After hitting a home run during the holidays with his take on Dracula story Nosferatu, Robert Eggers looks to be staying in the same spirit. Sources tell Deadline that Warner Bros. is in development with Eggers to write and direct a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic holiday ghost story A Christmas Carol. Insiders add that while negotiations are not underway with talent, Eggers is writing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for his longtime collaborator Willem Dafoe.
A Christmas Carol has seen its fair share of retellings over the years (such as the gothic 1938 Scrooge, pictured above). It tells the tale of an elderly miser visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Dickens' classic tale seems to be right in Eggers’ wheelhouse, not only due to the supernatural elements, but also because the time period seems a perfect fit for his visual style. >>>On A Roll |
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The Kids Aren't Alright - Stephen Graham, star and co-creator of Adolescence, finds it slightly trickier to do his weekly food shop since the four-part crime drama became one of the most-watched shows ever on Netflix. Here Graham, actors Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty, writer Jack Thorne and director Philip Barantini unpack the show's phenomenal success and the secrets behind it. >>>Interview
'Ma' Sequel Finds Writer - Blumhouse‘s sequel to Octavia Spencer revenge flick Ma has found its writer in Ashley Nicole Black, a two-time Emmy-winner known for her work on shows like Shrinking and Ted Lasso. >>>Spencer Back, Too
Stormzy Goes Hollywood - Award-winning British musician Stormzy, is launching his #MerkyFilms shingle with a starring role in short film Big Man, directed by Oscar-winning The Long Goodbye filmmaker Aneil Karia and produced in association with Apple. What's more, #MerkyFilms has entered into a development deal with Netflix. >>>Baz Bamigboye's Column
It Starts On The Page: 'Monsters' - Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features 10 standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention. Here, we spotlight Episode 5 of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, “The Hurt Man,” which re-examines the 1996 conviction of Lyle and Erik Menendez for the murders of their parents. >>>Read The Script
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Jason Isaacs made his movie debut in 1989, in British romcom The Tall Guy, and has worked solidly ever since. He’s used to being recognized, mostly for his role as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, but also for his small-screen work in The OA and Star Trek spin-offs. He expects that, given the fanatical audiences they attract, but he’s been blindsided by the amount of attention he’s had since the April finale of Mike White’s hit HBO show The White Lotus, in which he plays shady U.S. businessman Tim Ratliff. >>>Read The Interview |
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Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark) has been set as a series regular in MGM+ series The Westies, the upcoming period crime drama series from Chris Brancato.
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CBS' Boston Blue continues to assemble the Silver family. Marcus Scribner (black-ish) has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming Blue Bloods offshoot. |
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1% - Percentage of releases from 10 top studio distributors in 2024 that featured transgender characters |
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 Fandango reported that the Amazon Prime Early Access screenings for James Gunn’s Superman have become the ticket retailer’s best first-day advance ticket seller of 2025.
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🕯️ Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, an inventor of what would be called the surf rock sound of the 1960s, a profound and influential voice of the era’s adolescent experience and one of the universally acclaimed geniuses of the rock generation, has died. He was 82. 🕯️ Harris Yulin, the acclaimed actor who starred in such Broadway productions as Hedda Gabler, The Price, The Visit and Watch on the Rhine and in the films Scarface, Clear and Present Danger, Ghostbusters and Training Day, among many others, died June 10 in New York City of cardiac arrest. He was 87. 🕯️ Chris Robinson , whose more than 100 TV and film roles were dominated by doctor characters on TV soaps to the extent that the actor appeared in a commercial intoning, “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV,” setting off a national catchphrase and late-night TV punchline, died June 9 of heart failure in his sleep at his ranch near Sedona, Arizona. He was 86. 🕯️Ananda Lewis, an MTV VJ and talk show host, has died. In 2020, Lewis revealed she had been diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer, noting that due to her fear of radiation, she had not been getting regular mammograms. She was 52. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries |
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Thu - Golf's U.S. Open begins
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Statuesque - Patrick and Arnold Schwarzenegger at Netflix's FUBAR Season 2 Premiere at Netflix Tudum Theater. |
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