Latest in Deals

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated director Julie Anne Robinson is staying put at Universal Television, renewing her first-look deal with the studio for two more years. Under the pact, Robinson will develop and executive produce through her CannyLads scripted and will direct projects for all platforms. At…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls Revolt creator Dana Calvo has signed a multi-year overall deal with Legendary Television Studios. Under the pact, Calvo will serve as co-showrunner with Jon Spaihts on Legendary’s Dune: The Sisterhood for HBO Max, based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune and the popular sci-fi franchise it…

For faux heiress Anna Sorokin, crime may not pay. The scam artist who became a hot Hollywood commodity after she was profiled in a New York Magazine article, How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People by Jessica Pressler, signed a lucrative deal with Netflix for her story. An estimated dozen producers were…

Acclaimed comic book and television writer Ed Brubaker (Velvet, Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out) has signed a multi-year overall deal with Legendary Television Studios. Under the pact, Brubaker will adapt as well as collaborate with fellow television creators in the adaptation of some of his most iconic…

Indebted creator Dan Levy is expanding his relationship with Sony Pictures TV, signing a two-year overall deal with the studio behind the upcoming NBC comedy series. Under the pact, Levy will create and develop new projects for the studio via his production company Screaming Elliot Productions. Writer, producer and…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is expanding his work in television, signing an exclusive multi-year overall production deal with Ben Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate. Under the deal, Fuqua and his production company Fuqua Films, will team with Propagate on both scripted and non-scripted…

The infamous Los Feliz house where supermarket owner Leno LaBianca and wife Rosemary were slain by the Charles Manson gang in 1969 is back on the market, offered for sale at $1.98 million. The listing appears just under a month before the 50th anniversary of the notorious murders and weeks before the era is again…

Director-producer Sarah Adina Smith (Hanna) has signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Under her Everything Is Everything production banner, Smith will develop TV series to premiere on Amazon Prime Video workdwide. Smith directed the first two episodes of Amazon’s action thriller Hanna and also served as…

Cash her outside, or cash her inside — either way, Danielle Bregoli is rolling in the cash after signing a songwriting/co-publishing deal that could be worth as much as $1 million. Known professionally as Bhad Bhabie, Bregoli came to public attention in 2016 on the Dr. Phil show, where she appeared with her mother on…

EXCLUSIVE: Scorpion producer SB Projects, the company run by Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande manager Scooter Braun, is the latest high-profile company to strike a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Deadline understands that the company has inked a multi-year with the SVOD service and will develop scripted and…

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has locked a non-exclusive two-year deal with Hiro Murai, the visionary, disruptive director hailed for his collaborations with Donald Glover that so far encompass the FX series Atlanta, the provocative music video for “This Is America,” and the Amazon musical Guava Island, which Glover starred in…

EXCLUSIVE: Momo is ready for her close-up. Orion Pictures is partnering with Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and producer Taka Ichise to develop a horror film based on the creepy sculpture now known globally as Momo thanks to the viral hoax called Momo’s Challenge. The sculpture by Japanese artist Keisuke Aiso was…