A new online search tool called Trailered aims to connect moviegoers with showtimes, trailers and tickets for all available films.
The free service is launching in the U.S. and Canada. While Fandango and others have long targeted the movie ticket buyer, building out additional offerings such as reviews, UK-based…
Kew Media-backed UK outfit Awesome Media & Entertainment, the IP and production company founded by writer-producer Jeff Norton, is launching a graphic novel ‘studio’ with the ambition to develop stories into film and TV properties.
Awesome’s fiction publishing imprint Awesome Reads was launched in 2018. Comic book…
Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) is launching podcast development and production studio LAist Studios and has hired former NBC exec Angela Bromstad as an adviser.
The public radio group, which bought local news outlet LAist last year, wants to build on its recent podcasts including earthquake podcast The Big One…
The power has long-since returned, but Jimmy Fallon still managed to cull plenty of comedic material from Saturday night’s blackout in New York City.
Returning from a two-week break, the Tonight Show host joked that he needed to get through his opening bit because Manhattan “could lose power at any second.”
“What a…
EXCLUSIVE:David Foster, the 16-time Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter and composer, is set to be the subject of a feature documentary, David Foster: Off the Record. Barry Avrich (The Last Mogul, Prosecuting Evil) is directing the pic, which is now in postproduction from Canada’s Bell Media Studios and Melbar…
Immersive theater and alternative cinema experiences have been all the rage in recent years thanks to canny producers such as Punchdrunk and Secret Cinema. The latest buzzed-about production in this space is based on a familiar Hollywood movie.
UK immersive theater experience The Wolf Of Wall Street will take place in…
EXCLUSIVE: Jade Albany, who starred in Amazon original American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, is to star in Netflix's Japanese drama The Naked Director. She becomes the first non-Asian actor in a major series role for a Netflix original in the region.
The Italian born actor, who was raised in Australia, plays porn…
The Favourite and The Room producer Element Pictures is bolstering its nascent TV division with the hire of former Channel 4 exec Jonny Richards as head of TV development, effective immediately.
In the newly created role Richards will oversee Dublin and London-based Element Pictures' continued push into small screen…
Netflix is heading out to sea with the first high-end wildlife documentary series from its deal with Blue Planet II creator James Honeyborne. The SVOD service has ordered Oceans (w/t) from his indie Freeborne Media.
This comes after Deadline revealed in January that Honeyborne had inked a multi-year deal with…
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has revealed a £25M ($30M) plan to “transform” its London headquarters at 195 Piccadilly.
According to the UK org, the redevelopment, designed by Benedetti Architects, will double the building's capacity, install state-of-the-art technology and create a floor…
The London Film Festival has set Armando Iannucci’s (Veep) comedy-drama The Personal History Of David Copperfield as its opening film.
The 63rd edition of the UK festival will kick off on Wednesday 2nd October with the film’s European premiere, indicating that the movie will likely get a world premiere at Venice…
Netflix has ordered five new originals out of India with Hollywood producers including Blumhouse and Chernin Entertainment getting in on the action.
The SVOD service is doubling down on its scripted drive in the region – following the success of titles such as Delhi Crime and Selection Day.
Over the next twelve…
