Welcome once again, Insiders. Jesse Whittock here to take you through the top film and TV stories from the international community, and you can sign up to the newsletter here. We’re also taking a moment to pay our respects to the victims of 9/11, 25 years ago in New York. European TV In Peril Uneasy […]
Deadline•Jesse Whittock12 Sept
Minka Kelly is focusing at the positives as she bids farewell to Ransom Canyon, which was canceled by Netflix after two seasons. Kelly, who starred opposite Josh Duhamel in the Texas romantic drama, posted a video of her and Duhamel’s characters Quinn and Staten’s romantic journey, which saw plenty of ups and downs during the […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva11 Sept
“All we can hope for is that it sustains” That’s what Curry Barker was first told by his reps and those around him about the domestic box office prospects for his horror pic Obsession. He wasn’t expecting too much. Then the horror romance wound up making more than Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, $512.6M […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Amy Ryan (Birdman) is set to star opposite Emilia Jones in The Retrievals, Netflix’s third series from Maid and Sirens creator/executive producer Molly Smith Metzler. Inspired by the Peabody-winning NYT podcast by Susan Burton, The Retrievals follows an unlikely community of IVF patients who come together to crusade against Yale University after they are […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva11 Sept
South Korean sci-fi thriller Hope joins actioner Runner, historical epic The Uprising and a handful of interesting limited releases, a few by new indie distributors. With fall festival season in full swing and eyes on the next crop of independent standouts it’s slower for new entrants in the specialty space. Wide: Neon is out with […]
Deadline•Jillg36611 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: A24 is teaming with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios to bring the SCP Foundation, one of the internet’s largest fan-built horror and science-fiction universes, to the big screen for the first time. Taking worldwide rights to the project, an untitled extension of the V/H/S horror series, A24 is targeting a 2027 theatrical release. Plot details are […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar11 Sept
“It’s Deadline Hollywood so I’m going to set the record straight,” Gary Oldman said during an interview on Friday at Deadline’s Toronto Film Festival studio. He was, of course, referring to the recent furor around some off-the-cuff remarks he made about the casting of James Bond in a recent interview, and the resulting speculation that […]
Deadline•Antonia Blyth11 Sept
So here was my headline last Friday for Part 1of my Emmy Awards predictions covering select categories among the 102 given out this past weekend: “Pete Hammond’s Emmy Predictions, Part 1: Are ‘DTF St Louis’, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Jimmy Kimmel, Rob Reiner & More Heading For Early Wins This Weekend?” Except for poor Taylor, […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond11 Sept
Most British directors track past the postwar redbrick council homes where the majority of lower working-class people live their relatively ordinary lives, untouched by crime, drugs and all the other cliches of life on the bottom rungs of the social ladder. These directors use such shots as shorthand, but Paul Andrew Williams — still something […]
Deadline•Damon Wise11 Sept
Writer/director Joshua Giuliano’s feature debut River works equally well as a brutal atmospheric horror as it does a heavy family drama. In River, three siblings reunite to scatter their late father’s ashes on the river where he spent most of his free time, only for their boat to get stuck under a bridge, with two […]
Deadline•Glenn Garner11 Sept
Trick or treat? Paramount Skydance and the coalition of a dozen state Attorneys General fighting to stop David Ellison’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery will be having settlement talks after all. Well, settlement-ish talks, Under the routine procedure of the federal court system, a judge in Oakland today instructed the battling parties to […]
Deadline•Dominic Patten11 Sept
Gustavo Dudamel officially took the baton Thursday as conductor and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic, leading a concert at Radio City Music Hall that was packed with special guests. Liev Schrieber served as the night’s host, while St. Vincent, Joaquina, Aaron Tveit and Lizzo took turns collaborating with the orchestra. (Lizzo showed off […]
Deadline•Dade Hayes11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Following last night’s TIFF world premiere of his buzzy debut feature River, Josh Giuliano already has his next project — another horror film with a distributor on board and major backing. He’s set to write and direct Occupant for Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Divide/Conquer and Spooky Pictures, with Focus Features distributing. Focus holds worldwide rights to the […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar11 Sept
Earlier this week, tabloid reports had Jimmy Kimmel standing down from his late-night ABC show after his contract ends in May. That was not true, as evidenced by the fact that it has emerged that Kimmel is, in fact, in talks to renew his deal for another year, Deadline has confirmed. Kimmel and Disney are […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: The next big YouTube-born horror IP for the big screen we told you about, the Mandela Catalogue from the Scott Stuber-led United Artists, Amazon MGM Studios and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, is getting a summer release date of June 9, 2028. As Deadline reported, Mandela Catalogue creator Alex Kister is directing the feature off a screenplay […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro11 Sept
When Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney boarded Onwards and Sideways, John Madden’s latest feature about two characters whose lives are turned upside down when they are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the burden of responsibility was heavy. “I’ve never been so nervous in my life,” Linney tells Deadline in advance of the film’s premiere at the Toronto […]
Deadline•Dianalodderhose11 Sept
While Paramount CEO David Ellison grapples to take control of Warner Bros Discovery, he should be mindful to remember the architects in addition to the architecture. In other words, in the pursuit of merging content, be careful not to throw out those who shepherded it. No, that wasn’t the exact pitch nor message from Warner […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Luo’s Stars Collective is launching a new AI joint venture and fund with Dubai-based LH International. The companies said they will select projects across film, TV and digital, establishing a fund “with a target size of $300M” that will provide development and production finance. The JV will utilize AI to develop, produce and […]
Deadline•Stewart Clarke11 Sept
AMC and French broadcaster Canal+ are going with God after greenlighting the Point Break television series. This comes after Deadline revealed in December that the Breaking Bad broadcaster was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller. The series is set in the present day, over thirty years […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Noah Reid is looking to join Max Thieriot and Morena Baccarin as the lead of a Fire Country–Sheriff Country universe series. The Schitt’s Creek alum has been tapped to appear in two episodes of the upcoming second season of CBS’ cop drama Sheriff Country as Dr. Hudson “Hud” Henshaw. The guest star casting comes […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva11 Sept