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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is negotiating a feature deal on the Shilpi Somaya Gowda novel Secret Daughter, with an impressive package that has Singaporean helmer Anthony Chen (llo llo, Wet Season) attached to direct Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sienna Miller in the lead roles. Shruti Ganguly will adapt the novel. Sunset…

Priyanka Chopra channeled Bob Dylan in a Twitter post today regarding her part in the controversial  series The Activist, to wit: “You don’t have to be a weatherman/to know which way the wind blows.” Chopra cautiously waited until today to respond to the uproar over the originally proposed show, which was set to focus…

UPDATED with statement from Global Citizen, 5:34 PM: After the format for The Activist drew some blowback on social media, Deadline reached out to Global Citizen for a statement. “The Activist spotlights individuals who've made it their life's work to change the world for the better, as well as the incredible and…

The 25-year friendship between director Ramin Bahrani and author Aravind Adiga proved fruitful when the The White Tiger landed an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. The Netflix thriller, written by Bahrani and based off Adiga’s 2008 novel, follows a poor man’s rise through the ranks of India’s caste system…

Priyanka Chopra, riding high on the strength of her starring and executive producing role in the Netflix hit White Tiger, is entering the restaurant business. She will be opening the Indian cuisine eatery SONA this month in New York City. The announcement was made by the actress on Saturday to her 60.9 million…

EXCLUSIVE: For nearly 15 years, director Ramin Bahrani and novelist Aravind Adiga shared a symbiotic relationship of inspiration that culminated into Netflix’s rags-to-riches drama The White Tiger. Bahrani’s 2005 feature Man Push Cart inspired Adiga, a former Columbia University classmate, to write The White Tiger, a…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set up Sheela, an intriguing drama that Barry Levinson will direct with Priyanka Chopra starring as Ma Anand Sheela, a guru who perpetrated what is called the largest bio-terrorist attack executed on U.S. soil. She was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through…

Shonali Bose was first inspired to make The Sky is Pink when she met the parents of the late child activist Aisha Chaudhary. What emerged was a story told from Aisha’s point of view that focused on 25 years of her parents’ marriage. In the role of Aisha’s mother Aditi, Priyanka Chopra, whose Purple Pebble Pictures…

Paul Haggis and Dan Krauss's doc 5B—playing at Cannes as a special screening—seeks to shine a light on the history of the pioneering caregivers at the San Francisco General Hospital who tackled the AIDS crisis at the height of the fear and paranoia as the virus took its greatest toll. Interspersing archival footage of…

EXCLUSIVE: A spirited auction has ended with Universal winning the rights to an untitled comedy pitched around town by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling will write with Goor and she will potentially direct. Its a two-hander star vehicle for Kaling and Priyanka Chopra that takes place in America and…

Crazy Rich Asians outfit Ivanhoe Pictures has joined the producing team behind Priyanka Chopra (Quantico) family drama The Sky Is Pink. The Hindi-language film is written and directed by Shonali Bose and is based on the true life story of the young motivational speaker Aisha Chaudhary and her parents. Alongside…