AMC Global Media’s 2026 upfront provided updates on three high-profile AMC Studios series in development, Bannerman, Point Break and the first installment in the new Great American Stories anthology, The Grapes of Wrath. ‘Bannerman’ AMC Studios has opened a writers room for Bannerman, a series for AMC and AMC+ based on the popular Bannerman spy […]

AMC Global Media is leveraging its relationship with corporate cousin Sphere Entertainment, lining up key promotions at New York’s Beacon Theatre and Sphere in Las Vegas. The company announced the plans Wednesday night at its annual upfront presentation to ad buyers in New York. June 2 is booked at the Beacon for The Vampire Lestat: […]

Four months after Jimmy Fowlie announced his sister Christina Lynn Downer went missing in Los Angeles, the comedian shared a devastating update. On Wednesday, the Saturday Night Live writer revealed that Downer is “no longer alive” and that the LAPD is now treating the case as a homicide investigation, instead of a missing persons case. […]

With the countdown on for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, Josh O’Connor has had to keep the details of the script top-secret. The Golden Globe winner recently revealed the lengths Spielberg took in order not to let any of the David Koepp-penned screenplay leak before it premieres June 12 in theaters, recalling how he first received […]

A Prada-wearing devil shows up on this week’s SNL promo, and it’s not Meryl Streep or Anna Wintour. Olivia Rodrigo is there though – she’s both the host and musical guest this week – but the devil is James Austin Johnson, out-Streeping Streep. In the promo, Rodrigo arrives at Studio 8-H to be greeted by […]

Despite using more than 2 million feet of film to bring Homer’s The Odyssey to the big screen, writer/director Christopher Nolan is keeping the cinematic experience under three hours. The 2x Oscar winner recently revealed that his upcoming film, which films July 17 in Imax, has a “shorter” runtime than his 2023 epic Oppenheimer, which […]

Gen V might have been canceled after two seasons on Prime Video, but a scrapped Season 3 storyline could possibly show up in the Vought Universe sometime in the future. The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke is teasing that Amazon has expressed interest in developing ideas from this world. “It’s very early days, because we’re focusing […]

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight has greenlit Lottery, a Permut Presentations drama about a young man with Down syndrome, who after winning the lottery, flees his estranged mother and hits the road with a charming new friend who has ulterior motives of her own. Two-time Primetime Emmy winner Keke Palmer stars with The Peanut Butter Falcon‘s Zack Gottsagen. […]

The National Association of Broadcasters is criticizing Donald Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for its scrutiny of Disney and ABC over a joke by Jimmy Kimmel. In a statement Wednesday, the head of the top industry trade group said Carr’s move to initiate an early review of the ABC stations’ licenses “creates significant uncertainty” for […]

A state judge today pushed proceedings in Nick Reiner’s case for the stabbing killing of his parents Rob and Michelle Reiner to the fall as prosecutors and public defenders continue to collect more evidence. Among the evidence that still remains are autopsy reports on the 78-year-old A Few Good Men director and the 68-year-old photographer […]

EXCLUSIVE: Zero, meet Casper. In a very competitive situation involving a five-way bidding war, Disney+ has landed a new series take on Casper the Friendly Ghost. The live-action project comes from Rob Letterman and Hilary Winston, executive producers of another Disney+ supernatural series, Goosebumps, Steven Spielberg, who executive produced the 1995 Universal movie Casper starring […]

Saddle up for Season 2 of Ransom Canyon, which will arrive on Netflix July 23. The second season of the Western drama series will feature eight episodes. The show is based on Jodi Thomas’ book series. According to the logline, “Season 2 will pick up six months after the events of the first season, with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Vorteks, the genre label of Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon, has acquired international rights outside North America for Brea Grant and Ed Dougherty’s horror satire Grind. The acquisition comes hot on the heels of the movie’s buzzy debut in the Midnighter section of SXSW last month. Digging into the anxieties of the modern workplace, Grind […]

The entrance of the American streamers into the factual drama space has muddied the waters in terms of defining a show’s success, according to Jeff Pope, who made his first streamer show last year. Reviews are now even more crucial than they used to be while ratings have dipped in importance in a world of […]

New York City Center has set three musical revivals – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Hallelujah, Baby! and Kiss of the Spider Woman – for its 2026-2027 Encores! season, along with a three-week gala presentation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights this fall. You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown will be directed by Sam […]

