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Channel 4 and See-Saw Films are developing a TV adaptation of Benedict Lombe’s play ‘Shifters’, which is set to transfer to A24’s Cherry Lane Theatre. Meanwhile, Ari Emanuel’s Mari is reportedly in talks for a $6B deal to buy ATG Entertainment, owner of venues behind popular shows like 'Paddington'.
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Variety
Tamsin Egerton (“Love, Rosie,” “St. Trinian’s”) and Trevor Eve (“A Discovery of Witches) are set to star in “The Golden Valley,” a half-hour comedy drama series. The show, created by Jack Eve, centers on the eccentric and tony Sterling family as they face losing the family farm, in the vein of other
2026-06-22 16:51 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Institute has announced the creative teams taking part in the 2026 edition of its Documentary Edit Intensive, taking place at Francis Ford Coppola’s All-Movie Hotel in Peachtree City, Georgia from June 21–26. They are Ameha Molla and Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros, with Higher 15,
2026-06-22 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation has announced an untitled Dan Trachtenberg animated comedy horror based on the graphic novel Freddy the 13th by Yehudi Mercado. The project announcement comes four months after the 10 Cloverfield Lane and Predator: Badlands director Trachtenberg signed a three-year pro
2026-06-22 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: After successfully launching the Duke Ka-Boom character in the Toy Story franchise, Keanu Reeves and Josh Cooley are looking to reteam on another popular toy franchise. Sources tell Deadline that Keanu Reeves is in negotiations to star in a live-action hybrid Lego pic with Cooley directin
2026-06-22 17:00 UTC
Deadline
Google DeepMind and A24 have unveiled an innovative research partnership allowing the studio and its filmmakers to “help shape new technology in service of their vision and expand their storytelling possibilities.” Google has made an investment in A24 as part of the collabration, wrote Eli Collins,
2026-06-22 17:00 UTC
Variety
Meaghan Oppenheimer is following up “Tell Me Lies” with a new drama series currently in the works at Hulu. Variety has learned that Oppenheimer is developing the series “Bastards” at the streamer, on which she will serve as writer and executive producer. 20th Television, wher
2026-04-27 16:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Magnetic Labs, the indie producer-financier founded by Adam Mirels and Robbie Mirels, is launching a private equity fund, which it says will “significantly expand the company’s financing capabilities alongside its established development and production businesses”. The c
2026-04-27 16:33 UTC
Variety
Brian Helgeland, an Oscar-winner for “L.A. Confidential,” has been tapped to write a crossover film about characters from “Django Unchained” and “The Mask of Zorro.” Although based on the 2014 comic series co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner, the untit
2026-04-27 19:04 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Mantegna’s The Friendly has become the first feature film to be adapted as a vertical video using interactive studio app HighFive. The indie pic, which was first distributed in 2024, has been converted using what Highfiv creators Jason Strickman and Kumbáli Satori describe as a
2026-04-27 19:06 UTC
Deadline
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook began the company’s first quarter earnings call Thursday with a 5-minute update on the company’s efforts to fend off a legal challenge to its $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna. DirecTV and a collection of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to try to undo th
2026-05-07 14:29 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based production company Flimmer has secured the screen rights to German writer Takis Würger’s bestseller The Club, delving into the secretive and sometimes toxic world of members clubs at Cambridge University. The company is currently in the throws of developing an English-languag
2026-05-07 14:35 UTC
Variety
To the outsider’s eye, Germany might not be famous for its sense of humor. But new series “The Flaws” is ready to change that. “I think we are being pretty brave. And also, we don’t care,” said director Arne Feldhusen. “In Germany, everything is always about thrillers. Few years ago, you weren
2026-04-09 13:02 UTC
Variety
Action Xtreme, the London-based action studio co-founded by Chee Keong Cheung and Andreas Roald, is moving into music publishing through a new division – AX Music Publishing – formed in partnership with Atlantic Screen Group. The venture will be responsible for developing and commercializing origina
2026-04-09 13:14 UTC
Variety
Amazon Prime Video has formally greenlit a series adaptation of “Things We Never Got Over.” The show is based on the book of the same name by Lucy Score and is the first of three books in Score’s so-called Knockemout series. The TV adaptation was first reported to be in the works a
2026-06-11 15:00 UTC
Variety
