Новости за 18.02.2022

EXCLUSIVE: His reps declined to comment, but word in publishing circles is that Elliot Page’s memoir Pageboy sold to Flatiron Books for north of $3 million. The deal was made based on a 49-page proposal shopped by UTA. Deadline read the document, and it sounds like Page has a truly compelling story to tell about […]

Dave Chappelle will executive produce four new stand-alone comedy specials featuring comics personally selected by him as part of his Chappelle’s Home Team series for Netflix. The first special will spotlight D.C. comic Earthquake (The Neighborhood), premiering on February 28. Donnell Rawlings, one of Chappelle’s longtime collaborators, will host the second special in the series […]

Margaret Styne, the widow of Broadway composer Jule Styne who oversaw an estate and legacy that includes the much anticipated upcoming revival of Funny Girl, has died. A longtime presence in the Broadway community, her death was announced by Jule Styne, Inc. in a Facebook post Feb. 15 that was more widely shared in a […]

The BBC has struck a six-year deal for the MasterChef franchise and is moving production from London to Birmingham. MasterChef, MasterChef: The Professionals, Celebrity MasterChef and newly-announced BBC Three series Young MasterChef will air until 2028 and move to the UK’s second city’s Digbeth Loc in 2024. Produced by Banijay label Shine TV, the titles have established themselves as high-rating […]

Afternoon subscribers. Max Goldbart here with your weekly dose of International Insider news and analysis and it’s been as busy as ever over the past seven days. Scroll down for more. Of Paramount Importance Via-Who? ViacomCBS is no more. Paramount (or Paramount Global to be precise) is here and streaming is the name of the […]

The Berlin Film Festival’s industry wing, the European Film Market (EFM), has confirmed that 600 exhibitors from 62 countries took part in this year’s virtual edition, up from last year’s figure of 504. A total of 1,300 market screenings of 827 films took place, including 600 premieres. That was down from last year’s numbers of […]

The 22nd edition of the Mumbai Film Festival, due to be held March 12 – 22, is moving online in the face of enduring challenges first brought about by the pandemic. Festival Artistic Director Smriti Kiran posted on Instagram that the team was “having to sit out the March edition of the festival” but that […]

A new studio has opened in Manchester and will host BBC One’s Morning Live, with Versa Studios opening its second site in the UK in the space of two months. The 55,000 sq ft space will be up and running fully by summer 2023, taking over the Manchester Studios complex with five studios offering facilities to […]

When I think of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, gentrification, social media, and capitalism are not the words that come to mind. However, director David Blue Garcia and screenplay scribe Chris Thomas Delvin decided to bring all of these elements together to create the first entry on my worst of the year list. This logic-free film […]

Both of FX’s awards stalwarts on the comedy side, Atlanta and Better Things, are coming to an end. Better Things co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Pamela Adlon announced that the upcoming fifth season will be her show’s last back in October; FX Chairman John Landgraf revealed at TCA today that Atlanta will end with […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom lashed out today at what he called “Perhaps one of the great disinformation networks in America…One America News” for spreading “a lot of misinformation” about Covid. He did not stop there. “I’m not just referring to Newsmax or the primetime propaganda lineup at Fox News and all of their pundits that […]

The Oscars finally has a Covid policy. Presenters and performers at next month’s Academy Awards will not be required to show proof of vaccination, but nominees and guests will. People in the latter group also must have two negative PCR tests, Deadline has confirmed. In a story posted tonight, The New York Times quoted an Academy of […]

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is not moving forward with half-hour family comedy pilot Camp Friends (working title). I hear production on the pilot, which was greenlated late last year, was paused over positive Covid tests and never resumed. Restarting production after a shutdown is very costly, especially for a modestly budgeted half-hour pilot for Camp Friends. Instead, I hear […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here is the hottest package to come along in awhile. Deadline hears that studios and streamers are poring over Here, an adaptation of the celebrated Richard McGuire graphic novel that will reunite the trio behind the 1994 film Forrest Gump. Tom Hanks will star, Robert Zemeckis will direct, and the script is by Eric […]

A dramedy by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is one of many TV series put in development before the coronavirus pandemic that didn’t make it through. “It is no longer in development,” Eric Schrier, President of FX Entertainment, told Deadline earlier today in an interview tied to the network’s TCA presentation, noting that the decision […]

“I feel like we are left as a team, as a unit, and it took a journey for us to get there, but we finally do,” says Peacemaker star Danielle Brooks of the first season of the HBO Max series from James Gunn. “And I think we realize who the true badasses are – and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Christian James (Cerebrum) is set for a key recurring role opposite Daniel Ezra, Samantha Logan and Michael Evans Behling in CW’s All American. James will play Wade Waters, full of East Coast privilege, Wade Waters is the arrogant but talented quarterback for GAU (Golden Angeles University). He enjoys his position of power over the […]

Political comedy prince Bill Maher will be featured in a new, one-hour HBO comedy special, #Adulting, which will air sometime this spring, exact date TBA. It will debut on the network and will stream on HBO Max. The special is taping Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5 at the 2400-seat Fillmore Theater in Miami. […]

Uma Thurman has some unfinished business. The 51-year-old Pulp Fiction actress was asked about the possibility of a Kill Bill 3 being made during an appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. The third installment of the Quentin Tarantino sword and revenge saga has long been rumored since the release of the 2003 Kill Bill: Vol. […]

Damson Idris reflected on his early days working on FX’s Snowfall, and the words of inspiration he received from series creator John Singleton. Singleton died in 2019 at the age of 51. “In essence, that symbol implanted in me was to just be truthful,” Idris said during the show’s CTAM panel on Thursday. “To just […]

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia recently finished its 15th season and Archer is going into its 13th season. However, neither show is heading towards the end of its line, according to FX Entertainment President Eric Schrier. Sunny, which with its latest season beat the season record for longest running live-action, bypassing The Adventures of Ozzie & […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has added Moses Storm (I’m Dying Up Here) to its upcoming esports series Players.  The docu-style series comes from Peabody-Award winning American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios. Co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs, Players follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports […]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Television Group grows its publicity team with the hiring of former  Disney Television Studios executive Yong Kim, who will serve as Vice President, Worldwide Television Publicity. Kim will report to Rebecca Marks, Executive Vice President, Publicity & Communications, Warner Bros. Television Group, who announced his hiring. “It gives me great pleasure to […]

UPDATED, 3 PM: The bad optics of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford’s indifference to a photographer’s plunge during a Super Bowl celebration is being rectified. The Rams and Stafford said Thursday they would pay photographer Kelly Smiley’s medical bills and replace her cameras after she fell off the stage at the team’s Super Bowl […]

A Fort Worth, Texas jury has found former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay guilty of distributing fentanyl and causing the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019. The jury turned in its verdict within three hours of beginning deliberations this morning. Kay was immediately taken into custody. “We’re obviously disappointed in the verdict. […]