Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher have been elected presidents of the 8,500-member Producers Guild of America – the first time two women have held the trade group’s co-equal presidencies. They ran unopposed and succeed Gary Lucchesi and Lori McCreary, who held the posts since 2014. Berman, whose executive producer TV…

One prominent film agent says Netflix, which for years provided an outlet for independent films that otherwise might have struggled to find distribution at movie theaters, is gravitating to splashier cinematic fare as it ramps its movie production. “The problem is, now they're not buying those movies,” said Jessica Lac…

Catching up with Fargo EP Warren Littlefield today at the PGA’s Produced By, he told Deadline that season 4 of the Emmy-winning FX series “will go into production in the fall of 2019.” “(Creator) Noah Hawley is directing a film this summer (Natalie Portman in Fox Searchlight’s Pale Blue Dot), and then in the fourth…

Hulu’s MGM series The Handmaid’s Tale has five episodes left in its 13-episode run, and what continues to amaze EP/creator Bruce Miller is the relationship between Elisabeth Moss’ Offred and Yvonne Strahovski’s Serena. And before season 2 closes, Handmaiden Offred will have the baby that she’s carrying for Serena and…

For TV producers who lose their shows because their stars are racist trolls zonked out on Ambien, they have insurance for that now. It's called "disgrace insurance," and it covers production losses due to a wide range of disgraceful and illegal behavior by members of the cast and crew. The ins and outs of disgrace…

When Jim Gianopulos left as 20th Century Fox chairman, one of the opportunities presented to him was creating a seventh studio with a deep-pocketed investment group. As attractive as that option was, he said there was nothing better than taking the reins last year at Paramount as chairman and CEO. Building a new…

The Producers Guild of America’s annual Produced By Conference next month in Los Angeles has rounded out its list of participants including adding Barry co-creators Bill Hader and Alec Berg for a “Conversation With” session. Skydance Television president Marcy Ross and Hyde Park Entertainment group boss Ashok Amritraj…

The Producers Guild of America unveiled a new wave of participants for its 10th annual Produced By Conference next month. Among those added to the lineup are Dear White People producer Stephanie Allain, Bridesmaids director-producer Paul Feig, Fast and the Furious producer Neal H. Moritz along with Ian Bryce, Donald…

The Weinstein Co., after shepherding one of reality TV’s first breakout series, Project Runway, along with several successful theatrical documentaries, now wants to move deeper into fact-based TV content. "A lot of our films started as true stories," noted David Glasser, the company’s COO, during a Sunday panel at the…

Legendary producer Norman Lear received a standing ovation when he arrived to share the Produced By stage today with Get Out writer-producer Jordan Peele, even as an odd comment he made about race later in the program drew some nervous audience laughter. Lear, the 94-year-old liberal icon who's had more time to think…

At 32, he was the youngest director ever to win an Oscar, but Damien Chazelle knows that ageism remains all too real in the film industry. "Hollywood has, and continues to be, youth-obsessed, often to its detriment," the La La Land director said today at the PGA Producer By conference in Los Angeles. "It's a problem…

After 24 years of helping buy programming for Showtime and NBC, last year Pearlena Igbokwe became president of Universal Television, where she now finds, produces and sells content for a wide range of TV platforms. As the first African-American woman to run a major Hollywood production company, Igbokwe represents…