Broadway’s spring newcomers continued pulling in the city’s tastemakers, tourists and the merely curious last week, with overall box office down about 10% from the previous week but most new shows filling at least 90% of their seats. Topping the newcomers was Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee (full title of the revival: Cabaret […]
We’ll be seeing a new face in Season 2 of Netflix’s Wednesday. Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of the Jenna Ortega-led series in an undisclosed role, sources confirm to Deadline. The coming-of-age comedy is from Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar and directed/EPed by Tim Burton. Other EPs are Steve Stark (Toluca Pictures), Andrew Mittman […]
Two top Congressman want Bob Iger, David Zaslav and Lachlan Murdoch to provide some solid answers about Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Fox’s proposed sports streaming service. Putting their political feet on the gas, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) want a response by the end of the month, and they want […]
EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Qualley has pulled out of playing Amanda Knox in Hulu’s upcoming limited series for scheduling reasons. Qualley, two-time Emmy nominee for Netflix’s Maid and FX’s Fosse/Verdon, just saw her two upcoming movies, Kinds of Kindness and The Substance, both get selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Recently seen in Poor Things, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Noah Wyle (ER, The Librarians) has signed with Verve for representation. The actor, producer and director who has led multiple hit series to date, recently re-teamed with fellow ER alums John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill on another medical drama, The Pitt, which Wyle will star in and executive produce. The series, which has […]
3 Body Problem clocked another week atop Netflix’s TV charts — though it appears to have been a slow week for the streamer’s series. The drama series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, as well as Alexander Woo, clocked just 4.8M views in its third week at No. 1. Consider that […]
There may soon be a picket line on Sesame Street. Writers at the Sesame Workshop have voted unanimously to authorize a strike against the non-profit organization, the Writers Guild of American announced Tuesday. The guild says that there was 100% participation in the strike authorization vote from the 35-member bargaining unit. The writers are prepared […]
New York Mayor Eric Adams visited the scene outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse, where media outlets and reporters have stationed themselves as Donald Trump’s hush money trial takes place inside. “Our city is a fair city,” Adams said, in response to a question from CBS News’ Robert Costa on whether he was confident that Manhattan […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Freyer (Paint), Malik Elassal, Owen Thiele (Dollface), Amita Rao and Jack Innanen (The Dessert) have been cast as the leads of FX’s ensemble comedy pilot Snowflakes, written by former The Tonight Show scribes Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and to be directed by Jonathan Krisel (Baskets). Snowflakes is a twenty-something ensemble comedy following a group […]
EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has preemptively acquired an untitled erotic thriller pitch from Emily Siegel, Deadline can exclusively reveal. Chernin had no comment and the logline for the film is being kept under wraps. Siegel’s first feature script, the thriller Story, was named to the 2020 Black List. Most recently, she was enlisted to adapt the […]
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) has been tapped for a role in the newest film from Wes Anderson, Deadline can confirm. Details as to the plot of the untitled feature, as well as Ahmed’s role are under wraps. But this is the actor’s first project with Anderson, who is coming off his first Oscar win […]
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed comedian Matt Rife for representation in all areas, with an eye toward expanding his opportunities in film and TV and beyond. Currently on his “ProbleMATTic World Tour” — one of the largest comedy tours in over 20 years, which sold over 600,000 tickets in under 48 hours — Rife has recently […]
Financier and producer Participant is shuttering after 20 years. Founder Jeff Skoll alerted staff at 10:30 a.m. PT, Deadline has confirmed. The company’s m.o. was to bring content to the world that was socially conscious, read its Oscar Best Picture winners Spotlight from Open Road and Universal’s Green Book, as well as DreamWorks’ Oscar winner […]
EXCLUSIVE: The First Omen director and co-scribe Arkasha Stevenson and the pic’s screenwriter/EP Tim Smith have signed with WME for representation in all areas. The news comes in the wake of the 20th Century Studios’ prequel to the 1976 theatrical release grossing north of $35M at the global box office through its first ten days […]
Travis Kelce has officially become a game show host. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is to host Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity?, a spinoff of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, for Amazon’s Prime Video service. It comes after it emerged that the NFL star was in talks earlier this year. Kelce […]
Second in a series on broadcast network series renewals. This is a rarity — it’s still mid-April and ABC has already made decisions on all of its existing drama series. The popular Nathan Fillion cop series The Rookie was the last to get word yesterday with a Season 7 renewal after some intense negotiations with […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has set Justin Kuritzkes to adapt City on Fire, the first of a bestselling novel trilogy by Don Winslow that is being developed as a star vehicle for Austin Butler. Kuritzkes is hot off the Luca Guadanino-directed Zendaya-starrer Challengers, and Butler is producing along with David Heyman of Heyday Films and […]
Smartmatic has reached a settlement with One America News Network over claims that the news outlet amplified false claims that the voting systems company rigged the results of the 2020 election. “Smartmatic has resolved its litigation against OANN through a confidential settlement,” said attorney Eric Connolly, who is representing the voting company in the lawsuit. […]
The 2023-24 awards season finally wrapped with Sunday’s Writers Guild Awards, and the focus is turning to the next cycle. Enter the actors. The 2025 SAG Awards is set for Sunday, February 23, again streaming live on Netflix as part of a multiyear deal inked early last year. Nominations will be unmasked on Wednesday, January […]
EXCLUSIVE: Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) is set to executive produce and star in the newly greenlit Lifetime movie The Bad Orphan. Chloe Coco Chapman will make her television debut alongside Brandt and additional cast members Mark Taylor (Reacher) and Eve Edwards (The Good Doctor). From writer Doris Egan, the psychological drama centers […]
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor and producer Robbie Amell for representation in all areas. Most recently, Amell produced and was seen starring in the Netflix sci-fi actioner Code 8: Part II, which laid claim to the #1 spot globally for 10 days. Approaching the fourth and final season of his Prime Video series Upload from […]
EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Mahoney (The Old Guard 2) has been tapped to direct Amazon MGM’s rom-com Clean Air from Westbrook Studios, The Chainsmokers’ Kick The Habit Productions and NASCAR, on which we were first to report all the way back in 2021. Written by Alison Rose Greenberg, the film follows Lyla, an ambitious sports agent who […]
Carrie Robbins, whose more than 30 years as a Broadway costume designer saw her involvement in 1972’s Grease, for which she contributed the production’s signature poodle skirts, and the nuns’ habits of 1983’s Agnes of God, died following a brief illness with Covid on Friday, April 12, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She was […]
Belgian rapper and filmmaker Baloji and French film actress Emmanuelle Béart have been announced as co-presidents of the Cannes Film Festival’s Caméra d’Or jury for the upcoming 77th edition, running from May 14 to 25. The award for the best first film is open to all the debut feature films presented in Official Selection and […]
Once again, TV usage was down in March with broadcast TV receiving the smallest percentage among the primary viewing categories. Broadcast TV saw a 6% usage decline from February to March, accounting for just 22.5% of viewing. Year-over-year, broadcast viewing has fallen 4%, according to Nielsen’s monthly report, The Gauge. On a yearly basis, cable […]