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CAA Signs Writer & Director Anu Valia

EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Anu Valia has signed with CAA for representation. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Valia’s short film Lucia, Before and After won the U.S. Fiction Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Her TV directing credits include Steve Carell’s HBO series Rooster, Apple TV+’s hit Shrinking, […]

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Broadway’s 2025-2026 Season Grosses Nearly $2 Billion, Holding Steady With Last Year

Broadway shows grossed nearly $2 billion for the 2025-2026 season, according to figures just released by The Broadway League. Specifically, the season grosses total was $1.91 billion, with total attendance reaching 14.6 million. Compared to last season, the 2025-2026 season was up 1.0% in gross to $1,910,903,835 and down 0.6% in attendance reaching 14,577,322. (The […]

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David E. Kelley Adapting Michael Connelly’s ‘Nightshade’ As Police Drama ‘Welcome To Catalina’ In Works At HBO Max Under ‘The Pitt’ Model

EXCLUSIVE: As The Lincoln Lawyer is filming its fifth and final season, David E. Kelley has set out to adapt another Michael Connelly crime novel for television, the 2024 bestseller Nightshade. The project, titled Welcome To Catalina, is in development at HBO Max under the streamer’s model for drama procedurals intended to return each year with […]

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It Starts On The Page: Read ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Premiere Script “The Innovator” With Foreword By Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout drama series scripts in 2026 Emmy contention. In Season 2 of Prime Video’s post-apocalyptic drama Fallout, both timelines are on the verge of war as Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) venture across the dystopian desert to find her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) […]

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Charles Cioffi Dies: ‘Klute’, ‘Shaft’, ‘All The Right Moves’ Actor Was 90

Charles Cioffi, a prolific character actor in TV, film and the Broadway stage perhaps best known for memorable turns as Tom Cruise’s blue-collar dad in All The Right Moves and a sadistic killer stalking Jane Fonda in Klute, died of natural causes on Friday, May 22, at his home in Marina del Rey, California. He […]

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Ted Danson To Star Opposite Elizabeth Banks In Apple TV Comedy From Liz Heldens & Matt Ward

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Danson (A Man on the Inside, The Good Place) is joining Elizabeth Banks in the new Apple TV comedy series from creators Liz Heldens and Matt Ward. The series is set to begin production in Los Angeles this year. In the as-yet-untitled project, fresh off a messy divorce, Heidi (Banks) sets out to […]

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Michael Buble & Drew Scott In Prime Video Junior Hockey Doc ‘Hometown Giants’

Michael Bublé and Drew Scott will step into the world of junior hockey in Hometown Giants, a doc series that toplines Prime Video’s latest Canadian slate. The series will launch on Prime Video this fall, with Scott Brothers Entertainment producing in association with Amazon MGM Studios. It will see singer and The Voice coach Bublé […]

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Amazon’s Albert Cheng Says AI Is Way Past The “Uncanny Valley,” Can Cure LA’s Production Ills

Senior Amazon exec Albert Cheng says AI technology has moved well beyond the “uncanny valley,” and can play a key role in reviving production in embattled Los Angeles. “This is an AI model that we can use to bring production back,” said Cheng, who is VP and head of AI studios for Amazon MGM Studios. […]

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Sharyn Alfonsi Rips CBS News’ “Chilling” MAGA Appeasement As ’60 Minutes’ Contract Ends; Paramount Rebuffs Fears About CNN Future

After a brief burst of good ratings results, CBS News is once against under a dark cloud of allegations of MAGA appeasement and corporate overlords overreach. With her contract now expired and inhibitions lapsed, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfsonsi has tore the Bari Weiss-run division a new one over the direction the once home […]

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Aubrey Plaza & Joe Wengert Talk Mining Their Past Romantic Relationship And Joint Cat Ownership For Animated ‘Kevin’

Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert didn’t have to look far for inspiration on Kevin, their adult animated series for Prime Video. In a quite unusual scenario, the show had the two reconvening to mine their past romantic relationship a couple of decades after it ended — using that history as the backdrop to explore the inner […]

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‘The Testaments’ Star Mattea Conforti Talks Becka’s Crime Of Passion & The Consequences In Season 1 Finale

SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from Hulu’s The Testaments Season 1 finale. The first season of Hulu’s The Testaments has officially concluded, and series star Mattea Conforti has a lot to say about how things ended for her character, Becka. But first, let’s discuss what went down. The last two episodes of […]

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‘X-Men 97’ Sets Season 2 Release Date & Unveils Trailer Featuring Apocalypse : “We’re Back, Baby”

Just over two years following the Season 1 finale of X-Men 97, we have a premiere date for Season 2 at Disney+. Marvel Animation has set July 1 for the return of the Emmy-nominated series and has unveiled the first trailer. The trailer reveals key plot details that were left hanging following the May 2024 […]

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Punchup Live Launches Podcast Product; Comedy Pods ‘Tuesdays With Stories’ And ‘Bein’ Ian With Jordan’ Set As First Shows Joining Service

EXCLUSIVE: Punchup Live, the creator-owned live entertainment platform from Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani, has launched a native podcast product, with popular comedy pods Bein’ Ian with Jordan (hosted by Jordan Jensen and Ian Fidance) and Tuesdays with Stories (hosted by Mark Normand and Joe List) joining the service. The intention behind the launch is to allow comics to more […]

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Ravi V. Patel Joins Cast Of Action-Thriller ‘Best Pancakes In The County’

EXCLUSIVE: Ravi V. Patel (Animal Control) has joined the cast of action-thriller Best Pancakes In The County, starring alongside Nicholas Cage (Longlegs), Justin Long, (Barbarian) and Shelley Hennig (Unfriended, Ouija). As Deadline previously revealed the film, written and directed by Ken Sanzel (Kill Chain), is set over the course of a single night in a small-town […]

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Hulu Strikes First-Look Deal With Switchboard Magazine

EXCLUSIVE: Switchboard Magazine, a platform that combines documentary and live-action shorts with longform journalism, is teaming up with Hulu. The company, which was founded by Call Me Cleo and Beanie Mania producer Celia Aniskovich, has struck a first-look deal for its non-fiction work with the Disney streamer. The deal will give Hulu the first right to develop documentary […]

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Prime Video Orders Three GenAI Animated Series From New Amazon MGM Studios-AWS Creators’ Fund

Three animated series have received orders by Prime Video via the GenAI Creators’ Fund, a new joint initiative of Amazon Web Services and Amazon MGM Studios. The projects are Cupcake & Friends from BuzzFeed Studios; Love, Diana Music Hunters from creator Albie Hecht, a former Nickelodeon exec who is now Chief Content Officer at pocket.watch; and Punky Duck from creator […]

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Alan Ritchson Inks First-Look Television Deal With Amazon MGM Studios

Alan Ritchson is expanding his relationship with Amazon MGM Studios. The star and executive producer of Prime Video’s hit series Reacher has signed a three-year first-look television deal with the studio via his production banner, Dancing Skeleton. Under the deal, Ritchson will develop and produce new television shows for Prime Video. Ritchson already has several […]

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Will ‘Mandalorian & Grogu’ Get Lost In The ‘Backrooms’? Pic Eyes Record Opening For A24 With $40M-$45M – Box Office Preview

It’s the summer of surprises, and one in which studios are finally getting their arms around the lost YouTube generation as they call it when it comes to younger moviegoers. Chernin Entertainment, Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and A24’s thrifty financed-under $10M feature take of Kane Pixels (whose real name is Kate Parsons) created IP, Backrooms, is looking […]

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Wheelhouse Acquires ‘Shark Week’ Producer Anomaly Entertainment

Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse is swimming into shark-infested waters after acquiring Anomaly Entertainment. Anomaly Entertainment, which was founded by former Discovery execs Matthew Kelly and Michael Sorensen, has produced 40 Shark Week shows including Shaq Does Shark Week, Great White Abyss, Jackass Shark Week, Shark Trip: Eat, Pray, Chum and the upcoming KPop Shark Heroes starring Ken Jeong and Rei Ami. It has also produced […]

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Mark O’Brien Co-Writes & Will Topline Crime Thriller ‘Good In The Room’; Laysla De Oliveira, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor And Eric Bruneau Also Set

