Новости за 23.02.2024

A 28-year-old serving police officer has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with an investigation into the disappearance of Australian TV personality Jesse Baird and his partner, Luke Davies. Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon handed himself into Sydney police Friday, two days after items belonging to Baird and Davies were found bloodied in a […]

Such has been the chaos in international TV over the past 12 months that you could argue Cineflix Rights’ Head of Scripted, James Durie, is underplaying things when he says it has been “a hell of a year.” Distributors around the world have watched on in horror as the streaming sector crumbled and the crashing […]

EXCLUSIVE: Swede Caroline, a British mockumentary starring Aisling Bea and Jo Hartley (After Life) from Nicola Pearcey, formerly President, Lionsgate UK & Europe, and now CEO of Picnik Entertainment, has landed both a theatrical and digital release.  Belstone Pictures, Deadbeat Studios, and Pearcey’s Picnik Entertainment will jointly send the pic into cinemas on April 19, […]

Lunar New Year is a key box office period in several Asian territories, but nowhere was it more hotly contested this year than in Vietnam, where several local, Japanese and Hollywood movies were slugging it over the week-long holidays (February 9-15). Tran Thanh’s Mai, a romantic drama that delves into the psychology of its female […]

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 5 has pulled the plug on Ross Kemp’s doc series in which the former EastEnders star was spending time in the world’s most dangerous prisons, with factors ranging from budget difficulties to an Ecuadorian coup to blame. Deadline revealed that Ross Kemp: 72 Hours In … had been paused in October. After a […]

Welcome to Deadline’s London TV Screenings list, our definitive look at next week’s buzzy event taking Soho by storm. If you’re wondering who’s exhibiting, what’s on offer and want to dive deeper into the distribs’ strategy, we’ve done the hard work for you, presenting profiles from nearly 30 exhibiting sales houses. Below, check out profiles […]

The auditions for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender (which premiered today on the streamer) were very cloak and dagger. Netflix went to great lengths to keep the auditions secret – including writing fake scenes set in a bank. That caused some confusion even for the auditoners. Ken Leung tells the story in the video below.

Tyler Perry has seen demonstrations of what AI can do. While he is astonished, he’s also sounding an alarm. Perry is already voting with his wallet on the subject. His plans for an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio are on hold after seeing a demonstration of OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, which has created […]

The debate over whether Beyoncé’s new song, Texas Hold ‘Em, is a country song is officially over. Dolly has spoken. In an Instagram post today (see below), Dolly Parton congratulated Beyoncé on doing a country album and scoring a No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with the track. A second song, 16 […]

While the rest of the country was watching NFL playoff football, Sofia Vergara was a streaming sensation with her new Netflix limited series, Griselda. It was the new leader of the Nielsen streaming ratings for the week of Jan. 22-28 by a wide margin. The series, which bowed Jan. 25, is a far cry from […]

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Thursday’s episode of Law & Order. After more than 400 episodes, Sam Waterston walked out of the courthouse for the final time as District Attorney Jack McCoy. Appropriately, Waterston’s last episode put him back into the courtroom to argue a final case. A woman named Veronica Knight […]

Sorry Bravo, but to paraphrase that classic song of 39 years ago from The Smiths: That joke isn’t funny now. Mere hours after Real Housewives alum Brandi Glanville’s attorneys sent a searing letter to Bravo owners NBCUniversal, Warner Bros Discovery and Shed Media claiming Andy Coeh sexually harassed their client, the Watch What Happens Live! […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is opening their $15M Sundance pick-up, My Old Ass, on Aug. 2 in a limited rollout. The LuckyChap and Indian Paintbrush production comes from director/scribe Megan Park and stars Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler, Percy Hynes White and Kerrice Brooks. Pic follows bright-yet-irreverent Elliott (Stella) the summer before college as […]

In 2010, Endeavor lit agents Bill Weinstein, Adam Levine and Bryan Besser left in the wake of the WMA merger to launch a new agency built on a different, client-first approach to representation and a different culture from the corporate-minded big firms. Fourteen years later, Weinstein, who was announced as Verve CEO a year ago, exited abruptly Monday, sending shockwaves […]

Social media platform Reddit filed with the SEC today for an initial public offering, a move anticipated for years by the company, which was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian and Aaron Swartz. It boasts 100k+ communities, or subreddits, including wallstreetbets, the home of meme stock traders who upended Wall Street in 2021, […]

As he spoke at a Bay Area fundraiser today, Joe Biden spotted Katie Couric among the attendees. “Two of your former colleagues, not at the same network, personally told me if he wins, they will have to leave the country because he’s threatened to put them in jail,” Biden said, according to a pool report. […]

Troy Kotsur, who won the Oscar for his role in CODA, is heading back to Apple. Kotsur is joining the third season of Foundation. It comes as the series, which comes from Skydance TV, postponed a return to production. Deadline revealed that the series was set to re-start production this month but due to issues […]

SAG-AFTRA condemned CBS News following a report that the network seized correspondent Catherine Herridge’s files after she was laid off earlier this month, but the network is disputing that is what happened. Herridge, who was a senior investigative correspondent covering national security and intelligence, was among the 20 or so news division staffers laid off […]

EXCLUSIVE: Intimacy coordinators could find themselves out of a job if they are indiscreet with the privacy of the filmmakers they work with, SAG-AFTRA says. Following recent revelations about what went on in the filming of the Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman-starring Miller’s Girl, the Guild has tightened up its Standards and Protocols for the […]

“Uninspired.” “Never catches fire.” “Non-memorable.” I was sifting through reviews last weekend as the first step in my mission to re-discover the habit of moviegoing. With Barbenheimer finally behind us (well, almost), I decided to see three new movies on successive days – yes, buying tickets and going to theaters. But first come the critics: […]