Writer-director Kaih Roache-Turner, who's behind projects such as Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead and Nekrotonic, has set his next project as arachnophobia horror Sting. Cornerstone is handling worldwide sales on the project and will unveil it to buyers at the Cannes market.
The title, which is produced by Jamie Hilton and…
For Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, VFX supervisor Sean Walker, along with his team at Weta, was tasked with bringing the Great Protector and the Dweller-in-Darkness to life. "The most challenging part with these insane, massive, mystical and mythical creatures, is that the human mind knows that these…
EXCLUSIVE:Geoff Bennett is joining PBS NewsHour as chief Washington correspondent early next year, and will anchor the weekend newscast as production moves from New York to Washington, D.C. under the WETA-TV banner.
Bennett recently departed NBC News as White House correspondent and substitute anchor on…
Former Walt Disney Animation vet Ann Le Cam has joined Weta Digital as SVP, Global Talent & Animation Production.
She will be based in Weta Digital’s Los Angeles office and report to CEO Prem Akkaraju.
Le Cam recently served as SVP of Studio Planning and Talent at Walt Disney Animation Studios and held executive…
For the first time since PBS began broadcasting the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony in 2000, the program is going to be rebroadcast on another network. TV One announced today it would telecast the 18th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this Friday at 8 PM ET.
The Kennedy Center for the Performing…
EXCLUSIVE: Production has just begun in Sydney on Cleverman, a six-part high-concept drama starring Game Of Thrones and Downton Abbey‘s Iain Glen. Wayne Blair, breakout helmer of Oz’s The Sapphires, is lead director, with Leah Purcell also directing.
The Australia-New Zealand co-production is described as a “sexy and…
While Tamil stars and films are perhaps not as well known outside of India as their Bollywood counterparts, they nevertheless have a huge fanbase within India (especially the south) and across the diaspora. Also known as Kollywood, the Tamil industry produces hundreds of feature films per year. The latest high-profile…
Matt Reeves, director of Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, talks with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. about the work of Andy Serkis, and how visual-effects house Weta Digital transformed Serkis physical performance into Caesar, the chimp leading the apes after a worldwide plague has decimated the human population. Reeves…