Новости за 24.12.2021

On Thursday, primetime led into Christmas Eve with a five-way tie among Young Sheldon, Fantasy Island, A Very Boy Band Holiday and more earning the night’s highest demo rating among broadcasters. With programming grinding to a slow halt as networks switch out new episodes and live coverage for repeats and holiday titles, Thursday’s highest rating […]

Alec Baldwin has taken to social media to thank his friends, family and colleagues for their support following the fatal shooting on the set of Rust. It marks one of the first public statements from him since his sit-down interview with ABC News earlier this month to discuss the tragedy. In the video posted to […]

FRIDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is poised for a very Merry Christmas as the webslinger is on track to surpass the $1B mark globally on Saturday. This would make it the first film of the pandemic era to the milestone, as well as the second fastest title ever at 11 days […]

FRIDAY AM UPDATE: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ends the week with $385.8M, the third-best opening week at the domestic box office of all time after Avengers: Endgame ($473.9M, 2019) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($390.8M, 2015). Sony reports that the film on Saturday will become the first $1 billion-grossing movie of the pandemic at the global […]

Adult demos slow to embrace cinemas may be even slower this holiday weekend amid a barrage of breathless Omicron headlines — that aren’t all bad. It spreads fast but seems less virulent than previous strains, and may burn out faster. “I think we might get dinged a little bit,” said one distribution executive. However, “This […]

The University of Hawai’i has been forced to bow out of playing in the Hawai’i Bowl, which was scheduled to kick off in its traditional Christmas Eve TV slot this evening on ESPN. The host school, which was to play Memphis in Honolulu, cited Covid issues within the football program and pulled out late Thursday […]

The past year has been a fantastic one for the world of formats, as offerings from developing content giants such as South Korea travel the world and innovative ideas pop up in all corners. Below, Deadline has identified five key formats to watch for next year, which we could see replicated in many more territories […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the series finale of Apple TV+’s Dickinson. Apple TV+’s comedy series Dickinson wrapped up its third and final season Thursday night, with Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) and her loved ones looking to the future. As the episode titled “This Was a Poet -” opens, Emily is visited […]

A very diplomatic-sounding Paul Feig called out Sony and Columbia Pictures over an omission in the studio’s forthcoming “Ultimate Collection” of Ghostbusters movies. What’s missing? While the eight(!)-disc boxed set includes the original Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II and this year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it does not include the Feig-directed Ghostbusters from 2016, starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, […]

UPDATED: Waitress, the Broadway musical featuring music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, has canceled its remaining performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, producers announced tonight. The decision was made after new cases of Covid were detected among the company and crew. The production was to have run through January 9. Likewise, producers of the groundbreaking […]

“Fifty percent of all of the sequenced genomes identify themselves as Omicron,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. He was speaking of the positive Covid tests and wastewater in the state that have been examined for new cases of the variant. Newsom then hinted that numbers to be released today would be even higher. […]

Ever since Todd Black got into the film business as a producer, he wanted to work with Aaron Sorkin. “I remember early on seeing things he wrote, even plays, and going ‘Wow, this guy has a voice like nobody’s business,'” says the Oscar-nominated producer of Fences.  However, Black says “I never had anything good enough […]

Universal Orlando Resort announced today that, effective Friday, masks would be required in indoor portions of the park such as restaurants, shops, and indoor hotel public areas. They will likewise be mandatory “at all attractions from the moment guests enter the queue to when they exit the experience.” The mask requirement applies to workers as […]

UPDATE 12/23: LA County’s Public Health Department has updated their Covid Outbreak database to include 21 cases at WME’s Beverly Hills headquarters. The positive tests were produced last week, resulting in the agency closing the office, with employees working remotely for a couple of days until the start of agency’s holiday break this past Monday. […]

“Deliver a good entertainment, and the audience will come.” That’s what the venerable director Robert Wise told me after defying Hollywood doubters with his hit musical West Side Story (yes, the 1961 version). Courtly and gracious, Wise also was a tough realist who, following his success, decided to turn to disaster movies like The Hindenburg and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Accusing AT&T of “callous gamesmanship,” SAG-AFTRA has filed suit against the giant media and telecommunications conglomerate in a dispute over nearly $5 million in residuals and other compensation allegedly owed to actors who appeared on Mr. Mercedes, the TV series based on the Stephen King novel that starred Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway. The […]

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. “Over the years I’ve developed my own genre of films, and they typically involve a man alone in a room wearing a mask, and the mask is his occupation,” said The Card […]

Saturday Night Live head writer Anna Drezen is leaving the long-running NBC late-night comedy series. Drezen revealed that she was exiting the show just over a year after she was named one of the show’s head writers in September 2020. She said this week that she was leaving the show to focus on the Freeform […]