Новости за 18.09.2020

EXCLUSIVE: Break, which is one of Rutger Hauer’s finals movies, will be getting a multiplatform release via Conduit Presents, the distribution division of Conduit Now. Conduit Presents acquired the Michael Elkin-directed crime sports drama and has set a release for Jan. 5, 2021. Break follows a young inner city kid who is wasting his talents on petty crime. […]

The WGA East has signed Kal Penn Approves This Message to a guild contract after reports that the politically themed comedy-variety series “was being produced non-union,” the guild said. Writers working on the series will now be covered under the WGA’s minimum basic agreement. The show originally billed itself as an “unscripted comedy series that […]

Republican congressional candidate Kim Klacik took a cheap shot at The View‘s Joy Behar today when she pulled out, apropos of nothing, an old accusation of blackface in an attempt to blindside the ABC co-host. Any angry Behar once again denied that her long-ago, much-discussed costume party get-up was blackface, calling it “homage.” She cut […]

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has handed a script commitment plus penalty to Lewisburg, a drama inspired by the life of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, The Deuce). The project hails from Akinnagbe, American Gothic creator/executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff, Dan Lin’s Rideback, Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat, and CBS TV Studios. Lewisburg stems from CBS TV Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat’s Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire […]

In the weeks after Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in 2016, Tina Fey spoke to a Hollywood event and told the audience the real reason that Hillary Clinton lost: “Not enough celebrity music videos urging people to vote.” Fey was being sarcastic and flippant, but she referring to what flooded social media in the weeks leading […]

Joe Biden’s town hall on CNN drew 3.3 million viewers, an uptick for the network but short of audience that watched Donald Trump’s rally on Fox News later in the evening. Biden’s town hall drew more viewers than MSNBC during the time frame of 8 PM ET to 9:15 PM ET. MSNBC had just over […]

Walt Disney World’s still shuttered water parks won’t reopen until next March, the company said in an update on its plans for Disney’s Blizzard Beach and Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. “The water parks remain closed pending government approvals. We currently plan to reopen one of the two Disney water parks on March 7, 2021. Like the […]

The upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in […]

It’s always hard to pick a winner (I have been making predictions all week on Deadline), and I have some favorites (yes, I am one of the 23,000 or so eligible Emmy voters) in what has turned out to be an exceptional year for television. A number of people didn’t get nominations who should have, […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Way Back and The Morning Show actress Janina Gavankar is writing and starring in a female-driven monster movie based on the ancient Hindu myth of the Rakshasa. 108 Media will finance and produce the pic. Gavankar co-wrote the feature with her creative partner Russo Schelling, and the movie will be shot in India. Abhi […]

U.S. Forest Service officials confirmed Friday that a firefighter has been killed battling the blazes north and east of Los Angeles. The victim’s name was not released, but the death occurred Thursday while crews were fightling the El Dorado Fire, one of three threatening the area. The El Dorado Fire near Yucaipa stands at 21,000 […]

2ND UPDATE, 11:15 AM: Ty Burrell, Ken Jeong, Mindy Kaling, Tatiana Maslany and Bob Newhart are the latest big names to join the talent lineup for the virtual 72 annual Primetime Emmy Awards airing Sunday on ABC. The network also promises that more “surprises are in store” for TV’s Biggest Night. UPDATED, September 16: ABC and […]

With moviegoing in limbo in key markets like New York and LA, a trio of movie theater boosters see the COVID-19 operating environment staying murky for at least a few more weeks. They also see exhibitors as more likely to try to play the long game than execute a quick strategic pivot. “We’re not very […]

After a summer of rumors, Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes announced on Thursday that she was leaving the Bravo reality show…for now. “I have made the hard and very difficult decision to not be a part of Real Housewives of Atlanta season 13,” said Leakes in a video posted to her YouTube account. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple drama See is set to go back to its world-building ways in Toronto next month. Deadline understands that the Jason Momoa-fronted series will resume shooting from October 14 at Cinespace Film Studios in the Ontario capital. It marks one of the first shows from the nascent streamer to return to filming following the […]

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment, producer of the Emmy-nominated HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True, is signaling a further push into television, signing a multi-year TV development fund deal with Wishmore (The Personal History of David Copperfield), the company owned and run by Greek film financier and producer Christos V. Konstantakopoulos. Wishmore is the […]

BREAKING: In a competitive situation, Amazon has closed a deal with Berlanti Schecter Productions to produce untitled pic based on the acclaimed novel My Policeman with Harry Styles and Lily James in negotiations to star. Tony and Olivier Award winner Michael Grandage will direct from an adapted screenplay by Oscar-nominee Ron Nyswaner Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Robbie […]

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have just closed a deal to acquire North American distribution rights to Shadow in the Cloud, the raucous Midnight Madness Toronto Film Festival title that might hold the distinction of being the first drive-in theater movie acquisition ever. Deadline hears the deal was near $5 million, and the plan […]

The amped-up efforts by Facebook and Twitter to tone down blatant “misinformation” on the campaign trail merits public support. Personally, I find myself trying with limited success to tune out the political noise while sensing that the problem goes beyond that. The rhetoric of politics overall sounds tired and anachronistic, but then, to my ear, […]

A new TikTok Global would file for an initial public offering in the U.S. in about a year under a plan still awaiting approval by President Trump that would see Oracle and Walmart as major investors in the video sharing app, according to reports Thursday. TikTok is said to have approached Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom […]

CBS Sunday Night Movies will return October 4 for a six installments featuring films from the Paramount Pictures library. To make room for the films, the Sunday edition of Big Brother will relocate to Monday starting October 5. The network first resurrected its Sunday movie franchise in late spring to help fill the void left […]

It all comes down to this. The 72nd Annual Emmy Awards take place Sunday night  in a way they never have before –  virtually.  Past ceremonies have been deeply impacted by the 9/11 World Trade Center attack that forced two postponements and finally a stripped down Emmys hosted memorably by Ellen DeGeneres.  And how about the year […]

EXCLUSIVE: Evan Mirzai, who has made The Black List four times and founded the House of M production banner, has signed on to executive produce and write on the indie pilot Bound For Glory, from producing and acting duo Michael Naizu and Derik Young. Mirzai is looking to take the original pilot to series. Bound […]