The India-born Bollywood star and Miss World 2000 appears in Netflix’s ‘The White Tiger’ and toplined ‘Quantico,’ but her eye now is squarely on producing and starring in features. She talks about ambitions, formative influences and inspirations in the latest edition of Deadline’s video series.
More than 30 unpaid crewmembers on the indie film Please Give Me You have filed wage claims with the California Labor Commissioner's office after the production was shut down last month when its financing fell through following a Covid-19 scare on the set. The film, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour and which…
EXCLUSIVE: A signature Fox program, America’s Most Wanted, is coming back to the network with a new season, set to launch in March.
Emmy-winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas will succeed John Walsh as host of the revamped America’s Most Wanted, which is being produced internally by Fox Alternative Entertainment.
While A…
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists.
Every installment asks the same five questions…
Amazon has set a spring premiere date for Robert Kirkman’s adult animated seriesInvincible. The hour-long series from The Walking Dead creator will premiere Friday, March 26, 2021, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The first three episodes of season one will premiere…
In the latest sign of the media industry’s rethink of the traditional pay-TV bundle, NBCUniversal will wind down the operations of its sports cable outlet NBCSN by the end of the year.
Live events carried by the network, a roster headed by NASCAR races and NHL hockey, will migrate to USA Network and, to a lesser…
With less than two months to go before Genius: Aretha finally hits the small screen, the Oscar nominee who is portraying the Queen of Soul is hitting this year's Sundance Film Festival as one of the shindigs' jurors.
Cynthia Ervio will be joining the likes of SFF alum Raúl Castillo as one of the 22 jurors at this…
EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy, star of Netflix's Narcos: Mexico, has signed with UTA.
The agency has signed the actor in all areas of representation. He was previously with WME.
McNairy is currently filming the third season of the Narcos spin-off, in which he plays Walt Breslin, the American DEA agent sent to Mexico to…
One of the most memorable American roles of Croatian actress Mira Furlan, who died Jan. 20 at the age of 65, was on the hugely popular and acclaimed ABC drama series Lost.
In 20 episodes of the show, Furlan played Danielle Rousseau, a French scientist who had shipwrecks on the island sixteen years prior to the crash…
UPDATED with latest: On Thursday, during his first Covid-19 address, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden pledged a “wartime effort” to fight the pandemic. His words were apt.
More Americans have now died from Covid-19 than died in all of World War II. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has lost…
Here is Deadline’s list of renewals and cancellations for TV series on broadcast, cable and streaming services from August 2020 to present (excluding syndicated shows). First-year series are in bold. Note that some shows listed as canceled are or were airing their final seasons. Keep checking back as we add to the…
Saturday Night Live returns on January 30 with five consecutive new shows and is handing hosting debuts to a trio of multihyphenate stars.
John Krasinski, Dan Levy and Regina King are the first three hosts of the new year, with their respective musical guests Machine Gun Kelly, Phoebe Bridgers and Nathaniel Rateliff.
J…
Tom Brokaw will retire from NBC News after 55 years with the network.
He made the announcement in a statement on Friday.
“During one of the most complex and consequential eras in American history, a new generation of NBC News journalists, producers and technicians is providing America with timely, insightful and…