Golden Globes winner Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge) has joined the cast of Birds of Paradise from Amazon Studios and Anonymous Content. Sarah Adina Smith wrote and is directing the film, which is based on the novel, Bright Burning Stars, by A.K. Small. The pic, starring Kristine Froseth and Diana Silvers, is…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress Talia Ryder in all areas. She broke out of this year's Sundance Film Festival as the co-lead of Eliza Hittman's critically acclaimed drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which played this week at the Berlin Film Festival and will be released by Focus Features on March 13. The pic…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 will be coming to an end. The popular action crime drama series will wrap its 10-year, 240-episode run with a two-hour series finale on Friday, April 3. Developed by Peter M. Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci as a reimagining of Leonard Freeman's classic series and by Lenkov for the…

As Deadline reported yesterday, ViacomCBS is currently going through its second round of layoffs following the CBS-Viacom merger in early December. There are significant staff reductions at Pop TV, which was part of CBS Corp. and was recently folded into the ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Brands Group, run by Chris…

2nd Update, Friday Midday: The Invisible Man is on his way to a $9.1M first day, including last night’s $1.65M, for a 3-day between $23M-$25M at 3,610 theaters. I’ve heard from various exhibitors that advance ticket sales are far ahead of Universal/Blumhouse’s Ma which posted at first day of $7.2M and opening of…

Nick Apollo Forte, a longtime cruise ship and cabaret singer most widely known for his co-starring role in Woody Allen’s 1984 comedy Broadway Danny Rose, died Wednesday in Waterbury, CT. He was 81. His death was announced by his family. No cause of death was given, but the family thanked his doctor and staff for “many…

Sony’s Escape Room 2 is jumping its release date from Aug. 14 to Wednesday Dec. 30 this year. Adam Robitel, who directed the first $9M production, returns to helm here. The first movie last year grossed $57M stateside, and $155.7M WW with 22% of that latter number coming from China. Originally, Escape Room 2 was dated…

A group of lawmakers are pressing Google to make one of YouTube’s signature anti-piracy features available to a greater number of creators of copyrighted content. Earlier this month, a dozen Capitol Hill lawmakers led by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-TN) sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki…

Refresh for latest…: The 45th annual César Awards, France's equivalent to the Oscars, are getting underway in Paris this evening under tumultuous conditions. The leading nominated film is Roman Polanski's An Officer And A Spy with 12 mentions, but the controversial director will not be in attendance, nor will anyone…

Courteney Cox has been tapped as the lead in Shining Vale, Starz’s horror-comedy pilot from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof.  Dearbhla Walsh (The Handmaid's Tale, Traitors) is set to direct the pilot for half-hour comedy is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate in…