Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner, co-hosts of the Giggly Squad podcast, are embarking on a 28-city comedy tour later this year. The Summer House stars kick off their tour on Friday, September 6, in Charlotte, NC. They will then travel across the U.S. and end the tour on Saturday, December 7, in Windsor, Canada. Giggly […]
Drew Afualo and her Two Idiot Girls podcast co-host, Deison Afualo, are embarking on a summer comedy tour. The Loud Tour will travel across the U.S. and make stops in 21 cities, supporting her first book, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve. “We are coming to 21 cities, across the country (bc […]
Good Morning Football is making a brief return to the NFL Network to cover the NFL Draft this week. The network announced that the morning show will air on Thursday (April 25), Friday (April 26), and Saturday (April 27) at 7 a.m. ET. Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, Jason McCourty, Jane Slater and Tom Pelissero will […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic Media has signed New York-based documentary filmmaker Contessa Gayles for management across all media. Most recently, Gayles took to SXSW with her film Songs from the Hole, which garnered strong reviews and won the festival’s Visions Audience Award. Described as a documentary visual album, pic follows musician James “JJ’88” Jacobs as he writes […]
Kyle Boulia has joined The Office of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex as Deputy Press Secretary to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, and Director of Communications for Archewell in the U.S. The move follows his departure from UTA after 6 years in late March where he last served as Corporate Communications Manager. Additionally, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Emily Rios (Snowfall, Breaking Bad), Louis Ferreira (S.W.A.T., Breaking Bad), and Bonnie Root (Cruel Hearts, The Movie, Cold Case) will star in the new independent horror-thriller feature film, Don’t Let Them Out. Led by screenwriter Lila McLaughlin, who makes her directorial debut and penned the script, Don’t Let Them Out centers on a struggling […]
The 2024-25 film awards season continues to take shape as the Producers Guild of America reveals the date and timeline for its 36th annual PGA Awards. The 2025 ceremony is set for Saturday, February 8, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. See the full timeline below. Nominations for Theatrical Motion Pictures, Animated Motion […]
Aaron LaBerge, who helped oversee Disney’s expansion into streaming during two stints totaling 20 years, is exiting the company. On July 1, the exec will become Chief Technology Officer at Penn Entertainment, holding the same title he did at the end of his Disney run. Penn is largely known for its gaming operation. In 2023, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Succession director Lorene Scafaria is back at HBO to direct and executive produce the network’s half-hour comedy pilot starring, written and executive produced by Rachel Sennott. In the untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition and new relationships have changed them. Scafaria directed the Succession episodes “Too […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed some rules changes for the 97th Annual Academy Awards next year. Among them are putting the brakes on the Covid-era rule about drive-ins as qualifying commercial venues and swapping one of the six qualifying U.S. metropolitan areas. A number of tweaks approved by the Board […]
This year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will likely see an uptick in the celebrity quotient. The starpower could come as a function of the 2024 election year and a dinner lineup in which Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost will be the featured entertainer following President Joe Biden’s own standup act. POTUS […]
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has ordered a pilot for DINKs, an improvisational style multi-cam comedy starring and executive produced by real-life married couple June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer. Grace & Frankie creator Marta Kauffman is writer, executive producer and showrunner of the project, which is produced by her Okay Goodnight banner, Amazon MGM Studios […]
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Gadd’s critically acclaimed new hit Baby Reindeer will compete in the Limited Series categories for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, Deadline can confirm. The 7-episode show is a lightly fictionalized account of Gadd’s own experience with a stalker, who sent him more than 40,000 emails, as well as hundreds of tweets, letters and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has optioned the novel Transcendent Kingdom written by Yaa Gyasi to be developed by producer Yvonne Orji under her First Look Deal. The second novel by the Ghanaian-American author is told from the perspective of Gifty, a neuroscientist in training studying the behavior patterns in mice as it relates to depression […]
Campside Media, the podcast company behind the hit Chameleon franchise, is launching its first wholly owned original series. The Sister-backed firm is launching White Devil, the story of the shooting of Henry Jemmott, which made headlines in 2021. It comes after Campside had previously partnered with a range of podcast distributors and networks on previous […]
Academy Award nominee LaKeith Stanfield (The Book of Clarence) is in talks to star in and produce a feature adaptation of the hit neo-noir video game El Paso, Elsewhere, Deadline has learned. Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Pictures (Transformers, G.I. Joe franchises) and Colin Stark will also produce. The film will center on James Savage […]
EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Rita Ora, former NFL star Marshawn Lynch and Rogue Heroes star Jack O’Connell are set to join Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) in action-thriller He Bled Neon, which is an early Cannes market buzz title. This is the project we revealed last week from music video director Drew Kirsch, who came to prominence co-helming […]
Dusty Kay, a writer and Emmy-nominated producer whose credits include Entourage, Roseanne and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, died April 10 in Summerlin, Nevada, following a brief illness. He was 69. His death was announced today by his friend and collaborator Bill Nuss. A cause of death was not specified. Born Eugene L. […]
One of ITV’s longest-running drama series is coming to an end after 14 seasons. Brenda Blethyn-starring detective show Vera will finish at the end of the next season, its star announced today. The show produced by Silverprint Pictures will return for a 14th and final series in the form of two 120-minute episodes to be […]
EXCLUSIVE: Li Jun Li (Babylon) is the newest addition to the cast of Ryan Coogler’s untitled supernatural thriller, starring Michael B. Jordan, for Warner Bros. Details as to the film’s plot remain under wraps, as does her role in it. But as previously reported, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Omar Benson Miller, Jayme Lawson, Wunmi Mosaku […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Blackhouse Foundation has partnered with Starz #TakeTheLead on a new producers’ fellowship, continuing its legacy of championing accomplished Black female creators. Those selected to participate in its first year are Sue-Ellen Chitunya, Jessica L. Funches, Moira Griffin, Dahéli Hall, and Trevite Willis. Designed to support female-identifying, mid-career producers working in episodic, the fellowship’s […]
Kid Cudi had to cut his Coachella set short Sunday after he jumped off the stage and broke his foot. “Hey guys, so I broke my foot today at the show. just leaving the hospital. Never a broken bone before so this is all a bit crazy. I wanna thank u all for ur concerns […]
EXCLUSIVE: Garrett VanDusen has joined Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Corporation of America as Vice President of Physical Production, Deadline has learned. Boasting extensive experience with film budgets, tax incentives, logistical solutions, casting and establishing infrastructure, VanDusen has produced globally in such locations as Panama, the Maldives, Jamaica, and across North America for companies including Crown […]
The Cannes Film Festival has added 13 new titles to the selection for its 77 th edition, including new films by Oliver Stone, Lou Ye and Arnaud Desplechin as Special Screenings. Three more titles have been added to competition including Michel Hazanavicius’ animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes. Big budget French costume-adventure drama The […]
Taylor Swift is opening up about the inspiration behind several of her tracks on her 11th studio album Tortured Poets Department. In an Amazon Music commentary, Swift said the album’s opening song “Fortnight”, a team-up with Post Malone, “exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album, one of which being fatalism, […]