Новости за 04.04.2024

Lou Taylor Pucci, star of Apple TV+’s Rose Byrne series Physical, has landed a role on Marvel Studios’/Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again series. The part is under wraps. The new installment, a continuation of the Marvel/Netflix series, but on Disney+, sees Charlie Cox reprising the title role as the blind attorney Matt Murdock-turned crimefighting vigilante. Vince […]

EXCLUSIVE: Desean Terry (The Morning Show) and Nikkole Salter (playwright, In The Continuum) are partnering to adapt and executive produce Salter’s acclaimed play Lines in the Dust into a feature film under Terry’s Think Switch Entertainment banner. Terry is also set to direct the feature. Loosely inspired by real-life cases, Lines in the Dust shines […]

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon is revisiting one of the signature titles in her acting resume, taking it to a new medium. Witherspoon and her Hello Sunshine company are behind Legally Blonde spinoff TV series inspired by the popular film franchise that are in development at Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell Deadline. One offshoot, which is further […]

EXCLUSIVE: In what shapes up with the potential to be a big one, The Dish hears that this is about Avengelyne — an angel who fights the forces of evil — with Olivia Wilde directing, based on the signature comic book creation by Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld. Aboard to produce is LuckyChap, the shingle Margot […]

Deborah McBride, a veteran A+E Networks corporate communications executive who previously worked at Turner Broadcasting System, has died after a short battle with brain cancer. A+E confirmed the news to employees in recent days. McBride was 45. She is survived by her husband, Brendan, and their children, Elyse, Sean and Margot. After joining A+E in […]

Love Is Blind held onto its reign atop Nielsen’s streaming charts for the first full week in March. From March 4 to 10, the series racked up 1.5B minutes viewed. That’s thanks to the Season 6 reunion episode released on March 6, which Nielsen says tallied a more than a third of that viewing. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, and producer Jessica M. Thompson has signed with Verve for representation. She directed the Screen Gems vampire movie The Invitation, which was made for $10M, grossed $38M worldwide and was profitable for Sony. That pic starred Nathalie Emmanuel and Thomas Doherty, and debuted at #1 at the box office in late August 2022 and […]

No Labels, a group that sought to obtain ballot access across all 50 states to run a so-called third party “unity ticket” in 2024, said that they would “stand down” this cycle after failing to recruit candidates. “Americans remain more open to an independent presidential run, and hungrier for unifying national leadership, that ever before,” […]

Avatar: The Last Airbender is making a showrunner change. Albert Kim, who served as showrunner and wrote the pilot for Netflix’s hit live-action adaptation anime adaptation, is moving on with Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani taking over showrunner duties for seasons two and three. Kim shepherded the show for nearly two and a half years […]

It had all the elements of a good action movie – jeopardy, revenge, a mega budget – with even some casualties thrown in (albeit corporate). The Bob Iger vs Nelson Peltz (who?) war is over now and Iger has won. But some filmmakers and ticket buyers might wonder: Did any of it matter? Would a […]

My guest this week is Karen Pittman. She’s hit the headlines lately for her reported departure from the Max show And Just Like That…, and in this episode of 20 Questions on Deadline she explains why she won’t be back for Season 3. Leaving the show was, Pittman said, purely due to a scheduling issue […]

EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films will release Glenn Holsten’s documentary Jamie Wyeth and The Unflinching Eye at the Quad Cinema on April 26 followed by additional cities, including the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Mr. Wyeth will host a Q&A the evening of April 27th, along with the director, the acclaimed writer Lea Carpenter. The film will […]

Vice Television is going through a shuffle at the top, with head exec Morgan Hertzan set to exit next week and Pete Gaffney replacing him on an interim basis. The move was just announced internally by Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon in a memo to employees. (Read it in full below, along with Hertzan’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal worth $500,000 against $1.5 million, Legendary Entertainment has optioned Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario as a potential reteam with its Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve. The expectation is that Villeneuve would take this one as another giant project after he completes Dune: Messiah, which […]

Halle Bailey (The Color Purple) has been tapped to star alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr. and The Holdovers Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph in Universal Pictures’ untitled coming-of-age pic from director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and producer Pharrell Williams (Hidden Figures), Deadline has learned. Details as to Bailey’s role are under wraps. […]

The NFL Network is making some on-air talent cuts, and among those leaving are Melissa Stark, Andrew Siciliano, Will Selva, and James Palmer. “As is normal course of business this time of year, we are evaluating our talent roster for the upcoming 2024 season and beyond,” NFLN said in a statement to Deadline. “That process […]

President Joe Biden told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an immediate ceasefire was needed in Gaza “to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians,” the White House said today. The president urged Netanyahu to “empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home.” Negotiations for a […]

Netflix has revealed the cast of Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black, a new series coming to the streamer that’s the result of a previously announced creative partnership. The pact calls for Perry will write, direct, and produce feature films and series under a multi-year first-look deal.  Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black follows two women leading very different […]

EXCLUSIVE: Six and a half years after The Mindy Project ended its Hulu run, Mindy Kaling is back at the streamer with a new single-camera comedy, Murray Hill. The project, from Warner Bros. TV, where Kaling is under an overall deal, was taken out at the beginning of the year. In a tough marketplace, the […]

Showrunner, writer and creator Dara Resnik has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation. Resnik most recently exec produced and served as showrunner for Amazon and Blumhouse Television’s The Horror of Dolores Roach, based on this hit Gimlet podcast of the same name. Prior to that, she co-created and showran Home Before Dark for Apple […]

Will Selva is exiting NFL Network after 11 years and will not continue on Good Morning Football as the show moves cross country to LA later this summer. In a social media post, Selva confirmed his time at NFLN was ending. “My incredible run at NFL Network has ended after more than a decade,” Selva […]

Universal Studio Group has found its new business affairs chief – three months after the departure of Masami Yamamoto. Former eOne exec Blossom Lefcourt has been hired as Global Head of Business Affairs. She was previously EVP, Global Business & Legal Affairs, Television and left in January. Lefcourt oversaw all overall and first-look deals, including […]

EXLCUSIVE: Sarah Chalke (Scrubs), Alan Tudyk (Resident Alien), Stephen Root (Barry), Isla Fisher (Wolf Like Me), Sabrina Elba (Three Thousand Years Of Longing) and Hiro Kanagawa (Star Trek: Discovery) are joining Kevin James and Alan Ritchson in action-comedy Playdate, which is now filming in Canada. The film follows a down-on-his luck man, Brian (James), who […]

Activist investor Nelson Peltz, reflecting on his losing proxy battle with Disney, says he will “watch and wait” to see if the company keeps its promises. If it doesn’t, he told CNBC in an interview Thursday, “you’ll see me again.” Asked by host Jim Cramer if reports were true that his firm, Trian Fund Management, […]

Patton Oswalt (We All Scream), Debra Wilson (MADtv), Phil LaMarr (MADtv) and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) round out the voice cast for Among Us, an animated series based on the highly popular game, from CBS Studios, Innersloth, and creator Owen Dennis (Infinity Train). They join previously announced Randall Park, Ashley Johnson, Yvette Nicole Brown, Elijah Wood, Dan Stevens, Liv Hewson and Kimiko Glenn. CBS Studios‘ animation arm Eye Animation Productions is […]