When AFI revealed its Top 10 Films of the Year last month, five of them were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts. To Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond, 2021 looked like it could be a landmark year. Then came the crazy BAFTA nominations, along with the Producers and Directors guilds’ lists. Now what?
Netflix is doubling down on Nigerian content by extending its partnership with local filmmaker Kunle Afolayan.
The streamer has showcased his previous films including The CEO, October 1, The Figurine and most recently Citation, and will now commission three new movies from the filmmaker: a historical drama, a folklore…
Scoring another record with a local title in Japan, IMAX has had its best opening day ever for a film there with Shin Evangelion. Overall, the movie, which is the fourth and final installment in the Rebuild Of Evangelion series, grossed nearly 828M yen ($7.6M). Of that, the IMAX portion was $740K.
The sci-fi animated…
ITV Drops First Look At ‘The Ipcress File’
ITV has offered the first look at The Ipcress File, its adaptation of Len Deighton's spy novel, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name. Penned by BAFTA-winning Trainspotting writer John Hodge, the cast is led by Gangs Of London and Peaky Blinders star Joe…
Lester Holt, along with Savannah Guthrie, will anchor an NBC News special on Thursday, Covid One Year Later: Life After Lockdown, marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 lockdowns and a full crisis that has touched all parts of society.
Around this time last March, Holt told Deadline that the coro…
Meghan Markle’s representatives have reportedly filed a complaint to ITV on behalf of the Duchess Of Sussex following Piers Morgan’s remarks about her mental health.
The Guardian said a “formal complaint” was lodged with the UK broadcaster after Morgan said on Good Morning Britain that he did not believe Markle when…
EXCLUSIVE: Lightbulb Film Distribution has picked up UK rights to three films out of the EFM, including BFI-backed dystopian thriller Undergods.
Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders) and Geza Rohrig (Son Of Saul) star in the collection of post-apocalyptic fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and…
Piers Morgan’s final outing on Good Morning Britain before his sensational resignation was watched by 1.29 million viewers in the UK on Tuesday.
It could be a record for the ITV show and meant it beat rival, BBC Breakfast, for the first time since its launch in April 2014. Breakfast was seen by 1.25M, according to…
EXCLUSIVE: Hans Rosenfeldt, the formidable Swedish screenwriter behind The Bridge and Marcella, has found his next project: Adapting CJ Tudor’s new bestselling novel The Burning Girlsinto a TV series.
Rosenfeldt will work with Marcella producer Buccaneer Media to adapt the book after the production company secured…
Piers Morgan has broken his hours-long silence after sensationally quitting Good Morning Britain on Tuesday — and the upshot is this: He’s not backing down.
In a Tweet on Wednesday morning UK time, Morgan said: “On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview. I've had time to reflect on this…
Shortly after Piers Morgan’s dramatic Good Morning Britain walkout, the ITV breakfast show announced that the anchor will not return to the news program. Celebrating the departure was The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, who promised UK viewers a more positive experience with Morgan gone.
“Congratulations, tomorrow’s…
Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will resume in-person instruction in mid-April for preschool and elementary students. By the end of April for secondary students will be on campus. That, under a tentative agreement announced tonight between the district and the teachers’ union.
“The agreement provides for…
