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BBC and Netflix series Attenborough’s Life In Colour sets out to explore the wonder of nature and its kaleidoscope of colors, but for producers at Humble Bee Films, filming the natural history show was far from black and white. Executive producer Stephen Dunleavy tells Deadline that soon after production got underway…

Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer give the likes of Wonder Woman and Black Widow a run for their money in the trailer for Netflix’s Thunder Force. The comedy marks the latest project from McCarthy and husband writer-director Ben Falcone, who were also behind HBO Max’s Superintelligence. Set in takes place in a…

Frank Langella almost literally exploded onto the scene in 1970 with two movie roles that immediately brought him to prominence in Hollywood, Diary of a Mad Housewife and The Twelve Chairs — the latter being the movie Mel Brooks often cites as being his favorite of all he has made. What a start to a film career, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Vasquez and Roman White, contemporary Christian and country music biz mainstays and the producer and director, respectively, of the upcoming faith-based Netflix musical film A Week Away, have signed with UTA and launched their new banner Rove Productions. They will be based in Nashville. A Week…

Lupin is "a great achievement, not only for us but for all producers around the world," said Gaumont Vice CEO Christophe Riandée, who is also a producer of the hit Netflix series, during a panel at the European Film Market today. The Omar Sy-starrer which has been a worldwide smash on streaming, is produced by Gaumont…

Editors note: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger, which his old Columbia University classmate Ramin Bahrani turned into the movie that has been generating awards buzz since its Netflix release in January. Adiga penned a guest column for Deadline about how the pair became…

Netflix has partnered with Hachette's Les Editions Albert René and playwright Alain Chabat to create the first-ever animated limited series based on the iconic French comic book The Adventures of Asterix. The 3D animated series will be made in France and streamed on Netflix around the world in 2023. Chabat, who wrote…

If her weekend gig trying to hold up Sunday’s Golden Globes landed with a thud, Amy Poehler has reason to celebrate success in another arena with her latest venture in the director's chair for Netflix. Following up the likable Wine Country, she’s decided to venture into the choppy waters of a high school comedy…

Greg Peters, the product chief at Netflix who was promoted to the additional role of COO last year, views the shrinking of theatrical windows as inevitable. “It’s what consumers want,” he said. “It’s hard to buck that trend for too long and I think that’s eventually where things go.” Long before Covid-19 forced an…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has struck a big deal for the Colin Firth World War II movie Operation Mincemeat, we can reveal. The streamer has pre-bought North America and Latin America rights for around $15 million from The King’s Speech producer See-Saw and Cohen Media Group after seeing footage in recent days. Shakespeare In…

Mary Holland (Happiest Season), Shelley Hennig (Dollface), Christina Anthony (Mixed-ish), Samsara Yett (The Flight Attendant), Cameron Britton (Mindhunter) and Benjamin Levy Aguilar (Filthy Rich) have been cast opposite Kristen Bell and Tom Riley in Netflix’s eight-episode limited series The Woman in the House, from…

With The Willoughbys, writer/director Kris Pearn adapted a beloved children's book of the same name by Lois Lowry, looking to be as faithful as possible to the "subversive" nature of her story, while bringing to it his own personal touch. Pearn's second feature, following 2013's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2…