Новости за 06.01.2022

After on-again, off-again conversations in recent months, The New York Times Co. has reportedly agreed to acquire digital sports media brand The Athletic for $550 million. The Information, citing a source familiar with the deal, said it was sealed despite ongoing losses at The Athletic. The startup had $47 million in revenue in 2020 while […]

Tributes are pouring in after director and standard-bearer for classic Hollywood moviemaking Peter Bogdanovich died today at 82. Francis Ford Coppola gave the following statement to Deadline: Oh dear, a shock. I am devastated. He was a wonderful and great artist. I’ll never forgot attending a premiere for THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. I remember at […]

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Matthew Tinker has been promoted to President, All Media, of David E. Kelley Productions. This is the first time in more than a decade that DEK Prods. has had a President and caps a major ramp-up of the indie company’s slate over the past year, in which Tinker played a key role. As […]

EXCLUSIVE: Roxane Gay, the author of Bad Feminist, is back with a new podcast. The writer has teamed up with subscription podcast network Luminary to launch The Roxane Gay Agenda. The series, which premieres on January 25 in partnership with iHeart, will feature conversations with Gay, who also offers uncommonly incisive reads of the politics […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed an overall deal with the writing and producing team of Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman under their new production arm, RaqMar Entertainment. The new entity will focus on writing and producing with a multicultural emphasis for the theatrical market. They will also cultivate up-and-coming talent by mentoring new voices from […]

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Trevor Noah is paying tribute, in its own inimitable fashion, to the “patriots” of Jan. 6, 2021 – including Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sen. Ted Cruz – with a pop-up, one-day-only installation of eight “monuments” in Manhattan. “No hero played a bigger part in the Freedomsurrection […]

NBC’s Chicago Trio is back after the holiday break, heating up the new year as Chicago Fire wins both viewers and demo rating on Wednesday. At the top of primetime Chicago Med won the 8 p.m. hour earning a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.75 million viewers. Stable from the latest episode back in […]

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor and critic-turned-director of such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc? and Mask, died suddenly today at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82 and passed from natural causes with his family by his side. By the time paramedics arrived, they were unable to revive him and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has entered a first-look television deal with top film and TV director-producer Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man franchises) and his The Story Company production company. Through the deal, Story will develop television series for broadcast, cable and streaming. He has hired former Freeform head of development Lynn Barrie to […]

Joe Wright’s musical drama Cyrano has had its UK release delayed, with the country experiencing a continued wave of Covid infections propelled by the Omicron variant. Universal has moved the Peter Dinklage-starring film from its planned January 14 bow and has rescheduled it for February 25. The studio confirmed the news but did not specify […]

Penske Media has acquired The American Pavilion, the Cannes Film Festival fixture which for over three decades has provided communications, hospitality, media center and a seaside meeting place for global attendees of the Cannes Film Festival. PMC is the parent company of Deadline. The American Pavilion was founded and will continue to be run by […]

Alison Roman is the latest personality to sign on to CNN’s upcoming subscription streaming service CNN+. The writer and author will host what the network describes as a “brand new, highly opinionated and never finicky, cooking show,” produced through its CNN Original Series unit. Roman said in a statement, “I’ve been dreaming about bringing a […]

ITN CEO Deborah Turness, a former NBC News President, has been appointed CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, replacing Fran Unsworth. Turness, who will be paid £400,000 ($540,000) per year, will be responsible for a team of 6,000 journalists that is shifting to digital, moving out of London and losing hundreds of staff as […]

Sky Sets ‘A Town Called Malice’ Cast Sky has set cast and filming dates for 1980s Costa del Sol drama A Town Called Malice. Save Me star Jason Flemyng will helm the project as Gene Lord, the head of a family of petty thieves from South London who decamp to Spain to profit from an unexpected […]

Adam McKay’s climate change satire Don’t Look Up is officially a record breaker, with the title attracting the most viewing hours for a movie in a single week in Netflix’s history. The pic’s 152.29 million hours watched globally in the week December 27 – January 2 is a new high watermark, the streamer has confirmed […]

EXCLUSIVE: Masked Singer UK and Hard Cell super-indie Argonon is in advanced discussions over potential acquisitions on the West Coast and has shifted its U.S. development team to LA. The move comes as CEO James Burstall forecasts the London-headquartered outfit’s “biggest year yet,” with a focus on M&A and West Coast expansion and 200 hours’ worth […]

The CW may get a new majority owner. Fifteen years after the broadcast network’s launch, its co-parents, ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia, are considering a controlling stake sale, sources confirm to Deadline. Nexstar Media Group, which is the CW’s largest affiliate group following its acquisition of Tribune, is believed to be among interested buyers. Sources caution that […]

UPDATE: Antonio Brown said on Wednesday that an injured ankle was behind his refusal to go into the Tampa Bay/New York Jets game. Brown said he was going to have surgery on the injury, which he claimed the Buccaneers covered up and forced him into playing while hurt. “Because of my commitment to the game, I […]

EXCLUSIVE: Filming on the NBC drama Chicago Fire was suspended today after a number of positive Covid tests, including cases in Zone A, which includes the cast and those who directly interact with them, I have learned. The series, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, had resumed production after the holiday break and filmed yesterday […]

Ted Gardner, who cofounded one of the biggest rock festivals in the US and managed several hugh acts, died Dec. 28, Billboard reported. He was 74 and no cause of death was given. Gardner began a a tour manager in his native Australia, working with Men at Work, Crowded House, Echo and the Bunnymen, and […]

Spooked by a record number of new omicron cases emerging in the state, public health officials have extended their expiring mandate that masks must be worn indoors at last until Feb. 15 The extension comes as the original order was set to be reevaluated Jan. 15 and applies to residents regardless of their vaccination status, […]

Aaron Rodgers had an answer today on a most valuable player voter, and he didn’t state it in the form of a question. The former Jeopardy! host and current Green Bay Packers quarterback called out Chicago-area radio interviewer/newsletter editor Hub Arkush, who refused to vote for Rodgers as NFL MVP because he’s unvaccinated. Rodgers said […]

Three months after the death of its longtime CEO Brian Goldner, Hasbro has named his successor. Chris Cocks, who served as president and COO of the company’s Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming division, has been promoted to chief executive officer. Cocks, who joined Hasbro in 2016, will take over from interim CEO Rich […]

Is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finally coming back? That’s what a mass amount of fans were calling for today on social media as #SaveAgentsofSHIELD began trending. Fans also were rallying for the series, which ended after seven seasons and 136 episodes in August 2020, to be made part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon. ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starred […]

Chris Noth‘s surprise appearance in And Just Like That‘s finale airing on Feb. 3 has been scrapped, a source has confirmed to Deadline. The scrubbing is the latest fallout for Noth following accusations of sexual assault were made against the actor by multiple women. He has denied the allegations. Noth, who portrays Mr. Big in […]