Louisette Geiss, Howard Kagan, Susan Stroman and Diane Warren talk exclusively with Deadline’s Greg Evans about how they came together to create ‘The Right Girl,’ a Main Stem-bound musical inspired by the real-life Hollywood villains and heroes of the movement, and where it all goes now that the pandemic has devastated live theater.
Dave Chappelle had made it clear that he did not approve of ViacomCBS licensing his Comedy Central series, Chappelle’s Show, without paying him a dime. The comedian spoke about it during his recent Saturday Night Live monologue, and now he has done something about it.
In a video, titled Unforgiven, which was posted on…
EXCLUSIVE: With all the tentpole release date changes, it’s been quite an erratic time for studios and their promotional marketing and merchandising partners during the pandemic. This has created supply chain issues whereby those goods attached to a movie have been triggered to go sooner than expected, i.e. Warner…
ABC’s Dancing With The Stars ended its 29th season Monday night delivering a 0.9 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.08 million viewers. Although it ticked down from the dancing competition’s Season 28 finale, it ticked up in the demo from last week to win Monday in primetime alongside The Voice and netted its…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which came close to the 30,000-point mark in January before COVID-19 ravaged most of the world, has surpassed the number today amid optimism for Joe Biden’s presidency.
The barrier was broken about an hour into the trading day. Just after noon ET, the Dow was up nearly 500 points at…
Former Nickelodeon and Universal Kids exec Amy Friedman has been named head of kids and family programming at Warner Bros on a full-time basis.
This comes three months after she was brought in to the company on an interim basis by new President of Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics Tom Ascheim.
In the new role…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set an end date for The Expanse. The popular sci-fi drama has received an early renewal for Season 6, which will be its last. Not returning for the final season is original cast member Cas Anvar, who faced a slew of sexual misconduct allegations during the summer. The rest of the cast…
EXCLUSIVE: Studio71, the Red Arrow Studios-owned company behind Maya Erskine comedy Plus One, is developing a TV series with Michael Younesi, director of Netflix series Project Mc2.
Younesi has created and writtenLost Island, an adventure mystery series.
Inspired by Tiki culture and folklore from the South Pacific…
Nominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards are set to be revealed Tuesday beginning at noon ET/9 a.m. PT in a livestream by awards organizer the Recording Academy. Chair and interim Recording Academy president and CEO Harvey Mason Jr. will oversee the announcement of noms in the biggest of 84 total categories.
The…
The International Documentary Association has announced the nominees for its 36th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, and a certain streaming service dominates. Netflix scored a leading 18 noms for the 2020 IDAs, more than three times its nearest rival. PBS is second with five, followed by HBO (four).
The IDA also said…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix users can look forward to a lot more koala antics as the streaming platform greenlights a second season of Izzy’s Koala World.
The animal series, created by The Dodo and produced in association with Nomadica Films, spotlights Magnetic Island resident Izzy Bee, an 11-year old self-proclaimed “koala…
HBO Max has revealed first-look images and a new slate of guest stars set to appear in the upcoming Season 4 of Search Party.
Search Party, which is set to return in January, has enlisted Susan Sarandon, Busy Philipps, Ann Dowd, Griffin Dunne and Lillias White as guest stars for the new season. Goosebumps author R.L…
Taylor Swift will perform her new album folklore in its entirety in a new Disney+ special this month, she announced today.
folklore: the long pond studio sessions will feature Swift, along with co-producers Aaron Dessner (The National) and Jack Antonoff (Bleachers) – and a guest appearance by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)…
