Новости за 10.12.2021

A follow-up series to Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under is being explored by HBO, Deadline has learned. The project, which is in nascent stages, is not believed to be on a fast track and may not move forward. I hear the premium network has commissioned a script, with no firm concept and no writer attached […]

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series returns to exclusively reveal the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Maggie Gyllenhaal made her directorial debut with The Lost Daughter, the adaptation of pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante’s 2006 novel. Gyllenhaal, an Oscar-nominated actress, also adapted the screenplay and did […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stowe Story Labs, and the NYX Horror Collective are offering a fellowship to woman-identifying horror writers, age 40 and over.  The fellowship will cover the fee to attend a Stowe Narrative Lab, along with additional benefits such as a consultation with an entertainment attorney, StoryBoard Quick software, and the latest version of Final Draft.  […]

The Producers Guild of America on Friday unveiled nominees in the Outstanding Documentary Motion Picture category for the 33rd annual PGA Awards. It’s the first batch of noms for the guild, which honors excellence in motion picture and television productions. Seven docs were nominated today: MTV Documentary Films’ Ascension, Nat Geo’s The First Wave and […]

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. “It feels just like old times,” one awards voter told me at one of the many live events taking place all over town even as the pandemic still rages. The ‘old times’ to which he was referring is what seems like the now ancient 2019 Oscar season […]

Tom Hanks was among the speakers who paid tribute to Bob Dole at a ceremony on Friday at the World War II Memorial. Dole, who died on Sunday at age 98, played a major role in the effort to build the memorial, which opened in 2004, and Hanks was an advocate to get it built. […]

SPOILER ALERT: Storylines from the first two episodes of HBO Max’s And Just Like That… are revealed below. HBO Max‘s Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That… shocked fans by killing off Mr. Big in the series premiere currently available to stream. Michael Patrick King told members of the media on Friday, Chris […]

A24 presents Red Rocket in six theaters this weekend ahead of a limited expansion in New York and LA, adding Chicago, Austin and San Francisco next weekend with a wider rollout over the holidays to several hundred screens. The dark comedy by Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine) premiered at Cannes to a five-minute standing ovation […]

Today at CBS’ Winter TCA press conference, The Amazing Race set 11 new teams for its 33rd season, which kicks off with a two-hour premiere on January 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The teams for the upcoming season are Akbar Cook Sr. (45) and Sheridan Cook (44), married educators from Martinsville, NJ; Anthony Sadler (29) […]

Micky Dolenz paid tribute to his longtime friend and Monkees bandmate Michael Nesmith in a heartfelt statement today. The statement reads, in full: I’m heartbroken. I’ve lost a dear friend and partner. I’m so grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together doing what we loved best – singing, laughing, and doing […]

The documentary Not Going Quietly tells the story of Ady Barkan, the progressive and healthcare activist who has been battling ALS. As filmmakers publicize the project during award season and an upcoming PBS airing, Barkan has seized on his next chapter: a push for Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act, a centerpiece of […]

EXCLUSIVE:  Range Media Partners has signed award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer, and musician S. Craig Zahler, Deadline has learned. “We are deeply honored to partner with UTA and work with Craig. There’s one Zahler on the planet. And that’s for good reason. He’s a true multi hyphenate. And a singular voice in writing directing and […]

Suddenly it’s The Season: Major films are opening, the machinery of hype is heating up, the screening schedules are intense — even the DVD screeners are piling up. Well, maybe not. Not unless you’re a critic. Or an influencer. “This is like Vegas without the slots,” observed one awards guru about the abolition of screeners. […]

Joe Biden will make his first late-night appearance as president when he guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday. Fallon made the announcement on his show Thursday. A White House spokesperson said that the appearance will be virtual. Biden’s appearance also will be the first of a sitting president on a major […]

There will be no second season for Cowboy Bebop. Netflix has opted not to move forward with a second season of the live-action anime adaptation starring John Cho. The cancellation comes less than a month after the series’ first season was released on the streamer Nov. 19. Based on Shinichirō Watanabe’s cult anime series, Cowboy […]

(Updated with more details) A Chicago jury has just found Jussie Smollett guilty today on five felony charges, including lying to the police about the alleged hate crime attack on the former Empire actor in early 2019. Smollett was found innocent of making a false police report in the days after the so-called assault that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Salpeter has joined Assemble Media as President of Literary and IP Development. In his new role at the multi-platform production company, he will oversee IP development and book packaging, scouting literary and current event properties for its film and TV slate overseen by Director of Development Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen and Principal Jack Heller. Salpeter will also […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Muslim Public Affairs Council on Thursday opened submissions for the newly launched Hollywood Bureau Filmmaker Grant, supporting Black Muslim filmmakers. The $10,000 grant is open to those who identify as Black Muslims; are either U.S. citizens or permanent residents; and have an episodic, narrative or animated project in development, production or post-production. It […]

Denis O’Brien, best known for producing the comedy Monty Python’s Life of Brian with former Beatle George Harrison, died December 3 in a Swindon, UK hospital. He was 80 and passed away from intra-abdominal sepsis, his daughter said. O’Brien and Harrison’s Handmade Films had a hit right out of the box with the 1979 comedy […]

Hot on the heels of livestreaming tonight’s Ye/Drake concert in L.A., Prime Video has announced it will next stream Metallica 40th Anniversary Live, two shows in the band’s hometown celebrating its decades of headbanging. The shows will take place live from Chase Center in San Francisco on December 17 and December 19. In-person tickets are […]

Disney said Thursday that Deep Water, the 20th Century Studios erotic thriller starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas and directed by Adrian Lyne, has been pulled from the release schedule. It had been slated to hit theaters on January 14, 2022. The studio did not give a reason for the move on the pic, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jake Coburn and Julie Plec, whose bank heist drama series The Endgame was picked up to series at NBC in September, have sold another project to the network with Arrow and Supergirl writer Emilio Ortega Aldrich. The trio are developing Sky On Fire for NBC, which comes from Plec’s My So-Called Company and Universal […]

Florence Pugh (Black Widow, Midsommar), Rami Malek (No Time to Die, Bohemian Rhapsody) and actor-filmmaker Benny Safdie (Licorice Pizza, Good Time) are the latest additions to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer, sources have confirmed to Deadline. While Universal declined comment, Pugh, Malek and Safdie will join a cast led by Cillian Murphy […]