EXCLUSIVE: British actress Ophelia Lovibond has landed the role of Patty Failure in Disney’s Timmy Failure, the Tom McCarthy-directed film, which will be released on the studio’s forthcoming streaming service. Based on the book of the same name, the storyline centers on Timmy, the clueless, comically self-confident…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant Media has acquired feature rights to S-Town, the This American Life podcast. Spotlight‘s Tom McCarthy is in negotiations to direct the film and playwright Samuel Hunter is in talks to write the script. This American Life will also produce. S-Town began as a podcast from Serial and This American L…

EXCLUSIVE: The Disney streaming service is beginning to crystallize, and Deadline can provide some details of the initial slate. The studio has been conducting meetings within the creative community to give a sense of its new OTT service that will launch in fall 2019. Perhaps not surprisingly at this point, there was…

Booking her first lead role with Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, Katherine Langford left her native Australia behind, getting a crash course in screen acting while confronting tremendously dark and challenging material. Based on the bestselling novel by Jay Asher, the series centers on the suicide of Hannah (Langford)…

BREAKING: Blumhouse has launched an independent television studio with ITV Studios acquiring a 45 per cent stake. This investment, which values the company at $80 million, according to sources, gives Blumhouse Television the ability to be a true independent studio with the ability to finance and producing original…

Launching its 13-episode first season at midnight on Netflix, 13 Reasons Why — written by Brian Yorkey and executive produced by Selena Gomez — is really quite well done and worth watching. Based on Jay Asher's bestselling 2007 YA novel, the small-screen adaptation powerfully and astutely addresses the many unseen…

Spotlight director Tom McCarthy helms some episodes of Netflix’s anticipated Young Adult drama 13 Reasons Why, the series created by Pulitzer Prize winner Brian Yorkey. The streaming service has now debuted the first official trailer for the Dylan Minnette- and Katherine Langford-led mystery that’s set amid the…

Roger Ailes is getting the Spotlight treatment. The recently ousted Fox News topper will be the subject of a limited series from Oscar-winning Spotlight co-writer/director Tom McCarthy, Blumhouse Television (Emmy-winning The Jinx, The Normal Heart) and journalists Gabriel Sherman and Jennifer Stahl. The series will be…

Spotlight tonight took the big prize at the 88th Academy Awards with a Best Picture victory. Nominated for a total of six Oscars tonight it also was the big winner Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards. The Open Road-distributed and Tom McCarthy-directed drama about the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Best Picture Nominee Spotlight has picked up the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for screenwriters Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, becoming the first of tonight’s Best Picture nominees to clock a win. It bested stiff competition in the category, including Ex Machina, Straight Outta Compton, Inside Out, and fellow Best…

In his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated feature Spotlight, helmer Tom McCarthy is set to direct the first two episodes of Selena Gomez’s Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, from Anonymous Content and Paramount TV. McCarthy also will executive produce the 13-episode series, based on the 2007 New York Times bestselling YA…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: It’s high time for Oscar voting, but I'd like to start with an unusual appeal: Everybody, go see Michael Moore’s new…