The Banff World Media Festival has added Succession creator Jesse Armstrong and Happy Days actor Henry Winkler to its line-up. Emmy winner Armstrong, who wrote HBO smash Succession and the likes of Mountainhead and Peep Show, will feature in a keynote moderated by CBC Q’s Tom Power, while Hazardous History host Winkler will appear in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction co-writer and The Rules Of Attraction director Roger Avary has been set to write and direct a feature version of Biblical epic Paradise Lost for emerging AI-oriented production company Ex Machina Studios. Tarantino collaborator Avary is the latest to tackle the influential and complex John Milton poem of 1667, which has long posed a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Underscore Talent has hired Lital Spitzer and is formally launching a theatrical division. The L.A.-based agency expects the addition of Spitzer to mark a “significant expansion of the company’s footprint into scripted film and television.” She will bring a roster of clients, including Esther McGregor (Babygirl), Alex Consani (Peaked), Charlotte Nicdao (Mythic Quest), and […]

UPDATED with more honorees: The series Yellowjackets, Paradise, Baylen Out Loud and All Her Fault, Hedda director Nia DaCosta, The Pitt‘s Katherine LaNasa, I Love LA‘s Rachel Sennott, CNN’s Abby Phillip and podcasts from Oprah Winfrey, Jameela Jamil and Monica Lewinsky are among the winners of the 51st annual Gracie Awards. In addition, Andie MacDowell […]

Apple TV has unveiled a first look at Season 5 of its longest-running sitcom Trying, as Celia Imrie joins the cast. Check out the pics below and above as Apple gets set to launch Trying with a weekly drop from July 8. Season 5 of the warm family drama finds Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason […]

AMC+ is getting in the Hudson Williams business. In a competitive situation, the AMC platform has nabbed the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to Crave’s Yaga, starring Hudson in his first role following the breakout success of another series he has for Canadian streamer Crave, global phenom Heated Rivalry. Hudson stars alongside Carrie-Anne Moss in the […]

The WGA West appears unwilling to negotiate with its staff union any further. In a memo to members on Wednesday, WGSU leaders say they tried to accept management’s April 8 offer contingent on a few adjustments. WGA West management refused, “restating that their April 8 proposal is their last, best, and final”, per the WGSU. […]

While Meryl Streep is reprising one of her most iconic characters in The Devil Wears Prada 2, her rate has increased quite a bit in the 20 years since the original. The 3x Oscar winner recently revealed that she originally turned down the sequel to the 2006 adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s book, noting that “it […]

Bryce Dallas Howard has been cast in Curry Barker’s next directorial Anything But Ghosts, which is being released by Focus Features. Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are also producers on the pic. Howard joins a cast led by Barker, Aaron Paul and Cooper Tomlinson, who were previously announced. The news comes before Barker’s Obsession, which […]

Instagram and Facebook parent Meta beat on the top and bottom lines last quarter but the stock dipped over 5% on market jitters over expanding capex, which the company anticipates in the $125-145 billion range this year. That’s up from its previous guidance of $115-135 billion and includes data centers, higher components pricing and more […]

Broadway’s Death of a Salesman will not get a Tony nomination in the leading actress category, it turns out. The Tony Awards Administration Committee ruled today that the production’s Laurie Metcalf will be eligible in the featured actress in a play category. The committee does not explain the reasoning behinds its rulings – the season’s […]

Lionsgate’s Michael continued its dance party into yesterday, Tuesday, where the Antoine Fuqua directed feature rang up $11.1M. For a live-action movie in April, that’s the fourth best Tuesday ever behind Disney Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame ($33.1M, April 30, 2019), Universal’s Furious 7 ($13.3M, April 7, 2025) and last April’s A Minecraft Movie from Warner […]

It was dinner time at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, and C-SPAN had switched to a split screen: On the right side, there was Oz Pearlman, the mentalist, performing one of his feats for President Trump, the first lady and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. On the left, there was an in-studio conversation with […]

EXCLUSIVE: QWGmire, the independent production and film financing company founded by Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty, and Elan Gale, has entered into a development and financing pact with Taka Ichise, the famed Japanese producer who was integral to bringing J-horror to global prominence, with titles like Ring and The Grudge, in the late ’90s […]

