In the second edition of Deadline’s video series, she talks passionately about how ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ sparked her love of cinema when she was 10 but reveals that it wasn’t until watching a re-run of ‘A Woman Under the Influence’ years later at an indie theater that she wanted to be a filmmaker.
EXCLUSIVE: Dark Sky Films has acquired all North American distribution rights to timely pandemic thriller Before The Fire, from female duo Charlie Buhler, who made her directorial debut, and Jenna Lyng Adams of Netflix series The Kominsky Method, who wrote and stars in the film.
MPI Media Group, Dark Sky's parent…
Warner Music Group filed with the SEC Tuesday to launch an initial public offering of 70 million shares priced from $23-$26 dollars — raising up to $1.82 billion at the upper end of the range. Billionaire investor and Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries and other stockholders are the ones selling the…
The UK government is drawing up plans to restrict state-backed companies from overseas countries such as China investing in Brit firms.
The UK has aggressively courted inward investment throughout the last decade but attitudes appear to be hardening towards the Middle Kingdom and there are reports of cooling relations…
EXCLUSIVE: News aggregator Haystack TV has launched an on-screen ticker on its Roku app, adapting a staple feature of live, linear news networks to the streaming era.
The “Newsline” crawl emulates the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen of 24/7 cable news networks. But because the programming is being…
EXCLUSIVE: The casts of the groundbreaking series Fresh Off The Boatand Kim’s Convenience are uniting for a one-night only special event which will feature the cast members from both shows doing live online table reads of the pilots of their respective shows — the perfect way to celebrate Asian Pacific American Herita…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is continuing its push for UK-originated entertainment formats after hiring The Circle exec producer Daisy Lilley in its non-fiction team.
Lilley has joined the streamer as a manager in its London-based division, reporting to Sean Hancock, its U.S-based director of unscripted originals. She will…
The husband of a late staff member for Joe Scarborough is asking Twitter to remove President Donald Trump’s tweets in which he peddles a debunked conspiracy theory about her death.
“My request is simple: Please delete these tweets,” wrote Timothy Klausutis, the husband of Lori Klausutis, who died in 2001 when she was…
Dominating headlines in the UK this bank holiday weekend was the revelation that Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to PM Boris Johnson, had taken a 260-mile trip while his wife was displaying coronavirus symptoms.
Fellows politicians and journalists, as well as much of the public, were incensed by what appeared to be an…
BBC Factual has ordered coronavirus-themed doc Fighting The Virus (w/t), which sees doctors and twin brothers Chris and Xand van Tulleken tell the story of the pandemic from a personal and medical perspective, and Keeping Britain Fed (w/t), in which Sara Cox and Ade Adepitan explore the work going on behind the scenes…
Russia’s Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, a virtual follow-up to last year's inaugural initiative hosted by national promotional body Roskino, has unveiled a program featuring new Russian works and a host of local and international speakers.
Running June 8-15, the event will showcase more than 300 Russian projects…
As France awaits official updates that are expected to come later this week with regard to the re-opening of restaurants and perhaps fewer restrictions on travel, Culture Minister Franck Riester reiterated today that cinemas are eyeing a July 1 re-start.
Speaking to France Info, Riester said the government is mulling…
Dabangg, the hit 2010 Hindi-language feature starring Bollywood megastar Salman Khan, is set for an animated spin-off series after India and Singapore-based animation studio Cosmos-Maya struck a deal with Arbaaz Khan Productions. The series is inspired by Chulbul Pandey, the cop character played by Kahn in the film…
