Like it did for many people, the pandemic changed things for writer/director Drake Doremus, whose last film, 2019’s Endings, Beginnings, now seems like a prophetic title for the filmmaker, a true romantic, who has since ended one relationship and then met a woman to begin another as his wife. That chance encounter in Madrid has […]

Hollywood’s new cohort of horror filmmakers have earned the praise of Steven Spielberg after a successful few weekends at the box office. At a recent screening of his new movie Disclosure Day, premiering June 12 in theaters, the 3x Oscar winner expressed his amazement at seeing Obsession and Backrooms do so well in theaters after […]

The man suspected of stabbing Top Gun: Maverick actor James Handy to death earlier this week will have to face a mental competency hearing before murder charges can be pursued. The capacities of Michael Ray Gledhill will be examined in a Hollywood court on June 22, a state judge decided today after the Los Angeles County […]

Writer-director Michael Gallagher, another filmmaker who got his start on YouTube with millions of followers for shows like TotallySketch, has always been a bit obsessed with the infamous Heaven’s Gate 1997 mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, right outside where he grew up in San Diego. His interest in this horrific event and the […]

Paramount+ today announced the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us based on the globally popular social deception game. Series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson announced all ten episodes are now available, exclusively on Paramount+, at Summer Game Fest Friday in Los Angeles. Created by Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that the first day advance PLF ticket sales for Universal’s upcoming Christopher Nolan epic, The Odyssey, were the highest ever for AMC yesterday in the last four years when it came to a major studio movie. The Odyssey‘s standard showtimes will go on sale later this summer. Just to re-emphasize, the […]

Love Island USA Season 8 is off to a fiery start on Peacock. Since launching on June 2, the first few episodes have already tallied 824M minutes viewed, up 74% from Season 7. That makes it Peacock’s most-streamed original season ever through the first three days, per internal data from NBCUniversal. Unsurprisingly, given the primary […]

Paramount is reconstituting its video game operation, launching a new game studio and setting a leadership team for the division. Like its media peers, the company has deployed various strategies over the years in the sector, which has historically not been a straightforward process for Hollywood despite all of its established IP. Ramping up in […]

EXCLUSIVE: When Power Ballad opened the Sands Film Festival in St. Andrews Scotland recently, the audience reaction was rapturous. Same with showings at SXSW, Dublin and in a limited release last week. Sending festival audiences into a lather has been a regular occurrence for writer/director John Carney since he premiered Once at the 2007 Sundance […]

UPDATED with shareholder vote results. Reed Hastings is officially no longer affiliated with Netflix, the streaming giant he co-founded 29 years ago. In an SEC filing Friday, the company confirmed Hastings’ exit indirectly, noting the results of Thursday’s annual shareholder meeting. Venture capitalist Jay Hoag, a longtime Netflix investor and board member, was elected chairman […]

TIFF-premiering romantic crime thriller Carolina Caroline and animated adventure The Last Whale Singer open in moderate release. The Little Sister from Cannes, documentary Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC, She’s The He and anime Jinsei are new limited debuts. John Carney’s Power Ballad with Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas expands to 1,275 screens after a nice launch on […]

Caeli Santaolalla became the latest La Casa de los Famosos housemate to be voted out by viewers as the Season 6 finale nears. “Every time I went into the elimination room, I was never confident. I knew that there was always a risk of being eliminated,” she told us following her eviction. “This [elimination] did […]

More than 25 years later, Anna Faris is looking back at the reaction to her debut as Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie (2000). The actress, whose Scary Movie 6 return is now in theaters, recently recalled meeting Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt after spoofing their roles in the Scream and I Know What You […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+’s “Land” slate is growing. In a competitive situation, the streamer has nabbed for development Cop Land, James Mangold’s series take on his 1997 Miramax movie. The project, from Paramount Television Studios and Miramax Television, is looking to join Paramount+’s current hits MobLand and Landman. (Coincidentally, Paramount+ is also the TV home of Cop […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about The Boys series finale “Blood and Bone.” After five seasons and many bloody battles, good finally prevailed over evil in The Boys series finale. The Prime Video series cast and creator Eric Kripke recently stopped by the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience, where Hughie actor Jack Quaid opened […]

Taylor Swift’s original song for the upcoming Toy Story 5, “I Knew It, I Knew You” now has a music video companion available to view on Spotify and Apple Music. The song aligns closely with the story of Jessie (voiced by Joan Cusack), who first entered the playground in Toy Story 2. Swift wrote it […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stella Pecollo, best known for her work in Universal’s You, Me, & Tuscany, has signed with Prototype Talent Agency for representation. Pecollo portrays the hilarious and fiercely passionate Francesca, sister to Michael (Rege-Jean Page) and Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor), and confidant to Anna (Halle Bailey) in the film, directed by Kat Coiro and written by […]

