Deadline’s video series delves into the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists by having them answer five questions. This week, it’s the Oscar-winning “Forrest Gump” director’s turn. Click above to watch.
Disney is starting to recover from COVID-19, but it won’t be able to “jam people on pricing” at its theme parks anytime soon, hurting revenue, and may opt to “kill” the theatrical run of Mulan, according to Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson.
The MoffettNathanson partner joined colleagues Craig Moffett and Nick Del…
EXCLUSIVE: Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment has sold the rights to Geoff Rodkey's middle-grade novel We're Not From Here to Columbia Pictures, Deadline can report.
The feature adaptation will be a family-focused hybrid live-action and animation film which Rodkey will adapt with Mike Mitchell (Trolls, The Lego Mo…
The morning after protesters set fire to a Minneapolispolice station, the officer who put his knee of George Floyd’s neck as been arrested, according to AP. CNN confirms via the Minneapolis department of public safety. In footage of the arrest, Floyd pleaded to officer Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee against…
Emmy Award and Golden Globe awards winner Alec Baldwin has signed on to produce and star in action/western featureRust. The pic is based on a story by Baldwin and Crown Vic helmer Joel Souza, who will write the screenplay and direct.
The plot follows infamous western outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin), who has had a…
EXCLUSIVE:Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to the Sam Feder-directed documentary Disclosure. The feature-length docu is set to debut on the streaming platform on June 19 — a perfect release date considering June is Pride Month.
Disclosure made its premiere at Sundance earlier this year and puts a spotlight…
EXCLUSIVE: Former Orange Is the New Black star Taylor Schilling is back with The Gersh Agency for representation.
Schilling starred on all seven seasons of Netflix’s critically praised series Orange is the New Black, earning Emmy and Golden nominations for her role as Piper Chapman.
She was most recently seen…
Jane Moss, the artistic director at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for nearly 30 years, will step down from the post effective August 1.
Moss said the timing of her departure was influenced by the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in the suspension of live programming throughout the city. No…
ABC’s trio of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Holey Moley and To Tell the Truth swept their respective time slots Thursday in primetime, giving the network the nightly victory in both the adults 18-49 demograpic and total viewers.
Millionaire (0.9 adults 18-49 rating, 6.07 million viewers) grew a tenth and gained in…
Shortform streaming service Quibi has announced a second season of Thanks a Million, the inspiring “pay it forward” series executive produced by Jennifer Lopez and produced by her Nuyorican Productions and B17 Entertainment. Watch the first trailer above.
The first season premiered on April 6, the same day Quibi…
HBO Max has snapped up the rights to Young Sheldon in the latest big streaming deal.
The nascent digital platform, which launched this week, struck a deal with sister company Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for all three seasons to The Big Bang Theory spin-off.
This brings all of the BBT universe under…
EXCLUSIVE:Gareth Crocker, the South African writer, director and award-winning author, has signed for representation across TV and film with Los Angeles based Cultivate Entertainment.
Crocker is most known in the biz for being the creator, writer and director of Netflix's first South African original series, the…
