Jay Penske, chief executive of Deadline’s parent company, and MRC CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyz announced the publishing and content deal today. Both companies will hold significant ownership and will continue to operate independently.
EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Monaghan will star in the psychological thriller Blood with Brad Anderson directing.
Will Honley penned the script which follows Jess (Monaghan), a separated mother and nurse who moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old family farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten…
EntTelligence, a new corporation devoted to features and streaming audience analytics, has opened its doors today. Additionally, as of Oct. 1, motion picture industry vet Steve Buck will join as Partner and Chief Strategy Officer to the newly formed entity.
EntTelligence subsumes MovieQu and its technology, currently…
Hoping to save local news outlets whose advertising revenues have plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic, the WGA East is supporting the Future of Local News Commission Act, which was introduced today in the U.S. Senate.
The proposed law would create a commission of 13 members to examine the implications to…
Lionsgate has closed on a first-look deal with Vertigo Entertainment, the production company behind the It franchise and The Lego Movie. The newly-formed pact covers all media outside of television (Vertigo has a TV deal with Sony Pictures Television) including motion pictures, stage, location-based entertainment…
EXCLUSIVE: Thinkfactory Media, the TV production company behind hit reality franchises such as Marriage Boot Camp and scripted series including Emmy-winning Hatfields & McCoys, has signed with ICM Partners for global representation.
Run by CEO and veteran producer Adam Reed, Thinkfactory Media, an ITV America company…
After U.S. politicians called out Disney over the filming of Mulan in the Xinjiang region of China, it's now Netflix's turn in the crosshairs. At issue for Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and other signatories of a letter addressed to Netflix co-CEO and CCO Ted Sarandos on Wednesday is the streamer's plan to adapt…
The Sarah Paulson Hulu thriller Run will have its world premiere as the opening-night film at Nightstream, the virtual film festival that has come out of the partnership of genre fests Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook and Popcorn Frights. All had to scrap their annual events because of the…
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman-led Brownstone Productions has tapped writer/director Karen Maine to direct Miss Conception, a romantic comedy set up at Screen Gems. Maine, who made her feature directorial debut with indie comedy Yes, God, Yes, is directing the pic from a script re-written by Lauryn Kahn…
National Geographic Documentary Films has unveiled the first trailer for Oscar winner Steve James’ critically acclaimed docuseries City So Real, which paints a portrait of his hometown Chicago against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election. City So Real will air over five nights, commercial free…
For those wondering why it took so long for labor and management to come to terms on return-to-work protocols – more than three months after their initial guidelines were adopted in June – the answer is simple: They had to re-negotiate large swaths of the unions' current contracts to accommodate the realities of…
EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has locked 17 more clients for the new management/production company. This comes as its lineup of ground floor partners has changed as Lucinda Moorhead, who left UTA to join Range, has decided she will instead stay with the agency and not join the upstart venture.
On the heels of its…
Coliesa McMillian, the Louisiana woman who appeared on the latest season of TLC’s My 600-lb Life, died Tuesday, apparently due to complications from weight-loss surgery. She was 41.
Her death was announced by her daughters in a Facebook post, and confirmed by TLC in a tweet.
"TLC is saddened to learn of the loss of…
