Leaks out of David Ellison’s inner circle said the CEO would take his Paramount ball and leave California if state Attorneys General didn’t back off on their antitrust suit to stop the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery. And now it looks like the ball really is in play. After over 100 years, Paramount […]
Deadline•Dominic Patten30m ago
A familiar face in the Yellowstone universe will be returning for Season 2 of Taylor Sheridan’s Marshals in a recurring role. Jefferson White, who portrayed fan-favorite Jimmy Hurdstrom in Yellowstone, will reprise the role in the upcoming second season of the spinoff series. White’s Jimmy Hurdstrom is a good-hearted yet rough-around-the-edges ranch hand who evolved […]
Deadline•Denise Petski33m ago
Mercedes Ron’s hot streak on Prime Video is continuing. Drawn Together (Enfrentados: Marfil) has gone straight in at No. 1 on the streamer’s viewing top 10. The Prime Video original tops both the overall and non-English-language rankings. Ron is no stranger to success on Prime Video; the adaptations of her Culpables books are the streamer’s […]
Deadline•Stewart Clarke38m ago
EXCLUSIVE: The Studio scene stealer Chase Sui Wonders is looking to get in the holiday spirit for her next high-profile comedy as she is set to join Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage in the Universal pic Naughty from director Olivia Wilde. Jimmy Warden penned the script that Wilde will direct. The project originates from a […]
Deadline•Justin Kroll44m ago
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Hulu has nabbed Hard Feelings, a rom-com series created by and starring actress/comedian/writer Mary Beth Barone. She has recruited frequent collaborator and Overcompensating co-star Benito Skinner for a supporting role in the project, from A24, which has been put on fast-track development, I hear. Written by Barone in her first […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva44m ago
Heated Rivalry Season 2 has added six more cast members. Brendan Morgan (F*** Marry Kill, The Handmaid’s Tale) will play Zane Boodram. David Tomlinson (Fellow Travelers, Silent Night) will play Cody Kent, changed from the character of Dallas Kent in Rachel Reid’s Game Changer book series. Gerry Dee (Mr. D, Animal Control) will play Coach […]
Deadline•Dessi Gomez44m ago
EXCLUSIVE: In the spring of 2024, we reported on a buzzy young filmmaker named Wesley Wang — a Harvard student who got a feature take on his short nothing, except everything. set up at TriStar in a competitive situation, with Darren Aronofsky producing. The project isn’t moving forward at Sony, but we can now tell […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar59m ago
Takashi Miike took to the stage at the world premiere of his new film Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo like a rock star. “I’m Miike” he roared. “I’m back!” Which is immediately funny, because he’s never, ever really been away; arguably the hardest-working man in show business, Miike is never very far from a movie camera. Produced […]
Deadline•Damon Wise1h ago
France has selected exiled Russia director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s French-produced political thriller Minotaur as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category of the 99th Academy Awards. The submission was chosen from a shortlist also featuring Antonin Baudry’s historical biopic De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, Louis Clichy’s animated feature Iron Boy, Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva and […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow1h ago
Alan Cumming is set to banish more celebrities after Peacock handed The Traitors a supersized, three-season renewal. The mystery entertainment series has been picked up through Season 8 at the NBCUniversal streamer. It comes after the Studio Lambert-produced show won its third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program and Cumming won his third consecutive […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline1h ago
How To Survive Without Me, the family drama starring Ray Romano, Kaley Cuoco and Joshua Jackson, is officially a go at HBO Max. The project, which comes from Greg Berlanti, has, as expected, been handed a series order from the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer. It will consist of 15 episodes and comes as part of […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline1h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Josh Macqueen (Motorheads), Aspen Kennedy (Queen Sugar), Haley Dillon (Blue Ridge) and Mackenzie Porter (9-1-1: Nashville) round out the cast of AMC’s NASCAR drama series Thunder Road. The series will debut on AMC and AMC+ in 2027. From John Fusco, Thunder Road is the multi-generational saga of the fictional Whitlock family, whose legacy in […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero1h ago
NCIS: New York will premiere on October 6 with a bang! The LL Cool J-led series will welcome NCIS’er Brian Dietzen, reprising the role of Jimmy Palmer. Dietzen, who has been with NCIS since the procedural’s first season, has previously played the character in NCIS: New Orleans and NCIS: Hawai’i. During a recent chat with […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero2h ago
EXCLUSIVE: John Scherer has joined Nocturnal Entertainment, the recently launched financier and production company led by Keaton Heinrichs and Akiva Nemetsky, as Head of Development. In his new role, Scherer will help to foster the company’s filmmaker-driven slate with an eye toward identifying young, singular voices that the company can help grow, regardless of experience […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar2h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Gregg Araki has found his next project in The Decline of F*cking Western Civilization, a dark comedy to star Ashton Kutcher and Alison Brie that has Jesse Williams in talks for a third major role, sources tell Deadline. Described as an ensemble piece — Election meets American Beauty — the film’s plot is being […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar2h ago
Steve Roy has joined CAA as an agent in the Motion Picture Literary Department. Based out of CAA’s Los Angeles office, Roy reports to Motion Picture Literary department co-heads Dan Rabinow and Ida Ziniti. He comes to the agency from Buchwald, where he’d been working as an agent since 2023. While at Buchwald, Roy repped […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar2h ago
“We’ve been trying to climb this mountain for 30 years,” an army colonel tells the assembled group. “Britain is depending on us to get up first.” The mountain is Mount Everest, the world’s tallest. The officer is John Hunt (Willem Dafoe), who would lead the first successful mission to ascend it. Among the group is […]
Deadline•Erik Pedersen2h ago
Italy has unveiled the 21 films under consideration to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards. A selection committee, overseen by the film body Anica, will decide which film will go forward as Italy’s submission at a meeting on September 23. The films, all of which were […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow2h ago
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios’ Los Angeles division is taking a new approach to scripted and has promoted its unscripted chief Ryan O’Dowd to oversee it. O’Dowd, who was President, Unscripted, has been named President, BBC Studios Global Productions LA, bringing its scripted and unscripted operations under a single leadership structure. As a result of the move, […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline3h ago
Ben Saunders, the London-born Dutch singer who won the first-ever incarnation of The Voice, was found dead Tuesday, September 15, in a popular Netherlands recreational lake. He was 43. His death was announced on Instagram by his brother Dean, who wrote, “My dear little brother died today. I have never felt such pain as I […]
Deadline•Greg Evans3h ago