EXCLUSIVE: Mark O’Brien (Ready or Not) is set to topline Good in the Room, an indie crime thriller that he co-wrote with Canadian filmmaker Pat Kiely, who will direct. Laysla De Oliveira (Lioness), Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor (The Babysitter), and Eric Bruneau (Fanny) are also set for key roles, with Maia Jae (Ready or Not 2: Here […]

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Cineflix Productions President JC Mills Exiting

EXCLUSIVE: JC Mills, President and Head of Content at Property Brothers producer Cineflix Productions, is leaving the business after six years. Mills joined the company, which also makes History’s American Pickers, in 2020 and the company’s co-founders Glen Salzman and Katherine Buck said he had made an “extraordinary contribution” to the firm and played a […]

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The Jim Henson Company Hires Shirley Bowers To Lead Global Distribution

EXCLUSIVE: Former Fremantle exec Shirley Bowers has joined The Jim Henson Company as VP of Global Distribution, we’ve learned. The hires puts her in charge of content sales an distribution and driving revenue from the Henson catalog, which includes the likes of Dinosaur Train, Sid the Science Kid and Fraggle Rock. She’ll also develop international […]

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‘Brazil ’70: The Third Star’ Directors On Recreating Pelé’s Legendary World Cup Run For Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: The father-son directing team behind Netflix’s Brazil ’70: The Third Star told Deadline they set out to take viewers inside Brazil’s legendary 1970 World Cup run. City of Men director and O2 Filmes co-founder Paulo Morelli directed the series with his son Pedro, whose directing credits include hit series Criminal Code. The series features […]

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Maggie Grace & Steve Howey Set For Capstone Studios Horror Film ‘Fiona’ Based On Cult Podcast ‘Knifepoint Horror’

EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Grace (Taken franchise) and Steve Howey (Off Campus) are set to topline Fiona, a new horror film from Capstone Studios (Obsession, Don’t Move), based on the cult podcast Knifepoint Horror. Adapted from an original story by Knifepoint‘s writer, creator, and narrator Soren Narnia, Fiona follows a lonely, divorced doctor who falls in love with a mysterious woman in rural America, only […]

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‘Abbott Elementary’ Executive Producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker Sign With UTA

UTA has signed Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker for representation in all areas. Halpern and Schumacker are currently executive producers and co-showrunners of the ABC hit comedy series Abbott Elementary. Alongside series creator and star Quinta Brunson, Halpern and Schumacker have received four consecutive group Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series. In addition to showrunning […]

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‘Task’ Emmy Submissions: Mark Ruffalo For Lead Actor In A Drama Series, Tom Pelphrey Among 9 Supporting Contenders, Writing, Directing & More

EXCLUSIVE: On HBO’s Task, Mark Ruffalo‘s FBI agent Tom Brandis and Tom Pelphrey‘s sanitation worker-turned-robber Robbie Prendergrast go toe to toe, but Ruffalo and Pelphrey will not be going head to head at the Emmys. Ruffalo, a two-time Emmy winner, has been submitted as a Lead Actor in a Drama Series, while Pelphrey will compete […]

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Marvel Mastermind Stan Lee’s Voice & Likeness Resurrected By AI Company ElevenLabs

Stan Lee’s estate is embracing the superpower of artificial intelligence. The Marvel Comics mastermind’s voice and likeness will be resurrected by ElevenLabs, the AI audio company valued at $11 billion earlier this year. Lee died in 2018, aged 95. Under a deal with the Stan Lee Universe, the comic book creator’s cloned voice will narrate […]

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‘Little House On The Prairie’ Reboot Finds Its Nellie Oleson: Willa Dunn Joins Netflix Series For Season 2

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the most anticipated castings for Season 2 of Netflix’s Little House On the Prairie, Willa Dunn (Only Murders in the Building) will play one of the most recognizable antagonists from the original series, Nellie Oleson. Dunn is joining the CBS Studios-produced adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographical books as a series […]

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Sunset Las Palmas Studios Launching Sets Designed For Vertical Video Shoots

