Новости за 12.05.2024

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has sold to key independent buyers in Europe’s top five territories, we can reveal. Ahead of its anticipated world premiere at this week’s Cannes Film Festival the movie has sold to Constantin Film for Germany and all German-speaking territories, including Switzerland and Austria; Eagle Pictures for Italy; Tripictures for Spain; […]

After 13 years away from the smash-hit British sci-fi series Doctor Who, showrunner and executive producer Russell T. Davies is back and ready to (slightly) reintroduce the Doctor in a way that’s a bit more nuanced and bolder than ever before. This time around, in the series’ 14th season, the Doctor is played by Ncuti […]

Fresh from winning her BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, Top Boy star Jasmine Jobson said she is not done with playing Jaq Lawrence. Speaking at the winners’ press conference, Jaq told Deadline that she wanted to be part of a Top Boy spin-off series featuring her character. “Netflix haven’t come to me. All […]

The traditional pilot process may be dying out but that’s not stopping the glitz and glamor of the TV Upfronts in New York. Traditionally, broadcast networks would be scrambling to make dozens of last minute decisions on a crop of new shows as well as heavily negotiated renewals as we head into the week of […]

Looking at the crop of new scripted series selected by the broadcast networks for 2024-25, one cannot help but reminisce about the 20th anniversary of what may have been broadcast television’s greatest season ever. The 2004-05 season introduced several genre-defying series — all but one based on original ideas — whose impact on TV storytelling […]

Happy Valley‘s Sarah Lancashire today took home the BAFTA TV Award for Leading Actress for the second time. She beat the likes of Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us), Sharon Horgan (Best Interests) and Helena Bonham Carter (Nolly) to bag the final award of the evening. The award is Lancashire’s third BAFTA TV Award, coming […]

EXCLUSIVE: A petition calling for Dominique Boutonnat — the President of France’s cinema board — to be dismissed is rapidly circulating among French industry professionals and has clocked over 500 signatures in its first few hours of publication.  The petition was launched by an anonymous group of activists Sunday afternoon who have said they belong […]

Timothy Spall has won the BAFTA TV Award for Leading Actor this evening, beating out top-name competition. Spall emerged as the winner ahead of Brian Cox for Succession, Dominic West for The Crown, Kane Robinson for Top Boy, Papa Essiedu for The Lazarus Project and Steve Coogan for The Reckoning. Lashana Lynch presented the British […]

Netflix drama Top Boy has beaten off competition from Apple TV+’s Slow Horses to win Best Drama Series at the BAFTA TV Awards. Also competing in the category were the BBC’s Happy Valley and The Gold, but Top Boy walked away with its second award of the night. Earlier in the evening, Jasmine Jobson walked […]

Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday saw dozens walk out in protest of guest speaker Jerry Seinfeld, who has been a big supporter of Israel during the conflict in Gaza. A group of students left their seats when Seinfeld began, with at least one carrying a Palestinian flag. The remaining crowd cheered for Seinfeld, chanting, […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant has reacted to news that the show is coming back in the U.S., joking that it could all be based on Zoom following the pandemic. Merchant was the creative force behind the UK Office alongside Ricky Gervais and will be an executive producer on the untitled new Peacock series […]

Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw Then TV Glow is looking at an estimated $195k+ on 21 screens, a great week-two expansion for the A24 film. The number is driven by a passionate fan base for the gender-bending supernatural thriller that’s been skewing very young, male and heavily LGBTQ+.  Will continue a rollout in coming weeks. It’s […]

Susan Backlinie, whose gruesome death in Jaws scared millions from swimming in the ocean, died Saturday at 77 in her home in Ventura, CA. Her death was confirmed by Matthew Templeton, the agent who handled her convention bookings. No cause has been determined. Backlinie’s first film role arrived in 1975. She played Chrissie Watkins in […]

OMG! That was the near-universal reaction among Taylor Swift fans to a picture circulating on social media of what appears to be a baby laying on the floor of the Paris venue where Swift was performing. Twitter user @jacnights13 shared a photo of a baby appearing to be asleep on a purple coat in the standing room […]

Squid Game — The Challenge has won the Reality category at the BAFTA TV Awards. The UK-produced Netflix show beat off competition from shows such as Banged Up and Married At First Sight. A competition version of Korean drama Squid Game, it pitted 456 payers against each other in a big to win a massive […]

EXCLUSIVE: An unlikely dream contestant has emerged for The Traitors: Liz Truss. Stephen Lambert, executive producer of the hit BBC reality series, said the former UK prime minister would be a perfect candidate for the show. A celebrity version is all but confirmed for 2025 and Deadline asked Lambert and Tim Harcourt, Studio Lambert’s chief […]

Matthew Macfadyen has won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Succession. The star, who plays the scheming executive Tom Wambsgams in Jesse Armstrong’s HBO drama, has twice before the award, once for Succession in 2022 and also for Criminal Justice in 2010. He beat off competition from the likes […]

Jasmine Jobson has won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Netflix drama Top Boy. She beat off competition from Elizabeth Debicki and Lesley Manville for theirer role in The Crown. The award was the first dished out at this year’s event and continues the rise of Jobson, whose role […]

Reboots, as the past few years have shown, are beloved by the TV business. This week’s makeover centers on the upfronts, a decades-old industry ritual revitalized by a new push into streaming ads. Fabled New York venues like Radio City Musical Hall and Lincoln Center will once again play host, and a conga line of […]

The BAFTA TV Awards are taking place today (May 12) at the Royal Festival Hall on a hot early evening here in London, with the likes of Succession, Black Mirror and The Crown will be battling it out for gongs. The Crown, whose final season launched at the end of 2024, is leading the way […]

The Hollywood filmmaking community remembered Roger Corman today as a man who had a “can-do” attitude about making movies. Along the way, he touched many lives, blazing a path for newcomers to enter the business and others to keep the lights on through his relentless drive to produce films. Amid that hustle, he was remembered […]

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is set to star with Tom Hardy in 77 Blackout, a crime thriller set on the night when the city that never sleeps lost power and plunged into chaos and lawlessness. Cary Joji Fukunaga is directing. Fresh from the Oppenheimer Best Picture Oscar, Charles Roven is producing along with […]

EXCLUSIVE: First came Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Shark. Now meet Cocaine Werewolf. Ireland’s Tarf Media has secured worldwide sales rights (excluding North America) to the indie comedy-horror film, which is written by Ford Austin and Tyger Torrez. Mark Polonia, who directed Cocaine Shark, is directing. David Sterling and Tim Yasui are producing for Cleopatra Entertainment. […]

UPDATED May 11: The recipients in the remaining 18 of this year’s 33 categories at the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced May 11 at a New York ceremny hosted by Ross Matthews. They included ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’, ‘The Last Of Us, ‘Heartstopper, The Jennifer Hudson Show, Rustin and Las Culturistas. Jennifer […]

Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment leaned into the brain worm that U.S. presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said got into his head. Sarah Sherman had the honors of dressing up as a worm and took a jab at Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval, who became known as “the worm with a mustache” after […]