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Darren Aronofsky Boards Dustin Brown’s L.A. Fashion District-Set Migrant Drama ‘Solidarity’ With Elpidia Carrillo & Mantas Valentiejus + First Clip

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Aronofsky has joined the creative team of Dustin Brown’s upcoming feature Solidarity, exploring contemporary migrant realities in the U.S through an intimate portrait of two lives on the margins of L.A., as an executive producer. Elpidia Carrillo (Salvador) and Mantas Valentiejus (El Freeman) star as a Mexican seamstress and a Lithuanian butcher who […]

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Broadway Revival Of Clifford Odets’ ‘Awake And Sing!’ Will Star Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht & Jeremy Shamos

Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets’ landmark 1935 drama, will be revived on Broadway this winter in a Manhattan Theatre Club production starring Tony winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!, Marjorie Prime), Jessica Hecht (Eureka Day) and Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park, Only Murders in the Building). Produced as part of MTC’s 2026-27 Broadway season, Awake and Sing! […]

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Prime Video Buys BAFTA-Nominated BBC Drama ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’

The BBC’s triple-BAFTA nominated drama What It Feels Like for a Girl based on Paris Lees’ memoirs is heading to Prime Video in the States. The show launches on the Amazon streamer today to mark the start of Pride Month. Adapted from the memoir by journalist and author Lees, What It Feels Like for a […]

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Milk VFX Co-Founder Joins ‘The Boys’ Firm Untold Studios

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Bennett, one of the founders of recently-acquired VFX firm Milk, has moved to The Boys outfit Untold Studios. Bennett, an Oscar winner for Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, has joined the Untold film and episodic team as VFX Supervisor. Her arrival comes as Untold works on projects including Netflix’s Remarkably Bright Creatures, Ridley Scott’s […]

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‘What Is To Come’ Clip: Israeli Director Ruthy Pribar Returns To Tribeca With Fresh Tale Of Female Emancipation

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli director Ruthy Pribar returns to the Tribeca Film Festival with second film What is to Come next week and Deadline can reveal a first clip. Ronit Yudkevitch stars as Yehudit, a sheltered farmer’s wife who backs out of a suicide pact that leaves her husband dead. She flees the shame and hidden debts […]

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‘Downton Abbey’ Star Hugh Bonneville Addresses ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ Rumors; AI Clones & UK Studio Capacity – SXSW London

Downton Abbey and Paddington star Hugh Bonneville shot down rumors that he is in the frame to appear in The Celebrity Traitors as he opened SXSW London with an onstage conversation on Monday. “I keep being told I’m on Traitors, but no. I know Richard E. Grant is, because I tried to call him the […]

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BBC Comedy Boss Jon Petrie Exiting To Hat Trick

The head of comedy at the BBC, Jon Petrie, is leaving after five years to join Hat Trick Productions. Petrie has been responsible for the likes of Small Prophets, Amandaland, Dreaming Whilst Black and Such Brave Girls. He will take up a Creative Director role at Derry Girls maker Hat Trick, which he called a […]

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Kiki Gyan Documentary Among Projects Set For 2026 Locarno Open Doors

A documentary feature about the legendary Ghanaian musician Kiki Gyan is among the projects that will participate in this year’s Locarno Open Doors programme. Six projects from ten different African countries have been picked to participate in the programme. Locarno Open Doors is in the second year of a four-year cycle dedicated to Africa. The […]

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UK Home Office Confirms SXSW London Speakers Cenk Uygur & Hasan Piker Blocked From Entering Country

YouTube political commentator Cenk Uygur and his nephew, Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, have been blocked entry to the UK by the Home Office, meaning they will miss scheduled talks at SXSW London this week. In the past few minutes, the Home Office has confirmed that the pair’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) “has been cancelled on […]

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Yeon Sang-ho’s Cannes Midnight Title ‘Colony’ Passes 3 Million Admissions On Korean Release

