Новости за 27.09.2021

The bombshell acquisition of ICM Partners by CAA will strengthen a collective commitment to client representation, said the principals behind the deal in an interview with Deadline this morning. Among other issues, CAA’s Richard Lovett, Bryan Lourd & Kevin Huvane and ICM Partners head Chris Silbermann told Deadline they believe the deal will pass muster […]

EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Preston has boarded John Logan’s untitled feature directorial debut at Blumhouse, which has been billed as a LGBTQIA+ empowerment feature set at a gay conversion camp. The project from the 3x Oscar nominee was previously known as Whistler Camp.  Preston joins already cast Theo Germaine and Kevin Bacon, the latter who is also serving […]

UPDATE: CBS has made it official. The Late Late Show with James Corden will welcome back a live studio audience starting tonight, Monday September 27, as per Deadline’s scoop below. EXCLUSIVE (Sep 21): The Late Late Show is set to be filmed in front of a live studio audience for the first time since the […]

The embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association has added five new people to its nine-member Credentials Committee. The group helps select new members, a key element in the Golden Globes organization’s efforts to address an admitted lack of diversity among the once-insular group. The new committee members are Tre’Vell Anderson, Terry Anzur, Bel Hernandez, Toni Moston […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Ari Parker has signed with M88 for representation. Actress, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Parker can currently be seen in the role of Samantha Miller on NBC’s Chicago P.D. and will next appear in HBO Max’s anticipated Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That... as well as the upcoming TV movie Safe […]

Following the success of his Netflix musical film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, playwright and filmmaker David E. Talbert has been tapped to develop a musical series for Disney Branded Television. The series, Madelyn Square Gardens, marks the first development project announced since Ayo Davis was elevated to president of the division. Madelyn Square Gardens tells […]

Joe Biden got a Covid-19 booster show live on camera on Monday, a move to promote a third shot for those 65 an older. The president answered questions from reporters in the South Court Auditorium as a medical professional administered the shot. The shots are meant as a booster after six months since the last […]

Hollywood’s Covid return-to-work protocols expire Thursday – the day before IATSE members begin voting to authorize a strike. The 100-page safe return-to-work agreement between Hollywood’s unions and management’s AMPTP have been extended before, and probably will be extended again this week, but that will require cooperation between the AMPTP and all of the signatory unions, including […]

The much nominated and tremendous Slave Play came up empty handed and Jagged Little Pill’s Lauren Patten showed exactly what an acceptance speech should be last night as CBS took the Tony Awards to a whole new stage or sorts on Sunday Streamlining the ceremony for the 21st century in a manner the Oscars and […]

The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder’s 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama, will return to Broadway next spring in a Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Blain-Cruz, the LCT’s resident director, will be making her Broadway debut with the production, which will begin previews Thursday, March 31 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, with an […]

EXCLUSIVE: Haroon Saleem, who was President of Production at Trevor Noah’s production company Day Zero Productions, has left the company. Deadline understands that Saleem, who joined the company in 2019, exited last week. Saleem, who was based in LA, reported to The Daily Show host Noah and worked with the comedian to build out his […]

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) officially announced on Monday that she would be running for mayor of Los Angeles. “With my whole heart, I’m ready. Let’s do this — together. I’m running for mayor,” Bass tweeted. She also introduced a campaign website. According to a poll conducted last month, Bass would be one of the leading […]

Netflix is ramping up its documentary series team in the UK with a pair of key hires. Adam Hawkins will join the streamer later this year from Raw, where he was U.S. Creative Director and had credits including Don’t F**k with Cats and Three Identical Strangers. At Netflix he will lead the documentary series team […]

007 Producer Barbara Broccoli has said she will not begin thinking about who will replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond until 2022. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Broccoli joked that she was “in denial” about Craig leaving after his five-film stint. “We want Daniel to have his time of celebration,” She […]

EXCLUSIVE: After a production hiatus of a few years, filming is back underway on making-of documentary Too Hot To Handle: Remembering Ghostbusters II, which will feature interviews with Dan Aykroyd, the late Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, director and producer Ivan Reitman, producers Joe Medjuck and Michael C. Gross, and ILM’s Dennis Muren. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: ITV has ordered a new crime drama series starring ER’s Parminder Nagra from Line of Duty pair Maya Sondhi and Jed Mercurio. The British broadcaster has commissioned DI Ray, a Birmingham-set, four-part series that is centered around Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal […]

Entertainment One (eOne) has picked up international distribution rights (outside of Spain and Portugal) to Operación Marea Negra, a four-part submarine drama series. The Spanish-language project comes from Amazon Prime Video and Ficción Producciones. The deal was brokered by Noel Hedges, eOne’s EVP, Acquisitions, International Distribution and marks eOne’s first Spanish-language acquisition. Set in November […]

Broadway, you might have heard, is back, and, miracle of miracles, it seems to have figured out how to present a truly excellent television awards show. Splitting the traditional three hours into four and somehow coming up with the right math, Tony organizers, Paramount+ and CBS presented a two-hour livestreamed 74th Annual Tony Awards and, […]

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver dragged Jeopardy! once again in the HBO series’ first episode back since Sept. 12. Oliver likened the abysmal response to the Del Rio immigration scandal that saw border patrol agents in Texas riding on horseback whipping Haitians seeking asylum last week to the controversial hiring and firing of Mike […]

Moulin Rouge! The Musical producers Bill Damaschke and Carmen Pavlovic reflected during tonight’s Tony Awards on how differently the show plays in 2021 than it did before the onset of Covid-19. The show, which took home 10 Tonys tonight, including Best Musical, just resumed performances last Friday. The return added even more of a jolt […]

Kenny Leon, director of A Soldier’s Play, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, expanded backstage on his acceptance-speech call for greater diversity in the theater. “We’ve been talking about making changes on Broadway,” he said, acknowledging the “reset” prompted by Covid-19 and nationwide protests against racial injustice. “I think it’s […]

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are making their debut as Joel and Ellie in the first photo for HBO’s The Last of Us, the high-profile series adaptation of the Sony Playstation franchise from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Based on the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the […]

Mary-Louise Parker, a Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, offered a sense in a backstage interview of what it felt like to attend tonight’s show. “It’s really amazing,” Parker told press in a brief interview streamed to press covering the show. “On the one hand, it sort of feels […]

Danny Burstein, after seven Tony Award nominations, finally took home the trophy tonight for best featured performance in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. While he said he hasn’t obsessed about winning the award, Burstein said he had grown tired of hearing about his bridesmaid status. “Everywhere I go, people are telling me, ‘Susan Lucci!'” the actor […]

NBCUniversal is warning the more than 3 million subscribers to Google’s streaming bundle YouTube TV that 14 of its networks are just “days away” from going dark. The media company did not specify a deadline, but said the impasse is imminent. Programming like fall primetime premieres and NFL football is at risk, NBCU noted. “NBCUniversal […]