Deadline is marking the annual event by highlighting the female-driven deals that have come already during Women’s History Month, and rounding up a list of events and programming worth checking out today. Keep checking back for more deals and features throughout the day.
FX has given a pilot order to Kindred, an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel, from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen, An Octoroon), Courtney Lee-Mitchell (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures (Black Swan, The Wrestler), Joe Weisberg (The Americans), and Joel…
For some time there has been a symbiotic relationship between Hollywood and Washington during award season in the form of publicity and prestige.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), though, said that he had no contact with the team behind Judas and the Black Messiah before he and other lawmakers reintroduced a bill to strip J. Ed…
The 15 shortlisted films vying to become one of the five Best International Feature nominees at the 2021 Academy Awards are a surprising and creatively engaging bunch. Their stories often are drenched in history — much of it tragic and disturbing — and turbulent social and political currents course through any number…
The Directors Guild of America on Monday revealed its nominations for the 73rd annual DGA Awards in the fields of TV, commercials and documentary. The guild, which will unveil its theatrical feature film and first-time feature film nominees tomorrow, will announce this year’s winners April 10 during a virtual…
With Easter weekend less than a month away, Sony announced today that will be opening the Evan Spiliotopoulos’ Screen Gems supernatural PG-13 horror movie The Unholy on April 2.
The feature based on the James Herbert novel Shrine joins Warner Bros/Legandary’s theatrical release of Godzilla vs. Kong which is opening on…
EXCLUSIVE: The late Audrey Wells was a prolific screenwriter and director whose work focused on strong female characters, from 2003’s Under the Tuscan Sun and 1999’s Guinevere through to 2018’s The Hate U Give. That trend continued with Over the Moon, Netflix’s animated musical about based on a Chinese myth about a…
EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Sutter has been set by Netflix to write, direct and produce This Beast, a drama that will mark his feature directorial debut. Blumhouse’s Jason Blum will produce the film along with Carla Hacken, who’ll produce under her Paper Pictures banner.
An 18th century English village is besieged by a mysterious…
EXCLUSIVE: Following a week where she landed the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for her portray of Princess Diana in Netflix’s The Crown, rising star Emma Corrin looks to have found a feature to follow that role up with. Sources tell Deadline Corrin is in negotiations to star in 3000 Pictures' Lady Chatterley’s…
The Queen of the South is done playing games.
The USA Network drama is ending with its upcoming fifth season, which will mark the end of the NBCU cable net's long-running scripted series.
Production on Season 5 of the show, which was renewed back in August 2019, was suspended in March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic…
Ravi Ahuja, who left Disney at the end of last year, has been named Chairman of Global Television Studios at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment Corporate Development.
Ahuja will lead the company's domestic and international productions business, its gameshow franchises and the studio's Indian…
If there wasn’t a scramble to get vaccinated before, the CDC’s newly-issued recommendations may ignite one.
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control issued its first set of public health recommendations for Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. A growing body of evidence, according to the CDC…