Netflix has given a series order to Dad’s House, an adult animated comedy series executive produced by Michael Cusack (Smiling Friends, Yasl ), Dario Russo (Danger 5, Italian Spiderman, The Fox) and David Ashby (Danger 5, Italian Spiderman). Cusack, Russ and Ashby also serve as showrunners and star in the voice cast, along with Felicity […]

Another heated bidding war has been won by Netflix with a straight-to-series order. The streamer’s latest high-profile buy is Lovesick, a romantic drama starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Claire Danes (The Beast In Me, Homeland). Written and executive produced by Sarah Treem (The Affair, House of Cards), who will serve as showrunner, Lovesick […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Kaitlyn Dever has signed with WME for representation. Most recently, Dever has been seen playing Abby in the second season of HBO’s award-winning series The Last of Us, starring alongside Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Her performance last year earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, and […]

Sen. Ted Cruz apparently is backing the First Amendment over partisan politics. The Texas lawmaker hinted in an interview today that he doesn’t believe the FCC should wade into the latest dust-up between Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump. “It is not government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate […]

Director/producer Jamie Lloyd’s Evita revival starring Rachel Zegler will come to Broadway in spring 2027, producers announced today. The announcement confirms recent speculation fueled by various clues and social media hints. The new production of the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will play a Shubert theater to be announced. Evita on Broadway will be produced […]

Netflix has unveiled a premiere date for The Whisper Man, its psychological thriller based on Alex North’s New York Times bestselling novel, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott. The film will release globally on Netflix August 28. Check out a first-look still above. The Whisper Man follows a widowed crime writer who, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo 8 Distribution has acquired the feature documentary Ice Ice Baby – Hip Hop’s 1st Global #1 and will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Market. The film is said to explore “the extraordinary and misunderstood journey of Rob Van Winkle, known worldwide as Vanilla Ice, and the unprecedented success of his chart-topping single […]

EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales company has acquired international rights for Sonja Orlewicz‑Zakrzewska’s first feature Exotic about a woman’s journey toward self‑discovery through pole dancing. The picture follows a writer whose quest to master pole dancing evolves into something far more profound when the process and community of dancers she encounters help her figure out her true […]

EXCLUSIVE: DC/DOX has announced its Signature Screenings lineup for the upcoming fourth edition of the prestigious festival in the nation’s capital. The cinematic event running June 11-14 will kick off with Give Me the Ball!, the portrait of tennis star and transformative cultural figure Billie Jean King. Oscar nominee and Primetime Emmy winner Liz Garbus […]

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track… […]

Peter Jackson, who is being feted with an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, will also participate in its Rendezvous program, with Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton also announced for the onstage conversations. They will follow in the wake of the likes of Meryl Streep and Pedro Almodovar who previously gave […]

AMC is officially heading down Thunder Road. The cable network has greenlit the NASCAR drama series that has Dennis Quaid starring. Deadline first revealed the project was in the works in November and broke the news that the Reagan star was attached earlier this month. The announcement came as part of AMC Global Media’s Upfront […]

Outrage moves at the speed of social media in the Donald Trump era, but the wheels of media regulation turn far more slowly. That is the main takeaway from Deadline’s conversations in recent days with more than a dozen sources across media, Washington and Wall Street about the clash between ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel […]

Amazon surpassed Wall Street forecasts with revenue of $181.5 billion in the March quarter, up 17% from the year earlier. CEO Andy Jassy noted Project Hail Mary‘s nearly $615 million at the box office to date among the company’s achievements for the three months. Sales and profit numbers were a beat as was the key […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Morning Show has added Sydney Park (Scary Movie, Moxie) and Jeff Wilbusch (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, Unorthodox) in recurring roles for the upcoming fifth season. Park will play Leah, Cory Ellison’s new assistant. Wilbusch will recur as Roman, Head of Protective Services for the UBN News Division. Jennifer Aniston and […]

YouTube ad revenue rose 11% in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025, flirting with the $10 billion mark. The ad revenue haul of $9.883 billion was one of many solid parts of parent company Alphabet’s overall quarter. YouTube was cited by the tech giant, along with Google One, as a key […]