Disney Advertising has sold out of inventory on the NBA Finals through the first four games, with a number of brands motivated by the unusual elements in this year’s title matchup. The New York Knicks, who haven’t been to the Finals since 1999 and haven’t won a championship since 1973, lead the San Antonio Spurs […]

EXCLUSIVE: Debra Messing has signed with Paradigm for representation. Messing is best known for her Emmy award-winning performance as Grace Adler in NBC’s hit comedy Will & Grace. The David Kohan and Max Mutchnick-created series, which ran for 11 seasons, focused on the friendship between Grace, a straight interior designer, and gay attorney Will, played by […]

You know it’s a great summer when myriad studios are hitting all-time company records at the global box office. Lionsgate, which fired up the heat wave this season with the Antoine Fuqua directed Michael with a $97.2M domestic, $217.4M worldwide start, will see the Michael Jackson biopic become their highest grossing movie ever in the […]

In Memoriam, a new existential dramedy that premieres at the Tribeca Festival on Sunday, proves an ideal vehicle for Marc Maron to flex his acting chops. Mining the insecurities, anxieties and contradictions that have long animated his comedy, Maron here plays Langston, a veteran television actor who, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, becomes fixated with […]

George Knight, a contestant on Love Island UK Season 13, is opening up about his abrupt exit from the dating series. The Islander came in as a bombshell on Day 1 but left the Mallorca-set villa after only a few days on the show. “Family comes first, always,” Knight wrote on Instagram. “Leaving the @loveisland […]

When the Trump administration’s Mehmet Oz spoke to this year’s AI Honors Gala, he referenced what numerous polls have shown: the AI revolution is being met with public skepticism and fear. “When was the last time you saw a fictional movie where AI was the hero?” Oz, the former TV talk host who is the […]

For a show centered on golf, Apple TV’s Stick is far more interested in people than scorecards. Created by Jason Keller, the Owen Wilson-led dramedy follows retired former golf pro Pryce Cahill as he takes interest in coaching a rising young talent named Santi (Peter Dager). The 10-episode series explores grief, redemption and found family, […]

We have a release date for Season 3 of Lioness. The latest installment of Taylor Sheridan’s espionage thriller series will premiere August 2 on Paramount+. Starring and executive produced by Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman, in Season 3 hidden networks, foreign operatives, and personal betrayals collide. Joe (Saldaña) walks the line between duty and home […]

Amazon is making some changes to its nonfiction production team. Months after landing the top unscripted job at the streamer, Levy has tasked Justin Dudek to lead all of its unscripted and doc series production teams as well as MGM Alternative Production. Dudek was formerly SVP, Physical Production at MGM Alternative, where he oversaw production […]

Henry Cavill (Highlander) has inked a deal to star alongside Kevin Hart in an untitled spy-action comedy that McG is directing for Netflix, Deadline can confirm. Based on a short story by Sean Lewis, McG’s film follows two rival spies who cross paths in a Lamaze class, and whose wives become fast friends. Their double […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Dildarian, creator of HBO’s The Life & Times of Tim and HBO Max’s Ten Year Old Tom, has self-produced his next animated series Fred Has Problems, which will premiere on YouTube July 1 with two episodes, followed by a new episode each month. Early access will also be available on Patreon. Dildarian’s latest centers around an optimistic man […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cable may be dying but The Cable Guy lives on — on streaming. Hulu has ordered a comedy pilot inspired by the Jim Carrey movie, with Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. attached to star and executive produce. The pilot order comes on the 30th anniversary of the Ben Stiller-directed black comedy which debuted […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Graham (Twinless), Patti LuPone (Beau Is Afraid) and Dan Bucatinsky (The Comeback) are set to star opposite Nick Borenstein in August, a comedy marking Borenstein’s feature directorial, screenwriting, and acting debut. Currently in production in New York City, the film follows a young, gay New Yorker (Borenstein) who, after the sudden death of his beloved […]

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Reece Feldman for representation. Feldman is a content creator with a following of more than three million who has in recent years established himself as a digital authority on all things film, TV, and entertainment, operating under the handle @guywithamoviecamera. Feldman’s TikTok account took off as he was working on set […]

