EXCLUSIVE: Tisha Campbell is returning to Lifetime as the star, executive producer, and writer of One Last Shot, an original movie premiering Saturday, November 14, at 8/7c as part of the network’s 2026 Love of a Lifetime slate. She is joined on the cast by Charles Malik Whitfield, Jaden Lucas Miller and AJ Johnson. Campbell […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero14 Sept
Sony Pictures Entertainment has set former Amazon MGM Studios executive Jamie Kampel as EVP, Head of Consumer Products & Licensing, Her appointment follows the recent exit of Jamie Stevens as EVP of Worldwide Consumer Products at Sony Pictures but Kampel’s role appears to be broader. She reports to Jay Levine, EVP, Chief Strategy Officer and […]
Deadline•Jillg36614 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: After a 25% decline between 2019 and 2025, the volume of commercial production dipped just 2% in the first six months of 2026, according to a new study by ad firm XR Extreme Reach. One big reason for that stability trend: California and its enduring draw for celebrities. The Golden State has suffered well-documented […]
Deadline•Dade Hayes14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Reggie Rock Bythewood (Swagger) and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Undisputed Cinema is developing the feature film Cannon Street All-Stars, based on the titular first all-Black Little League team from South Carolina. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts and the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry, both champions in their respective sports, are on board to produce. In 1947, […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero14 Sept
Ben Platt (The Politician, The Beauty) and Russell Tovey (Plainclothes, HBO’s Years and Years) are the latest actors added to the upcoming fifth and final season of the HBO/BBC drama Industry, which is now in production. Platt will play Matt Crenshaw, a venture capitalist and an early backer of a wellness-tech company. His character is […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson is set to lead Summer of Roses, a new suspense drama from Rick Alverson, who directs from a script co-written with Micah Jayne. Caleb Landry Jones, Harrelson’s co-star in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is also set, as are Hannah Gross (The Drama) and Kaya Wilkins (aka […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: When it’s time to get serious, it never hurts to have Saul Goodman in your corner — especially on Emmy night, especially if you’re aiming to be the next Mayor of L.A. That’s exactly what Nithya Raman is doing tonight with Bob Odenkirk-voiced campaign ad set to drop right before the local NBC affiliate’s […]
Deadline•Dominic Patten14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Gina Rodriguez is set to make her theatrical directorial debut with the new boxing film, House of Guerrero, written by Bernardo Cubría (Acapulco). House of Guerrero is produced by Scott Budnick and Ameet Shukla (Nonnas) from 1Community, Rodriguez’s I Can And I Will Productions with Molly Breeskin, and Justin Baldoni and Andrew Calof from […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero14 Sept
Netflix is rounding out the cast of This Summer Will Be Different, its series adaptation of Carley Fortune’s best-selling novel, with some familiar faces and a touch of Anne of Green Gables, which inspired the book. Joining the ensemble are Malin Akerman (The Hunting Wives, Billions) as “Aunt Stacy”, Megan Follows (Buried in Barstow) as […]
Deadline•Dessi Gomez14 Sept
Sony has moved the Jim Caviezel action pic Ghost Soldier from Nov. 6 this year to Wednesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day. In the William Eubank directed movie, Caviezel stars as Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a solitary man with a mysterious past, living a quiet life off the grid in his hometown. But when a powerful foreign […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Conover has announced that his sophomore stand-up special, Big Divorce Energy, will be released on YouTube on Friday, October 23. In the special, filmed at the Den Theatre in Chicago, Conover talks sex and self-discovery, dating after divorce, and why straight men are the most repressed people in America. “Big Divorce Energy is […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street is moving up the theatrical release of Musk – to October 9 – in response to intense interest in the documentary about the world’s richest man. Alex Gibney’s film, which runs 3 hours and 45 minutes with a 10-minute intermission, holds its North American premiere later Monday at the Toronto Film Festival. […]
Deadline•Matthew Carey14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Courtney Hoffman has wrapped production on her feature directorial debut, Intimacy Party, the ensemble romantic comedy led by Juno Temple, with SNL alum Cheri Oteri and John Michael Higgins (Licorice Pizza) rounding out the cast. Also new is UTA Independent Film Group’s boarding of the film to oversee worldwide sales. Written by Hoffman and […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Dice Clay (A Star Is Born) is set for a voice role in Lizard Music, Benny Safdie’s new live-action/CGI hybrid film for Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists. No word on the role Clay will play. He joins a cast led by 10-year-old Theo Clark Leber, which also includes Dwayne Johnson, Alicia Silverstone, […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept
There is a new wrinkle in the ongoing saga over the Kennedy Center: Officials with the institution are warning of “certain financial collapse” and that restoring Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to get him to “lead the financial rescue of the center.” A draft board resolution, outlined in court documents on Monday, […]
Deadline•Ted Johnson14 Sept
American rapper Macklemore will no longer be supporting Ed Sheeran‘s Loop Tour amid a backlash against his “free Palestine” pleas. As the 4x Grammy winner took the stage for Sheeran’s tour earlier this month at MetLife Stadium, he called for “safety and peace” for all before performing his protest song “Hind’s Hall.” He later emphasized […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw, Hamburg, Istanbul, New York – brave Russian journalists who dared to report the truth about their country have had to scatter across the globe to avoid imminent arrest. News anchors and reporters Anna Nemzer, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova and more turned My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow into a […]
Deadline•Matthew Carey14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: It has come to our attention that Paramount and Netflix are ending their animated film pact. There was a pre-existing agreement in place specifically between Netflix and Skydance Animation which was announced in 2023; that latter label ultimately falling under Paramount post merger. The two congloms remain committed to the upcoming animated features on […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro14 Sept
Netflix has set a new slate of projects with video game company Sega, including film adaptations of their titles Crazy Taxi and Stranger Than Heaven, and a new Sonic children’s series. Dan Gregor & Doug Mand, the screenwriting duo behind 2025’s reboot of The Naked Gun, are penning Crazy Taxi. First released in arcades in […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept
The future of Paramount and Comcast’s international streamer SkyShowtime is in serious doubt amid the Paramount-Warner mega-merger. A note from the SkyShowtime board to CEO Monty Sarhan informed him that it has kicked off a strategic review, “which includes the possibility of a wind-down.” “No decisions have been made, and all options remain under consideration,” […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart14 Sept