Zombie thriller Colony, directecd by Korea’s Yeon Sang-ho, has flown past three million admissions during its second weekend of release in its home market, following its world premiere in the Midnight Screenings section at Cannes film festival. Released in Korea on May 21, the film has so far racked up 3,475,000 admissions and grossed $24.84M, […]

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KSI Leaving The Sidemen After 13 Years

KSI, one of the world’s most popular YouTubers, is exiting his collective The Sidemen. In a video titled ‘I’m leaving the Sidemen’ posted on YouTube to his 18.4 million subscribers, KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, said he has been “pulled in a lot of directions” over the past few years but the “decision is completely […]

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‘Heated Rivalry’ Tops Canadian Screen Awards With 16 Wins

Breaking news: The Canadians really like hockey. Hockey drama Heated Rivalry dominated the Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday night. It won the evening’s top prizes including Best Drama Series, Best Directing & Best Writing in a Drama Series and Dest Lead Performer for Hudson Williams. It finished with a total of 16 Screen Awards from 18 nominations. […]

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‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ & ‘The Bachelor’ Set For Little Dot Studios Channels Through WBITVP Deal

EXCLUSIVE: Who Do You Think You Are?, The Bachelor and First Dates are about to get new leases of digital life. They are part of the 4,000+ hours of reality, dating and factual entertainment programming that Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has sold to Little Dot Studios. Expanding on an existing pact between the […]

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RTL Completes Deal To Buy Sky Deutschland From Comcast

RTL has closed its deal to acquire Sky Deutschland from Comcast. The deal completed this morning, bringing together two of central Europe’s big players as entertainment businesses seek consolidation to reach scale and compete against the tech giants. The deal “underscores RTL Group’s strategic focus on in-country combinations in Europe to strengthen local media players […]

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‘Euphoria’ Is Over: HBO Series Officially Ending With Season 3

Sam Levinson is closing the book on Euphoria, confirming that the Season 3 finale released tonight had served as a series finale for the drama starring Zendaya. “In terms of the story that we set out to tell, which is a story about addiction and its consequences, this feels like the end to me,” Levinson […]

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‘Sapne Vs Everyone’ Star Ambrish Verma Lands IMDb Breakout Star Award

EXCLUSIVE: Sapne Vs Everyone actor Ambrish Verma has been handed an IMDb ‘Breakout Star’ STARmeter award. This recognizes talent whose IMDb page views are over 250 million per month, and has in the past flagged the rise of stars such as Zahan Kapoor, Sharvari, Ayo Edebiri, Maya Hawke and Regé-Jean Page. Verma wrote, directed and […]

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John Oliver Derides Freedom 250 & Performer Cancellations: “Stacked Lineup Of People That You Haven’t Thought About Since 2009”

Back after a brief holiday hiatus last week, John Oliver returned to his desk to roast the botched rollout of Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration, which has seen myriad cancellations since various scheduled performers like Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, Morris Day, Young MC and The Commodores dropped out after discovering the fete was not apolitical in nature. “It […]

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‘Euphoria’s Season 3 Finale Tribute To Angus Cloud’s Fezco O’Neill

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on the Euphoria Season 3, Episode 8 finale on HBO. Angus Cloud’s Fezco O’Neill was a big part of Euphoria during its first two seasons as one of Rue’s (Zendaya) closest friends. The actor died in 2023 from “acute intoxication” at the age of 25 in Oakland, California. Sam Levinson paid […]

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Scripps’ 54 Local Stations Go Dark On DirecTV Amid Retransmission Dispute

Programming on Scripps Local Media’s 54 broadcast stations across 36 Nielsen-designated market areas has been suspended beginning at 7 p.m. ET today, as the third-largest operator of ABC affiliates and DirecTV have reached an impasse over retransmission rates. In a statement, the multichannel distributor said Scripps is “demanding the highest rates DIRECTV has ever received […]

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‘Off Campus’ Star Antonio Cipriano Previews How Grace & Logan’s Romance Will Factor Into Season 2

