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.
UPDATED with more details from cross-examination.Harvey Weinstein defense attorney Damon Cheronis spent more than two hours Monday trying to poke holes in the testimony of Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.
In a steady series of jabs, Cheronis stressed the…
Horror maestro Stephen King, clarifying his recent remarks that judging creative excellence should be blind to issues of diversity, writes in today’s Washington Post that whatever progress has been made in expanding the demographic makeup of Oscar voters is “not good enough.”
“Not even within shouting distance of good…
EXCLUSIVE:Leah Remini, creator, host and producer of A+E’s Emmy-winning docuseriesLeah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, has signed an exclusive first-look deal with independent content studio Critical Content to develop and produce unscripted programming through her No Seriously production company.
Under the…
Author and activist Sil Lai Abrams, who is one of Russell Simmons accusers featured in Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick’s Sundance documentary On the Record, isn’t shocked by Oprah Winfrey’s withdrawal as EP prior to the pic’s world premiere here in Park City, UT.
In regards to pulling back from the film, Winfrey, a sexual…
Apple and A24 have acquired Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s documentary Boys State for $10 million, according to industry estimates. The deal is for global rights.
Boys State is a political coming-of-age story, examining the health of American democracy through an unusual experiment. A thousand 17-year-old boys from…
Harvey Weinstein isn't anywhere near the Sundance Film Festival this year, but the now-disgraced producer's ongoing criminal trial for rape in New York is front of mind for many at the gathering he dominated for years.
"I was at screenings he was at here, I was at parties he was at here, I worked on movies that he…
Netflix is expanding its relationship with animation studio Titmouse, signing a multi-year overall deal to produce multiple original adult animated series. Under the pact, Netflix will also have a first look at adult animated series developed and created at Titmouse.
The two companies have previously partnered on…
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna has signed a three-year-old overall pod deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, Brosh McKenna will develop projects across all platforms for ABC Studios, part of Disney Television Studios, through her newly launched company, Lean Machine.
The first project Brosh…
The Motion Picture Sound Editors elected veteran Mark Lanza as its new president for a two-year term. The award-winning supervising sound editor, whose credits include Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July and JFK, Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams and Showtime’s On Becoming a God in Central Florida, is…
EXCLUSIVE:Kelli Berglund (Now Apocalypse) is set as a lead opposite Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig and Alison Luff in Heels,Starz's eight-episode hourlong drama set in the outrageous world of independent professional wrestling.
Written by Michael Waldron and directed by Peter Segal, with Mike O'Malley as…
EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Production is teaming with HBO to develop the comedy House of Chow from Ken Cheng (Wilfred, Betas), who wrote the pilot and will serve as executive producer alongside Head of TV Development at JuVee Andrew Wang and pilot director Jude Weng. Davis and Tennon also will…
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s new short-form mobile streaming platform Quibi put its stake in the Park City snow with a strong presence at the Sundance Film Festival. Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds) and Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) stopped by the Deadline Studio to talk about their…
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.
