EXCLUSIVE: Tony Revolori has signed with Verve for represenation. Revolori made his breakthrough in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. He has since reunited with Wes Anderson in The French Dispatch and Asteroid City. He starred as Flash Thompson in Sony’s box office hit Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Jon Watts, and in the most recent […]
EXCLUSIVE: Audra McDonald (The Gilded Age), K. Todd Freeman (The Horror of Dolores Roach), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Richard Kind (Only Murders in the Building) and Ben Vereen (All That Jazz) have been set to topline The Auction, a new indie from writer-director William Atticus Parker. Described by the filmmaker as “a workplace drama with elements […]
Ryan Murphy and Kim Kardashian are having a very good week. Two days after it was announced that Halle Berry and Glen Close had joined the cast of the mega-producer and the reality star’s All’s Fair, today the California Film Commission announced the Hulu legal drama as one of the recipients of the state’s film […]
Pat Sajak, who retired in June as the longtime host of Wheel of Fortune, will be back for a final run as host of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which premieres October 7 on ABC. The news was revealed today in the network’s fall premiere dates announcement. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, along with Press Your Luck, […]
EXCLUSIVE: FOX’s anthology crime series Accused has added Taylor Schilling (Orange Is The New Black), Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy) and Danny Pino (Mayans M.C.) to its Season 2 cast. New episodes will drop this fall. They join the previously announced actors Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Nick Cannon and Michael Chiklis. The project reunites Pino […]
EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this year, Hulu revealed that it was making a big push into stand-up comedy, taking on the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. The Disney-backed streamer has now signed up another big name to its roster – Bill Burr. Burr’s next comedy special, which was taped in June at the Moore Theatre […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has greenlit the Johannes Roberts horror film, Primate, with Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur (CODA) set to lead the cast. Roberts will direct the Walter Hamada-produced feature which Roberts co-wrote with Ernest Riera. Plot details are being kept under wraps. The project falls under Hamada’s exclusive first-look deal with Paramount which began […]
The NBC comedy series Night Court has cast Wendie Malick as the new prosecutor Julianne Walters in Season 3, premiering in a new timeslot on Nov. 19 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. Well, Julianne is new to most but not to Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), her former love interest. She is described as “a reformed convict” […]
After garnering a Drama Desk Award nomination for her critically acclaimed one woman stage show Death, Let Me Do My Show, Rachel Bloom has announced that it’s being taped as a special for Netflix, to debut in early fall. Currently on the main stage of the Williamstown Theater Festival, running through July 14th, as a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kaelyn Hutchins has joined Neon Kite as a Talent Manager, Deadline has learned. Hutchins comes to the company after a little more than a year and a half at Strand Entertainment (formerly Silver Lining Entertainment), and will continue working with a number of her clients including Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Hot), Maya Lynne Robinson (The […]
Skydance CEO David Ellison said Tom Cruise of Paramount’s Mission Impossible and Top Gun franchises “is supportive of the planned merger and that the “outreach that we have received from the entertainment community has been pretty remarkable and humbling.” “I think there’s a great opportunity, the fact that we’ll have one of the first owned […]
Actor Michael Douglas, a longtime supporter of Joe Biden who hosted a Hollywood fundraiser for the president in April, said on The View today that he is “deeply, deeply concerned” about Biden’s prospects in light of the recent debate. Asked to comment on George Clooney’s New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside, […]
As it continues its mind-blowing trajectory, and with Tuesday’s receipts now included, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing Pixar movie of all time at the worldwide box office. On Tuesday, it passed Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($1.243B) to get to this latest milestone. The running global cume on Inside Out 2 through Tuesday is […]
A Baywatch docuseries is headed to Hulu. After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun, a four-episode docuseries that takes an inside look at Baywatch, “the cultural phenomenon that defined an era”, from ABC News Studios, will premiere Wednesday, August 28 on the platform. After Baywatch will feature new cast interviews as well as a never-aired interview […]
Alec Baldwin “violated …set safety rules,” declared the prosecution this morning in the Rust star’s involuntary manslaughter trial for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “After the shooting the defendant began to claim he did not pull the trigger,” said special prosecutor Erlinda Johnson in opening statements in Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer’s Sante Fe County […]
Deadline has confirmed that the Shawn Levy directed Star Wars movie we first told you about back in 2022, is being penned by Jonathan Tropper. The news comes as Levy is about to detonate the summer with his directed Marvel Studios feature Deadpool & Wolverine, which some tracking services have at a $200M opening and […]
True Crime News, the syndicated show from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Telepictures, has found its showrunner and exec producers. Albert Lewitinn has been named showrunner and exec producer with Jeremy Spiegel and Theresa Coffino joining as exec producers. This comes ahead of the show’s launch on September 9 as it has been cleared in […]
George Clooney, fresh off co-hosting a star-filled fundraiser for Joe Biden last month, is calling on Democrats to pick a new nominee and for the president to be a “hero” in stepping aside. Clooney cited concerns over Biden’s age, and compared the president’s appearance at the fundraiser, in which he did a sit down with […]
July in full swing sees top media executives and an impressive political cohort gathered at a storied mountain resort to hike, chat and whitewater raft. The elixir of relaxed proximity distilled in Sun Valley’s rustic woods is credited with hatching a number of consequential deals over the decades. But this year could one deal be […]
FX has slotted Tuesday, September 17 for the premiere of Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, the first installment in Murphy’s American Story franchise. The 10-episode limited series is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. from The Boston Globe and Wondery. It charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, […]
The Old Man has finally set a season 2 return date. The drama that stars Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow returns Thursday, September 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX with the first two episodes of the eight-episode season. All episodes will stream next day on Hulu. The series that first debuted in June of […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute on Wednesday announced the eight women set for the 2024 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellowship, a year-long program designed to support and sustain the creative practice of women artists, prioritizing filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities. The list includes Francesca Canepa, Artemis Fannin, Kristine Gerolaga, Sylvia Khoury, Jane Casey Modderno, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ is thundering into San Diego Comic-Con with its new animated series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all things Star Trek, and the upcoming Showtime series Dexter: Original Sin. In addition, the studio’s The Lodge is taking over the Gas Lamp district again with several fan experiences and activations for movies […]
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of Joe Biden’s key allies, underscored the continued uncertainty over his presidential bid as she told Morning Joe that it was up to him to decide “if he’s going to run.” But in the aftermath of his dismal debate performance, which raised new questions about his ability to serve […]
Alec Baldwin is finally standing trial for involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico nearly three years after the customized Colt .45 he held on the set of the indie Western Rust shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March. She was also charged with evidence tampering, […]