Новости за 15.09.2021

I’m Your Man (Ich bin dein Mensch), the Maria Schrader-directed film that earned star Maren Eggert the best actress Silver Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, has been selected as Germany’s entry into the 2022 International Feature Oscar race. The film stars Eggert as a a scientist at the famous Pergamon Museum in Berlin. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown) has optioned the rights to Gary M. Pomerantz’s bestselling nonfiction book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and The Making of Atlanta to adapt for television. In Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, Pomerantz traces five generations of two of Atlanta’s defining […]

Three past winners in the category meet three first-time nominees in an interesting showdown that does not include an opportunity for last year’s winner, Jeremy Strong, to repeat, since his series Succession was delayed by Covid. This means that acting winners from other recent Emmy seasons do have a chance to come back and repeat, […]

Sanaa Hamri has joined Amazon Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time for Season 2 as executive producer and director of the second half of the season. The news comes ahead of the series premiere on Nov. 19. The Amazon adaptation of Robert Jordan’s books is set in a sprawling, epic world where magic exists, but […]

Jeff Goldblum has signed on to host the 2021 Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards gala, which will celebrate a new slate of television and film titles that address climate change, sustainability and other environmental topics. The EMA Awards Gala will return for an in-person ceremony on Saturday, October 16 at Gearbox LA. EMA has also […]

SpringHill Co., the media and entertainment company controlled by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, is moving closer to clinching an investment led by RedBird Capital Partners. Sources with knowledge of the process indicated it appears to be gaining momentum, but they did not specify the size of the stake or the total amount of the […]

The National Board of Review said Wednesday that it will announce its 2021 honorees on November 30, returning it its regular late-fall position as one of the first critics groups to weigh in on the best films of the year. Winners will be celebrated on January 11 in a gala ceremony hosted by NBC News’ […]

UPDATE, 11:30 AM PT: Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek joined with other business leaders at the White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden on vaccine mandates. Although representatives from Fox were not present, Biden again called out the company for instituting its own vaccine guidelines, including disclosure of their vaccine status or […]

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Chiklis (The Shield) has signed on to star in The Senior, a football drama that Rod Lurie (The Outpost, The Last Castle) is directing from a screenplay by Bob Eisele (The Great Debaters), which is entering production in Texas this fall. The film is based on the true story of Mike Flynt (Chiklis) […]

Quibi may be gone, but the legal battles over the doomed Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman run short-form subscription video service continue – until now. A year and a half after Elliott Management-backed interactive-video company Eko accused the about to launch Quibi of stealing the technology behind the much touted Turnstyle feature, the likely exhausted […]

EXCLUSIVE: LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King will bring the words of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s upcoming fiction novel My Monticello to life. The two actors are among a slate of artists who will lend their voices to the audiobook, from Macmillan and Henry Holt and Company. Additional narrators are Ngozi Anyanwu, January LaVoy, Tomiwa Edun […]

EXCLUSIVE: After recently being named the next Captain America, Anthony Mackie looks to have found his next juicy role to sink his teeth into. Sources tell Deadline that Mackie is set to star in and executive produce Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions’ Twisted Metal, a live-action adaptation of the popular video game. Mackie will […]

Disney Studios is developing a reimagining of its 1986 sci-fi live action feature Flight of the Navigator with a female lead, a project that Bryce Dallas Howard is attached to direct and produce for Disney+. The original movie, starring Joey Cramer, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Veronica Cartwright, follows a boy who travels eight years into […]

Dame Helen Mirren is set to host Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses, a competition series commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Warner Bros. film franchise’s launch, with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The special four-part event will see fans of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World put their knowledge to the test, contending for the honorary […]

A majority of late-night hosts are to dedicate a night to tackling climate change. The comedians will each focus on the topic on Wednesday September 22 – Climate Night – in a rare show of unity across the genre. CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden, ABC’s Jimmy […]

Julianne Hough is responding to criticism over The Activist, her upcoming competition show on CBS that will pit six activists against one another in a social media contest, writing on Instagram that she will “continue to listen” in her attempts to “digest, understand and respond in a way that is authentic and aligned with the woman […]

EXCLUSIVE: Firestarter reboot lead Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Evil Dead alum Shiloh Fernandez are among cast to have joined Nicolas Cage in action-western The Old Way, which we revealed last week. In The Old Way, Cage stars as Colton Briggs, a former gunslinger who now runs a general store and lives quietly with his family. […]

Game of Thrones alumna Gwendoline Christie is set as a lead in Wednesday, Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series for Netflix. She joins previously announcd Jenna Ortega who stars in the titular role, along with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams and Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams. Christie will play Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore […]

Laika President & CEO Travis Knight is directing the studio’s next animated feature, Wildwood—an adaptation of the bestselling novel written by The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, and illustrated by Carson Ellis. The film penned by Chris Butler (Missing Link) is set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. […]

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner, who is stepping down after 10 years in the role. Serner has been hugely influential in tackling inequality […]

EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Hope (Game Of Thrones), Charlie Creed-Miles (Giri/Haji), Plan B/Ben Drew (Harry Brown) and Sadie Frost (Waiting For Anya) are among cast to join UK biopic The Chelsea Cowboy. As we revealed, Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike), Poppy Delevingne (Riviera) and Filipina actress and singer Lovi Poe (Malaya) are leading cast. The film will chart the rise […]

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was in Berlin this morning to open the streamer’s new DACH Headquarters (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Greeting a room of executives and content creators – including Jantje Friese (Dark, 1899), Anna Winger (Unorthodox), who just signed an overall deal with Netflix, Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of Thieves), Christian Schwochow (Munich – The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Pippa, the Indo-Pakistan War film starring Ishaan Khatter, which is rolling cameras today. The project comes from producers Ronnie Screwvala at RSVP and Siddharth Roy Kapur at Roy Kapur Films. They confirmed that most of the cast and crew are fully vaccinated and, combined with the easing of Covid […]

Refresh for updates … Gavin Newsom is staying put as California governor after the state’s voters declined to oust him in the recall election today. The issue has been front of mind for Californians — and Hollywood — for months, especially the past few weeks, and social media was flooded with reaction to the results […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom said that the state’s voters, in soundly defeating a recall effort, were rejecting cynicism and division in politics. Newsom not hold an election night party but instead gave brief remarks at California Democrats Party headquarters in Sacramento, using his speech to more soberly push back at what he said was negativity […]