Sunset Studios plans to launch a group of standing sets at the Sunset Las Palmas Studios lot in Hollywood catering to the fast-growing vertical format. It’s partnered with short-form studio Knockout Shorts on the design and construction of the initial sets, which it called “versatile, production-ready environments … designed to meet the evolving needs of […]

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Pierre Deny Dies: French ‘Emily In Paris’ Actor Was 69

French actor Pierre Deny, who was best known internationally for his role in Netflix hit Emily in Paris, has died at the age of 69. “It is with deep emotion that we announce the passing of Pierre Deny this Monday (May 25) following a sudden and severe case of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis),” his daughters […]

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CAA Signs Writer & Director Anu Valia

Broadway’s 2025-2026 Season Grosses Nearly $2 Billion, Holding Steady With Last Year

David E. Kelley Adapting Michael Connelly’s ‘Nightshade’ As Police Drama ‘Welcome To Catalina’ In Works At HBO Max Under ‘The Pitt’ Model

It Starts On The Page: Read ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Premiere Script “The Innovator” With Foreword By Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Charles Cioffi Dies: ‘Klute’, ‘Shaft’, ‘All The Right Moves’ Actor Was 90

Ted Danson To Star Opposite Elizabeth Banks In Apple TV Comedy From Liz Heldens & Matt Ward

Michael Buble & Drew Scott In Prime Video Junior Hockey Doc ‘Hometown Giants’

Amazon’s Albert Cheng Says AI Is Way Past The “Uncanny Valley,” Can Cure LA’s Production Ills

Sharyn Alfonsi Rips CBS News’ “Chilling” MAGA Appeasement As ’60 Minutes’ Contract Ends; Paramount Rebuffs Fears About CNN Future

Aubrey Plaza & Joe Wengert Talk Mining Their Past Romantic Relationship And Joint Cat Ownership For Animated ‘Kevin’

‘The Testaments’ Star Mattea Conforti Talks Becka’s Crime Of Passion & The Consequences In Season 1 Finale

‘X-Men 97’ Sets Season 2 Release Date & Unveils Trailer Featuring Apocalypse : “We’re Back, Baby”

Punchup Live Launches Podcast Product; Comedy Pods ‘Tuesdays With Stories’ And ‘Bein’ Ian With Jordan’ Set As First Shows Joining Service

Ravi V. Patel Joins Cast Of Action-Thriller ‘Best Pancakes In The County’

Hulu Strikes First-Look Deal With Switchboard Magazine

Prime Video Orders Three GenAI Animated Series From New Amazon MGM Studios-AWS Creators’ Fund

Alan Ritchson Inks First-Look Television Deal With Amazon MGM Studios

Will ‘Mandalorian & Grogu’ Get Lost In The ‘Backrooms’? Pic Eyes Record Opening For A24 With $40M-$45M – Box Office Preview

Wheelhouse Acquires ‘Shark Week’ Producer Anomaly Entertainment

Mark O’Brien Co-Writes & Will Topline Crime Thriller ‘Good In The Room’; Laysla De Oliveira, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor And Eric Bruneau Also Set

Cineflix Productions President JC Mills Exiting

The Jim Henson Company Hires Shirley Bowers To Lead Global Distribution

‘Brazil ’70: The Third Star’ Directors On Recreating Pelé’s Legendary World Cup Run For Netflix

Maggie Grace & Steve Howey Set For Capstone Studios Horror Film ‘Fiona’ Based On Cult Podcast ‘Knifepoint Horror’

‘Abbott Elementary’ Executive Producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker Sign With UTA

‘Task’ Emmy Submissions: Mark Ruffalo For Lead Actor In A Drama Series, Tom Pelphrey Among 9 Supporting Contenders, Writing, Directing & More

Marvel Mastermind Stan Lee’s Voice & Likeness Resurrected By AI Company ElevenLabs

‘Little House On The Prairie’ Reboot Finds Its Nellie Oleson: Willa Dunn Joins Netflix Series For Season 2

Sunset Las Palmas Studios Launching Sets Designed For Vertical Video Shoots

Pierre Deny Dies: French ‘Emily In Paris’ Actor Was 69

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