On October 9, 2023, two days after the massacre in the south of Israel which has led to an ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups, Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar called his Palestinian friend, fellow writer-director Tawfik Abu Wael. The two had co-created and co-directed the television series Our Boys for HBO (along with Hagai Levi). That series recreated the events surrounding the murder of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khedeir in 2014, which ultimately led to an outbreak of war in Gaza that year.
Here, Deadline can reveal to you an exclusive conversation between these two Tel Aviv-based industry friends who discuss at length polarization in Israel and how they are battling to make sense of things after the horrific events that have occurred in the country since October 7. The two reflect on antisemitism and pro-Palestine protests as well as how the dire situation in the region will impact Israeli and Arab-language content globally. >>>See Their Conversation |
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Strike Three At Channel 4 - The British government has blocked a woman of color from joining Channel 4's board for a third time, raising further questions about ministers meddling in media appointments. Rozina Breen, the BBC's former head of north, was recommended by Ofcom, but ministers vetoed her hire without providing reasons for the decision. >>>A Deadline Investigation
Baz Bamigboye's Golden Globes Diary - Deadline's man about town details the highs and lows of the revamped 2024 event and its attendant – if not convenient – afterparties. >>>Read The Column
Songs & Screens - The African American Film Critics Association and the Grammy Museum have unveiled a year-long collaborative program to spotlight the intersectionality between music and content created for film, television and multimedia platforms. >>>Performances, Lectures, Discussions |
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Taraji P. Henson has been nominated for an Oscar, six Emmys, won 11 Image Awards, a SAG Award and a Golden Globe — you name it. Yet she was unsure if she was the right actor to take on Shug Avery in the new movie musical version of The Color Purple, adapted from the hit Broadway show. In fact, Henson had the opportunity to play the part on Broadway at one time but turned it down, sure that her voice was not trained to handle eight performances a week. Here, she talks about those twists and turns and much more in a very lively interview. >>>Watch |
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Amazon MGM Studios' Orion Pictures has entered production on Hedda, its reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s famed 1891 stage play Hedda Gabler. Newcomers to the cast include Imogen Poots (Baltimore), Tom Bateman (Thirteen Lives), Finbar Lynch (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), Mirren Mack (The Witcher: Blood Origins), Jamael Westman (Hamilton), and Saffron Hocking (Top Boy).
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Gigi Gustin will star in and executive produce Stiletto, a slasher pic from Samuel Gonzalez Jr. Gustin (Night of the Missing) will star alongside Charlotte McKinney (Fantasy Island) and Colleen Camp (Amsterdam).
Paramount+'s long-in-the-works crime drama series Happy Face is headed to production with Emmy-nominated and Tony-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford (Welcome to Chippendales) set as the lead. Michael Showalter has been tapped to direct the first episode. |
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More News 🏆 Amid the flood of awards-season nominations comes AARP, whose Movies for Grownups Awards noms arrived today. Oppenheimer leads the way with six mentions, followed by Killers of the Flower Moon with five. Both will vie for Best Picture alongside Barbie, The Color Purple and Maestro.
⚕️ Idan Amedi, one of the stars on the breakout Israeli thriller Fauda has been seriously injured while fighting in Gaza as a member of the Israel Defense Forces, according to multiple Israeli media reports. |
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 The Bachelor franchise's Golden Wedding welcomed 5.22M live + same-day viewers on Thursday, according to Nielsen data. That outpaces the season’s 4.83M average viewers by 8%.
🔻 Tiger Woods said Monday that his sponsorship relationship with Nike has ended, bringing to a close a 27-year partnership that teamed golf’s biggest athlete with the biggest athletic brand. |
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On the Radar
Tue - Governors Awards; CES begins
Wed - SAG & DGA nominations; CNN GOP debate
Thu - National Board of Review Gala; AFI Awards
Sat - NFL playoffs begin; Critics Choice Awards
Mon - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Emmys |
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No Mean Feat - Twenty years after the first film premiered, Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan found their way back to the red (well, pink) carpet for the premiere of the new take on Mean Girls. It's based not directly on Tina Fey's 2004 screenplay, but on the subsequent Broadway musical of the same name. |
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