Global entertainment and media advertising is projected to top $1 trillion in 2026 and, by 2028, will double where it was in 2020. Growth will be fueled by an explosion in Internet advertising, which looks set to generate 77% of total ad spend in five years, and about 30% of streaming revenue, according to giant […]
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation have set Six musical co-creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss as the songwriters for the new animated musical Bad Fairies. Grammy nominated composer Isabella Summers (aka The Machine of Florence & The Machine) is penning the score and producing the songs. The studio has set a theatrical release […]
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to The Problem with People, a comedy co-written, produced by and starring Paul Reiser (Stranger Things). Also starring Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Jane Levy (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) and Lucianne McEvoy (Red Eye), the film will be released in theaters on October 4th. World premiering […]
UPDATE, July 16: Whoopi Goldberg was back in her moderator’s seat at The View today, returning after she missed last Thursday’s and Monday’s episodes after testing positive for Covid. Goldberg, who had her usual Friday off last week, made no mention today of her latest bout with the coronavirus, thought to be her fourth go-round […]
Fresh off its stellar box office for Osgood Perkins horror Longlegs, Neon has acquired worldwide rights to the upcoming documentary-found footage crossover Shelby Oaks, written and directed by filmmaker and YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann. Stuckmann’s debut film will have its world premiere at Fantasia Festival on Saturday. Launched from a 2022 Kickstarter campaign which raised $1.39M […]
EXCLUSIVE: Descendants: The Rise of Red broke a record in its debut on Disney+. With 6.7M views in its first three days of streaming, the film is now Disney Branded Television’s most-viewed DCOM premiere ever on the streamer, according to Disney. This is a fairly big number for any Disney+ release, though it’s difficult to […]
Paramount Global is expanding its existing partnership with Ice Cube and his production company Cube Vision. Under the first look deal for television, Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz, COO of Cube Vision and Cube’s producing partner, will develop and executive produce projects for broadcast, cable and streaming platforms across Paramount. Up first: a new untitled scripted project in development […]
Colin Firth has boarded Young Sherlock, Prime Video’s new series from Guy Ritchie, which tells the origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective. He joins previously cast Hero Fiennes, Zine Tseng, Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone. Written by Matthew Parkhill inspired by Andy Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes book series, the show re-imagines Sherlock […]
EXCLUSIVE: M3GAN 2.0 is in production as it heads for a June 27, 2025 theatrical release with Timm Sharp, Aristotle Athari and Jemaine Clement boarding the Blumhouse, Atomic Monster and Divide/Conquer sequel. Also returning from the original 2023 $181M global grossing movie is Brian Jordan Alvarez as Cole and Jen Van Epps as Tess. Gerard Johnstone, as […]
All future Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals will be policed by a member of production staff following a duo of high-profile complaints that has seen two dancers exit the show. The BBC and producer BBC Studios are bringing in new measures to avoid a repeat of the complaints, with two dedicated welfare producers also set to […]
Love Island producer Lifted Entertainment is making layoffs. We are told that between 15 and 20 roles at the ITV Studios-owned production outfit are at risk of redundancy and a consultation has started. The number represents around 10% of the circa-160-staff Lifted Entertainment operation. Run by Richard Cowles, Lifted also produces ITV juggernauts like Saturday […]
BET Media Group has launched two Tyler Perry FAST (free, ad-supported television) channels for comedy and drama series. Back-to-back episodes of BET original Tyler Perry series on BET Tyler Perry Comedy and BET Tyler Perry Drama FAST channels are now available for the first time, featuring over 600 hours of primetime programming, best of highlights […]
Rebel Wilson’s The Deb will close the Toronto Film Festival on September 15 after all. This is after the actress claimed on social media that the pic’s EPs blocked her feature directorial debut from making its world premiere as the closing-night title at TIFF. Meanwhile, David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers with Ben Stiller is set to […]
“Now I am ready to become a god,” says Anthony Hopkins as the Emperor Vespasian in the Roland Emmerich directed Those About to Die. Of course, as ruler of Rome in the year 79 CE, the victor of the infamous Year of the Four Emperors was for all practical purposes a god on Earth. Which […]
Get ready to straighten that Stetson and bolo, in about 10 months. We have a date for the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards. The 60th anniversary ceremony is set for Thursday, May 8, from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas — the Dallas Cowboys’ world HQ — for a third straight year. […]
The 20th anniversary New York Comedy Festival this November will feature more than 200 comedians in more than 100 shows throughout the city, with a roster of headliners including Judd Apatow, Dave Attell, Bill Maher, Tracy Morgan, JB Smoove and Jaboukie Young-White, among others. With performances at venues throughout the city’s five boroughs, the festival […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton star Harriet Cains and Jojo Rabbit actor Luke Brandon Field are aboard to star in 1979-set horror film Video Killed The Radio Star. The film follows a pirate radio DJ (Field) who accidentally unleashes a demonic force during his broadcast, turning the station into a battleground for humanity. As the supernatural threat spreads […]
Joe Scarborough, the namesake host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, addressed the network’s decision to pull Monday’s show from the air an instead run an NBC News/NBC News Now newsfeed that covered the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump. “We were told, in no uncertain terms on Sunday evening, that there […]
London’s Elizabeth Bay Productions (EBP) has struck deals with Atlanta-based finance platform FilmHedge and UK sales company WestEnd Films. The deal with FilmHedge will see the latter financing a slate of TV and film projects, with FilmHedge COO Chandler Heinz Laun managing the relationship with Dennis Davidson’s EBP. Laun will oversee the creative package and […]
Imax has struck a deal with Muvi Cinemas, Saudi Arabia’s biggest exhibitor, to open four new Imax With Laser locations (it’s most advanced) at some of the biggest commercial centers in the country including two in Riyadh, the capital and most populous city, and and one in Jeddah’s Mall of Arabia. Another location will be the first […]
Redwood, the new musical starring Idina Menzel in her return to Broadway, will begin performances January 24, 2025, at the Nederlander Hotel, with opening night set for February 13. The dates and venue for the previously announced production were revealed today by producers Eva Price, Caroline Kaplan and Loudmouth Media. Written and directed by Tina […]
Jack Black has cancelled his latest Tenacious D tour and said that “all future creative plans” for the duo are on hold, following his partner Kyle Gass’ controversial on stage ‘joke’ about the weekend’s assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Actor, comedian and singer Black said today: “I was blindsided by what was said at the […]
Streaming viewership accounted for a record 40.3% of TV usage in June, according to Nielsen’s latest edition of The Gauge, beating the previous single category record previously set by cable. It’s the highest share of TV that The Gauge has ever reported. Nielsen reports that four streaming services grew their usage by double-digits in June […]
EXCLUSIVE: Alongside prepping to shoot his next feature, veteran filmmaker Abel Ferrara is working on a book, he tells Deadline. Entitled Scene, Ferrara doesn’t categorize it exactly as a memoir, saying, “I’m trying to focus it more on the people that I’ve met and all the crazy sh*t in this business and around this business, […]
Elon Musk appears to have denied a report that he will donate around $45M a month to a pro-Donald Trump super-PAC — calling it “fake gnus”. The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk had told friends he would contribute to America PAC, while The New York Times reported the group would “likely to draw significant […]