Oscar winner Michael Giacchino has been officially unveiled as the composer for Brad Bird’s upcoming Netflix animation “Ray Gunn.” “Ray Gunn,” an original futuristic detective caper, is set to be the duo’s sixth collaboration since they first teamed up on 2004 Pixar animation “The Incredibles.” (The
2026-06-11 15:00 UTC
Variety
Quilty, which makes a tool that uses AI to evaluate and score a screenplay to help determine its producibility, has landed its first partnership with a production company. The company, launched in February by founders film producer Daniel Wood and lawyer-turned-producer Simon Horsman, has struck a m
2026-06-11 15:00 UTC
Variety
The anonymous New York City-based band Adore have teamed up with director Wesley Wang to release the official music video for their single “Feel It All Again,” out now on Big Beat Records / Warner Records. A unique collaboration, the three-minute animation is also known as “Violet and Marlowe Rob a
2026-06-11 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The Bachelor star Jillian Harris and her husband, former pro snowboarder Justin Pasutto, have signed with Shine Talent Group. TV personality and author Harris also starred in The Bachelorette, hosted Love it or List it Vancouver and has built a subscription e-commerce business, The Jilly
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
Deadline
There is plenty of PAW Patrol and spinoff Rubble & Crew in our future. Nickelodeon and Spin Master Entertainment have renewed the hit preschool series for an additional 26 episodes each, marking seasons 14 and 15 for Paw Patrol, and seasons 5 and 6 for Rubble & Crew. The highly-rated PAW Pat
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The latest player in the creator IP space, Volt Factor, is debuting with a range of high-profile partners. TheBurntPeanut, Alan Chikin Chow and That’s Amazing are among those working with Volt Factor, which is billing itself as a platform that will scale creators’ con
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
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Johnny Flynn (Beast, Ripley) is joining Bill Condon’s The Road Home opposite Cynthia Erivo, Guy Pearce and South African multihyphenate Thabo Rametsi (Silverton Siege). Having opened for Paul Simon (Graceland) in 2018 with his band ‘Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit’, Flynn comes full circle and
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season is headed into the LA Screenings on board Recap, the indie television series starring Corey Stoll and Julia Stiles. International distribution rights to the series from Kimberly Stewart’s K Period Media have gone to Fifth Season, which has shared a first-look image with
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
Variety
BET Studios has announced a partnership with microseries company aTwist, aiming to create storytelling “rooted in Black culture and community.” Through the partnership, the companies will produce multi-platform original microseries, including long-form episodic content for cable distribu
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
Variety
Hit animated series “PAW Patrol” and the spinoff “Rubble & Crew” have been renewed for two more seasons each at Nickelodeon. Both shows have been picked up for 26 more episodes. That will bring “PAW Patrol” to its 14th and 15th seasons, while “Rubble
2026-05-14 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Britt Lower (Severance), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), and Selton Mello (I’m Still Here) are set to star in Michael Almereyda’s upcoming feature Zero K, joining previously announced cast members Caleb Landry Jones and Peter Sarsgaard. Based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the sam
2026-05-14 15:03 UTC
Deadline
Minotaur marks the first film from acclaimed Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev in the best part of a decade. At the film’s Cannes Film Festival world premiere today it received a heartfelt ten-minute standing ovation, one of the longer ovations of the festival so far. Deadline’s Stephani
2026-05-19 16:03 UTC
Variety
A film adaptation of mystery-adventure video game franchise “Broken Sword” is being developed by game maker Revolution Software, producer Story Kitchen and Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos. Created by Charles Cecil, the “
2026-05-19 16:03 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and Theo Rossi (The Penguin) have wrapped lead roles opposite Jenna Laurenzo (Lez Bomb) in her sophomore feature, Maid of Dishonor. Shot in Los Angeles, Maid of Dishonor is a rom-com following Caroline (Hampshire), who in moving b
2026-05-19 16:11 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to Greg Yagolnitzer and Raviv Ullman’s Drag, the offbeat thriller comedy that premiered at the 2026 SXSW and stars Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos and Christine Ko. Briarcliff CEO Tom Ortenberg has set a fall theatr
2026-05-19 16:15 UTC
Deadline
With the entertainment industry in flux and talk everywhere about new models, Level Forward has been plugging away at one as a public benefit corporation — a for-profit company legally required to balance a focus on earnings with positive societal or environmental impact. It’s worked with more than
