Its director and writer sit down with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. to discuss topics including why men were chosen to tell the story of the plight that ambitious women faced in a sexist work environment and much more.
EXCLUSIVE: Writer and producer Julian Breece and writer and journalist Ira Madison III are ready to get Canceled. The pair are collaborating as co-creators and writers of the Warner Bros. Television half-hour dark comedy Canceled with Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions executive producing and…
EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has hired Negin Salmasi to become a production and development executive for film and television. She will report to Makeready Principals, Pam Abdy and Peter Johnson, who oversee film and television.
Salmasi moves from See-Saw Films, where she headed that company’s U.S. office in Los Angeles…
Sony has acquired AT&T’s 42% stake in Game Show Network in a transaction with a total value of $500 million.
After the deal, Sony will own 100% of the multimedia entertainment company, whose offerings are anchored by its namesake cable network, which airs original and classic game programming. Game Show Network…
EXCLUSIVE: Imagine a world where a dating app matches you with your perfect partner. Now, imagine you are one of four people who opt out of finding their perfect partner and decide to just live their best promiscuous life. That’s exactly what the Quibi comedy Unmatched is all about.
Created by Allen Strickland Williams…
Right after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, I wrote that A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was the movie we need right now. As every week passes, it becomes even more clear this is a movie with a message of kindness and understanding that could and should resonate in such…
Broadway box office took a step back last week, with most shows reporting receipt drops from the prior week (which included Veterans Day Weekend, perhaps boosting tourist money). In all, the 36 Broadway productions grossed $32,819,621 for the week ending Nov. 17, about 7% down from the previous week.
Attendance…
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Television Group veteran Jody Zucker is getting an expanded role at the Studio, with a promotion to Executive Vice President, Legal Affairs, from his previous role as SVP & General Counsel, Warner Bros. TV.
Zucker now will oversee legal affairs across all of the Studio's television production…
Idris Elba is saddling up to join Jonathan Majors in The Harder They Fall, an all-black Western feature for Netflix. Jeymes Samuel is making his feature directorial debut on the project.
Samuel, also known as The Bullitts, is producing the project with Jay-Z, James Lassiter and Lawrence Bender. Samuel and Jay-Z, who…
Drama projects from The Young Offenders writer Karen Cogan, Mum producer Big Talk, The Virtues producer Warp Films and NBCUniversal-backed Heyday Television lead the Brit List: TVÂ 2019, the UK television equivalent of The Black List.
The Brit List, overseen by Alexandra Arlango, has published its second television…
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Eckhart has found a vehicle to follow the hit WWII drama Midway, this one set in the Vietnam War. He’ll star in the Dark Mark Productions film Ambush. Written and directed by Mark Earl Burman, the action-thriller is based on the true story of a deadly high-stakes subterranean mission into enemy…
This year has brought more evidence to cement Alex Gibney's reputation as the hardest working man in documentary film.
His six-part documentary series Why We Hate, executive-produced with Steven Spielberg, debuted on Discovery Channel last month. Earlier this year his documentary The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon…
EXCLUSIVE: Lensing has begun in Ottawa, Canada on actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael's (The Carmichael Show) under-the-radar movie directorial debut On The Count of Three, in which he is starring alongside Christopher Abbott (Girls), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Henry Winkler (Arrested Development), J.B. Smoove (Curb Yo…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
