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.
EXCLUSIVE: Two time Golden Globe-winning Marvelous Mrs Maisel and House of Cards star Rachel Brosnahan has been set to join In The Heights‘ Anthony Ramos in Amblin Partners' upcoming comedic sci-fi film Distant.
Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, Office Christmas Party) are directing the Spenser Cohen-penned…
EXCLUSIVE: Showrunner-producer Scott Teti (Spy Games) is expanding his relationship with Kinetic Content, signing an exclusive production deal with the Red Arrow Studios company. Teti is currently executive producer on Spy Games, which Kinetic launched last month on Bravo. Teti will now exclusively produce and develop…
EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked filmmaker Heidi Ewing who recently directed, wrote and produced I Carry You With Me, which won this year’s Audience Award and Innovator Award in the NEXT! category at the Sundance Film Festival and was sold to Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films days into the festival.
Ewing was also…
Fans of reality TV coupling competitions might be lamenting the fact that the final episode of Netflix’s Love Is Blindpremieres this week, but fear not: There’s more drama ahead. The streamer said today that a reunion special will arrive next week.
“The final episode of Love Is Blind premieres tomorrow! But the story…
Natalie Zea (The Detour, Justified) will lead the cast of NBC’s high-concert drama pilot La Brea, from writer David Appelbaum, Keshet Studios and Universal Television.
In La Brea, written by Appelbaum and directed by Thor Freudenthal, when a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in…
Josh Brolin is returning to television as the star of Amazon’s mystery dramaOuter Range. Under the rich talent deal, Brolin also will executive produce the series from playwright Brian Watkins, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios.
Created by Watkins, Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a…
Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson, who earlier this week said he’d just about had it with all the show’s jokes at his expense, pokes some fun at himself in SNL‘s new promo with this week’s host John Mulaney.
“What’s going on here, Pete? Show me your eyes,” Mulaney says, stumbling on Davidson working on his “inner…
UPDATE: The latest figures from Nielsen show an even great audience for CBS News’ coverage of the Democratic debate than the early numbers released on Wednesday morning.
An average of 15.3 million viewers watched the South Carolina debate on CBS, according to Nielsen. The figures do not include the viewership for the…
NBCUniversal's upcoming streaming service Peacock Wednesday announced a licensing deal with A+E Networks for hundreds of hours of episodes of A&E and History series.
The A&E series include First 48, Storage Wars and Cold Case Files. History offerings range from Pawn Stars, to American Pickers, Ancient Aliens, Curse of…
The morning after Disney’s surprise announcement naming Bob Chapek CEO effective immediately, replacing longtime chief Bob Iger, the two executives addressed their troops Wednesday during an hourlong town hall on the Burbank lot that was simulcast to Disney employees around the globe.
Iger and Chapek — or as one…
Ryan Phillippe has been tapped for a major role in The Big Sky, ABC's straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley. The project, based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box's Cassie Dewell series of novels, hails from A+E Studios, which will produce in association with 20th Century…
EXCLUSIVE: Former Nike vet Josh Simon has been appointed VP of Consumer Products at Netflix. At Nike, Simon served as VP and Head of Global Strategy for Product, Design, Merchandising, and Categories.
Simon will be overseeing a growing consumer products team at the streamer that has made a mark with innovative…
