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Peacock is taking viewers on a summer vacation full of mystery in the first trailer for The Resort, premiering on July 28. The Resort is a multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple…

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground has come aboard Sam Esmail’s upcoming film Leave the World Behind for Netflix. The film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la Herrold adapts Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed third novel about a family vacation on Long Island…

AppleTV+'s big budget TV reworking of Fritz Lang's classic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis from Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail is to shoot to Australia. The production is expected to create nearly 4,000 jobs in the state of Victoria, where filming will take place, and make use of one of the world's largest 'virtual…

EXCLUSIVE: Lan Samantha Chang's novel The Family Chao is getting a series adaptation after Sam Esmail and UCP optioned the rights to the book. Esmail will develop the adaptation via his Esmail Corp. banner, which has a deal at the Universal Studio Group division. He will exec produce alongside Chad…

Sam Esmail's adaptation of Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis finally is coming to the small screen. The streamer has handed a series order to the project, which comes out of the Mr. Robot creator's massive overall deal at UCP. It will be written and directed entirely by Esmail, who also is behind Starz's upcomi…

Peacock has begun casting for The Resort, a true-crime love story from Palm Springs writer Andy Siara, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and UCP. Luis Gerardo Méndez (Narcos: Mexico, Murder Mystery), Nina Bloomgarden (Hot Pink, Jane) and Gabriela Cartol (La Camarista, Hernán) are set as series regulars, and Debby Ryan (Insa…

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Kirschner, who was most recently SVP, Scripted Development at Peacock, has joined Sam Esmail's Esmail Corp as Head of Television. Kirschner, who has been at NBCUniversal for a decade in a variety of roles, will work to grow the Homecoming and Mr. Robot producer's slate of streaming and cable series. He…

EXCLUSIVE: With his upcoming Blade pic finding a director and his Apple Studios pic Swan Song setting a release date, Mahershala Ali doesn’t shows signs of slowing down. He now has found another exciting role to add to his dance card, as sources tell Deadline that the Oscar winner is set to join Julia Roberts in the Ne…

Sam Esmail is teeing up his next development. The Mr. Robot creator has teamed up with Luce and The Cloverfield Paradox director Julius Onah to develop a series based on the premise of an American monarchy. The American Throne, which will be written and directed by Nigerian American filmmaker Onah, is set in a…

True-crime love story The Resort, from Palm Springs writer Andy Siara and Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, has been ordered at Peacock. The streamer has handed the series from UCP an eight-part order. It first emerged in February 2020 that the pair were developing the scripted project at the Universal Studio Group…

Newcomer Candace Grace has been tapped as the lead in Sam Esmail’s ABC drama pilot Acts of Crime. Also joining as series regulars are Molly Price (Feud: Bette & Joan), Peter Mark Kendall (Broadway’s Six Degrees of Separation) and newcomer Josiah Cross. The project hails from Mr. Robot creator Esmail, UCP, a division…

ABC is moving forward with Sam Esmail's procedural Acts of Crime, handing the project a pilot pick-up. It marks the latest move in the network's second cycle development plan for the 2020/21 season and marks the Mr. Robot creator's first foray into broadcast television. Deadline understands that the pilot, which comes…