The ATX Television Festival closed with a screening of City on a Hill ahead of its June 16 premiere on Showtime (you can also watch it here). Series creator Chuck MacLean, showrunner Tom Fontana, executive producer Jennifer Todd as well as stars Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge and Jill Hennessy were on hand to talk about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Dean Israelite has been set by Amblin to write and direct Minotaur, a supernatural thriller set in Johannesburg. Israelite sold the pitch in the room. Jennifer Todd is producing and Aron Coleite will be an executive producer. Israelite and Coleite fleshed out the story. Israelite most recently directed Power…

UPDATED, 4:15 PM: Oscarcast producer Jennifer Todd has won the Producers Branch runoff election for 2018-19 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors. She beat Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum for the seat. She begins her three-year term on July 1, serving alongside Producers Branch incumbents…

Amblin Partners has closed an exclusive two-year first-look deal with Alice in Wonderland and Austin Powers franchise producer Jennifer Todd and her company, Jennifer Todd Pictures. The production deal will cover feature projects under the company's Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners. "We are…

If Jimmy Kimmel is nervous about presiding over Sunday’s 90th Oscarcast, he hides it well. In between rehearsals at the Loews Hollywood Hotel adjacent to the Dolby Theatre, Kimmel took a few moments to speak to Deadline about the show he and producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd have cooked up. You can be sure…

When I hopped on the phone at different times yesterday with Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and returning Oscar show producer (with Mike De Luca) Jennifer Todd, I told them they have set a land speed record for announcing not only the producers, but also the host Jimmy Kimmel…

“You don’t have to be an asshole to succeed,” NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer told students in his commencement address today to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts grads (see full video below). One of Hollywood’s most respected and longest-running executives advised: Lose your ego. Lose your pride. Don’t be…

EXCLUSIVE: The ink might not be dry yet, but sources said that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will lock in Mike De Luca and Jennifer Todd to return and produce the 90th Academy Awards next year. It is expected that they will shortly be set for an encore. At the same time, sources said the Academy is…

Ron Meyer is headed back to school — for a day. The NBCUniversal Vice Chairman and CAA co-founder will deliver the commencement address for 2017 grads of the USC School of Cinematic Arts in May. The film school also said today that Oscar producer Jennifer Todd and Bad Moms producer Suzanne Todd each will each receive…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on movies. BART: Though this year's Oscars will be remembered for the big screw-up, I thought it was a very well-produced show until that point, and I've been to…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on February 15, 2017. EXCLUSIVE: The long relationship between Academy Awards producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd goes back to his storied tenure as New Line’s wunderkind bad-boy production president, when she produced the first of three Austin Powers films. De Luca is…

Oscarcast producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd have tapped Glenn Weiss to direct the 89th Academy Awards show, getting the gig for a second consecutive year. Along with last year's Oscars, Weiss has helmed numerous trophy shows including the Primetime Emmys, 16 Tony Awards – for which he has scored three…