Louisette Geiss, Howard Kagan, Susan Stroman and Diane Warren talk exclusively with Deadline’s Greg Evans about how they came together to create ‘The Right Girl,’ a Main Stem-bound musical inspired by the real-life Hollywood villains and heroes of the movement, and where it all goes now that the pandemic has devastated live theater.
Global soccer icon Diego Maradona has died aged 60, according to Reuters and the BBC.
The former attacking midfielder had surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November. It was then announced he was to be treated for alcohol dependency.
One of the greatest players of all time, the diminutive forward was captain…
CAA has signed Robbie Rogers, who is producing the CW series, All American and next produces for Amazon the drama My Policeman, starring Harry Styles and Lily James, with Berlanti Schechter Films.
Rogers will also produce a feature based on the 1980's soccer team, The Dallas Sting with Berlanti Schechter Films and…
EXCLUSIVE: The co-director of controversial Polish movie 365 Days,Barbara Bialowas, has been attached to direct an adaptation of the first novel in Vanessa Fewings' romance series TheEnthrall Sessions.
365 Days was a major talking point after its Netflix release this summer, sitting in the streamer's top 10 chart…
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak today unveiled the parameters of the government's Spending Review, including the creation of a new Global Screen Fund that is designed to partially plug the gap left by the absence of Creative Europe's MEDIA funding post-Brexit.
The funding amount of £7M ($9.4M) for the program’s pilot year…
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian actress Laurence Leboeuf, who is currently starring in NBC’s ER drama Transplant, has signed with Gordon Gilbertson and Michael Borden at management firm Gilbertson Entertainment.
The Montreal native plays series regular Magalie Leblanc in Transplant, about an ER doctor who fled his native Syria to…
Amazon has acquired Honor Guard, a four-part military docuseries created by two U.S. Army veterans, and narrated by Sam Elliott. Show
creators Ethan Morse and Neal Schrodetzki of Time To Kill Productions will debut their new series online digitally Christmas Day through
Amazon. The series will arrive on more than 50…
President Barack Obama told Stephen Colbert on Late Show last night that the Trump Administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been “shambolic,” and that if the government had “done the work” at the beginning of the pandemic “there is no doubt we would have saved some lives and, ironically, the economy…
As Deadline continues to expand its footprint internationally, we launch International Critics Line as a way to incorporate regular reviews of the fine local-language films being made outside of America. These films always have served as a seed bed to break new directors and stars in Hollywood, and we intend to spend m…
As we enter the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend during an era when the box office is struggling and more weight is being placed on streamers for new product, there are still titles making theatrical debuts amid the digital film landscape as people recover from their turkey-induced tryptophan haze. It all starts with…
EXCLUSIVE: Singer Sarah Brightman’s first livestream Christmas concert next month will include a reunion with her former husband and partner-in-theater Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two will perform the relatively obscure Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice song “Christmas Dream.”
Brightman and Webber were married from 1984-1990, with…
Amazon has struck a deal to exclusively stream YA movie After We Collidedon Prime Video in the UK, France, Italy and Spain.
UK, France and Italy will release from 22, December, followed by Spain on 1, January. The movie was released theatrically in most markets in September and October and was one of the few bright…
ViacomCBS announced Wednesday it will sell the storied Simon & Schuster publisher to Penguin Random House house parent Bertelsmann for $2.175 billion in cash, a major infusion of funds as the Bob-Bakish run media company makes good on its promise to unload non-core assets.
ViacomCBS called the transaction “the outcome…
