Four New York film production veterans, spanning the perspectives of unions, vendors and city government, agreed that the looming IATSE strike threat will restrict shoots this year before a rebound in 2025. Tommy O’Donnell, President of Theatrical Teamsters Local 817, which represents workers in transportation, casting, and locations for film, TV and Broadway, sees signs […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Vampire Diaries alum Matthew Davis and Alexander Hodge (Insecure) have been tapped as series regulars opposite Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb and Ben Rappaport in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club — including Birdie (Fumero), […]
Sasquatch Sunset directors Nathan and David Zellner (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) always wondered what these hairy giants do when they’re not walking – the only Bigfoot footage available has been a minute of a supposed Sasquatch wandering in the northern California woods. They decided to flesh that out in unique dialogue-free comedic imagining of the […]
EXCLUSIVE: First in a series on broadcast network series renewals. NBC is well ahead of the game this season on the renewal-decision front, handing early pickups to freshman dramas Found and The Irrational as well as One Chicago, Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU while canceling Quantum Leap, La Brea and Magnum PI. That leaves […]
It has only been one month since the 96th Academy Awards ended, but this week it looks like the race for the 97th has (un)officially begun. Say what??? Even though Emmy season is in full force (Deadline’s 2-day Contenders Television live-and-streamed event takes place this weekend), it’s never too early to start a new Oscar […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season ahead of the show’s Season 3 premiere which is slated for 2025 and currently in production. Additionally, the previously announced fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will serve as its final. New episodes of the final season, currently in production, will arrive […]
Doctor Who has cast Varada Sethu (Andor) for Season 2 as the Doctor’s new companion, alongside current companion Ruby Sunday. The series is currently in production and slated to debut in 2025 on Disney+ and the BBC in the UK. “I feel like the luckiest person in the world,” shared Sethu in a statement. “It […]
Robert MacNeil, the veteran PBS newsman who co-founded and co-hosted the long-running PBS NewsHour and MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Jim Lehrer, died today of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He was 93. His death was announced by PBS NewsHour broadcaster Judy Woodruff, and confirmed to the Associated Press by his daughter […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fox is doubling down on its commitment to Rescue: HI-Surf, picking up seven additional episodes of the Hawaii-set lifeguard drama from Warner Bros. Television, Fox Entertainment and John Wells Productions. The back order brings Rescue HI-Surf‘s first season, which will air in 2024-25, to 19 episodes. The network has been high on the project […]
EXCLUSIVE: Justin Lin has come aboard to direct Stakehorse for Amazon MGM Studios from a script penned by Justin Piasecki. Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Alex Young will produce, with Lin producing through his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner and Piasecki executive producing. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is being described […]
EXCLUSIVE: There’s a new student joining the ranks at Essex College. Mia Rodgers has been added to the cast of Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. She will play Taylor, a first-year international student studying at Essex College. She joins other series regulars Pauline Chalamet, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Amrit Kaur, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Paulino, […]
The Talk is coming to an end: CBS revealed today that its daytime talk show has been picked up for a 15th and final season and will wrap its run in December. “The Talk broke new ground when it launched 14 years ago by returning daytime talk to CBS with a refreshing and award-winning format,” […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Hate You Give and Fences actor Russell Hornsby is joining Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Woman in the Yard at Blumhouse/Universal. Previously announced cast for the story under wraps genre movie is Danielle Deadwyler and Okwui Okpokwasili. Hornsby’s previous feature credits include Creed II, Get Rich or Die Trying, the Sundance Grand Jury Award nominated […]
There was little love for the divorcing Golden Bachelor couple on The View today, as the cohosts on ABC’s daytime talker took aim at ABC’s romance-for-seniors reality show. “For six months you tortured me every Friday and made me talk about this topic, which I can’t stand because I think it’s manufactured and a complete […]
IATSE is in the home stretch of its local-specific negotiations with the studios. As of Friday, Local 728 — which represents studio electrical lighting technicians — has reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on craft-specific proposals. This is the 10th of 13 west coast studio locals to reach […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off a second Oscar win for her performance in Poor Things, Emma Stone is starting to put together her future slate. She is now in talks for an untitled film at Universal Pictures with Dave McCary, her husband, in talks to direct. Patrick Kang and Michael Levin, supervising producers of NBC and UTV’s Young […]
EXCLUSIVE: After bringing back CSI: Crime Scene Investigation with CSI: Vegas, CBS is looking to revive another Jerry Bruckheimer Television-produced crime procedural from the 2000s. The network is in negotiations with Warner Bros. TV for a reboot of Cold Case, which aired on CBS for seven seasons from 2003-2010, Deadline has learned. The followup comes […]
Apple Studios and MACRO Television Studios have added three new actors to Government Cheese, the upcoming Apple TV+ dramedy with David Oyelowo starring in the lead role as well as serving as executive producer through his company Yoruba Saxon. Created by Paul Hunter and Aeysha Carr, Government Cheese follows Hampton Chambers (Oyelowo), a man recently released from prison who […]
In Challengers, Luca Guadagnino serves up a film that is as much about the volleys of human emotion as it is about the physical rallies on the tennis court. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist and penned by Justin Kuritzkes, the film explores the complexities of love, friendship and competition through the lens of […]
Now here is a package coming together that is sure to set the town and market on fire. Deadline is hearing that a script based on The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts is being shopped with Paul Walter Hauser attached to play the iconic late comic and actor. Josh Gad will direct […]
On the heels of its premiere to critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film Kneecap on the Irish rap trio of the same name has been slated for release by Sony Pictures Classics in theaters nationwide on August 2, when it will open against Columbia Pictures’ family film Harold and the Purple […]
A24’s Alex Garland political thriller, Civil War, is off to a solid start with $2.9M in Thursday previews at 2,931 locations, the movie on its way to $20M+ opening. That is the best ever in previews for an A24 movie, more than double Hereditary ($1.3M). Nobody, rivals nor A24 are complaining about that for what […]
EXCLUSIVE: ATX TV Festival has announced the finalists for this year’s Pitch Competition. Here they are in alphabetical order: Clue Castle by Nell Kessler, (Diplo)rable by Shatha Yas, Golden by Darren Bluestone, Good Grief by Zavior Phillips, Live From New York by Carolyn Getches and Hilary C. Gish, Mourning Wood by Garrett Williams, Oakdale Country […]
Scoop, the Netflix film chronicling Prince Andrew’s humbling interview on the BBC, has enjoyed a relatively regal reception from British audiences. Based on a book of the same name by Sam McAlister, the woman who played a central role in securing access to the Duke of York, the feature was watched by 2.75M viewers in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has picked up The Killing Kind, the thriller series adapted from the Jane Casey bestseller. Sony-backed prodco Eleventh Hour Films made the show and Sony Pictures Television is across international sales and inked the Hulu deal. The six-hour series will bow in the U.S. on May 14. The Killing Kind was originally a […]