One of Britain’s largest production groups, Tinopolis was hit hard by the pandemic, which led to a controversial financial restructuring. Now it faces a potential class-action lawsuit as a furious group of about 15 producers questions whether the company was in genuine peril or Covid-19 just provided a useful “smokescreen” for management to wipe out the debt.
Downtown L.A.’s Union Station isn't just the location of Sunday's Oscars. The architectural gem has played host to hundreds of movies, many of them recognized by the Academy on Oscar night.
Click on the video above for a deep dive on the venue’s connection to Hollywood’s highest honor.
It's been a year like no other. Actually, make that two years like no other, since eligibility in the unusual 14-month Oscar calendar was extended by two months until February 28, 2021. This will be the first Academy Awards since the sixth edition, listed as 1932-33, that will have included one year and part of the…
The UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the BFI have announced the launch of the UK Global Screen Fund, the one year pilot fund designed to help plug the sizeable gap left by the absence of Creative Europe's MEDIA funding post-Brexit.
The £7M ($9.7M) Global Screen Fund for the…
In an industry infatuated with sequels, reboots, remakes and basic regurgitation of anything that once worked, it was probably inevitable someone would get around to bringing back Mortal Kombat. Nostalgia for the blood-and-gore video game and its two mid-'90s film versions now brings us, wait for it, Mortal…
Despite Disney’s aggressive theatrical-Disney+ Premier day-and-date streaming strategy for Raya and the Last Dragon, Cruella and Black Widow, the Burbank, CA- based studio will make it known during this Sunday’s Oscars that they have not abandoned the theatrical experience.
Today, the studio announced in its…
Oscar nominees Viola Davis and Riz Ahmed are joining the ensemble cast slated to present at the 93rd Oscars, show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh announced today.
Davis, a Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for Fences, is a four time nominee and in contention this year for Best Actress in M…
Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are producing a Disney film adaptation of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, through their Rideback banner, Deadline can confirm.
Rideback’s Ryan Halprin will exec produce.
Based on the improvisational play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, created by Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Sarah…
Johnny Depp's recent failure to secure an appeal in the "wife beater" verdict against him in Britain is causing legal ripples on this side of the Atlantic. Flying the flag of international law, Amber Heard's lawyers say the Pirates of the Caribbean star's Stateside $50 million defamation lawsuit against the Aquaman…
While the angst level is high going into Sunday’s Academy Awards given overall viewership trends, Disney Advertising Sales says it has sold out ad inventory for the telecast.
While the company did not divulge any rate information or financials as reports circulate of significant declines, people familiar with…
WWE reported first-quarter revenue of $263.5 million, down 9% from the year-ago quarter but ahead of Wall Street estimates as the company starts to wriggle out of Covid-19’s headlock.
Earnings per share also more than doubled the consensus expectation from analysts, reaching 51 cents compared with 31 cents a year…
