When AFI revealed its Top 10 Films of the Year last month, five of them were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts. To Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond, 2021 looked like it could be a landmark year. Then came the crazy BAFTA nominations, along with the Producers and Directors guilds’ lists. Now what?
The New York Times called out Tucker Carlson for a segment in which he mocked and attacked one of its tech reporters, Taylor Lorenz, for a tweet she send on International Women’s Day.
In a statement, the Times said, "In a now familiar move, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night by attacking a journalist. It was a…
EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe is in discussions to co-star in Searchlight and Film4’s Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel. Emma Stone is in talks to star with Lanthimos on board to direct. Tony McNamara will adapt the script. Element Pictures will produce along with Stone and Lanthimos.
The…
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Fox has landed an hourlong anthology series from 1980s music superstar Huey Lewis, Hart of Dixie creator Leila Gerstein and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project, a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment, has received a script-to-series…
Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died. He was 94. Amsterdam-based news outlet NRC Handelsblad confirmed the news but didn’t provide details.
Working to alleviate the challenge of huge reel-to-reel decks and the portability of…
EXCLUSIVE: Craig Plestis, the man who brought Korean format The Masked Singer to the U.S., has struck a deal with Japan's Tokyo Broadcasting System Television to create unscripted formats for the U.S. and global markets.
The deal will see Plestis, who runs production company Smart Dog Media and executive produces…
Deadline has mentioned it was going to happen numerous times, but Michael B. Jordan has now committed to a step up to a new title: director. He’ll helm the third installment ofCreed, per MGM, which has dated the film for Thanksgiving 2022.
Jordan’s big moment — this is his directorial debut — was spoiled by his…
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers reintroduced a bill on Wednesday to allow smaller news publishers to collectively negotiate content deals with online platforms, an effort to give the local news industry more leverage in dealing with big tech.
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act will give…
AMC Entertainment revenue plunged last quarter to $162 million from close to $1.5 billion the year before as the global pandemic squeezed exhibition. That beat expectations, coming about $20 million above Wall Street's consensus estimates. The stock is up 3% in late trading.
Net losses widened to $946 million…
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award-winning animation writer/producers Kevin and Dan Hageman, creators, executive producers and showrunners of the upcomingStar Trek: Prodigy, have signed an exclusive overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the Paramount+/Nickelodeon animated series. Under the significant, multi-year pact…
The reminders from the Motion Picture Academy and the distributors arrive daily: See the movies! Judge the work! Choose your favorite!
Reminders are relevant because there's an absence of passion about this year's awards season (Oscar nominations are due by 5 p.m. today). The reasons are obvious: We all miss the…
EXCLUSIVE: BrickHouse Talent is bolstering diversity and inclusion in the industry by launching the first agency division to represent culture and inclusivity advisors on set and in the writers’ room.
The news comes after filmmakers and studios have recently doubled down on efforts to authentically depict people of…
EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation has sold out international rights toIn the Lost Lands at the virtual European Film Market, booking a string of multimillion-dollar presales for the fantasy-adventure movie.
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) are set to star in the Paul W.S…