Drake Doremus was shooting a commercial in Madrid during the pandemic when a chance encounter changed the course of his life completely. The writer-director initially packed for a nine-day trip but after meeting the woman who would later become his wife, he ended up staying in the Spanish capital for five months. The twist of […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Little Cult That Could is the new doc from producer-director Anthony Columbus and Tiger King and Chimp Crazy producer-editor Doug Abel. With the first installment of the series premiering in Tribeca’s TV sidebar, the pair gave Deadline the low-down on the project, which is nine years in the making. The darkly comic project […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following 15 years as a talent agent at Paradigm, Jeff Kolodny is moving over to the management side, after joining Cognition, the boutique talent management company founded by Brian DePersia. Bringing extensive experience representing some of the industry’s most respected actors, Kolodny will work alongside DePersia and the Cognition team across film, television, theatre, […]

The three remaining fill-time correspondents on 60 Minutes — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim — said on Friday that they will remain with the show. “We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement of the existing power structure,” they wrote in a joint memo on Friday. “That is simply categorically […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Annable (Lioness) and Jennifer Holland (Peacemaker) have wrapped lead roles in Brine, a Civil War-era supernatural thriller from veteran documentary filmmaker B.J. Golnick. Written by Golnick and producer Jeremy Miller, Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands. […]

SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Hacks series finale With the emotional gut punch that was last weeks’ Hacks series finale, its creators consider the episode a pretty permanent farewell. Despite fan pleas for a spin-off featuring Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) and Kayla (Megan Stalter), creators Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky tell Deadline […]

EXCLUSIVE: Archstone Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Russian Poland, a new feature film written and set to be directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker David Mamet. The film will be produced by Barry Germansky, with Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin serving as executive producers. Casting is set to […]

Daniel Peddle’s seminal twin documentaries on queer life, The Aggressives and Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, have been picked up by The Criterion Channel and are now available to stream. The Aggressives first premiered in 2005 at SXSW and has since become a landmark piece of non-fiction filmmaking for its intimate portrait of masculine-presenting […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary Black Zombie, which debuted at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival. The doc traces the origin and evolution of zombies from Haitian spiritual traditions to fixtures of Hollywood horror, examining the cinematic and historical context and reclaiming their deeper cultural significance as powerful […]

The U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May, beating expectations, as the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3%. With gains in leisure and hospitality, health care and local government, the job situation again showed signs of improvement after a lackluster year in 2025. But the gains were not felt across industries. Jobs in movies and music […]

EXCLUSIVE: That Thrifting Show with Lara Spencer has been renewed for a second season on Hulu and Freeform. The unscripted competition series, from executive producer and host Spencer, will return in 2027. Season 1, which premiered in March, is currently streaming. In the competition series, vintage design expert Spencer presents two designer duos with identical rooms. With just 48 hours and a […]

Good afternoon Insiders, happy Friday and welcome back to the Insider. Max Goldbart here steering you through. Sign up here. Reality TV Summit UK @ SXSW London The reality of it all: There were all sorts of headlines emerging from Deadline’s first Reality TV Summit UK, which was held on Tuesday at the Tab Church […]

EXCLUSIVE: As Europe pushes for more showrunners, a dozen writers from across the continent have been selected for an EU-backed programme headed by some big names from Borgen, Doctor Who and Neumatt. The European Showrunner Programme is for experienced series writers who want to make the jump to showrunner. It is overseen by Jeppe Gjervig […]

Kanya King, the founder of the UK’s popular Music of Black Origin awards show, colloquially known as the MOBOs, has died. She was 57. King’s death was announced this morning by the MOBO Organisation with a post on Instagram. The statement said King died on June 3rd after a “courageous and characteristically determined battle with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pernel Media has added to its Rise and Fall of franchise by exploring one of the greatest empires of all, Rome. The popular doc series will tackle the epic 1,200 year empire in a single, continuous narrative, from the founding kings to the fall of the west in 476 AD. The series is built […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline brought you news last month that HBO was recasting Ginny Weasley for Season 2 of the Harry Potter series. Now, we hear that another desirable role is up for grabs in the eagerly anticipated TV show. Sources said Harry Potter casting directors Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann are out to agents as they […]

BBC Studios has forged a newly-created global formats role for Karl Warner in L.A. Warner is relocating to the U.S. and being tasked with “identifying, partnering with, and scaling the next generation of creator led IP for global television formats” in an EVP, Global Creator Partnerships & Creative Development post, for which he will report […]

Damai Entertainment, the Chinese film company previously known as Alibaba Pictures, has revealed the international rollout plans for surprise $223M hit Dear You, starting with Hong Kong and other Chinese-speaking territories later this month. The relatively small drama, released on April 30, has surprised the local industry by becoming the second-highest grossing film of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Derbyshire, one of the BBC’s most prominent news presenters, was the subject of a workplace conduct investigation over her interactions with multiple colleagues. Deadline understands that the BAFTA-winning Newsnight host faced a number of complaints following the completion of the BBC’s 2025 workplace culture review, which encouraged staff to call out alleged misconduct. […]