Новости за 23.02.2024

Sherri Shepherd’s daytime talk show paid tribute to one of its top executives following his death earlier this month. The show ran an In Memoriam tribute card for Matt Uzzle, the executive-in-charge of the syndicated talker, during the February 15 episode. Uzzle was found dead February 13 at his Piermont, NY home. The cause has […]

Just days after resuming direct talks, the American Federation of Musicians has reached a tentative agreement with the studios and producers. Unanimously recommended by the AFM bargaining committee, the deal will be submitted to the general membership for ratification in about 10 days, sources tell Deadline. Finalized late last night, the AFM agreement for a […]

Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) has been tapped to write and direct Lionsgate’s forthcoming live-action adaptation of the manga classic Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. Specifics as to Cretton’s take on the material are under wraps. One of the world’s most popular IP, Naruto has sold over 250 million […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress Julia Stiles has wrapped production on her directorial debut, Wish You Were Here, based on the bestseller by Renee Carlino. The cast includes Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice), Mena Massoud (Aladdin), Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Gabby Kono (Magic Carpet Rides), Jennifer Grey (A Real Pain) […]

EXCLUSIVE: CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and Janet Yang Productions announced the completed films of the four winners of the Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge for Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers. The four short films will premiere February 25th at AMC Theater in Santa Monica. Additionally, the four filmmakers […]

MTV Documentary Films is making its Oscar-nominated documentary The Eternal Memory available for free on YouTube through the rest of the month. The film, winner of the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film and the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival among many other awards, earned director Maite […]

How many drummers does it take to make a late-night show? Well over 300 if you’re Late Night with Seth Meyers. Drummers have been a fixture in late-night for years – think of Max Weinberg, the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band who became the bandleader for Conan O’Brien and Ed Shaughnessy on […]

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Chelsea Frei (The Moodys), and Larry Joe Campbell (The Orville) have been set for guest star roles in the forthcoming second season of Fox’s popular workplace comedy Animal Control, starring Joel McHale. Others set to appear in S2 guest roles, as previously announced, include Ken Jeong, Sarah Chalke, and Krystal […]

The 49th edition of France’s César awards kicks-off at 8.45pm local time (11.45 am) at the l’Olympia concert hall in central Paris with Anatomy of a Fall vying for France’s most important cinema prizes against frontrunner The Animal Kingdom. Thomas Cailley’s fantasy drama The Animal Kingdom has 12 nominations, followed by Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner […]

Paramount+ has dropped the official trailer for the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery, which is set to return April 4. The first two episodes of the series’ 10-episode final season will be available to stream at launch with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays. The fifth and final season will find Captain […]

EXCLUSIVE: Evan Jonigkeit (Sweetbitter, Archive 81) is joining the cast of the upcoming Starz drama The Hunting Wives in a series regular role. The 8-episode project will begin production this spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jonigkeit will play Graham O’Neil, Sophie’s (Brittany Snow) safe, solid and somewhat clueless husband. He loves his wife but does […]

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. “Happy first day of voting,” a publicist told me over the phone late Thursday afternoon while still pitching last minute interviews before final Oscar ballots are due back on Tuesday. I didn’t realize the first day of voting was becoming like a national holiday and […]

Annette Bening still likes to swim, despite the brutal eight hours a day she spent in the water for her Netflix film Nyad. Bening stars as Diana Nyad, who, at 64, became the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Bening trained for a year to perfect her stroke, […]

EXCLUSIVE: America Ferrera’s hot streak continues, as the Barbie Oscar nom has been set to executive produce and star in Naked by the Window, a series adaptation of the book by Robert Katz, which has landed at Amazon MGM Studios for development following a bidding war. Originally published in 1990, the book tells the true […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding, Anyone But You) has been cast in the upcoming Starz drama The Hunting Wives in a series regular role alongside previously announced co-leads Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow. Production will begin production this spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mulroney will play Jed Banks, a fifth-generation oil man, alpha […]

Italy’s Best International Feature Oscar-nominated Io Capitano starts its U.S. run today in ten market on 21 screens, a bit wider than usual for Cohen Media Group but with Academy final voting just started, reviews are gold for the odyssey that director Matteo Garrone calls “a movie about human rights. About the rights of everybody […]

EXCLUSIVE: Another This Is Us alum is joining series creator Dan Fogelman’s new Hulu drama. Gerald McRaney, who played the beloved Dr. K on the NBC family show, has been tapped for a recurring role on the untitled series, headlined by This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown. Nicole Brydon Bloom is set as a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has locked down rights to an untitled adult thriller spec from Michael Werwie (Extremely Wicked), with Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan set to produce for Aggregate Films, sources tell Deadline. Plot details are under wraps. The project comes to Netflix following Werwie’s scripting and exec producing and Costigan’s producing of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has stepped up with a $1.5 million bid to uncap Cola Wars, a movie pitch that tells the true story of Pepsi’s attempt to challenge Coca-Cola’s century-long reign as the world’s top cola, sparking the unforgettable “Cola Wars” of the mid-1980s. This behind-the-scenes account, from Michael Jackson’s fiery mishap to the New Coke debacle, […]

Jon Stewart opened this week’s Monday night Daily Show by calling himself the captain of a dying medium, and now we know why. In an “After the Cut” clip posted today on the Daily Show‘s YouTube channel, Stewart is shown delivering his pre-show warm-up, answering questions from the audience. The banter was friendly enough, but […]

Palme d’Ors don’t grow on trees, so it’s small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. Hüller’s turn dominates the ‘sort of’ courtroom drama of the film, in which her German novelist […]

EXCLUSIVE: After launching The Purge franchise, Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes are teaming on a new thriller Drop and have set Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon to helm and Meghann Fahy is set to star. The film’s logline is being kept under wraps at this time but is said to be a fast-paced thriller. Jillian […]

Warner Bros. Discovery share price, already in the dumps, has tumbled another 11% this morning after the company’s latest quarterly numbers showed weak linear advertising and a struggling studio. But the clincher for investors may be what it didn’t show — a full-year 2024 forecast. The stock is scraping $8.50 late morning as the lack […]

Paramount Global has been put on “credit watch negative” by ratings agency S&P Global due to discouraging trends in its cash flow. S&P last December had warned about tough sledding for Paramount in 2024. A senior agency executive said the company “has to show us a path” to profitability in streaming in order to see […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ali Wentworth, Raven-Symoné, and Brooke Shields have joined the cast of Arnon Manor, and Kelsey Bascom’s coming-of-age feature film comedy, Quarter. The film also stars Bascom, and includes Breckin Meyer (Garfield, Rat Race), Tati Gabrielle (You, Uncharted), Eric Roberts (Babylon, Runaway Train), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers), Brec Bassinger (Stargirl), Dot-Marie Jones (Bros, Glee), and Matty Cardarople (Stranger […]