ViacomCBS exceeded Wall Street earnings expectations in the first quarter, paced by the addition of 6 million global streaming subscribers.
The rebrand of CBS All Access as Paramount+ took effect in March in the U.S. and the company began a global rollout. ViacomCBS said it had 36 global streaming subscribers as of…
Chinese box office across the five-day May Day holiday which concluded Wednesday hit a record high of RMB 1.67B ($258M). This is up from the RMB 1.53B grossed during the similar 2019 frame which lasted four days. Contrary to previous years, the recent holiday did not see any significant Hollywood titles in the mix as…
More than 50 years after the original, popular children's movieThe Railway Children is getting a sequel, with original cast member Jenny Agutter returning.
She will star alongside Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay and a new generation of the titular 'railway children'.
Morgan Matthews (X+Y) is directing the picture…
Hot off the heels of Danish comedy Another Round winning this year's Best International Feature Oscar, Netflix has greenlit its first Danish-language original movie, Loving Adults.
Dar Salim (Borgen) and Sonja Richter (Open Hearts) are starring in the movie, which hails from SF Studios, the Scandi producer behind…
EXCLUSIVE: Leonine and Lionsgate have closed a lucrative three-picture all-rights movie deal for Germany and Austria.
The pre-buy deal includes Borderlands, Eli Roth's star-studded adaptation of the popular video game; White Bird: A Wonder Story, the companion film to 2017 box office hit Wonder; and action-comedy The U…
Frank McRae, an NFL player-turned-actor who appeared in the James Bond film Licence to Kill and in the Last Action Hero, died April 29 of a heart attack in Santa Monica. He was 80, The news was confirmed by his daughter-in-law, Suzanne McRae.
Born in Memphis, he attended Tennessee State University as a double…
UPDATED with latest: While Los Angeles County qualified to move into the least-restrictive Yellow tier of the state’s economic reopening blueprint today, the region decided to wait until Thursday to relax guidelines. The county did, however, issue a new set of Yellow-tier guidelines set to take effect tomorrow.
The…
EXCLUSIVE: After recently working together on David O. Russell’s next pic, John David Washington and New Regency are reuniting as Sources tell Deadline the Golden Globe and SAG nominated Washington is on board to star in Gareth Edwards next pic True Love for New Regency. The film is an original sci-fi project written…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Chi McBride has signed with Verve. The accomplished actor, who recently wrapped a seven-season run as Lou Grover on CBS’ Hawaii Five-0, was recently tapped to star opposite Pete Holmes in the as-yet untitled Tom Smallwood comedy pilot, also for CBS.
In addition to being a series regular on Hawaii…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set Blake Lively to star in and produce, and Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody to adapt Lady Killer, based on the Dark Horse Comic series.
The plan is for Lively to play Josie Schuller. By all appearances, she is the perfect 1950’s housewife. But when she’s not catering to the needs of her…
Catherine Zeta-Jones freely admits she is 51, but the Oscar- and Tony-winning star has been at much longer than most her age, having gotten her first professional showbiz job at 9 and going strong ever since. She joins me for today’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actors Side, where she talks about all of it…
