This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Production is teaming with HBO to develop the comedy House of Chow from Ken Cheng (Wilfred, Betas), who wrote the pilot will also serve as executive producer alongside Head of TV Development at JuVee Andrew Wang and pilot director Jude Weng. Davis and Tennon will also…
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s new short-form mobile streaming platform Quibi put its stake in the Park City snow with a strong presence at the Sundance Film Festival. Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds) and Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) stopped by the Deadline Studio to talk about their…
With the January 25th world premiere of the Hillary docuseries on her life, Hillary Clinton has been a frequent presence in Park City during the opening days of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
As you can see in the video above, the former Secretary of State has also been very blunt about Donald Trump, the stakes of…
EXCLUSIVE: Christian Rivers has signed on to direct Into Thin Air, a feature drama that explores the unsolved mystery behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The film is a co-production of Illusion Media Entertainment, K. JAM Media, and Altit Media Group and it is being financed by Avi Nakash. He’s…
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continuesat 1 p.m. ET Monday on Capitol Hill after marathon sessions last week that set the rules for the proceeding and laid out the House Democrats’ case. The president’s defense team led by Jay Sekulow resumes its opening arguments today, and here’s is a guide on how…
EXCLUSIVE: Tubi has scored the exclusive streaming rights to Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi horror pic Red 11as well as his docuseries The Robert Rodriguez Film School.Red 11 is based on Rodriguez's experiences in a medical research facility to finance his first feature El Mariachi. Pic, which made its world premiere at…
Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant with Project Runway, began the fourth week of the Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York on Monday by describing two separate incidents of alleged sexual assault in 2006.
Haleyi is one of two women whose allegations against Weinstein yielded the five felony counts facing the…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first clip for well-received Sundance NEXT movie The Mountains Are A Dream That Call To Me.
The Park City world premiere marks the feature debut of Cedric Cheung-Lau, who was chief lighting technician on Monsters And Men, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and Patti Cake$. Rathaus Films is…
Director Petra Costa and producer Joanna Natasegara didn't expect their acclaimed documentary The Edge of Democracy to earn an Oscar nomination. But when they tuned in for the announcement, watching from different points on the globe, they were in for a welcome shock.
"We were both screaming and I am not ashamed to…
HBO ranks as the favorite network to deal with among reality producers – from pitch to series pick-up – according to a new poll conducted by NPACT, the trade group representing non-fiction TV producers.
Netflix, deemed "most respected" and most improved over the last year, finished second overall, followed closely by…
EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has set its spring release schedule with the acquisition of three documentaries in the music and mind, body, spirit space, plus the global re-release of the distrib’s 2017 doc Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead.
Among music fare, Abramorama has taken North American rights…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
