The expanding outbreak is forcing release delays and theater closures, leading to the worldwide box office to weather a possible $4 billion loss through March. “The impact in 2020 from Corvid-19 on the motion picture business cannot be overstated,” a finance source tells Deadline.
Stocks took another major hit Thursday but clawed back some losses in crazy trading as a big investment bank predicted profit growth would be all but wiped out this year by the coronavirus and a report indicated the International Monetary Fund may downgrade its forecast for global growth.
Goldman Sachs chief U.S…
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Gems has rounded out the cast for its forthcoming supernatural horror, Shrine, as production currently underway in Massachusetts. Joining previously announced star Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be Katie Aselton (The Freebie, The League), William Sadler (Bill & Ted Face the Music, Power), Diogo Morgado (So…
Shameless co-star Shanola Hampton has been cast as the female lead in NBC’s comedy pilot Night School, based on the hit 2018 Universal movie. The project hails from Marlon co-creator Christopher Moynihan and the film's star-producer Kevin Hart, producer Will Packer and director Malcolm D. Lee.
Penned by Moynihan…
Actress Juliet Landau is ready for a mani and pedi as she is set to recur on the TNT series Clawsalongside Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, Judy Reyes, Karrueche Tran, Jenn Lyon, Kevin Rankin, Jason Antoon, Harold Perrineau and Dean Norris.
Best known for her role as Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff Ang…
NBC’s Chicago franchise featuring its latest crossover episodes ruled Wednesday in primetime viewership, with Chicago Medkicking things off with 8.53 million viewers and a boosted 1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. Chicago Fire (1.2, 8.56M) heated things up with a night-leading viewer total, and Chicago P.D…
Tyrone Marshall Brown (Love Is___) is set as a lead opposite Tate Donovan and Melissa Leo in the Fox pilot Blood Relative, a forensic genealogy-themed crime drama from writer-producer Chris Levinson and producer Liza Chasin, Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content, which will co-produce with Fox…
Just under a year after the feds snagged dozens of well-heeled parents in the college admissions scandal, Lori Loughlin and her husband were given a start date to the trial that could see the couple behind bars for decades if found guilty.
Despite an 11th hour attempt by their lawyers to have any trial date postponed…
Screen Media has taken the wraps of the trail for Robert the Bruce, the follow-up to events depicted in Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning Braveheart, about Scotland’s fight for independence from England in the 1300s.
The pic is directed by Richard Gray and co-written by Eric Belgau and Angus Macfadyen, who returns to his Brav…
Disney+ is bringing back an old favorite. The streamer officially has greenlighted The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, which returns the original cast and executive producers from The Proud Family, which aired on Disney Channel in the 2000s.
No airdate was announced. Check out the new concept art above.
Original…
With Vikings nearing the end of its run, star Katheryn Winnick has booked her next series. She has signed on as a lead opposite Ryan Phillippe in The Big Sky, ABC's straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley.
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Written by Kelley, The Big Sky is based on The Highway, the first book in…
EXCLUSIVE: Crooked Media, the podcast company behind Pod Save Americaand Lovett or Leave It, has unveiled its latest slate of audio series. The company is working on shows with Fox Sports host Rachel Bonnetta, Parks and Recreation writer Rachna Fruchbom, former Teen Vogue writer Phillip Picardi and What Doesn’t Kill Y…
CBS All Access is expanding the duties of a quartet of senior executives, led by EVP Original Content Julie McNamara. The move comes on the heels of ViacomCBS’ recent announcement that CBS All Access will be scaled up to become a "House of Brands" platform incorporating many of the combined company’s assets, including…
