What a week it’s been for the embattled HFPA, as Hollywood’s personal publicists banded together in a rare show of unity, demanding change and threatening to hit the group where it hurts most by denying it access to the glitterati of film and television. Ava DuVernay took to Twitter to recall an HFPA press conference…
Valhalla Entertainment, Trouper Productions and Zipper Bros. Films have kicked off production on upcoming documentary Mass Effect: The Story of YouTube, Deadline hears.
Directed and produced by Alex Winter (Bill & Ted Face The Music, Showbiz Kids), with Gale Anne Hurd and Glen Zipper also on board as producers, Mass Ef…
Endeavor Group Holdings, the agency, entertainment and sports giant, has put its waylaid plans to have an IPO back on track.
The parent of WME and IMG and owner of sports and entertainment assets like the UFC, pulled the plug on its IPO at the last minute in 2019. It has filed new documents with the Securities and…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues to be aggressive in the material market, making a preemptive deal for the Dan Kunka script Lift, for Simon Kinberg’s Genre Pictures and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho to produce. Genre’s Audrey Chon and 6th & Idaho’s Adam Kassan are also producing.
Netflix moved quickly, after the spec was sent…
EXCLUSIVE: Mckenna Grace is set to star in the film Craterfor Disney Plus with Kyle Patrick Alvarez on board to direct. The film will be overseen by Disney's live-action team with hopes to shoot in the spring. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce through their 21 Laps Entertainment banner.
Crater is described as a…
Have you ever wondered which public figure would be most fit to lead the world, in the event of an alien invasion? Today, a U.K. poll of 2000 British adults found that the answer is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"I want to thank the people for putting their faith in me," the actor and former California Governor said, taking…
With nominations now announced, voters are curious — and skeptical — about how this year's Zoomsday scenario will play out. The face-to-face encounters that enlivened awards seasons in the past always produced unexpected heroes or heavies by now, but will virtual sessions resonate as effectively?
Consider the…
EXCLUSIVE: MACRO and The Black List have teamed with Warner Bros. Pictures to launched The MACRO x The Black List Feature Screenwriter Incubator, a new initiative that offers writers of color the opportunity to develop a film idea to pitch to a WB executive.
The mission of the program is to discover and empower the…
Warning: The below interview has spoilers about Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which goes live on HBO Max today.
It’s pretty common for a notable director to have a director’s cut.
But the circumstances surrounding Zack Snyder’s re-approach to his 2017 opus Justice League are quite an anomaly from both a filmmaker and…
EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin’s (Independence Day) Electric Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to completed drama California Love, based the true story of Joanne Lee-Beck's life with gang member Jay Hunter, as they both fought racial injustice in the 1990's against the backdrop of the Rodney King verdict and the…
The Motion Picture Association released its annual report on box office and home entertainment, and the bottom line is sobering but little surprise after a year of Covid closures.
The U.S./Canada box office market was down 80% in 2020, to $2.2 billion, while tickets sold were down 81% to 0.24 billion.
Still, that was…
