Fifth Season is on the move. The company formerly known as Endeavor Content has new owners in Korea’s CJ ENM after a $785M deal and it's now shepherding a growing international business, moving into new genres such as romance with the likes of Amy Adams while searching for its own version of a show akin to His Dark Materials. Adams is heavily involved in an adaptation of Rosie Walsh’s New York Times best-selling book Love of My Life. “This is a thriller that has a very romantic element to it. It’s an old school romance," says Joe Hipps, President, TV Development and Production. Another adaptation that the company is excited about is The Grapes of Wrath. Ramin Bahrani, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The White Tiger , who was behind the Samuel L. Jackson-fronted Apple miniseries The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, is attached to write and direct. Fifth Season has a constellation of starry series already, like Apple’s Severance, HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice, Peacock’s Wolf Like Me and even Hulu’s Nicole Kidman-fronted Nine Perfect Strangers, all of which are coming back for second seasons. >>>"If It's Good, People Will Buy It" |
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Golden Globe Nominations- The Banshees of Inisherin leads the field in this morning's Golden Globes nominations with eight. The Ireland-set dark comedy is up for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and also got four acting nods, including for the top-billed Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The Globes are making their return in January after a hiatus related to diversity and ethics issues at presenting organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. >>> Complete List Of Nominations
Comedy Reshuffle - The Amazon Studios reorg continues. Ryan Andolina, who last month was named Head of Comedy and Drama Development in the US SVOD TV Development and Series – Wholly Owned team, is in talks to leave, along with fellow Amazon Studios comedy development executive Amanda Greenblatt, most recently Head Of First-Look and Overall Deals. Punit Mattoo, another comedy executive on Andolina’s former team, is said to be relocating to London to run the UK office. >>> Moves Not Final, Discussions Underway
A $39M Museum-Sized Hole - In 2022, the gap between expense and earned income for the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum was almost $39 million. That reflected just nine months of museum operation during the fiscal year; but it also included a one-time expense bulge of unknown size related to the museum’s September opening. Projecting operating expenses over 12 months means the need for more cash going forward is a near certainty. >>> Financial Analysis
"I Have A Weird Feeling Something Bad Is Going To Happen" - White Lotus creator, writer and director Mike White revealed more details about Season 2's shocking ending, calling it an "operatic conclusion" for Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya, as well as a "happy ending with dark clouds on the horizon" for couples Ethan and Harper and Daphne and Cameron. >>> Season 3 Tease
Hot, Hot 'Hot' - The glorious new Broadway adaptation of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything to love about classic American musical theater -- Golden Age Hollywood and Broadway talent at the top of their games, all of it crafted with a 21st Century wisdom that knows what's worth clutching from the past and what insists on a refresh. >>>The Deadline Review
150 Million People Can't Be Wrong - YouTuber Brandon B has opened a London production outfit and launched YouTube celebrity chat format This Interview Will Self Destruct. It's a fast-paced chat show in which anything goes. Spider-Man star Tom Holland featured in a pilot that has amassed more than 150M views. Jake Gyllenhaal will be the first guest proper along with rising U.S. comedy star Jaboukie Young White and British rapper Aitch. >>> Trap Doors & Wrestlers |
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QUOTABLE: “I’ve never gone public with my private life until now…What I thought was that if I had to make one more movie, if I had to tell one more story, what would that story be? And that’s why I decided to put this into production.” - Steven Spielberg on how the existential threat posed by the pandemic helped him decide to make The Fabelmans. |
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Deadline’s signature Contenders Film LA3C: Conversations with Contenders event hit downtown Los Angeles this weekend for a hybrid in-person/virtual edition, partnering with the inaugural LA3C, the cultural festival developed by Deadline parent company PMC. Talent who participated on site and virtually included Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Baz Luhrmann, Ryan Coogler, Antoine Fuqua, Guillermo del Toro, Kerry Condon, Eddie Redmayne, Tobias Lindholm, Scott Cooper, Viola Davis, Ron Howard, Joel Edgerton, Chinonye Chukwu, Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski. >>> Read The Interviews |
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BY THE NUMBERS: $60,000 - The per-screen average of The Whale this past weekend, which was the highest of the year |
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🚀 Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Genius Brands and SMAC Productions, the company founded by Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini, have partnered to develop and produce Blue Origin Space Rangers, an animated space adventure series for kids in which Strahan and Bezos will make appearances.
