As the virtual European Film Market officially gets underway today, there are multiple hot-button topics reverberating behind the scenes. It starts with the growing frustration felt by a number of international buyers as the world continues to struggle with the pandemic.
We’ll be meeting a new character in the upcoming 11th and final season of The Walking Dead. Michael James Shaw(Blood & Treasure) has signed as a new series regular in AMC’s hit zombie apocalypse series.
The studio isn’t revealing many details, other than Shaw will portray the popular character known as Mercer.
Rumors…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that IFC Films has just taken North American rights to The Nowhere Innfrom Topic Studios. The pic, a fractured commentary on reality, identity, and authenticity, is produced, written by, and stars Carrie Brownstein and Grammy winner Annie “St. Vincent” Clark. TheNowhere Inn also reps…
Andra Day, star of The United States Vs Billie Holiday was the surprise winner Sunday night of the tightly fought Golden Globe race for Best Actress in a Drama, and further ratcheting up her chances to land a Best Actress Oscar nomination as well for the Lee Daniels- directed film that examines the FBI and Federal…
EXCLUSIVE: Game Of Thrones and For Life star Indira Varma is set to join Disney+’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series, we understand.
Star Wars prequel stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen are already aboard for the series, which McGregor recently teased was getting underway in the spring.
Varma’s character details…
EXCLUSIVE:Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut (Cruel Summer) and Blu Hunt (The New Mutants) are set as series regulars opposite Billy Campbell, Angel Parker and Gerardo Celasco in National Parks, ABC's drama pilot co-written and executive produced by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. The project hails from Costner's Territory…
Vice is continuing to add to the number of shows it has in the ring.
The youth-skewing broadcaster is expanding its Dark Side of the Ring franchise further with a 90-minute talk show.
Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential, which premieres Tuesday March 9, will feature eight 90-minute episodes, where the show's creators…
EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Alexander has joined the cast of Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Halle Bailey will portray Ariel, a mermaid princess who dreams of being a human, while Melissa McCarthy is playing her evil aunt Ursula. Javier Bardem is on board to play King Triton.
The Little Mermaid will be…
Irv Cross, a Pro Bowl cornerback who would become the first Black man to work as a full-time sports analyst on national television, died Sundday near his home in Roseville, MN. He was 81.
His death was announced by both CBS Sports and the Philadelphia Eagles, his former NFL team. A cause was not disclosed.
“Irv was a…
Donald G. McNeil Jr., the veteran New York Times reporter who left the newspaper last month amid the controversy over his use of a racial slur, responded to accusations against him in a lengthy series of Medium posts today.
McNeil, who had been with the Times since 1976 and specialized in coverage of infectious…
In a move that will bolster Roku’s advertising capabilities, the streaming company has acquired Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising unit.
Terms for the deal were not disclosed. A person familiar with the transaction described it as “not material” to the overall business of Roku, whose market value is $53 billion…
EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Stults (Little Fires Everywhere), Tiya Sircar (Good Sam), newcomer Jules Latimer, Alanna Ubach (Euphoria), Laurie Davidson (The Good Liar) and Andre Hyland (The Death of Dick Long) are set as series regulars opposite Kate Beckinsale in Guilty Party, Paramount+'s half-hour dark comedy from Funny or…
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Hu will lead the feature film Breast Cancer Bucket List from producers Autumn Federici and Jake Helgren under their production banner, The Ninth House.
Roxy Shih, who recently directed Whose Child for Ninth House Films, will direct from a screenplay by Jessica Landry.
Patricia Velasquez, and Sylvia…
