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EXCLUSIVE: Daredevil and The Defenders alumna Élodie Yung has been tapped as the lead of Fox’s drama pilot The Cleaning Lady in a recasting.
In the pilot, written by Miranda Kwok and to be directed by Michael Offer, she replaces Shannyn Sossamon, who had been originally cast in the title role, Reyna Salonga. She exited…
"The situation is that it's a f***ing disaster everywhere," one distribution exec exclaimed recently regarding the impact from the coronavirus pandemic on the global and international box office.
The hit 2020 is going to take in terms of worldwide ticket sales is incalculable at this point, but some sources estimate…
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spoke in a phone call on Monday about the coronavirus crisis.
Their conversation was a rare moment of detente in the midst of a presidential campaign.
Biden “had suggestions. It doesn’t mean I agree with his suggestions,” Trump told reporters. He said that the…
Universal has picked up the film rights to New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff’s upcoming YA vampire novel Crave.Crave, billed as a paranormal fantasy with a feminist perspective, follows a human girl who finds herself in the midst of a conflict between warring factions when she falls for a vampire prince…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that schools and non-essential businesses are to be remained closed through April 29.
“Public health is our first concern,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo issued the New York State on PAUSE executive order last month, and it was effective on March 22. Large sectors of the economy…
UPDATED, 2 PM: As Los Angeles County enters what officials expect to be one of the worst weeks in terms of the spread of coronavirus, health officials report 15 more deaths Monday, raising the total to 147. Overall cases went up by 420, bringing the total to 6,360 in the county, including 213 in Long Beach and 58 in…
Abigail Disney-led Fork Films has named Jess Kwan the Chief Operating Officer and promoted Kat Vecchio to Chief Creative Officer. The two positions will work with Disney to set overall strategic and organizational goals for the company. Both roles will oversee new and current projects, support their distribution and…
Bleecker Street’s Sally Potter movie The Roads Not Taken had a limited New York and Los Angeles run over the March 13-15 weekend, just as the COVID-19 climate was impacting theatrical business. But now the movie, which stars Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Laura Linney and Salma Hayek, will be part of the New York-based…
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Stocks rallied sharply Monday with many media shares outpacing the broader market as Wall Street – at least for today – evinced a glimmer of hope at the U.S. trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic, even as Wall Street analysts have only begun to calculate the dire impact of the virus on…
EXCLUSIVE: Last year’s Tribeca Film Festival winning-title The Short History of the Long Roadwill be hitting VOD on June 16 via FilmRise. Written and directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy, the film tells the story of Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), a teenager who grew up living out of a van with her beloved father Clint (Steven…
EXCLUSIVE: Director-writer-producer Michael Polish has signed with Buchwald. He was previously with ICM.
Known for his 1999 Sundance film Twin Falls Idaho, Polish recently wrapped production on two upcoming films: Axis Sally, starring Al Pacino; and Force of Nature, starring Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsch, and Kate…
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…
