Deadline is marking the annual event by highlighting the female-driven deals that have come already during Women’s History Month, and rounding up a list of events and programming worth checking out today. Keep checking back for more deals and features throughout the day.
Like everyone else in the world on Monday, Megyn Kelly was talking about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's primetime interview with Oprah.
Kelly called Markle, who made claims to Oprah about racism at Buckingham Palace, “completely un-self aware.”
But given the fact that Kelly’s own comments about blackface got her…
Women in Film Los Angeles has a half-dozen new board members.
New to the board are Niija Kuykendall, EVP Production at Warner Bros Pictures; Michelle Lee, Director of Domestic Programming at AppleTV+; film producer Monica Levinson(Borat SubsequentMoviefilm; Doc McStuffins creator and EP Chris Nee; Shivani Rawat…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined with Amanda Gorman for a virtual Q&A to mark International Women’s Day, and the youth poet laureate had a semi-personal question for both of them: “I have some interest in the public sphere, and I wanted to ask: What advice would you give…
"I mean, Jim Brown always been Jim Brown," laughs One Night In Miami star Aldis Hodge of the NFL legend he portrays in the Regina King-directed film. "The fact that he is still with us adds a different degree of pressure for me because I know that he is going to see it," Hodge added. "And any time you do a biopic, you…
Leon Gast, the veteran filmmaker who won a Documentary Feature Oscar for helming the 1996 “Rumble in the Jungle” pic When We Were Kings, died Monday. He was 85.
The news was confirmed by the Woodstock Film Festival, of which Gast was a founding advisory board member and a 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree.
Gast…
New York Attorney General Letitia James Monday set two lead attorneys to investigate allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct against Governor Andrew Cuomo,
They are Joon Kim, former acting U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and employment discrimination attorney Anne Clark.
"We are…
Viacom International Studios has inked a first-look deal with South Korean production studio Something Special.
Under the deal, VIS will have exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to 10 of Something Special's top unscripted and factual entertainment formats.
Founded by Jin Woo Hwang, the…
WME has signed documentary filmmaker Kareem Tabsch, best known for co-directing the Netflix documentary, Mucho Mucho Amor, about the life of Walter Mercado.
The docu, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of the beloved cultural icon and astrologer who delivered daily horoscopes on…
Deadline has made a pair of staff moves as it continues its editorial expansion. London-based reporter Diana Lodderhose is returning to the site’s fold as International Features Editor, while Alexandra Del Rosario, currently Associate Editor, Nights & Weekends, has shifted to TV Reporter.
“We are thrilled to have…
EXCLUSIVE: Corbin Bernsen’s Home Theater Films has optioned author Daniel Friedman’s Buck Schatz trilogy for a limited series.
Friedman’s mystery series – comprised of Don’t Ever Get Old, Don’t Ever Look Back and Running Out of Road – tells the story of an 87-year-old World War II veteran and retired police officer…
National CineMedia, operator of the nation's largest cinema advertising network, saw sales plunge and it swung into the red last quarter as more than half of all theaters were shuttered. On a conference call, execs noted recent agreements to expand outside of cinemas and said the company will be announcing another, a…
As much as the first hour of the Zack Snyder’s upcoming four-hour director’s cut of Justice League was leaked on HBO Max on Monday, the streaming service confirmed, with some subscribers who attempted to watch Tom & Jerry getting a major glimpse of the secret project 10 days before the film was to premiere.
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