EXCLUSIVE: Diego Luna is a soccer-mad bureaucrat who makes an outsize promise to win the rights to host the 1986 World Cup in his new Netflix movie. México 86 bows on the streamer on June […]
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Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Sister Group has taken a majority stake in digital-first label After Party Studios. After Party is the UK-based producer and creative agency specializing in digital-first content and working with streamers, […]
Anke Greifeneder will receive Deadline’s 2026 German TV Disruptor award. One of Europe’s leading programming executives, she will accept the honor at Seriencamp, the biggest gathering of the German industry, which takes place in Cologne. […]
From Mars to Iraq by way of San Francisco and Juno Temple’s loft… Joel Kinnaman is keeping busy. When the actor meets with Deadline in a London restaurant, he has just filmed his part in […]
HBO Max has picked up cozy crime series Bookish for its service in Australia. The show comes from the pen of Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss. He also stars in the series, which is heading into its […]
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films that have had an impact in their local territory. The industry is as global, with breakout hits […]
Johnny Massaro and Rodrigo Santoro will star in Vicente Amorim’s adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Pilgrimage’. Cameras are now rolling on the Netflix film. We broke the news this one was happening back in mid-2024 […]
EXCLUSIVE: Waleed Zuaiter will play Saddam Hussein in High Value Target, the series adaptation of John Nixon’s non-fiction book ‘Debriefing the President‘. For All Mankind star Joel Kinnaman had already been announced in the series, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars) and Rob Benedict (The Boys) will lend their voices to Saigon, a new iHeartPodcasts drama based on the bestselling Vietnam-set novel of the same name by Anthony Grey. The […]
Former Disney and Discovery LatAm exec Carolina Lightcap has partnered with three other industry vets to launch ShowUp Studios, which will major in producing content for Gen Z on YouTube and TikTok. Lightcap runs LightCubed […]
Season 2 of Young Sherlock is afoot. We teased last month that the greenlight was likely, and now Prime Video has confirmed it is happening with an official Season 2 order. Guy Ritchie will return […]
The roster of actors and talent cast in the short films promoting this year’s International Booker Prize has been unveiled. Kae Alexander (Fleabag), Toheeb Jimoh (Industry), Toby Jones (Alan Bates vs the Post Office), Xelia Mendes-Jones […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Scott Thomas and Kurt Russell will both be feted with a Crystal Nymph Award at this year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival. The stars will be in Monte-Carlo in June to accept the honor, which […]
EXCLUSIVE: Taskmaster’s international rollout is continuing apace, with a local version greenlit by Polish broadcaster TVN. Warner Bros. Discovery-owned TVN’s version of the hit comedy-entertainment format will be produced by Avalon and Constantin. The news […]
EXCLUSIVE: A second and final season of Black Sands is coming back to the Viaplay Streaming Service in the U.S. The first season of the dark Icelandic crime drama was well received, scoring numerous award […]
EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film has inked a deal with tech outfit Enteractive, which will take over the technical management of its content and library including big-ticket series such as Babylon Berlin and Gomorrah and movies including […]
EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way has signed on as an exec producer on Snow Leopard Sisters. The feature doc premiered at SXSW and follows snow leopard conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama as she mentors 17-year-old Tenzin Bhuti Gurung. […]
Netflix is doubling down on film and TV from Argentina, opening a new office in the capital, peppering its slate with four new shows, and dishing updates on various others including the latest season of […]
EXCLUSIVE: MHz Choice will show acclaimed South African crime drama Cousins in North America. The streaming service will launch the Afrikaans-language series in August. The drama is based on the true story of two 12-year-old […]
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Seriencamp is gearing up for the 2026 edition. The industry-facing confab returns to the German city of Cologne, running from June 9-11, running alongside the public Seriencamp Festival, which will host the world […]
EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview since becoming head of content at Disney+ EMEA, Angela Jain has said the message to writers and producers is simple, the streamer is going to greenlight more originals from the […]
There’s good news and bad news for fans of Mackenzie Crook’s hit comedy Small Prophets. The good news is Crook wants to write a second series, and one with more episodes. The less good news […]
“It was just Agnes,” The Testaments creator Bruce Miller told Deadline of the moment Chase Inifniti auditioned for the lead in the Hulu series. The adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s book and the sequel to The Handmaid’s […]
Bloodhounds producer Studio N has a new season of the Netflix drama about to drop, a Series Mania screening of The Legend of Kitchen Soldier, and its biggest ever show, The Remarried Empress, launching later […]
EXCLUSIVE: A chance encounter between a German-Brazilian interpreter and Swedish Crown Prince is the inspiration for Queen Silvia, a glossy drama series for Prime Video. Cameras are rolling on the big-ticket production, about one of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Young Sherlock producer Motive Pictures is developing two new projects with Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, while bolstering its development team to manage a growing slate of dramas. Motive previously collaborated with James on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Former Buccaneer co-CEO Richard Tulk-Hart and former Cineflix Head of Scripted TV James Durie are taking the High Road. The pair have joined forces to launch High Road Entertainment, a new co-production and sales […]
The Plastic Detox is Netflix’s documentary film that delves into whether lowering daily exposure to microplastics – going on a three-month plastic detox – can improve fertility markers in couples who want to start a […]
EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max and France Télévisions’ hard-hitting drama Laura’s Treatments has found new international buyers. The series is known as L’Affaire Laura Stern in French-speaking territories. It follows Laura, a pharmacist and mother, played by […]
Buyers are going to get a first look at ten international drama series that Series Mania has identified as global hits-in-the-making, with gnomes, Nazis, gamers, fertility clinics and the British PM all in the mix. […]
Netflix is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo and her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. The streamer said the drama will show how the couple’s love, betrayals […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is gearing up to launch a trio of Brazilian soccer docs, kicking off with Ronaldinho: The One and Only. There will also be a USA 94: Brazil’s Return to Glory and The Root […]
EXCLUSIVE: Young Sherlock is Prime Video’s number one show and its producers have high hopes it stretches to Season 2 and beyond. The eight-parter is the origin story of the titular detective, played by Hero […]
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first clip from Cruyff, Box to Box’s series about Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff. The four-part documentary from the Formula 1: Drive to Survive producers will feature contributions from some of soccer’s […]