Hogwarts has three new additions. HBO’s Harry Potter TV series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle, and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey. The trio of actors will join the cast for Season 2, with filming currently underway at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK. Spall will take up […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter15 Sept
That Taylor Swift cameo at the Emmys was actually filmed on the Law & Order: SVU set, by the way. After Monday night’s telecast of the 78th annual Emmy awards, producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay joined NBCUniversal’s EVP of Live Events & Specials Jen Neal to break down the biggest moments from […]
Deadline•Katie Campione15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Terrifier 3 sales outfit The Coven has boarded French- language horror picture Sunnyside as principal photograph begins in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France. The debut feature of Yoann Luis, Sunnyside is set in a dystopian world where humans are raised for food. “Sunnyside is part of the tradition of socially conscious genre cinema, where […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: The 2026 Screamfest Horror Film Festival will open with Jeremy Weiss’s latest feature, The Night Driver, starring Josh Lucas, David Arquette, and Alyssa Milano. The festival, which runs October 6-15 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, announced its first wave of titles today. The lineup features 8 world premieres, 6 North American premieres, 1 US […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim15 Sept
Film and television studios, unions, guilds, film commissioners and entertainment industry groups have launched the U.S. Film & TV Production Coalition, a united front as a U.S production incentive begins to take shape. The group launched Tuesday along with a new study by consultancy Olsberg SPI commissioned by the Motion Picture Association laying out substantial […]
Deadline•Jillg36615 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has bought U.S. rights to Isabelle Huppert comedy All About Corinne ahead of its North American bow tomorrow at TIFF. In Marc Fitoussi’s (Call My Agent!) film, screen legend and Oscar nominee Huppert stars alongside a stacked French and European cast including Sandrine Kiberlain, Anne Marivin, Emmanuelle Bercot, Diane Kruger, Ana […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman15 Sept
Netflix has released the explosive main trailer for Season 4 of The Diplomat, which sees tensions rising to a fever pitch between Kate (Keri Russell), her husband Hal (Rufus Sewall) and President Grace Penn (Alison Janney). “The Russian sub that ran aground off this coast was carrying an apocalypse weapon. You stole it,” says a […]
Deadline•Denise Petski15 Sept
“I don’t know what to say. I am intense,” Tom Cruise concluded in a rare sit-down video interview published today by GQ Magazine. The veteran actor was speaking with the magazine as he gears up for the release of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger next month. During the conversation, Cruise was asked about the lessons he […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim15 Sept
Fresh off yet another Emmy win, Slow Horses will be returning for an eighth season. Season 8 of the hit Apple TV show starring Gary Oldman will begin production shortly and will be based on the ninth book of Mick Herron’s ‘Slough House’ series, titled Clown Town. The news comes with Season 6 of one […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Cowperthwaite (Fallout) and Patricia De Leon (The Cleaning Lady) have completed production on Charred Remains of Heaven, an independent feature fully financed by the estate of former UCLA Film School Dean Robert “Bob” Rosen. Sundance alum Christopher Bradley (Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss) wrote and directed the film, and lead creative producer Michael J. […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim15 Sept
The simple way to sum up Monday night’s Emmy Awards is, as we’ve seen in the past few years, there may be 24,000+ voters in the Television Academy membership but they only watch a handful of shows, and that membership has grown increasingly fickle as the Emmys near 80. To paraphrase a famous Oscar acceptance […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond15 Sept
Trust Nordisk has unveiled fresh deals for Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown following its Golden Lion win at the Venice Film Festival. New sales include to Memento for France, as well as Spain (Karma Films), Poland (Best Film), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), the former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom Film) and Bulgaria (Beta Film). Previously announced deals […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow15 Sept
Cue all the “sun will come out” references: Annie, the beloved Tony-winning musical that gave us the song “Tomorrow” and provided generations of child actors the chance to play plucky orphans, will return to Broadway in a 2027 50th Anniversary production to be directed by Oh, Mary!‘s Sam Pinkleton. The production is planned for fall […]
Deadline•Greg Evans15 Sept
Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the leading opposition candidate in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, is under investigation for alleged corruption and money laundering tied to the financing of a film about his father, the country’s disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge unsealed court documents related to the case late last week. The […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Killing Eve prequel Honey will have its world premiere at MIPCOM Cannes. The BBC and ZDF series will be shown on the Monday of the biggest gathering in the international TV world at 6 p.m. CET (9 a.m. PT) followed by a screening with creator Emma Moran, actor Ann Skelly, EP Sally Woodward Gentle […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart15 Sept
IDFA, the world’s largest documentary film festival, has named filmmaker Tatiana Huezo as its 2026 guest of honor, a distinction that puts the Salvadoran Mexican director in the company of previous honorees Laura Poitras, Johan Grimonprez, Wang Bing, and 2025 guest of honor Susana de Sousa Dias. Huezo’s films include The Tiniest Place (2011), The […]
Deadline•Matthew Carey15 Sept
Kristin Cavallari is getting back out to the rodeo with a new rom-com feature for Roku. Laguna Beach star Cavallari has landed the lead role in Cowboy Hearts for the streamer. It comes after she worked with the platform on The Reunion: Laguna Beach, which was its biggest unscripted launch ever. Cavallari, who previously dated […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline15 Sept
Yuri Nakamura, the Japanese-Korean star of Netflix original series Romantics Anonymous, has died at the age of 44. Nakamura’s representatives at Alpha Agency published a statement announcing that the actress died of rectal cancer on September 1. “We express our deepest gratitude for the kindness shown to her during her lifetime and respectfully announce her […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter15 Sept
Netflix drew an average audience of 18.5 million for its live coverage of the first NFL game played in Australia, according to Nielsen. The viewership of the San Francisco 49ers-L.A. Rams game played in Melbourne equaled that of a game streamed last year from Brazil by YouTube. While retaining audience counts for plenty in today’s […]
Deadline•Dade Hayes15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: The exec producer behind Emmy-winning October 7 doc We Will Dance Again has joined Israel’s Yoav Gross Productions (YGP) as VP of Content & Partnerships. Ariel Weisbrod has joined the Red Skies maker as part of a “broader push to expand its international activity,” according to the indie. He will oversee content and development […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart15 Sept