📺 Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? will return for a second season on HBO Max and CNN.
𓆩♱𓆪 Netflix smash Wednesday overpowered Season 5 of The Crown in the UK. New official numbers show that Tim Burton's spin on the Addams Family pulled in 3.73 million viewers, nearly a million more than the royal family drama.
👔The Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Best Picture award ended in a tie. The group opted to split the difference on Everything Everywhere All At Once and Tár. While it was surprising, the tie was not unprecedented. It is the fourth Best Picture tie in LAFC history.
🐦 ✈️ "Superman is a huge priority, if not the biggest priority,” said DC co-CEO James Gunn to a fan's query on Twitter about when the Man of Steel might soar on the big screen again. Asked to debunk the rumor the he does not like Henry Cavill, Gunn added: "Sure: false."
🎸 The Smithsonian last week debuted its long-in-the-works Entertainment Nation, an entire wing at the National Museum of American History that is the institution's first devoted to pop culture. Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, long on display, are now in one place along with less-viewed items like Prince's guitar, George Reeves’ Superman costume, Mr. Rogers’ sweater, R2D2 and Captain America’s shield.
🚗 In a column for the Wall Street Journal, Jay Leno talked about the accident while working on a car that left him with serious burns on his face and much of his body. "Eight days later, I had a brand new face," wrote the 72-year-old comedian, who sustained “deep second-degree burns” and possibly some third-degree burns, according to the doctor who treated him. "And it's better than what was there before."
🌊 Ahead of Avatar: The Way of Water, the original Avatar is getting a surprise limited rerelease in China — and will include an exclusive Easter egg for local audiences. This version of the first film is not the same one reissued there in March 2021. It’s rather more akin to the Avatar reissue that went out in 50 offshore markets in September which employed the 3D, 4K and high-frame rate Cinity technology developed by China.
In Brief - NYT ran a George & Tammy ad full of fake quotes…Embattled LA Councilman Kevin De León literally did battle with critics...Pre-Avatar weekend BO was among the year's lowest... Netflix picked up a second season of Old Enough! The Japanese reality docuseries shows toddlers left alone to run errands. |
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On the Radar
Wed - Critics Choice Film Awards nominations
Thu - Brendan Fraser on Kimmel
Fri - Avatar: The Way of Water domestic release |
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Obituaries
🕯 Georgia Holt, best known as Cher’s mother but who was also an actress, model, and singer in her own right, has died. She was 96. Cher confirmed the death on social media. Holt had roles in such series as I Love Lucy and talk shows by Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin. She released her debut album, Honky Tonk Woman, in 2013, which she recorded in the ’80s. 🕯 Norm Pattiz , the founder of the Westwood One syndicated programming network, died Dec. 6 at age 79. Pattiz began as a salesman with L.A.'s KCOP (Channel 13), but left in 1976 to start Westwood One. In the early 1990s, control of Westwood One shifted to Mel Karmazin and Infinity Broadcasting (later acquired by CBS Radio). Pattiz remained chairman of the company until 2010, at which point he moved on to found the on-demand audio network, PodcastOne. 🕯 Terrence O’Hara, a television director known for his work on shows like NCIS, Smallville and Angel , has died at 76 due to cancer. O’Hara was best known for his work as a director on NCIS and its multiple spinoffs like NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans. The veteran helmer is also credited as working on The Blacklist, Grimm, Rosewood, Legends, Magic City, Rizzoli & Isles, Nikita, Lie to Me, Doll House and Sons of Anarchy.
In Brief - June Blair Nelson, who appeared regularly on Ozzie & Harriet, has died at 89…NBA Coach and player Paul Silas, who won 3 championships, died Sunday at 79…Richard Miller , the ILM sculptor who helped craft Princess Leia’s gold bikini costume for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, has died. He was 80. |
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Close Shave - Director Todd Phillips shared the first image from Joker: Folie à Deux over the weekend. In it, Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck looks to be getting a shave from...a correctional officer? Click to see a bit more of the photo. (Instagram) |
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