Lincoln Center Theater’s hit Broadway musical revival Ragtime will launch a North American tour this coming fall, producers announced today. Directed by Lear deBessonet, the artistic director of LCT, the tour will premiere at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre in Buffalo, New York, before continuing onto cities across the U.S. and Canada. Dates, additional tour stops and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Hayes MacArthur has signed with Artist First for management in all areas. MacArthur is best known for starring alongside Rashida Jones in TBS’s comedy series Angie Tribeca, exec produced by Steve and Nancy Carell, which ran for four seasons. He’s coming off the release of A Love Like This, an indie romantic drama […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Williams has rounded out the cast of his indie drama Hal, starring Alexander Ludwig and Emma Roberts. Newcomers include Matthew Goode (Department Q), Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy), Taylor John Smith (Where the Crawdads Sing), Garret Dillahunt (No Country for Old Men), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Colm Meaney (Star Trek: The Next […]

Justin Berfield is sharing his thoughts on the Malcolm in the Middle revival and the downside of the show’s return. Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair reunited the core cast of the beloved comedy except for Erik Per Sullivan, who played Dewey, who was recast with Caleb Ellsworth-Clark. After the original series wrapped its seven-season […]

Shawn Hatosy, who won his first Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for The Pitt Season 1 in 2025, will be submitted this year under the categories of Supporting Actor and Director for Season 2. On the hit HBO Max medical drama from creator R. Scott Gemmell and producer John Wells, Hatosy […]

SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Boys, Season 5 episode ‘One-Shots’ It’s a Winchester family reunion on this week’s episode of The Boys, as creator Eric Kripke assembled the stars of his previous hit series Supernatural for some killer cameos. Jensen Ackles, who stars as Soldier Boy on the Prime Video series and its […]

The Devil Wears Prada is a strange title to revisit in 2026, because since so much has changed in the 20 years since. For one thing, toxic work environments stopped being a laughing matter in 2017, when The New York Times called out Harvey Weinstein (current residence: Rikers Island). For another thing, so much of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Olivier winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) is set to star in and make his feature directorial debut with Nice Fish, alongside five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain), Jim Lichtscheidl (A Serious Man), and Isabella LaBlanc (True Detective: Night Country). Tamara Birkemoe, CEO of Palisades Park Pictures, is launching international sales […]

Director Aoife McArdle (Severance) is lining up Foxfinder, a psychological thriller set to star BAFTA and Emmy award-nominee Tessa Thompson (Creed), Golden Globe and Emmy winner Owen Cooper (Adolescence) and two-time Emmy winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear). Cornerstone and Logical Pictures Group will co-rep international sales and distribution and will launch sales at Cannes. WME Independent, Cornerstone and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Avengers and Materialists star Chris Evans is joining crime-thriller, My Darling California, the next project for writer-director Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams). As we told you last fall, the movie will star Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Chris Pine (Star Trek franchise), Mikey Madison (Anora), Charles Melton (May December) and Don Cheadle (Ocean’s franchise). Evans […]

Electric Entertainment has picked up world distribution rights to the feature film O Horizon and will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.  The film stars Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) alongside co-stars Adam Pally (Iron Man 3), Maggie Grace (Taken), Avi Nash (The Walking Dead), and […]

Catherine Zeta-Jones has signed on to join Anthony Hopkins in the feature A Visit to Grandpa’s. Principal photography on the film began on April 7 in Wales. It is directed by DJ Caruso (Mary). Check out a first look of Zeta-Jones in the film above and one of Hopkins in action below. Also starring in […]

EXCLUSIVE: A24 UK has optioned the rights to Alexis Hall’s buzzy BookTok hit Boyfriend Material. A24 has picked up TV rights for Boyfriend Material, which follows a neurotic and messy twenty-something struggling to keep his life on track. When Luc’s world unexpectedly collides with Oliver, an uptight and workaholic criminal barrister, at a low point […]

EXCLUSIVE: Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, the Italian cinema showcase hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà in New York City, returns for its 25th edition this year and will run from May 28 to June 4. Scroll down for the full list of titles.  The programme will feature 15 films, including nine North […]

EXCLUSIVE: Big Boi of the legendary rap duo Outkast is among the executive producers attached to We Ran The City, a feature documentary on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.  The film’s synopsis reads: “Atlanta 1996: We Ran The City delves into Atlanta’s dynamic and often tumultuous transformation during the years leading up to the 1996 Olympics. […]