What led the movie executives require to say “all systems go” on the first narrative feature to shoot in the cosmos? Sources tell Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. that all it took was an exuberant Zoom call with the star, the writer and ‘Mission: Impossible’ filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie. And did we mention there was no script?
Bectu, the trade union representing theatre workers in the UK, says that the number of job losses in its industry took a dramatic upturn in the last four weeks.
On July 3, the union published figures revealing 3,000 redundancies had been felt by theatre workers, and that number has risen to 5,000 since then. That's…
Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged became the most high-profile UK cinema release in the pandemic era this week, taking a provisional $230K (£174,901) from 250 sites, an average of around $920, with venues still to report.
That number may look fairly minor on first glance but in the current context it offers reason for…
EXCLUSIVE: Production quietly began last month in London on pandemic-inspired feature Alone, which marks the directorial debut of Kirsty Bell, CEO of UK financier Goldfinch. The film is one of the first independent movies to get underway in the UK after lockdown.
Starring are Derek Jacobi (Gladiator), Jeff Fahey…
EXCLUSIVE: Above is the first sneak peek of John Boyega in Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated series Small Axe, which will drop on the BBC and Amazon later this year.
McQueen’s anthology drama, which has been in the works since 2014, tells five stories from within London's West Indian community between the 1960s and…
Filming started today (August 3) on ABC comedy Aftertaste, marking the first major production to shoot in South Australia since the pandemic forced work to shutdown.
A total of 110 cast and crew are back on set, and the production team say they are employing all the necessary virus safety protocols. It will also film…
Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has set an adaptation of Jin Yucheng's novel Blossoms as his first series project.
Created and produced by Wong,Blossoms Shanghai will be an homage to his birthplace, Shanghai, by exploring its massive economic growth in the 1990s. It follows a self-made millionaire, Mr Bao, and his…
Race Across The World, the Studio Lambert reality competition series that won a BAFTA last week, is heading to China as part of a raft of finished tape sales clinched by All3Media International.
The All3Media-owned distributor has inked its first deal with Chinese streamer Huanxi Media, which encompasses 110 hours of…
As we enter another month of the global pandemic in the United States, John Oliver is not mincing any words when it comes to the many people in country and their blatant disregard of COVID-19. As opposed to other countries, it seems like there is an unnecessary amount of people in the U.S. who are acting like the coro…
BBC America is merging the beauty of nature and majesty of music for the beautifully majestic four-network television event Planet Earth: A Celebration. The special will premiere on BBC America, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV on August 31 at 8pm ET. It will debut on the same day in the U.S., UK and China.
From lions to…
The movie version of Catsmay have been released last year, but it is still very much present in our lives. In a recent interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of the original musical, he shared the same sentiment of critics when it came to the big-screen adaptation. In other words, he thought the movie had…
Microsoft said Sunday evening it will continue to pursue a takeover of TikTok in the U.S. as President Donald Trump backs off of threats to ban the service, a development that could see the software giant running the hugely popular video sharing app by mid-September.
The Redmond, Washigton-based company announced its…
