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?
Reunited, and it feels so good. The National Hockey League will be back on ESPN in the fall after 16 years as the league and cable net have agreed to a new seven-year TV deal. It’s the latest stint for the NHL on the Disney-owned Worldwide Leader, which aired games at various times during the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s…
ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy is about two-thirds into filming Season 17 with no definitive answer yet whether it will be the venerable medical drama’s last.
“I don’t know yet,” Grey’s executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff told Deadline in an interview this week tied to Grey’s Anatomy and spinoff Station 19‘s return…
President Joe Biden's massive $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan is about to become law, after the House gave final passage to the legislation, which will provide an unprecedented lifeline to American households in the form of direct payments, child tax credits. Unemployment insurance and small-business relief.
The…
American Horror Story season 10 is officially underway as Ryan Murphy shared a new behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming season, featuring Macaulay Culkin.
“Something wicked this way comes. American Horror Story Season Ten,” Murphy captioned a photo of the Home Alone actor arm-in-arm with AHS vet Leslie Grossman…
EXCLUSIVE:Taylor Sele is set to co-star opposite Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton, Nadine Velazquez and Pepi Sonuga in Queens, ABC's hourlong pilot from Zahir McGhee, Sabrina Wind and ABC Signature.
In Queens, written by McGhee and directed by Tim Story, four estranged and out-of-touch women in their 40s — Naomi…
EXCLUSIVE: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…and while God was doing that, Timur Bekmambetov created the series iBible —Â which will be premiering its first five episodes at SXSW starting March 16.
iBible is a screenlife project from Bekmambetov which, as the title suggests, tells biblical stories…
EXCLUSIVE: New Line won an auction for Classified, a pitch that has Chad Stahelski attached to direct. Stahelski, who starts his fourth John Wick film imminently, will produce with his 87Eleven Entertainment cohorts Jason Spitz and Alex Young, and Trevor Engelson through his Underground banner. The producing deals are…
Randall Wallace is set to direct the action-adventure thriller The Swiss Guard off his screenplay. Cameras will roll this fall in Rome, and casting is already underway.
The project is set in the modern-day Vatican and centers around a plot to kidnap the newly installed Pope who has committed himself to total reform of…
Entertainment finance firm Forest Road has launched its second SPAC with Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs as co-CEOs and co-chairs. Units of Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II started trading today on the New York Stock Exchange as the execs begin the search for a target company in the tech, media, telecommunications or…
EXCLUSIVE: Analeigh Tipton has joined the cast of the Focus and Blumhouse thriller Vengeance, B.J. Novak's directorial debut. Besides directing, Novak also penned the script and is starring in the pic. Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, J. Smith Cameron and Boyd Holbrook are also on board.
Jason Blum is producing the pic via…
Doom Patrol has found its Madame Rouge in The Flight Attendant‘s Michelle Gomez.
Gomez, who also appeared as Madam Satan in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, will join as a series regular and act alongside Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby and Matt Bomer in Doom Patrol season 3. She will appear as the DC…
