EXCLUSIVE: Pat Lucas, the former EMI Music executive who was a longtime friend to filmmakers she licensed songs to for their films, has died after a long battle with cancer. She passed away last Monday.
While I wait to get more details from her distraught family, Quentin Tarantino asked to memorialize Lucas and…
Stacey Sher, an executive producer of FX's Mrs. America, has struck an overall deal with the cable network's production division.
The agreement, which is understood to have been signed last year, will see Sher develop new projects for the network and extends a first-look arrangement that began in 2015, before she…
The 93rd Oscars will wrap up a wild and unprecedented movie awards season Sunday with its live ceremony honoring the year’s best in film beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on ABC. It will be the capper to year that because of the pandemic spanned 441 days between the 2020 Oscars and Sunday’s show.
The Oscars will air…
Sunday’s Oscar ceremony will surely be like no other: It is being held during a pandemic, amid unprecedented social change sweeping across America — and Hollywood — with lower-profile nominees, in an era of declining ratings and set in what some have derisively termed “a train station.” The show’s producers face an…
With only a few weeks till the Oscarcast, producer Steven Soderbergh presided over a Zoom call with the nominees Tuesday to explain the latest iterations of an ever-evolving awards show. The producing team has been making plans and crossing them out and making new plans — the perils of operating in a global…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears the upcoming Oscars will not have a single host and that producers have made offers to talent they hope will come in to present the categories for the 93rd Oscarcast on April 25. The plan is for high-profile presenters to deal out the awards on a rotating basis.
The Academy of Motion Picture A…
In what could be the most challenging producing assignment ever for an Oscar show, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today tapped Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh to produce the 93rd Annual Academy Awards. The show is set for Sunday April 25, their latest date ever, due to delays caused…
Video game maker Activision Blizzard has set producer Stacey Sher to team with former Disney exec Nick van Dyk to run Activision Blizzard Studios. They will be co-presidents and lead an effort to create film and TV titles from Activision properties. The company’s videogame product includes Activision's Call of Duty…
FX has closed a first-look production deal with feature producer Stacey Sher and her production company Shiny Penny. Under the two-year pact, Sher and Shiny Penny will develop projects for FX Networks.
Sher is coming off her first TV pact — a two-year first-look deal at AMC for Double Feature…
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are amicably splitting up. They formed their shingle in 2003 after splitting with Danny DeVito and Jersey Films, and they have spent the last 22 years together. Between those two companies, they are the kind of understated producers…