Appian Way Productions’ Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson have set the production company into a multi-picture, multi-year first look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce scripted feature films. The companies are already in development on two projects and the deal comes off DiCaprio’s turn in the…
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With that in mind, Deadline has launched Deadline Now, a regular video series that reveals a different side of the stories our readers care most about. It will explore everything from castings to COVID, ratings to firings, and late-night TV to the latest breaking news. The…
EXCLUSIVE: Two and one-half months after it stepped up to become the producers of Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple has inked a first-look deal with its director, Martin Scorsese. The master filmmaker will base his Sikelia Productions banner at Apple in a multi-year deal for film and television projects Scorsese will…
Apple has signed a first-look deal with Appian Way Prods., the film and television production company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and co-run by Jennifer Davisson. The multi-year deal covers television projects and documentary features.
The pact builds on Apple and DiCaprio’s existing relationship collaborating on the…
Apple has given a series order to Shining Girls, a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel The Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. MRC Television is the studio.
Writer-creator Silka Luisa (Strange Angel…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio are reteaming for a feature adaptation to the documentaryVirunga, which will be written by Oscar-winning Moonlight helmer Barry Jenkins. The Oscar-nominated docu, written and directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, was released on the streamer in 2014 and picked up an Oscar…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that the tug of war over one of the highest profile films in Hollywood is about over. Apple will win the derby for the Martin Scorsese-directed film Killers Of The Flower Moon, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in the lead roles. The deals are being papered — Paramount still has to…
History’s Grantminiseries has made a bit of history itself. The Memorial Day premiere of the six-hour miniseries, which airs over three consecutive nights, drew 3 million total viewers for its first installment, marking the network’s best non-fiction miniseries launch in Total Viewers in six years, and the No. 2…
Perhaps more than recent past Memorial Day weekends, this year will be a more solemn occasion as a gradually reopening America continues to faces the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
In what has traditionally been the kickoff to summer as well honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country, this…
EXCLUSIVE: As documentary films and series continue to escalate in prominence in this age of binge watching, here's a package that is creating some excitement as it is shopped this week and next. Imagine Documentaries and Appian Way Productions have partnered to produce Timothy Leary: Follow Me to Freedom, a…
Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest environmentally conscientious documentaryAnd We Go Green, is heading to Hulu. RadicalMedia announced today that the doc, which focuses on the rise of Formula E electric car racing and its positive impact in combating global warming and air pollution, will be available in the U.S. via the…
“He’s been called so many things over the years,” an interviewee says in the first trailer for History’s miniseries on Ulysses S. Grant. Here are a few: “The first modern American warrior,” “a bloody butcher,” “a corrupt president,” “a belligerent drunk” and “the greatest general of the time.”
Final answer? F) all of…
