Новости за 01.05.2024

The Television Academy Foundation has appointed veteran media and nonprofit executive Anne Vasquez as its executive director effective May 13. Her responsibilities will include overseeing daily operations and providing strategic leadership of its programs and fundraising to fulfill the charitable organization’s mission to identify, advance and empower future television leaders while honoring television’s legacy, according […]

Embattled producer Dan Schneider is fighting back against Quiet on Set, Investigation Discovery’s explosive limited series that promised to delve into the toxic and dangerous culture behind some of the most iconic kids’ television shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the lawsuit accuses Warner Bros, […]

Telemundo has another month as the top Spanish-language broadcast network under its belt. The network continues to take over primetime, averaging 1.2M total viewers each day from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in April. That marks the second consecutive month that Telemundo has beat its competition, including Univision — a first for the broadcaster. In […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Freevee has put in development a medical drama series from Adam Sussman (12 Monkeys) and Mark Perez (Game Night). Co-written and executive produced by Sussman and Perez, the Untitled Alternative Medical Drama is a medical procedural following doctors that utilize non-traditional approaches to solve unique cases. Bill McGoldrick also executive produces with Sussman […]

Duane Eddy, the twangy, Grammy-winning rock guitarist who had Top 10 instrumental hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and scored with a version of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn,” died Wednesday in Franklin, TN, The Arizona Republic reported. He had turned 86 last week. Eddy, who influenced generations of guitar legends including […]

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering […]

EXCLUSIVE: Untouchables Entertainment, in association with genre website iHorror, is in production on Mickey vs. Winnie. Glenn Douglas Packard, an Emmy nominated choreographer turned filmmaker (Pitchfork), is attached to direct from his original script.  The latest entry in the lineup of interpretations of children’s figures. Mickey vs. Winnie takes the now-public-domain characters from A. A. […]

The Native American Media Alliance announced they are accepting applications for the Seventh Annual Native American Feature Film Writers Lab. This is a 10-week program that will take place on-line from July through October 2024. The Native American Feature Film Writers Lab addresses an ongoing need in the entertainment industry. According to the Writers Guild […]

Andy Cohen is reacting to the news that Vanderpump Rules is taking an extended hiatus and not going into production this summer as it had done over the past decade. Although Cohen is not a producer of the Bravo reality series, he is the face of the network, being the host of Watch What Happens […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser’s hot streak continues. After seeing New Line lock up rights to the authorized Chris Farley biopic in which he’ll star for director Josh Gad, the actor has signed on to the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures. Hauser joins an ensemble that also includes Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, as […]

Walton Goggins and Timothy Olyphant starred in Justified for six seasons, but by the end of its FX run, the actors were not on the best of terms. Goggins first opened up about his fractured relationship with his co-star in Peter Biskind’s book Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV. In a new […]

The CW has set Monday, July 8 for the season 3 premiere of All American: Homecoming. Additionally, the mothership series All American confirmed it is adding two original episodes to the current sixth season, extending its run to 15 episodes. Season 6 will wrap with its season finale on Monday, July 15. All American: Homecoming […]

“We believe in this case, and we will be retrying this case,” prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape case told a judge today in the first hearing since the much-accused producer’s 2020 conviction was overturned last week. “It was a strong case in 2020 …and it remains a strong case in 2024.” Harvey Weinstein […]

The CW has switched three of its affiliation agreements to Nexstar-owned stations, including in Chicago, the No. 3 U.S. TV market. Affiliate deals in Chicago, Norfolk, VA (the No. 43 U.S. market) and Lafayette, LA (No. 125) will all shift as of September 1, the company announced. Nexstar’s ownership of the largest portfolio of CW […]

Chloe Fineman’s Dua Lipa impression probably isn’t quite ready for prime time yet, or even late night at this point. But she still has a few days to get there. In this week’s Saturday Night Live promo, SNL‘s Fineman greets host and musical guest Lipa with a workshop version of her latest impression. “That’s hilarious,” […]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has rounded out the cast of its untitled supernatural thriller from writer-director Ryan Coogler with the addition of three newcomers: yao, Miles Caton and Peter Dreimanis. As with all other roles, theirs are under wraps, as is the film’s plot. As previously announced, Michael B. Jordan leads the ensemble, which will also […]

As SAG-AFTRA and other artists’ groups sound the alarm over the proliferation of AI deepfakes, studios are warning that too sweeping a proposed solution would violate the First Amendment. The alternate views of a draft bill, called the No Fakes Act, were apparent in a Senate hearing on Tuesday, underscoring the thorny task at hand […]

Jessica Biel (The Sinner) and Elizabeth Banks (Call Jane) will exec produce and star in The Better Sister, a thriller based on the novel by Alafair Burke. In a competitive situation, the project has landed at Prime Video with a series order. It hails from Tomorrow Studios, which will co-produce with Amazon MGM Studios. Olivia […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pacesetter Productions, run by Black Mirror and Station Eleven exec producer Jessica Rhoades, is staffing up. The company has hired Alison Mo Massey, who previously ran Jim Parsons’ production company That’s Wonderful! Prods, which was based at Warner Bros. Television, as EVP. She joins a team that includes Bryan Daly, who was recently promoted […]

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Lanter (Jupiter’s Legacy) and newcomer Sophia Esperanza have joined Prime Video’s Motorheads cast in recurring roles, Deadline has learned exclusively. From writer/showrunner John A. Norris, Motorheads is about first love, first heartbreak, and turning the key in your very first car. Set in a once-thriving rust-belt town that’s now searching for a glimmer of […]

Former UTA Partner, Co-Head of Independent Film and Head of Motion Picture Business Affairs Jim Meenaghan has joined Stampede Ventures as Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel, founder and CEO Greg Silverman announced on Wednesday. In the newly formed COO position, Meenaghan will oversee the studio’s day-to-day operations across all verticals, spearhead efforts to expand […]

Shogun director Jonathan van Tulleken will lead a TV adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s debut novel, The Loney. In a competitive situation, New Regency Television International acquired rights to the book and has attached van Tulleken, who will direct and executive-produce the initial episodes of the upcoming Blade Runner 2099. Van Tulleken will work with New […]

Barry Jenkins is defending himself over criticism for helming the Disney prequel Mufasa: The Lion King. After the trailer for The Lion King prequel dropped, fans of the Moonlight director took shots at him over his involvement with the film. One social media user on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said […]

EXCLUSIVE: Timbaland is getting into graphic novels and television. The music producer behind Justin Timberlake’s Cry Me A River and Missy Elliott’s Supa Dupa Fly is getting involved in Neon Empire. Neon Empire, which was created by Jared Gutstadt, founder and CEO of podcast company Audio Up Media, is being released as a graphic novel […]

SAG-AFTRA members have nearly unanimously approved the union’s new Sound Recordings Code. The deal, which runs through 2026, received 97.69% yes votes. The major record labels covered by the agreement include Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Disney Music Group, as well as most of their subsidiary labels. Among the provisions […]