Prime Video’s serialized adaptation of Off Campus may be skipping ahead of Elle Kennedy’s source material, eschewing The Mistake couple of John Logan (Antonio Cipriano) and Grace Ivers (India Fowler) for The Score pairing Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) and Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla), but that doesn’t mean audiences won’t get a glimpse of the […]

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‘The Four Seasons’ Co-Creator Explains How David Tennant Was Cast In “Romantic Cliffhanger”

SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Four Seasons, Season 2 finale ‘Maratona’ Although vacation is over on Season 2 of The Four Seasons, the finale sets up a new travel companion. Tracey Wigfield, co-creator of the Netflix series, recently explained how fellow creator Tina Fey chose David Tennant to play Gianpiero in the season […]

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Mark Duplass Says ‘Obsession’ And ‘Backrooms’ Box Office Wins Offer A “Glimmer Of Hope” In “Fractured” Industry

Backrooms star Mark Duplass sees the overwhelming box office successes of horror entries Obsession and Backrooms as a beacon for a struggling industry. “I just want to take a moment to celebrate the glimmer of hope that Obsession and Backrooms are bringing to our industry,” he said in a video posted to X. “And I […]

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25 Tons Of Propane, 314 Shooting Days & Lots Of Practical Naval Warfare: How Ryan Condal & Team Pulled Off ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 — ATX TV Festival

Ryan Condal is pulling out all the stops for House of the Dragon Season 3. Producing the third season of the Game of Thrones prequel series took 314 shooting days, more than 25 tons of propane, hundreds of actors and countless practical sets. The first episode is expected to dive right into the Battle of […]

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25 Tons Of Propane, 314 Shooting Days & Lots Of Practical Naval Warfare: How Ryan Condal & Team Pulled Off ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 — ATX TV Festival

Ryan Condal is pulling out all of the stops for House of the Dragon Season 3. To achieve the third season of the Game of Thrones prequel series took 314 shooting days, more than 25 tons of propane, hundreds of actors and countless practical sets. The first episode is expected to dive right into the […]

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Karolina Wydra On Why She “Wouldn’t Survive” In The World Of ‘Pluribus’ & The Need For “Original Shows That Make Us Think”

When I last spoke with Pluribus star Karolina Wydra, she was just reentering the Hollywood fray, after having taken years off to have children amid the pandemic — a personal decision that led to her representation dropping her as a client. Now, her portrayal of Zosia, the hive mind emissary sent to cajole Rhea Seehorn’s […]

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How ‘Backrooms’ Blew The Doors Off The Box Office With $118M WW Opening, Best Ever For A24

For quite some time, Hollywood has moaned about the lost YouTube generation at the box office: How do we get the Gen Z set in? Sure, they’ll show up for a Marvel movie, but today’s 18-25 demo aren’t attending like they did in the 1980s. Finally, arguably this year, Hollywood has been able to harness […]

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WWII Drama ‘Pressure’ Sees Solid Opening, ‘Tuner’ Nice Expansion Amid Remarkable Indie Weekend — Specialty Box Office

It’s an exciting weekend for indies film with two surprise global juggernauts by first-time directors who jumped from the internet to the big screen. More traditional independent releases were led by a nice opening for Pressure and a solid expansion by Tuner. It’s been well reported but noting the two unusual indie horror films, A24’s […]

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‘Backrooms’ Star Lukita Maxwell Avoided Web Series “Rabbit Hole” To Give Her Character “Fresh Perspective”

As Lukita Maxwell appears in one of the biggest horror movies of the year, she was hesitant to dive into the film’s online lore. The Backrooms actress recently explained why she wanted her character Kat to “have a fresh perspective” in the Kane Parsons-directed A24 film, based on his 2022 web series, resisting the urge […]

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‘Love Island UK’ Urges Viewers To “Keep The Vibes High” & “The Energy Positive” Ahead Of Season 13 Premiere

Ahead of the summer season premiere of Love Island UK, production is asking viewers to “keep the vibes high.” The ITV2 dating series has a passionate fan base, and things can get pretty brutal on social media as the show plays on. As the Islanders get ready to start their journey in search of love, […]

