Jay Penske, chief executive of Deadline’s parent company, and MRC CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyz announced the publishing and content deal today. Both companies will hold significant ownership and will continue to operate independently.
EXCLUSIVE: In a deal that lands in the high $40 millions, Apple Original Films has acquired worldwide rights to Cherry, the first film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo since their Avengers: Endgame became the highest global grossing film of all time. The film is a decidedly different kind of drama, an adaptation of…
In a remarkable turnaround, the Actors Fund Home in New Jersey, which saw the COVID-related deaths of 10 of its residents in the early days of the pandemic, has been COVID-free for more than five months – since April 21.
Similarly, residents at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Country Home in Woodland Hills…
Vertical Entertainment and Noriva, the distribution arm of The Forest Road Company, are teaming for the US distribution of the FBI spy thriller The Informer starring The Killing and Altered Carbon actor Joel Kinnaman.
The feature will hit PVOD on Nov. 6 at a price of $19.99, available on Comcast, ATT, DIRECTV, Dish…
EXCLUSIVE: Actress and musician Taryn Manning, known for her role as Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett on the hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black, has signed with Pantheon for representation.
Manning starred on all seven seasons of OITNB, sharing in three SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a…
Sundance Institute has hired former Brooklyn Academy of Music executive Gina Duncan for the newly created Producing Director position at the Sundance Film Festival.
Duncan will start Sept. 28 and she’ll report Sundance Festival Director Tabitha Jackson, while working closely with Programming Director Kim…
CBS’ Thursday edition of Big Brother finished as primetime’s top-rated show with a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.00 million viewers (Live+Same Day), while facing stiff competition with the season premieres of ABC’s game show block. As a result, the two networks tied for the top spot in the demo…
EXCLUSIVE:You’re the Worst alum Chris Geere is set for a recurring role in the upcoming third season of ABC’s ensemble drama series A Million Little Things.
Written by DJ Nash, A Million Little Things revolves around a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances.
Geere will play Jamie…
EXCLUSIVE: Vivica A.Fox (Kill Bill) , Taryn Manning (Orange Is The New Black), Matt McCoy (Jack Ryan) and Oscar-nominee Sally Kirkland (Anna) have joined the cast of psychological drama Bobcat Moretti.
The Different Duck Films pic tells of an obese MS patient (Tim Realbuto) who takes up his late father's sport of…
EXCLUSIVE: Terrence Terrell (Giants) is set as a series regular in CBS' new Chuck Lorre-Marco Pennette multi-camera comedy series B Positive, headlined by Thomas Middleditch and Annaleigh Ashford.
Created by Pennette, B Positive is about a therapist and newly divorced dad (Middleditch) who is faced with finding a…
Fox’s Family Guyhas recast the role of Cleveland Brown with YouTube star Arif Zahir.
Mike Henry, who had voiced Brown since the show's inception in 1999, announced in June that he was stepping down from the role. “I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color," Henry, who is white, said…
EXCLUSIVE:UTA has signed of award-winning producer Kenn Viselman for worldwide representation in all areas. Viselman has driven more than $20 billion in commercial success.
UTA will also rep the relaunch of Viselman's itsy bitsy Entertainment Company banner. That effort will begin with the animated series Moonzy and…
An all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano…
