Wim Wenders hadn’t entertained the notion of an audience with the Pope when the Vatican wrote him to ask if he’d be interested in helming a documentary on the current incumbent Pope Francis. But the prospect was intriguing, he told Deadline at our Cannes Studio ahead of the film’s festival premiere, especially when…
EXCLUSIVE: Add Pope Francis to Netflix’s continually growing TV and movie roster names. The streaming service is moving forward with the feature film The Pope, with Jonathan Pryce tapped to play the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and Anthony Hopkins in talks to play his predecessor Pope Benedict. The film will…
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word, a documentary feature written and directed by Wim Wenders. In the rare film — it’s only the second co-production the Vatican has made with outside filmmakers — Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics…
Before Silence makes its world premiere at the Vatican on Thursday, pic’s director Martin Scorsese will have a private audience with Pope Francis tomorrow morning at 8:45AM Rome time before the pontiff has his regular weekly general audience. The news was announced by the Vatican press office today.
Pope Francis and…
Media moguls can relax, a little, about the possibility of having to compete against Facebook. The social media giant is “a tech company, not a media company,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg  told a student gathering today in Rome, where he visited with Pope Francis, Reuters reports.
“We build the tools, we do not produce any…
Donald Trump won primetime last night among cable news networks. The GOP frontrunner’s sit-down with Anderson Cooper clocked 3.4M viewers and 989K news-demo viewers in the final hour of CNN’s marathon two-night six hour town hall with GOP candidates.
From 10-11 PM, FNC clocked 1.86M viewers and 445K news demo viewers…
A new weekly column talking up the season with dispatches from the awards circuit.
The lunch and dinner circuit that was so prevalent pre-Oscar nominations has now morphed into the awards banquet circuit, still providing lots of great opportunities for contenders to get their face time with voters who attend these…
For the first time in cinematic history, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church will play himself in a big screen feature. Pope Francis is due to appear in family adventure film Beyond The Sun from AMBI Pictures. The casting came about after the pope asked the filmmakers to make a movie for children that…
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt was No. 1 in total viewers and in key demos for the first week of the 2015-16 season, marking the broadcast's 9th straight across-the-board win and 13th in the 14 weeks since Holt was named anchor. That’s good news for the program, because it also was the week of Pope Francis' visit…
Updated with video: NBCU has done virtually no promotion for Brian Williams’ return to the air after a months-long suspension and the ratings reflect that, but, as word of his return got out, some of it savage, his numbers inched up on Day 2.
NBC News chief Andy Lack has described Williams’ return, and his strategy to…
"Good day. I'm Brian Williams at MSNBC headquarters. In a short time Pope Francis will arrive in this country for the first time," Brian Williams said, making his carefully orchestrated lowest-possible-key return to the air after a months-long suspension from NBC News.
His return had been promoted for the very first…
Tune in to MSNBC at 3 PM ET/noon PT tomorrow to see Brian Williams make his near miraculous return to NBC News, anchoring the cable news network’s coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States.
Starting Williams at 3 gives him, and viewers, time to get past any initial awkwardness and settled in before The…