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Morgan Wallen Flips Piano After Onstage Technical Difficulties At Denver Show

Morgan Wallen’s Still the Problem Tour took a destructive turn on Saturday during his Denver stop. Following his performance at Empower Field, video has circulated on social media of the 2x Grammy nominee flipping his piano after onstage technical difficulties with his ‘Sand In My Boots’ performance. Wallen’s latest incident comes after he kicked off […]

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Darren Aronofsky Boards Dustin Brown’s L.A. Fashion District-Set Migrant Drama ‘Solidarity’ With Elpidia Carrillo & Mantas Valentiejus + First Clip

Broadway Revival Of Clifford Odets’ ‘Awake And Sing!’ Will Star Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht & Jeremy Shamos

Prime Video Buys BAFTA-Nominated BBC Drama ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’

Milk VFX Co-Founder Joins ‘The Boys’ Firm Untold Studios

‘What Is To Come’ Clip: Israeli Director Ruthy Pribar Returns To Tribeca With Fresh Tale Of Female Emancipation

‘Downton Abbey’ Star Hugh Bonneville Addresses ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ Rumors; AI Clones & UK Studio Capacity – SXSW London

BBC Comedy Boss Jon Petrie Exiting To Hat Trick

Kiki Gyan Documentary Among Projects Set For 2026 Locarno Open Doors

UK Home Office Confirms SXSW London Speakers Cenk Uygur & Hasan Piker Blocked From Entering Country

Yeon Sang-ho’s Cannes Midnight Title ‘Colony’ Passes 3 Million Admissions On Korean Release

KSI Leaving The Sidemen After 13 Years

‘Heated Rivalry’ Tops Canadian Screen Awards With 16 Wins

‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ & ‘The Bachelor’ Set For Little Dot Studios Channels Through WBITVP Deal

RTL Completes Deal To Buy Sky Deutschland From Comcast

‘Euphoria’ Is Over: HBO Series Officially Ending With Season 3

‘Sapne Vs Everyone’ Star Ambrish Verma Lands IMDb Breakout Star Award

John Oliver Derides Freedom 250 & Performer Cancellations: “Stacked Lineup Of People That You Haven’t Thought About Since 2009”

‘Euphoria’s Season 3 Finale Tribute To Angus Cloud’s Fezco O’Neill

Scripps’ 54 Local Stations Go Dark On DirecTV Amid Retransmission Dispute

‘Off Campus’ Star Antonio Cipriano Previews How Grace & Logan’s Romance Will Factor Into Season 2

‘The Four Seasons’ Co-Creator Explains How David Tennant Was Cast In “Romantic Cliffhanger”

Mark Duplass Says ‘Obsession’ And ‘Backrooms’ Box Office Wins Offer A “Glimmer Of Hope” In “Fractured” Industry

25 Tons Of Propane, 314 Shooting Days & Lots Of Practical Naval Warfare: How Ryan Condal & Team Pulled Off ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 — ATX TV Festival

25 Tons Of Propane, 314 Shooting Days & Lots Of Practical Naval Warfare: How Ryan Condal & Team Pulled Off ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 — ATX TV Festival

Karolina Wydra On Why She “Wouldn’t Survive” In The World Of ‘Pluribus’ & The Need For “Original Shows That Make Us Think”

How ‘Backrooms’ Blew The Doors Off The Box Office With $118M WW Opening, Best Ever For A24

WWII Drama ‘Pressure’ Sees Solid Opening, ‘Tuner’ Nice Expansion Amid Remarkable Indie Weekend — Specialty Box Office

‘Backrooms’ Star Lukita Maxwell Avoided Web Series “Rabbit Hole” To Give Her Character “Fresh Perspective”

‘Love Island UK’ Urges Viewers To “Keep The Vibes High” & “The Energy Positive” Ahead Of Season 13 Premiere

Morgan Wallen Flips Piano After Onstage Technical Difficulties At Denver Show

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