaint involving “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago.” Henry was suspended June 25 when the network received the complaint. Rotating news anchors will co-anchor the show from New York alongside Sandra Smith until a permanent […]

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a deal that’s been nearly six months in the making, but on Wednesday, Sony Pictures Television finally confirmed it has acquired one of the hottest properties in the British production business. The Hollywood studio has taken control of Sex Education producer Eleven following what president of international production, Wayne Garvie, described as a […]

ViacomCBS has named Amazon exec Naveen Chopra as chief financial officer, effective August 10,, succeeding Christina Spade, who will transition into an advisory role after the company’s second quarter earnings call. Chopra joins ViacomCBS from Amazon where was CFO of Devices and Services, the division housing the giant’s fast growing and most strategic consumer businesses, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s Landmark Studio Group has partnered with Louisiana-based production studio ORWO (Twilight, The Magnificent Seven) to greenlight Safehaven, a 10-episode hourlong supernatural thriller series based on James Seale’s graphic novel, from Seale (30 Below, Throttle) and Michael Bay’s 451 Media Group. Brad Turner (24, Homeland) is attached to direct […]

Banijay Group’s $2.2BN takeover of Endemol Shine Group has been cleared by European regulators. The European Commission announced it had approved the merger in a brief notice on Wednesday. “The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns given the presence of a sufficient number of alternative players with portfolios of similar […]

Yesterday’s news that the European Union will not lift travel restrictions on the U.S. due to the scale of the country’s ongoing coronavirus outbreak prompted concerns about the re-start of American film and TV production based in Europe. As of today (July 1), travelers from 15 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan […]