Новости за 05.01.2024

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off success with the acclaimed docs Sly and Willie Nelson & Family, respectively chronicling the lives and careers of Sylvester Stallone and the iconic same-name country artist, Thom Zimny has signed with Artists First. The production and management company will look for opportunities to help the filmmaker showcase his talents in the narrative […]

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist concluded their whirlwind romance Thursday night the same way it began, live on national television. The inaugural Golden Bachelor couple said “I do” in front of 150 guests (and all those watching at home) at the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, California. Deadline was invited, along with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gibbs is returning to the NCIS universe as the lead of a new CBS drama, which serves as a prequel to the long-running procedural. The network has given a straight-to-series order to NCIS: Origins, about young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, for the 2024-25 broadcast season. The project comes from the two actors who have portrayed […]

A group of Florida state legislators voted on Friday to move forward with a bill that would reverse Governor Ron DeSantis’ successful effort last year to strip the Walt Disney Co. of control of a special district that oversees the company’s theme park properties. But the bill has long odds in getting very far in […]

EXCLUSIVE: MTV is happy with its Tuesday night lineup. The network has renewed both Catfish: The TV Show & Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship!, following the wrap of the series’ current seasons this week. The new episodes will mark Season 9 for Catfish and Season 3 for Help! Both series are set to return in spring […]

David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate the network’s pre-New Hampshire primary Republican debate on Jan. 18. The event, co-sponsored by WMUR-TV, has traditionally been one of the more influential debates of the cycle. But CNN also has scheduled its own New Hampshire debate on Jan. 21, two days before the vote. ABC News said […]

Julia Garner is set to headline Blumhouse and Universal’s Wolf Man from Invisible Man filmmaker Leigh Whannell. Wolf Man will reunite Garner with Christopher Abbott, who was previously announced as starring in the movie, with whom she starred alongside in Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene; Garner’s first professional acting role.  The movie is set to be released via […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart has called up SNL star Kenan Thompson to help on his latest NBA Unplugged episode. Thompson, who has portrayed his fare share of basketball stars on the long-running NBC series, will join hart for the alternative telecast of ESPN2’s game between the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks. Hart kicked off […]

It’s quiet for specialty openings after the holidays, in the thick of awards season. But one film needed this weekend — Abramorama documentary A Storm Foretold by Danish director Christoffer Guldbrandsen about the MAGA movement and the Jan. 6 insurrection. The filmmaker captured footage over years of on-and-off access to Roger Stone. It’s booked for […]

What would you do if you discovered that your once-ordinary life was built on the foundation of one of Taiwan’s largest (and successful) organized crime families? Netflix’s crime comedy The Brothers Sun runs the gamut and the streets of the San Gabriel Valley for answers. Co-created by Byron Wu and Brad Falchuk, the eight-episode series […]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Discovery plans to launch the paid version of its B/R Sports Add-On several months from now, a shift from the company’s initial guidance. When the sports tier carrying the Bleacher Report branding was announced last September and then went live in October, it carried no extra charge for Max subscribers. The company […]

Elevate Entertainment Group has announced several changes to its leadership team. Effective immediately, Steve Zuehlke joins as the new Chief Operating Officer, while Louis Maldonado steps into the position of Vice President of Food & Beverage and Jeff Mann transitions to the company’s first Vice President of Supply Chain role.  Having worked at Cinemark for […]

Refresh for updates…Nathaniel Brown is departing Warner Bros Discovery as their Corp Comms Chief, Deadline has learned. It is an amicable departure we hear. Brown was named to the post after the merger came together back in May 2022. Brown led global communications and media relations and served as the conglom’s lead spokesperson. He previously […]

Samuel L. Jackson (The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pulp Fiction) has joined the Peacock Muhammad Ali limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. He will portray Frank Moten, a real-life underworld kingpin coined the Black Godfather by the NY tabloids. The project reunites Jackson with Craig Brewer, who will direct the first two episodes of […]

After launching the Strike Talk podcast with producer Todd Garner to give WGA strikers comfort in the early days of 2023’s labor unrest, Billy Ray is signing off. When you are an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and a director and producer to boot, you’ve got to go back to work at some point. No one expected it […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Maher, an honorary director of PETA, has teamed up with the animal rights organization to produce a documentary about America’s multibillion-dollar experimentation industry. The host of HBO’s Real Time is exec producing The Failed Experiment, which will launch on Amazon’s Prime Video on January 9. It marks Maher’s first new documentary project in […]

Mike White’s The White Lotus has enlisted its first new residents. Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Dom Hetrakul and Tayme Thapthimthong are set to join returning cast member Natasha Rothwell in the upcoming third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning anthology series. The new installment, set in Thailand, will begin filming in and around […]

EXCLUSIVE: After breaking out with her lead role in the second season of Netflix’s smash hit series Bridgerton, Simone Ashley has moved on to star in This Tempting Madness, a new indie directed by Jennifer E. Montgomery, from her script written with husband Andrew M. Davis, which just wrapped production in Los Angeles. A first […]

EXCLUSIVE: NCIS: LA may be over but star Daniela Ruah is keeping a toe in the NCIS universe. The actress who played Kensi Blye on the spinoff that wrapped its 14-season run last May is directing two episodes in the NCIS universe. She’s helming an episode of NCIS this month that’ll air in March, followed […]

Gardner Reed, whose recent credits include Netflix’s King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, has been promoted at Wheelhouse Entertainment. He is now SVP, Development. Reed has worked for Wheelhouse founder Brent Montgomery for over ten years at various companies including Sirens Media, Leftfield Pictures and ITV America. He was previously VP, Development. Reed is tasked […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Napoleon, David Scarpa’s screenplay that fuels Ridley Scott’s historical epic starring Joaquin Phoenix. The screenplay details the rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor, forming the skeleton around which Scott creates his signature action, this time around highlighted by massive and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance has taken on the challenge of turning the bestselling YA fantasy novel series Ranger’s Apprentice into a live action film, with the hope it can become a franchise. Skydance has gotten control of the John Flanagan book series, and has closed a big deal with Hidden Figures helmer Ted Melfi to adapt, direct, […]

Kimberly Akimbo, winner of five 2023 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, April 28, producers announced today. Remarkably for Broadway, the entire original company, which has been performing together since the musical’s Off Broadway world premiere in 2021, has continued, and will continue, with the production through its […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a January 29 streaming premiere date for The Greatest Night in Pop, a feature doc just announced as world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on the 19th of this month. Directed by award winner Bao Nguyen (Be Water), the film takes viewers back to January 25, 1985, when dozens of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix drama exec Roberto Stopello has exited his Mexico City-based role with the company, but will continue to collaborate with the streamer on scripted fare, Deadline has learned. Stopello was VP of Series in Latin America at Netflix. He has now left and Deadline understands he plans to move back to the U.S. for […]