Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees on Saturday showcased 18 Oscar-nominated films and individuals hailing from 11 studios and streamers. A total of 45 stars and creatives participated in our first-ever post-noms film event. Click above to read about all of today’s panels, and check back Monday when we launch the video streaming site for the event.
Prince Harry has arrived safely in the UK for Prince Philip’s funeral and has released a touching tribute to his late grandfather. Below is the Duke of Sussex’s statement in full, released through his Archewell Foundation:
"My grandfather was a man of service, honour and great humour. He was authentically himself…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to well-received Holocaust documentary Love It Was Not, which will play at Hot Docs this month.
Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty's film charts the remarkable and harrowing true love story between a prisoner and a Nazi. Beautiful and full…
UPDATE: Georgia exit for Emancipation is now official. Said Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua: “At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice. We cannot in good conscience provide economic…
Calm, the Los Angeles based mental-health focused company and eponymous app, has hired Netflix's Monica Austin and TikTok's Greg Justice as VPs of marketing and content, respectively.
They will report to co-founders and CEOs Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew as Calm continues to invest in original and editorial…
Joseph Siravo, best known for his roles as Tony Soprano’s father in The Sopranos, Fred Goldman in American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson and stage musical Jersey Boys, has died aged 66, according to family.
Siravo passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer. The BBC quoted his daughter Allegra…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a biggie: House and The Night Manager star Hugh Laurie has signed up to write, direct, and executive produce an adaptation of Agatha Christie novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans? for BritBox in North America.
The three-part limited series represents the BBC Studios and ITV-owned streamer’s biggest U.S…
Fremantle has taken full control of Israeli producer Abot Hameiri, which makes the local versions of Got Talent and Survivor, as well as the Netflix drama series Shtisel.
Fremantle acquired 51% of Tel Aviv-based Abot Hameiri in 2016 and is now taking ownership of the remaining 49% of the company, which was founded in…
Leonine Confirms U.S. Date For Spy City
Leonine has confirmed that Odeon Fiction and Miramax's high-end spy thriller series Spy City has sold to AMC Networks and will launch on AMC+ in the United States on April 15, 2021. The six-part series from UK writer William Boyd was produced by Leonine Studios' production…
As the virtual MipTV gets underway today, we asked 10 television sales chiefs five simple questions about the state of the market after a pandemic-ravaged year. MipTV was one of the first major television events to pivot online during the coronavirus crisis’ first wave in 2020 and, since then, the distribution…
John Oliver kicked off tonight’s episode with a reminder that Prince Philip, the male heir to the British throne who died last week, is married to his own cousin.
“It’s true. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth are cousins who later got married – also known as a Giuliani meet-cute,” joked Oliver.
The host continued to…
The Guild of Music Supervisors held their 11th annual awards virtually today, celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of music supervision in film, television, documentary, games, advertising and trailers.
Quincy Jones received this year’s Icon Award while Maureen Crowe, the founding President of the Guild of…
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the series finale of Shameless tonight.
After 11 seasons, it was truly last call for Frank Gallagher tonight on the series finale of multiple SAG Awards winner Shameless.
Having apparently overdosed in the penultimate episode, the William H. Macy portrayed debauched…
