Hollywood Climate Summit and Jackson Wild have set finalists for their first joint awards ceremony Nov. 10 in Los Angeles spanning narrative film & TV from Train Dreams and Hacks, to unscripted and documentary This is a Gardening Show and Nuisance Bear. Selected from over 500 global submissions, finalists represent “the most impactful, innovative, and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is exploring the world of dating following extreme weight loss in its latest non-scripted order. Deadline understands the streamer has greenlit Weight To Date from The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC). The deal came only a few weeks after Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman, who are now co-CEOs of the company, exited Sony Pictures […]
EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Warren (The Leftovers) and Evan Jonigkeit (The Hunting Wives) are currently shooting lead roles in Door, an indie sci-fi horror film also starring Akira Jackson (It Ends), River Blossom (Abbott Elementary), Johnny Sibilly (Hacks), and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost). Marking the feature directorial debut of Sara Magness and Wil Magness, who also wrote the screenplay, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has hired Sophie Crowther to join the agency’s creators team in London. She from Billion Dollar Boy, where she built the company’s talent partnerships team and helped found and launch FiveTwoNine, a creator-focused brand and platform. In total, she has 12 years’ experience in the field. Prior to Billion Dollar […]
The guest star list for Season 6 of Only Murders in the Building just keeps growing. Olivia Colman has boarded the sixth season of Hulu’s cozy murder mystery show, set to take place across the pond. The news was unveiled on social media in a video by Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep and Martin Short via […]
EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Anna Mastro for representation. A filmmaker active across both film and television, Mastro is helming the feature adaptation of action-adventure game Gravity Rush for PlayStation Productions and Scott Free. Also attached to direct the romantic comedy Katfished for Rebelle Media, her earlier feature directing credits include Disney+’s Secret Society of Second Born Royals and the indie dramedy Walter. In […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ken Kao’s prolific financier-producer Waypoint Entertainment has struck a first-look partnership with Watch This Ready, the indie production company co-founded by filmmakers Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino, alongside producer Emily Korteweg. The two companies previously collaborated on the Dakota Johnson starrer Splitsville, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year and was […]
Laurie May is stepping down as co-president of Canadian indie distribution company Elevation Pictures. Founded in 2013 during the Toronto Film Festival by Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman, Elevation has handled the Canadian release of such movies as Oscar-winning The Imitation Game, Room, Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the recent A24 successes Backrooms and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actor Macaulay Culkin has signed with CAA. One of those actors who will be forever linked to an iconic film, Culkin is known for his role as Kevin McCallister in John Hughes’ holiday classic Home Alone, one of only a handful of films in the last 50 years to have remained at #1 at the box […]
After revealing the start of production on a new Descendants film featuring the children of some of Disney’s most beloved sidekicks, Disney Channel has added some additional cast members to the upcoming project. Hidden Heroes: A Descendants Story has added Darren Criss as Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio, Sherry Cola as Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove, James Monroe […]