The 98th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will feature two onstage musical performances spotlighting leading original song nominees KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners. Executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan announced the lineup of talent, which will feature the singing voices behind Huntr/x — Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: 6th & Idaho, the production company founded by The Batman director Matt Reeves, is developing a feature film about the 1942 summit between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. The movie about the Moscow meeting — a pivotal moment that led to the Allied victory three years later — is based on a script by … Read more
Adolescence‘s awards streak continues after the Netflix series bagged six nominations at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s knife-crime drama has won Emmys and Golden Globes, and will now compete for prizes in the UK when the RTS Awards takes place on March 24. Adolescence’s six nominations include Graham in … Read more
Hoards of American and European agents, producers and executives are descending on the Kensington Olympia today for the enormous London Book Fair (LFB), but whether they can find what they were looking for is another matter. There is a quiet sense of optimism in the TV and film industry this year as distance grows between … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: George Michael: The Faith Tour, a restored and remastered feature based on long lost film, is being lined up for a worldwide big screen release later this year, Deadline can reveal. George Michael Entertainment and Mercury Studios are behind the new and never-seen-before project, which will be accompanied by the release of an 18-track … Read more
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (DFI) has moved its annual project and talent incubator Qumra online due to the ongoing U.S.-Israel-Iran war which has spilled out into the entire Gulf region and beyond. “In light of the recent developments in the region, we have made the difficult decision to hold this upcoming edition of Qumra online … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: The Forsytes has been renewed for a third season before the period drama has even premiered on PBS Masterpiece. The adaptation of John Galsworthy’s novel, The Forsyte Saga, will head into production on Season 3 next month in the UK and on location in Europe, Deadline hears. Produced by Mammoth Screen, Season 1 premieres … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Copenhagen’s Podimo just made some eye-catching moves in the podcast space, as it seeks to build out a European content empire. We can reveal the podcast company has acquired Germany’s Arc.Studio for an undisclosed amount, and hired several senior entertainment and tech execs, including former Netflix EMEA unscripted production chief Jason Crosby, ex-BBC exec … Read more
Michiel Huisman has been tapped as the male lead opposite Taylor Schilling in NBC‘s crime drama pilot What The Dead Know, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Written by Beth Rinehart, the procedural is based on former New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher’s memoir of the same name. … Read more
Noah Beck, an actor known for his work in Tubi’s popular YA romance franchise Sidelined, has landed a series regular role in the new Baywatch TV series from Fox and Fremantle. Beck will play Luke, a rookie lifeguard, and the youngest in a family of firefighters who chose the beach over the firehouse. Luke is … Read more