EXCLUSIVE: Greg Cohen has joined Peter Craig and Bryan Unkeless’s production company Night Owl as SVP of Film and TV. He comes over after eight and a half years at Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s di Bonaventura […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Grace Burford has been promoted to agent in the Motion Picture Literary Department at IAG. Burford joined the agency last year as the Motion Picture Literary Department coordinator, following nearly four years at WME. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has landed The Death Roll, a survival horror-thriller spec from Kas Graham & Rebecca Pollock, with Glen Powell and Dan Cohen aboard to produce via their Barnstorm banner, alongside Bryan Haas (The Order) […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nora Lum, the actress, comedian, and producer better known as Awkwafina, has signed with CAA. Earning a Golden Globe for her leading role in Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, which made her the first person […]
EXCLUSIVE: Laura Ramoso, an Italian-German comedian best known for her live sketches and viral impressions on social media, is bring her The Calm Down Tour to North America. Marking the third leg on a sold-out […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actress, writer, and producer Karrie Martin Lachney has signed with Zero Gravity Management for theatrical and literary representation. Lachney is perhaps best known for her female lead role in Gentefied, the Netflix series following […]
EXCLUSIVE: Impression Entertainment has signed Braeden Clarke for representation. Clarke is a Canadian actor best known for starring in the Crave series Little Bird, a performance that earned him the Canadian Screen Award for Best […]
EXCLUSIVE: Benjamin Bratt (Andor) has signed on to star alongside Viola Davis and Jason Clark in Ally Clark, the new thriller from Amazon MGM Studios, on which we were first to report last June. Character […]
EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of her star-making awards run with Netflix’s Adolescence, Erin Doherty has signed on to star in Warner Bros.‘ new comedy from Nancy Meyers. Character details are under wraps, but Doherty takes […]
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Brown (A Complete Unknown), Odeya Rush (Memory of a Killer), and Luke Eisner (Tall Girl) have come aboard for roles in Goodbye Girl, the new romantic comedy from Amazon MGM Studios and Gulfstream […]
Conan O’Brien paid tribute to Martin Short as he signed off as host of the 98th Academy Awards. “It’s been an honor and a joy,” he said of the hosting experience, his second time out. […]
Michael B. Jordan has won his first Academy Award tonight, prevailing in the Best Actor category with his dual roles in Warner Bros.‘ Sinners. Jordan has been a top contender this whole season, alongside Marty […]
There was a rare tie at the Oscars on Sunday night, with The Singers (Netflix) and Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker) both taking home the award for Best Live-Action Short Film. Including this […]
With his new docuseries Amerigo coming to PBS, Emmy-winning producer David McCourt wanted to examine a complicated question. If his own grandfather “came to this country at 16 years old, uneducated, got a job as […]
Steven Spielberg took a bit of a jab at Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments alluding to the cultural irrelevance of art forms like ballet and opera, during an appearance Friday at SXSW. Asked about the future […]
After nearly a decade away from SXSW, and from feature directing generally, Joe Swanberg is back this weekend to the festival that launched his career with The Sun Never Sets, a starry dramedy premiering tonight […]
Charlie Day gave a nice preview of what we can expect from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 in a Friday sitdown at Deadline’s SXSW Studio. “We’re right in the middle of the new […]
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jimmy O. Yang has set a theatrical release for Finally Home, his third comedy special, taped during a sold-out arena run in his hometown of Hong Kong. The special will screen exclusively in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Just a year into its first-look film and television deal with Amazon MGM Studios, Premeditated Productions has inked a five-year extension, taking their deal with the studio through the summer of 2032. Premeditated was […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from SXSW Midnighter selection Monitor. For Matt Black and Ryan Polly, the Texas-based filmmakers behind the horror film Monitor, the project emerged, unusually, from a case of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Alloy Entertainment have added six to the cast of their holiday rom-com In a Holidaze: Andrea Anders (Ted Lasso), Gil Bellows (Patriot), comedian Patton Oswalt (GOAT), Jackie Sandler (You Are So Not […]
EXCLUSIVE: Propagate Content, the independent studio founded by Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, has acquired Callen Hamilton Boyer’s creator-first agency Sway Social. The acquisition of Sway Social, a company focused on helping digital talent […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing Primal, a new romantic comedy written and directed by Ponies creator Susanna Fogel, which she’ll produce alongside Melissa Wells under their Big Adventure banner. Primal follows teenage Jane, who lives most […]
EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Landon (Drop) is set to write and direct Final Boarding, a new supernatural horror film for Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems, based on the short story by Clarence Hammond. Plot details for the film […]
EXCLUSIVE: Frankie Quiñones has set a development pact with Fox Entertainment Studios that will see him co-write and star in a scripted TV comedy for the studio. The news comes ahead of the SXSW premiere […]
EXCLUSIVE: True North, Nathan Kahane‘s newly launched film production and finance company founded with backing from Entertainment 360 and its investor, The Carlyle Group, has announced its first executive appointments: Sam Greenberg as Senior Vice […]
EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Gives Back, the non-profit working to provide a safety net for the comedy community, has set the lineup for Alt Comedy All-Stars 2026, a benefit show to take place at The Montálban Theatre […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tracie Thoms (upcoming The Devil Wears Prada 2) has landed a role alongside Pamela Anderson, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ariana Greenblatt in Somedays, the new indie drama from writer-director Brian Klugman. Character details are […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nacelle announced on Wednesday that Jeff Dunham‘s The Cars That Drove Us, its new series hosted by ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham, is set to premiere on Discovery Channel Tuesday, March 31 at 9:00 p.m. […]