Deadline spoke with 16 major international fests and markets scheduled over the next six months, including Venice, Toronto, AFM, Sundance and Berlin to get the latest on how they are adjusting their upcoming editions following months of lockdown cancellations.
EXCLUSIVE: The story of former Philadelphia Police Officer Jeffrey Walker is headed to the screen. The Nacelle Company, Stone Canyon Entertainment and producer Devon Shepard (Being Mary Jane) have optioned Walker’s life rights for possible TV or film development, with Stephen Belber (The Laramie Project) attached to…
When it came to playing the hijinks of Russian empress visionary Catherine the Great and her buffoon husband Peter III in Hulu and MRC’s period series The Great, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult “threw out the history books.”
More specifically, rather than have their performances become bogged down by all the…
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Barry Pepper's Peace River Productions is producing Negroes With Gun, a feature that ex-Navy Seal Jason Cabell (Running with the Devil) will write and direct.
Negroes With Guns is based on the true story of civil rights hero Robert F. Williams and his legendary battles in Monroe, NC with the…
EXCLUSIVE:Â We can tell you first that Screen Gems has preemptively acquired Gregg Hurwitz and Philip Eisner’s spec script Sabine for 21 Laps, which the latter’s Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce. The deal, we hear, went down over the Independence Day holiday.
Sabine is an elevated thriller about an ambitious…
The Ivy League said Wednesday it will not hold any sports events in the fall, becoming the first major conference to declare itself out of the game in football and other sports during the traditional September-to-December schedule.
While the Ivy League rarely gets the national sports spotlight, its decision is…
God Friended Me co-star Javicia Leslie has been cast as the new Batwoman, succeeding Ruby Rose who exited the role after the end of Season 1. Leslie, confirmed to play a new character named Ryan Wilder, will make her debut in the iconic cape and cowl when Batwoman returns to the CW for its second season in January.
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Astrakan Film AB will release Lost Girls & Love Hotels in select theaters and on VOD September 4. From director William Olsson, the drama, which is an adaptation of Hanrahan's 2006 novel of the same name, stars Alexandra Daddario (San Andreas, True Detective), Carice van Houten (Game Of Thrones, The Glass Room), and…
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Sheridan had to push back an hour on his Deadline Emmy nomination week interview, e-mailing simply, "I gotta move cows." Sheridan is the real thing, owner of a working cattle ranch in Weatherford, Texas, and co-creator, writer of every episode and director of most in the Paramount Network and 101…
Tyler Perry’s Madea will take one last bow on August 27, when a filmed version of the character’s final stage tour premieres on BET+.
The subscription streaming outlet announced the release date Wednesday for Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Farewell Play, which it bills as the “final stage run” for Madea. A press release said…
If you are a Lily Tomlin fan (and who isn’t), do not miss this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side as I go one-on-one with the great Tomlin. We cover her entire career, starting out with the first moment she contracted a touch of show business to what is happening with the final season of her…
Editors Note: Deadline's Reopening Hollywood series focuses on the complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Our goal is to examine numerous sides of the business and provide a forum for leaders in Hollywood who have a vision for how production could safely …
EXCLUSIVE:Provenance Films, a subsidiary of Provenance Ventures, has optioned the 2017 book Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge form author Erica Armstrong Dunbar for a feature. LaToya Morgan, whose writing credits include The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands, Shameless…