2026-05-19 16:15 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has put in development Summer People, a drama from Emily Goldwyn (SMILF, Emily in Paris), Bill Krebs (Good Girls, Grosse Pointe Garden Society) and Universal Television. Summer People follows three elite families and their nannies during a summer following a shocking tragedy. What
2026-04-21 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone and its extended universe has always featured a range of musicians and its latest spinoff Dutton Ranch is no exception. Country singer Morgan Wade has joined the cast of the Beth and Rip follow-up in a recurring role. Wade, who has toured with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Zac
2026-04-21 17:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: T.L. Swan’s bestselling Miles High Club book series is in the works for the small screen. Amazon MGM Studios is developing the books as a television series with Swan, Counterpoint Pictures and QC Entertainment attached to executive produce. A search is out for a writer. Based on the
2026-04-21 17:00 UTC
Rolling Stone
The bass player says he's unlikely to perform with his estranged bandmates at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame unless they "reach out and try and form some kind of relationship"
2026-04-21 17:11 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Macro and Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Cultural Leadership Fund have selected seven filmmakers who will participate in the inaugural Epigraph Creator Fellowship. Per Macro and CLF, the fellowship is built on the premise that “creators who have always defined culture should hav
2026-04-28 16:00 UTC
Deadline
The CW will exclusively air all NXT Premium Live Events under a multi-year deal with WWE. Starting with The Great American Bash later this summer. The CW will broadcast 20 PLEs in their entirety live on both coasts over the next several years, including Stand and Deliver, Deadline, and Vengeance Day
2026-04-28 16:00 UTC
Deadline
Jonathan Scott, one of the stars of HGTV’s Property Brothers franchise, is moving into the world of talk. The host, producer and construction contractor is developing a new syndicated daytime talk show with CBS Media Ventures. Better! With Jonathan Scott will film a pilot episode later this month an
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
Variety
Can a “Property Brother” spruce up daytime television? CBS Media Ventures is hoping to find out by developing a new talk show hosted by Jonathan Scott. A pilot episode of the series will be filmed later in June in New York and will be considered for CBS Media Venture’s fall 2027 sy
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
Variety
Los Angeles-based genre label Spooky Pictures, Abu Dhabi-based studio Image Nation and L.A. and UAE-based production company Longevity Pictures have secured a financing deal with prominent European production/distribution banner Studiocanal — through its in-house genre label Sixth Dimension — for th
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
Deadline
Holmes has been upped to series regular on hit Prime Video show Overcompensating Season 2. Production is underway on Benito Skinner’s second season, with Connie Britton and Kyle MacLachlan among the guest starring and recurring cast returning. Holmes, who stars in Hacks and Welcome to Flatch,
2026-06-10 15:00 UTC
Deadline
Toy Story 5 premiered last night in Los Angeles, and the first reactions to the Pixar and Disney film are coming in. More than 30 years after the original animated film was released, its sequel continues to entertain audiences, based on their first impressions after the screener. “Toy Story 5
2026-06-10 15:05 UTC
Deadline
Mari, the events company founded last year by Ari Emanuel, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire West End and Broadway theater giant ATG Entertainment for £4.5B ($6B). The Financial Times reported that Mari is in exclusive discussions with ATG’s private equity backer, Providence, over a d
2026-06-24 08:42 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 and See-Saw Films are developing a TV series adaptation of Benedict Lombe’s history-making play Shifters, which is about to transfer to A24’s Cherry Lane Theatre and counts Idris Elba and Little Simz as admirers. The London play about two young Black people who meet again after
2026-06-24 08:44 UTC
Deadline
We Are Parable has set the 2026 cohort for its talent development programme, Momentum. This year, the programme, which is backed by Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television, received over 700 applications. 30 UK-based Black filmmakers made the final cut. Of the selected group, 55% are based outs
2026-05-27 10:08 UTC
Variety
U.K. factual outfit Zinc Media Group has been commissioned to reinvent and produce season 18 of the Qatar Foundation’s educational reality TV show “Stars of Science” in a $6 million deal that marks Zinc’s first major entertainment commission in the Middle East. “St
2026-05-27 10:14 UTC