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Nearly hours after Deadline learned that Nicole Kidman is in negotiations to play Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s Being The Ricardos, social media users challenged the casting. On Sunday, Ball and Desi Arnaz’s daughter Lucie Arnaz set the record straight on who will play her mother. “Stop arguing about who should play…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in negotiations to play Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Amazon and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, the film about the relationship between the I Love Lucy stars. Having penned the screenplay, Academy Award winner Sorkin also will direct the film from Amazon Studios and…

In what might be a land speed record for bringing a Broadway musical to the screen, Netflix’s holiday treat for lovers of the genre, The Prom, probably has set that mark. It took just two short years, including being shut down toward the end of filming due to the coronavirus pandemic, to bring this delightful old…

Aussie cinema royalty Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman have been crowned king and queen of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The pair are taking up the roles of President (Crowe) and Vice President (Kidman) of the AACTA, overseeing an organization that helped to further their careers when they won…

EXCLUSIVE: When I saw The Prom early in its run on Broadway a couple of years ago, I was blown away. Pure delight and a real crowd-pleaser. The plot revolved around a group of flamboyant, self-obsessed Broadway actors, badly in need of good publicity after a huge flop, who converge on a small, conservative town in…

Amazon Studios has ordered a TV series adaptation of Andrew Bovell’s award-winning play Things I Know to Be True with Oscar and Emmy winner Nicole Kidman set to star and executive produce under her Blossom Films banner. The project will come from Amazon Studios, NBCUniversal International Studios' Matchbox Pictures…

Producer Ryan Murphy drew the curtain back on the cast of Netflix’s The Prom, sharing a first-look photo of the “icon-packed” group on Instagram. See the entire photo below. “Meet the incredible icon-packed cast of Netflix’s The Prom,” wrote Murphy, who directs. “A group of true troopers who buckled up and finished…

There aren’t many words spoken in the new teaser trailer for HBO’s upcoming limited series The Undoing, but when Noma Dumezweni’s character says “This is what rich entitled do when threatened…they conceal ugly truths to protect themselves…and they think they can get away with it”, it pretty much sums up what we can…

Warm Bodies helmer Jonathan Levine is set to direct all eight episodes of Hulu’s anticipated tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, starring Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Samara Weaving, Luke Evans, Melvin Gregg, Grace Van Patten, Manny Jacinto and Tiffany Boone. Levine also will executive produce the…

During these turbulent times, HBO Max wants you to just … relax. The streamer has ordered A World of Calm, a series based on the popular app and narrated by a slew of big names. The 10-episode order co-produced by Calm and Nutopia is HBO Max’s first brush with the health and wellness space. From the creators of the…

Two years ago, Nicole Kidman appeared on my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side. Among other things we talked about her limited series, Big Little Lies. It was primarily about acting, that conversation, but what I also discovered was that Kidman has become just as prolific a producer with her company, Blossom…

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans is set to star opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in Hulu's tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty's latest book, from David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories, Kidman's Blossom Films – all key auspices behind HBO's hit Big…