Новости за 01.09.2021

The three-day Curtain Up! festival in Times Square later this month will culminate in a big Sunday concert featuring performers from 18 Broadway musicals and five plays, with shows represented from Ain’t Too Proud, Hadestown and Jagged Little Pill to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pass Over and To Kill a Mockingbird. The night […]

Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers had Venice Film Festival attendees on their feet in the Sala Grande this evening, giving the opening night world premiere a nine-minute standing ovation. The movie, which traces the complicated relationship of two women (Penélope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit) who meet in a hospital room where they are going to […]

Peacock announced its Queer As Folk reimagination has added Candace Grace (Acts of Crime), Johnny Sibilly (Pose, Hacks), Devin Way (Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19), and Fin Argus (Clouds, The Gifted) in series regular roles. Grace will portray a non-binary professor navigating the rocky transition from punk to parenthood. Sibilly stars as a successful lawyer who is […]

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max continues to round out the cast for the upcoming Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin as Carson Rowland (Sweet Magnolias, American Housewife), Jordan Gonzalez (The L Word: Generation Q), Ben Cook (West Side Story, The First Lady) Elias Kacavas (Euphoria) and Benton Greene (Ghost, Riverdale) join as recurring. They join stars Chandler Kinney, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nuyorican Productions, the company led by Jennifer Lopez and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, has made a number of new hires and internal promotions, we’ve just learned. Natalie Haack Flores joins as VP of Development having previously worked at Legendary while Kevin Sauer joins Nuyorican as Director of Development, having previously worked at STX. Internal promotions include […]

Mike Kraycik has been reelected to SAG-AFTRA’s national board representing Philadelphia – another win for a candidate backed by Fran Drescher’s Unite for Strength ruling party, which now appears likely to hold onto power in the national board room no matter who wins the national presidency – Drescher or Matthew Modine. Kraycik defeated challenger Julie […]

EXCLUSIVE: Legwork Collective, the media company recently formed by Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché director Pamela B. Green, is ramping up its slate, attaching names like Rosario Dawson, Debra Messing, Ken Jeong and Norman Reedus to a new docuseries, as well as Kathy Bates to its Kate Warne detective drama, as it […]

Gregg Leakes, who appeared on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta with his wife, NeNe Leakes, over a dozen season had died. He was 66. The family’s publicist and friend, Ernest Dukes, made the announcement in a statement to Deadline but did not provide details. NeNe Leakes had shared recently that her husband might be losing his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Levinson is attached to direct a limited TV series that will be exec produced by Kevin Costner, and comes from 24’s Stephen Kronish and Zodiac producer Mike Medavoy. The Oscar-winning director behind Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam and Diner is set to helm One Giant Leap, a series that will tell the story […]

The TKTS Discount Ticket Booth in Times Square, a symbol of Broadway and destination spot for tourists and New Yorkers alike, will reopen this month following an 18-month closure due to the Covid pandemic. “We’re excited to once again serve New Yorkers and visitors on a budget who have missed the experience of live performance,” […]

EXCLUSIVE: Wanda De Jesús (Illegal Tender) is set as a lead opposite Aubrey Plaza and Ramón Rodríguez in Olga Dies Dreaming, Hulu’s one-hour drama pilot based on the novel by Xochitl Gonzalez. The pilot for Olga Dies Dreaming, written by Gonzalez and to be directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, tells the story of a Nuyorican brother […]

EXCLUSIVE: The World According to Jeff Goldblum producer Nutopia is bolstering its executive team in the U.S. with the hire of former Nat Geo executive Geoff Daniels. Daniels, who was previously EVP, Global Unscripted Entertainment at the Disney-owned factual broadcaster, will become EVP, Unscripted Entertainment at Jane Root’s Nutopia. He will work across all series […]

WarnerMedia Kids & Family has announced ACME Night, a block of programming that parents and kids can watch together each Sunday. It begins with Shazam on September 19 on Cartoon Network. Subsequent Sundays at 6 p.m. ET/PT the network will air a succession of family friendly blockbusters, including Man of Steel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, […]

The Effie T. Brown’s Gamechanger Films (The Inspection) is partnering with Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Taraji P. Henson’s TPH Entertainment to produce a feature film adaptation of graphic novel Sorcerority from co-authors Mikhail Sebastian and George Watson. Sorcerority follows a young African-American girl, Melanie, who, like her late mother, enrolls into a […]

EXCLUSIVE: SHTTL, an ambitious under-the-radar drama which is the feature helming debut of writer/director Ady Walter, has wrapped in Ukraine. The film is eyeing the 2022 festival circuit and tells the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by […]

The Woodstock Film Festival has announced the slate for its 22nd edition, with 11 world premieres among the 43 features on the bill. The festival will take place September 29 to October 3 in three Hudson Valley communities about two hours north of New York City. In-person screenings and events will be featured throughout the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Asif Zubairy, who has worked in ITV’s entertainment team since 2014 as Commissioning Editor, has left the company. Head of Entertainment Commissioning Katie Rawcliffe sent out a note to staff confirming the departure. “I am writing to let you know that Asif has decided that now is the right time to leave ITV. Asif […]

Yes, today’s announcement of films playing the Telluride Film Festival, which starts Thursday and runs through Labor Day, features many of the usual suspects spotted on the fall fest circuit and eyeing awards attention for their hot Oscar prospects. Netflix has multiple movies, so does Amazon. Focus, Warner Bros, Searchlight, Neon, A24, Sony Classics and […]

The Labor Day weekend box office, the last frame of summer, which studios typically shy from, is poised for a revolution as Disney debuts the first Asian American Marvel superhero feature Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings.  Studios have held the long belief that no one goes to the movies over Labor Day weekend, […]

Keeping its lineup as secret as possible until the eve of its opening on Thursday, the Telluride Film Festival just announced an eclectic, varied and in some cases likely Oscar-contending group of movies, most of which will have their U.S. debuts, and some world premieres, even though the fest doesn’t use labels like that themselves. […]

Piers Morgan and ITV have been cleared by UK regulator Ofcom over comments the presenter made on Good Morning Britain about Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. Morgan told viewers he didn’t accept claims made by Markle that her mental health had suffered so much since she joined the royal family that she “didn’t want […]

EXCLUSIVE: Yamini Films, the Hyderabad-based production banner run by Papa Rao Biyyala, has finalized the package for Music School, its upcoming musical feature. Ilaiyaraaja, the prolific composer and lyricist in the Indian film industry, has written 12 original songs for the project. Biyyala (Willing to Sacrifice) is directing the feature, which is about the pressure […]

A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline, we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the Venice Film Festival, which continues on schedule for a second year in a […]

Netflix has entered into a multi-year partnership with Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Mumbai-based Excel Entertainment, the banner behind the cult classic Dil Chahta Hai. Under the deal, the pair will produce a variety of projects under its series banner Excel Media and Entertainment. It will commence with two shows: Dabba Cartel is a story […]

Designated Survivor duo Dana Ledoux Miller and Michael Russell Gunn have been set as showrunners of Netflix’s upcoming Thai cave rescue miniseries. The streamer has also revealed the cast for the series, which includes local actors, including one who starred in a Thai dramatization of the story. The series is an adaptation of the Tham […]