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EXCLUSIVE: Rebelle Media, the company behind the Hulu breakout Tell Me Lies and the films Mr. Malcolm’s List and Long Weekend, is undergoing a strategic rebrand. Founded by Laura Lewis in 2018 with a focus […]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple has greenlighted Liminal, a sci-fi action-thriller from director Louis Leterrier (Fast X) that will star Academy Award nominee Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) and Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Wonder Man). Liminal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Jim Gaffigan (Troop Zero), Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) have wrapped lead roles in Outside of Cleveland, a new fantasy dramedy from writer-director Colin […]

Harry Treadaway (Mr. Mercedes) has landed a series regular role in Bishop, Amazon MGM Studios‘ new thriller from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman. While we’re told Treadaway will play the part of Wyatt, further […]

Warner Bros. has quietly unveiled the first teaser for The End of Oak Street, their new sci-fi film formerly known as Flowervale Street from It Follows helmer David Robert Mitchell. Little has been known to […]

EXCLUSIVE: A24‘s Peaked has landed another buzzy name in Grammy-winning pop star Dua Lipa. Character details are under wraps. In the film directed by Molly Gordon from a script by Allie Levitan, she’ll star alongside […]

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Omari Hardwick, the actor known for anchoring Starz’s Power franchise, as he steps into a new chapter spanning two major series and an expanding producing slate for his company Bravelife Productions. […]

UTA has elevated 35 to Partner across 23 departments and multiple offices, the agency announced on Thursday. The new partners are across the following divisions: Filmed Entertainment, UTA Live (consisting of Comedy Touring, Music and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Range has signed British actress Fola Evans-Akingbola for management. Evans-Akingbola is best known for her breakout role as Secret Service agent Chelsea Arrington in The Night Agent, Netflix’s hit action-thriller series from Shawn Ryan, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Strand Entertainment has promoted Aileen Lewis to Manager, recognizing the longtime team member’s growing roster and contributions to their talent and production efforts. Lewis has been with Strand Entertainment for more than three and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sonja O’Hara has emerged as the inaugural grand prize winner of a new writing competition, aimed at discovering commercially viable short stories for feature adaptation, from Roadmap Writers, a program founded by Joey Tuccio […]

EXCLUSIVE: Eric André (Little Brother) has found his next starring role on the film side in Synergy Systems, a genre-bender marking the directorial debut of writer Toby Harvard (Come to Daddy). Synergy Systems is billed […]

EXCLUSIVE: Father-son directing duo Eric Weber and Nick Weber have wrapped on Not Dead Yet, an indie comedy starring Richard Kind (A Serious Man), Polly Draper (thirtysomething), Academy Award nominee Paul Raci (Sound of Metal), […]

Universal Pictures has locked in a release date for their Murder, She Wrote movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis. The film will go wide ahead of Christmas on Wednesday, December 22, 2027. The only other title […]

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed writer, actress, and stand-up comedian Nataly Aukar for global representation in all areas, with an eye toward helping her secure new opportunities across comedy touring, film and television, and more.  The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool franchise) has landed a role alongside Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo and Michael Mando in Netflix‘s live-action Gundam movie from Legendary, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Netflix and Legendary declined comment. Both […]

ReFrame, the gender equity coalition founded in 2017 by Sundance Institute and WIF (formerly Women in Film), has issued a new study spotlighting a reversal of gender-balanced hiring in film in 2025. After assessing the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lola Kirke (Sinners), Pauline Chalamet (The Sex Lives of College Girls), and John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane) have wrapped on Swim Fishy, the debut feature written, directed and produced by Kristen Buckels Cantrell, […]

EXCLUSIVE: The American Cinematheque is launching its own podcast, hosted and exec produced by the arts nonprofit’s Artistic Director Grant Moninger, which will premiere April 2. The American Cinematheque Podcast will be a weekly interview […]

Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) has joined Netflix‘s live-action Scooby-Doo series as a series regular, Deadline has learned. No word yet on the role he’ll be playing. Hauser joins following the casting of the show’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning producer Cathy Schulman (The Idea of You, Crash) and her Welle Entertainment banner are teaming with Netflix to develop a feature adaptation of the bestselling novel The Favorites by Layne Fargo. Kate […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the July 31st release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, where he reprises his role as Mac Gargan/Scorpion from 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, Michael Mando has closed a deal to join Netflix and Legendary‘s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Leanne Morgan has announced a new tour, The Time of Our Lives Tour, which will see her hit 32 markets across the United States from late June through December. This comes following the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Camp (Presumed Innocent), Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Michael Rispoli (Nonnas), and Jordana Spiro (Ozark) have wrapped on the New Jersey shoot for Operation Fastlink, a new coming-of-age crime thriller marking the feature […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Avatar franchise’s Stephen Lang has joined The Dregs, the Tuscany-set comedic thriller starring Emmy-nominated Baby Reindeer breakout Nava Mau, along with Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog), […]

