Новости за 14.11.2022

Whoopi Goldberg was absent from The View on Monday after being diagnosed with Covid. A representative for the ABC daytime talk show confirmed the news. Sara Haines took over Goldberg’s duties as moderator and opened the show noting the absence of Goldberg and Joy Behar. Since the beginning of Season 26, Behar’s appearances are from […]

EXCLUSIVE: The single-camera comedy series Talk Nerdy to Me, created by writer and podcaster Dana Schwartz (She-Hulk: Attorney At Law), is in early development at CBS, Deadline has learned. The project is produced by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit under their overall deal at Disney Television Studios. Talk Nerdy to Me is a workplace comedy about […]

A comedy-drama series from Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films about an ambitious young model tops this year’s Brit List of the best unproduced TV and film scripts. Issy Knowles’ Model Behaviour has landed seven recommendations to put it two ahead of the second-placed Hat Trick Mercurio series The Hoax, which is based on the true story of a lonely Parisian […]

Australian comedian Celeste Barber is making her first comedy special for Netflix, filmed during a special encore performance of her Celeste Barber – Fine, Thanks tour at Sydney Opera House. The hour-long special will stream on Netflix in 2023. According to Netflix, Barber will be exploring topics ranging from celebrity sex toys to why hot […]

Danny Masterson has decided not to take the stand in his own defense in his rape trial. The former That ’70s Show star today told Judge Charlaine Olemedo that he would not testify in the matter after discussions with his legal team. With the prosecution concluding their case after almost a month of testimony and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Svetlana Efremova (The Americans) has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming fourth season of Apple TV+’s space drama series For All Mankind. Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world […]

Black Theatre United has announced its new Executive Leadership Committee, with Broadway’s Trouble in Mind star LaChanze moving from Vice President to President. Also named to the committee: actor Michael McElroy (Vice President), production stage manager Lisa Dawn Cave (Secretary), actor Norm Lewis (Treasurer) and actor-producer Tamara Tunie (Compliance Officer). BTU’s outgoing exec committee includes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Iain Reid and Jason Schwartzman are adapting Apples — a 2020 Greek film of the same name from Christos Nikou — for the small screen. Nikou will direct the project that will be executive produced by Reid and Schwartzman, who will write. Jane Featherstone and Carolyn Strauss will EP, along with Jerome Duboz, Kate Fenske […]

CBS has unveiled its midseason schedule – setting out plans to launch its True Lies series adaptation and RuPaul-hosted gameshow Lingo. It comes after ABC, Fox and NBC revealed their midseason schedules last week. True Lies, which comes from McG and stars Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga, will launch on Thursday February 23 at 9pm […]

Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film award-season event last week showcased the music and scores from nine buzzy awards-season movies, with composers and songwriters performing their work with the help of a 60-piece orchestra in front of an live audience at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Click here to launch Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film streaming site. The […]

Newen Studios has acquired Vanessa Djian’s French production company Daï-Daï Films, in a move that continues its recent expansion. Djian began her career in the film industry working with figures such as Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, Luc Besson and Dany Boon, before creating Daï-Daï Films in 2017. SInce then, it has co-produced a number of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Travis Scott joins Isaac Yowman to Executive Produce a DJ Screw biopic for Columbia Pictures with director Isaac Yowman directing. Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony, is producing the feature length scripted film under the leadership of Vice President Maia Eyre. November 16th will mark the 22-year memorial of DJ Screw’s death.  As DJ […]

Disney’s Margot Robbie-led Pirates of the Caribbean spinoff has been killed by the studio, per the Oscar-nominated actress. While Disney couldn’t be reached for comment, Robbie made her remarks in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Monday. “We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more […]

Los Angeles and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of the 2022 Academy Award Best Picture CODA, has announced new drama feature Ibelin, based on the real-life story of the disabled, British gamer Mats Steen, who went by the name of ‘Ibelin’ in the gaming world. Morten Tyldum, who was Oscar-nominated in the best director category for The Imitation […]

Inspirational, if a bit mysterious, messages have been cropping up on billboards in the hometowns of members of the US Men’s National Soccer Team just as the World Cup approaches. The apparent motivator? None other than Ted Lasso (or perhaps the man plays him, Jason Sudeikis). The bright yellow billboards, each with a blue-lettered, funny […]

IDFA is going wild for Wildcat. The documentary from Amazon Studios screened a couple of times over the weekend at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, to resounding effect, filmmakers Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost tell Deadline. Screenings on Friday and Sunday took place at the Pathé Tuschinski Theatre, a glorious old movie palace that […]

Lionsgate has partnered with Tiicker, a pioneering platform for cultivating shareholder loyalty, to offer retail investors discounts and gifts around the studio’s film and TV brands. The goal is to turn individual fans of its franchises into stockholders. The studio is the first Hollywood partner of the Detroit-based firm that has programs with Amazon, Carnival, […]

One of the biggest hits emerging at IDFA pulls off a remarkable feat: a story of an elderly man’s farewell that manages to be simultaneously touching, endearing and often riotously funny. That sounds unlikely, if not impossible, and would be were it not for the protagonist of Much Ado About Dying – the vivacious and […]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to give away most of his $124BN fortune during his lifetime. In an interview with CNN, Bezos was questioned if he intended to donate the majority of his money to charitable causes, to which he replied: “Yeah, I do.” He plans to focus his charitable giving on climate change and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and online influencer Alexis Ren has signed on to star in Latency, a gamer action thriller written and directed by James Croke. Ren will join Russian model and actor Sasha Luss (Anna) in the flick, which follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new game controller […]

Mark Heap & More Join ITVX Drama ‘Significant Other’ Mark Heap (Friday Night Dinner, Spaced), Kéllé Bryan (Me and Mrs Jones) and Shaun Williamson (EastEnders, Extras) are among cast added to ITVX comedy Significant Other. Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Here We Go) and Youssef Kerkour (Stay Close) have already been announced as leads on […]

The BBC and A24 are teaming for an adaptation of Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Snuggie Bain. A24 will produce the series for BBC One, with the project marking Stuart’s first television series. Deadline first revealed revealed news of the series back in December 2020, at which point Scott Free Productions was involved and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes, the Oscar and Tony award-winning director, has chosen three London theater stars — Michael Balogun (National Theatre Live: Death of England-Delroy), Hadley Fraser (Donmar Theatre’s Coriolanus), and Nigel Lindsay (Chichester Festival Theatre’s Woman In Mind) — to bring his much-garlanded production of The Lehman Trilogy back into the West End. That’s following triumphant runs at the UK’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: London-based Dogwoof has locked a series of international deals for Jason Kohn’s diamond industry documentary Nothing Lasts Forever and Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s debut feature Midwives on the first day of the 2022 IDFA Forum. Produced by Kilo Films for Showtime and directed by Kohn (Love Means Zero), Nothing Lasts Forever was sold to […]

EXCLUSIVE: YouTuber and Strictly Come Dancing finalist Joe Sugg is among the talent signed up to appear at the TellyCast Digital Content Forum in London later this month. Online UK star Sugg recently launched Final Straw Productions and has branched out into acting, after finding fame online, where his YouTube channels have nearly 13 million […]