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.
The Academy Awards arrive in just over two weeks, which means street closings, adjusted train schedules, extra tourists and traffic nightmares in Hollywood near the Dolby Theatre and Hollywood & Highland Center.
As part of that, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Los…
Editors Note: Barry Avrich is a filmmaker who has made dozens of high-profile documentaries including The Last Mogul, Blurred Lines, Prosecuting Evil and is currently in production on Made You Look, a film about the largest art fraud in U.S. history.
As Harvey Weinstein finds himself cast in the most anticipated…
Oral arguments were heard today in federal court on the Big 3 talent agencies' motion to dismiss the WGA's antitrust suit against them. If U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. denies the motion, the case would be headed for trial in March 2021 after a lengthy and costly discovery process, in which the sides…
President Donald J. Trump unveiled the official logo for the Space Force on Friday and was instantly jeered and cheered by Star Trek fans who say the design boldly goes beyond the line of borrowing.
Trump’s tweet unveiling the logo is another reminder that the sixth branch of the U.S. military will be an…
Gabrielle Union has responded obliquely to comments from Terry Crews that seems to challenge her stance on America’s Got Talent production problems.
Crews appeared on the Today show on Thursday and addressed Union’s prior allegations that AGT was a hotbed of racial insensitivity and sexism. Crews hosts America’s Got Ta…
EXCLUSIVE: Days afterJeff Collins left Dance Moms producer Collins Avenue, which he had founded and run for more than 10 years, the reality veteran has set up his new venture.
Collins has been named president of Catalina Content, a new Los Angeles-based production label backed by Sky Studios in the UK. Running all…
When director Dominic Cooke first read the script for Ironbark, he immediately sparked to the material. "It turned out it was only a first draft when I read it, but it was just a beautiful story," Cooke told Deadline today. "I just thought it had a three-dimensionality, real life to it, and I was really moved by it…
EXCLUSIVE: British playwright and screenwriter Nina Raine has been tapped to write the limited series adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’sTender Is The Night novel for Hulu. The project, from Colin Callender's Playground Entertainment, has been in development at Hulu since 2018.
Tender Is The Night, which was…
Above is an exclusive clip of Come Away, a fable that premiered today in the Kids section and figures to be a sought after acquisition title in the Sundance Film Festival. Directed in her live action debut by Oscar-winning animation superstar Brenda Chapman, the film stars David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie. While…
Disney’s Bambi is returning to the screen but this time he will roam a digitally created photorealistic forest and interact with animals that have been brought to “live action” cinema via a hard-drive not a soundstage.
Following in pixel paw-prints of The Jungle Book and The Lion King, the next Disney classic from the…
The Senate impeachment schedule will see President Donald Trump’s White House and personal lawyers begin their allotted 24 hours of oral arguments defending Trump on Saturday. As any former reality TV host-turned U.S. President knows, that’s no good for ratings.
“After having been treated unbelievably unfairly in the…
Buchwald has hired Sola Fasehun and Tim Patricia to its motion picture and television literary departments, respectively.
Fasehun got her start working under Academy Award-winning producer Michael Phillips at Lighthouse Productions. She then spent six years as a film production, sales, and distribution consultant at…
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.