Over the course of more than four decades, David Cross has done it all. An Emmy-winner and two-time Grammy nominee who was central to the rise of alt comedy in the 1990s, Cross has been […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Institute and Sandbox Films on Monday announced the 16 projects and 47 filmmakers receiving support this year through the Sundance Institute | Sandbox Fund. Focused on innovative nonfiction storytelling exploring the link between […]

EXCLUSIVE: Linden Entertainment has signed Emmy-winning director, writer, and producer Stephanie Laing for management. Laing is coming off the theatrical release of her new film, Tow, a comedy-drama starring Rose Byrne, Dominic Sessa, Ariana DeBose, […]

EXCLUSIVE: After 16 years years working on a series of stand-up shows oriented around longform storytelling — Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening being the most famous — Ari Shaffir is winding down his work […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Durkin has added four to the cast of his new A24 movie Deep Cuts: Abubakr Ali (A House of Dynamite), Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Gaby Hoffmann […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Omar Apollo has signed with CAA. Apollo made his feature debut in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer for A24, starring opposite Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey. He signed with Warner Records in […]

EXCLUSIVE: After executive producing and co-hosting The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, Netflix‘s first-ever live roast, which broke out as one of the major cultural moments of its year, Kevin Hart is set […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Feder has joined Disney Live Action as SVP, Production. Most recently at Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, where he was a founding member and held a first-look deal spanning film and television, Feder reports […]

EXCLUSIVE: After more than a decade at Good Fear Content, a company he joined at its inception, lit manager Scott Stoops has moved over to Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment, Deadline has learned. Elevated to Partner at Good […]

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Television has optioned Lights Out, the bestselling sports thriller by former national TV reporter-turned-author Elise Hart Kipness, for development as a series. Executive producers on the project include Mary J. Blige, Bruce Miller […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo, the screenwriting duo behind Netflix’s recent hit rom-com People We Meet on Vacation, have been enlisted to pen the new Care Bears movie for Warner Bros. This follows Josh […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following the conclusion of Stranger Things, Maya Hawke is staying in the Netflix family as the star of The God of the Woods, its new drama series based on the New York Times bestselling […]

Artists Equity, the artist-led indie studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale, has announced a new Writers’ Room program that will inform its development of original screenplays. Formalized after a successful pilot […]

EXCLUSIVE: Activist Artists Management has singed Preacher Lawson for representation. A comedian working since the age of 16, who’s also an actor and creator, Lawson first gained industry recognition after winning the 2016 Seattle Comedy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kirsten Dunst (Roofman) has joined the cast of the untitled Minecraft Movie sequel from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary. Dunst will play Alex, one of the primary avatars available to players of the Minecraft […]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV‘s untitled series based on Metropolis, from Philip Kerr’s globally bestselling book series Berlin Noir, has added seven to its cast: Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Baby Reindeer breakout Jessica Gunning, along with BAFTA […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Korshak has joined the recently launched production and finance company Giovanni Entertainment in the newly created role of Chief Media Officer. Korshak joins following four years as CEO of Artists Road, a joint […]

Preeminent entertainment attorneys Fred Toczek, Eric Suddleson, Marisa Kapust, and Ayo Adeyeye have confirmed their exit from Felker Toczek Suddleon to launch a new firm. The four were partners at Felker Tozek and longtime colleagues; […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amid the buzzy rollout of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, which she co-headlines for FX, Sarah Pidgeon has entered talks to star alongside Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal in Honeymoon with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has won a seven-studio bidding war for The Correspondent, a feature package based on the New York Times bestseller by Virginia Evans that has Jane Fonda attached to star and produce alongside Todd […]

A24‘s new comedy Peaked, from Molly Gordon and Allie Levitan, has cast five more in supporting roles: Amy Sedaris (Is This Thing On?), Owen Thiele (Adults), Jaya Harper (Roommates), Emil Wakim (Saturday Night Live), and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese has rounded out the cast of his Apple film What Happens at Night with the addition of Welker White, his collaborator on projects including GoodFellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, […]