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A small group of freelance post-production coordinators in New York have voted unanimously to join the Communications Workers of America in NLRB-supervised elections at eight separate companies, including Apple Studios, Netflix Productions, Universal Television, CBS Studios, Showtime, HBO, Turner and Disney…

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Kirby is Ridley Scott’s choice to play Empress Josephine opposite Joaquin Phoenix’s Napoleon in Kitbag, the historical drama for Apple that begins production this spring. She will replace Jodie Comer, who exited the project over scheduling. Her reps are negotiating a deal for Kirby, who is coming…

Ridley Scott has hit back at the Gucci family’s criticism of his upcoming film House of Gucci, called for “someone to get in trouble” over the Rust incident and revealed his Napoleon biopic will start filming on January 15. Scott also gave an update on early-stage TV versions of Alien and Blade Runner. Speaking to the…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Studios' runaway-slave thriller Emancipation starring Will Smith is suspending filming following a small number of positive Covid tests among the hundreds of crew working on the movie in Louisiana, I have learned. I hear the cast and crew were just notified about the hiatus, which starts tomorrow and…

Apple Studios has secured the rights to Donald Spivey’s non-fiction book, If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, for drama development with an eye toward a series order. The high-profile Negro League Baseball project comes from Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mandalay’s Peter Guber, and Oscar nominee Ron…

Tatanka Means (I Know This Much is True), Michael Abbott Jr (The Death of Dick Long), Pat Healy (Bad Education) and Scott Shepherd (Bridge of Spies) have been added to the cast of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the Apple Studios film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and based on David…

Any time you get an Oscar nomination it’s exciting, but at the end of the day when one of Hollywood’s biggest stars is singing your praises for your work on their project, its hard to beat that feeling. “It was very gratifying for Tom [Hanks] to come out with that statement, not just because he the star of the movie…

"The heart of the movie became these two little girls, representing two different views of femininity and attitudes towards females in that time period," Wolfwalkers co-director and producer Tomm Moore said of the characters of Robyn Goodfellowe and Mebh Óg MacTíre in the Apple TV+ Oscar-nominated animated film. "I…

Film and television development executive Jessie Henderson is joining Apple Studios as a feature executive, reporting to Apple Original Films' Matt Dentler, head of features. Henderson, who joins the company next week, will be part of the growing Apple Original Films team based in Los Angeles, which includes feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Peter Farrelly finally is ready to follow his Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book. Apple Studios is in talks to finance The Greatest Beer Run Ever, with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe in talks to star and Bill Murray is being courted for a supporting role. Since that victorious Oscar Night, Farrelly…

EXCLUSIVE: After blowing him away with her upcoming performance in The Last Duel, Ridley Scott is moving fast to work with Killing Eve star Jodie Comer again and looks to have found that next project to team up on. Sources tell Deadline that Comer is Scott’s choice to play Napoleon Bonaparte’s beloved Josephine in Appl…

The Morning Show star Gugu Mbatha-Raw is sticking with Apple TV+ after landing the lead role in a new psychological thriller series from High Fidelity co-creator and exec producer Veronica West. The streamer has handed a straight-to-series order for Surface, which comes from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine and Apple…