EXCLUSIVE: Apple is rounding out the recurring cast for Platonic, its new comedy series from Nick Stoller, Francesca Delbanco and Sony TV. Alisha Wainwright (Palmer), Guy Branum (BROS), Janet Varney (You're the Worst), Emily Kimball (Daisy Jones and the Six) and newcomer Vinny Thomas have joined the cast in heavily…

The fourth South Park TV movie event on Paramount+ is set. South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 will premiere July 13 on the streamer. A severe drought has brought the town to the brink of disaster, as evidenced by one man’s desperate attempt to gain entry to a water park. Check out the “full nuclear Karen”-fied…

EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse are set to star in Focus’ Lisa Frankenstein, directed by Zelda Williams from a script written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody. Principal photography is slated to begin later this summer. Cody will write and serve as a producer alongside Mason Novick, who will produce via his MXN…

EXCLUSIVE: Ravi Patel (The Valet, Meet the Patels) is set to recur in the FX limited series Justified: City Primeval in the role of Rick Newley, Deadline has learned. The series is a spinoff of FX’s hit Justified and is inspired by the Elmore Leonard crime novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. Seven years…

UPDATED: Multiple reports now indicate that Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was hospitalized yesterday for pancreatitis. Barker was accompanied to the hospital by wife Kourtney Kardashian. TMZ’s report says doctors believe it was triggered by a colonoscopy. Sources close to the family say the musician recently had the…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw are set to star in Bad Behaviour, which marks the directorial debut for Alice Englert. Ana Scotney and Dasha Nekrasova Karan Gill and Marlon Williams round out the cast. The film is a dark comedy about Lucy (Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a…

Cameron Diaz (Charlie’s Angels) is coming out of retirement for a Netflix film titled Back in Action, in which she’ll star opposite Jamie Foxx (Day Shift). The storyline for the action-comedy is being kept under wraps, but Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) is directing from a scriupt he wrote with Brendan O’Brien’s (Neighb…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hulu comedy Up Here starring Mae Whitman (Good Girls) and Carlos Valdes (Gaslit) has completed casting on several of the leading and recurring roles. The musical romantic comedy from 20th Television and Old 320 Sycamore Prods. is set in New York City in  1999 and follows an ordinary couple (Whitman as…

One FCC commissioner wants to ban TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores because of the China-controlled video app’s “pattern of surreptitious data practices.” Brendan Carr tweeted a letter he wrote last week to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google/Alphabet chief exec Sundar Pichai that cited “an alarming new report…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Mittman's production company 1.21, which is behind series including Netflix's Wednesday, has promoted Kai Dolbashian. Dolbashian has been upped to Head of Development at the company, which has a deal with MGM. He was previously Director of Development, having been with Mittman since he launched the…

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Maron (GLOW), Jean Yoon (Kim's Convenience), Judy Reyes (Succession, Better Things), and Jeffery Self (Search Party) have joined the cast of Amazon’s The Horror of Dolores Roach in recurring roles. They join series lead Justina Machado who plays the titular masseuse Dolores Roach, as well as previously…

EXCLUSIVE:  Writer-director Bryan Bertino has inked with WME. Bertino's movie The Dark and The Wicked premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2020 and was met with rave reviews, notching 91% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. In The Dark and The Wicked, two siblings, who are plagued by waking…