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Francesca Gardiner & HBO's 'Harry Potter' - Deadline profiles the showrunner of HBO's big bet for 2027 through conversations with some of her closest collaborators, including The X-Files creator Frank Spotnitz and Jack Thorne, writer of stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. We have also mined the handful of public appearances she made pre-Potter. >>> Out To Honor The Books
11 Studios, 1 Winner - 20th looks to have landed rights to The Barrier, the hot time-travel package teaming All Quiet on the Western Front helmer Edward Berger and Elvis Oscar nominee Austin Butler. Insiders say the package had 11 studios chasing it. >>>Follows Springsteen Pic Package
'The Apprentice': Read The Screenplay - Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind this awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Apprentice, the Ali Abbasi-directed drama about the formative years of Donald Trump based on the feature-screenwriting debut of journalist Gabriel Sherman. >>>See The Script
Colman Domingo Talks 'Scandalous!' - The Oscar-nominated actor told Deadline he’s planning to go into production on his directorial debut with Scandalous!, which stars Sydney Sweeney in a “fractured love story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak,” after they complete filming on Season 3 of HBO's Euphoria in the summer of 2025. >>>" A Beautiful, Sweet Film"
'The Petroleum Papers' - David MacPherson, creator of Prime Video series The Rig, is teaming with The Spanish Princess producer New Pictures on an adaptation of Geoff Dembicki's The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. >>>Bombshell Investigation |
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Critical Content, the company behind shows such as MTV’s Catfish and NBC’s Celebrity Game Face, is moving into the next phase of an international formats strategy after closing a deal with German powerhouse producer Leonine Studios.
The company, which is run by Jenny Daly, has now struck eight international deals across countries including Australia, Korea, Belgium, France and Dubai as it looks for fresh formats that can be produced both internationally and in the U.S.
The first-look deal will see Leonine, which runs companies like SEO Entertainment, which remade Jimmy Fallon’s That’s My Jam locally, develop and produce Critical formats in Germany. >>>Read The Interview |
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More News 🏛️ President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, concluding that he was “singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong.”
✍️ CIISA, the UK’s new independent body for reporting bullying and sexual harassment in the TV and film industries, is to create industry-wide standards following a set of high-profile incidents, the latest being those involving Gregg Wallace.
⚖️ Sean “Diddy” Combs has now been accused of dangling a woman off a West Coast apartment building balcony in rage eight years ago. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Oscar-nominated producer Adam Somner, who was among the most in-demand first assistant directors in the business during the past few decades, died November 27 from anaplastic thyroid cancer. He was 57. 🕯️ Bob Bryar, the musician and sound engineer who served as My Chemical Romance‘s longest-running drummer, has died. He was 44. 🕯️ French-Danish actor, director and writer Niels Arestrup, known for his Cesar-winning performances in Jacques Audiard’s The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet, has died at his home outside Paris at the age of 75. 🕯️ Hollywood Deaths In 2024: A Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Mon - Gotham Awards
Tue - New York Film Critics Circle Awards revealed
Wed - National Board of Review Awards winners announced
Thu - AFI Awards announced
Fri - The American Cinematheque Awards; Sabrina Carpenter holiday special
Sat - Paul Mescal hosts SNL; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice debuts on Max; Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards; Deadline Contenders Film: International
Sun - Deadline Contenders Film: Documentary |
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ALWAYS IN FASHION - David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sir Elton John and Damian Hurley attend The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical charity gala after party in support of the Elton John Aids Foundation at The British Museum. John, who wrote the lyrics for the show, told attendees he has lost his eyesight following an infection. |
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