🏃♀️ Exclusives & Breaking News
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POWELL & LINKLATER RETEAM FOR GEHRIG BIOPIC |
AFTER THE BASEBALL-THEMED 'EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!' THE DUO ARE TAKING ON THE LIFE OF THE YANKEES HALL-OF-FAMER |
After hitting a home run with their 2016 college baseball pic Everybody Wants Some!, Glen Powell and Richard Linklater are ready to take the mound again for an untitled Lou Gehrig film at Universal. Powell will play the iconic New York Yankee, with Linklater attached to direct and Simon Rich writing. >>>Prime Supporting Role Up For Grabs
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Deadline Exclusives & Originals
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Reordering 'Law & Order' - Law & Order is undergoing some major staff turnover. Reid Scott, who has played Senior Detective Vincent Riley for the past three seasons, is leaving the venerable NBC crime drama. He will be succeeded by another high-profile name, James Badge Dale (1923). >>>New Character
TV Takeover At Comic-Con - The TV takeover continues as studios and streamers throw more marketing dollars toward their upcoming series than films, and in a place where superheroes used to rule the world, more fandoms are getting a sizable spotlight. >>>Lay Of The Land
A Horrorshow At Amazon MGM - Amazon MGM Studios has given a formal series greenlight to Stillwater, a horror drama from Greg Berlanti and Carly Wray (Westworld) based on the Skybound graphic novel by Chip Zdarsky and Ramón K Pérez. >>>"Terrifying & Deeply Human"
Apple Snaps Up 'Stars' - Apple TV has stepped up to preemptively acquire the rights to Peculiar Stars, the upcoming romance novel from Rebecca Yarros, the bestselling author behind the Fourth Wing fantasy romance Empyrean book series. >>>Competitive Situation
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Katherine LaNasa has been on so many series without a lot of recognition that she could be a forest ranger at this point. Well, her time has finally come with her Emmy-winning role as Charge Nurse Dana Evans in the HBO and Max uber-hit The Pitt. Now she is nominated again for Season 2 as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Here, LaNasa joins us for Deadline's video series The Actor’s Side to talk about why so many people have connected with this character and her performance, as well as her long career in and out of the spotlight. >>>Watch
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Fox, Hulu and 20th Television Animation have assembled the voice cast of the upcoming Family Guy spinoff Stewie, which includes titular star Seth MacFarlane pulling a double voiceover duty and Mike Henry voicing someone related to one of his signature Family Guy characters.
Benicio Del Toro is getting into the comedy game and is reuniting with his Escape at Dannemora colleague Ben Stiller as he does so. Del Toro is to star in Apple comedy series Protective Custody, which also stars Stiller.
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Mt. Mystic, the comedy series based on a YouTube pilot, has added Johnny Knoxville to its cast.
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Louis Cancelmi (Sorry, Baby) is set as a series regular opposite Ellen Pompeo and Jodie Whittaker in the Hulu pilot Chicks, from Good American Family's Katie Robbins that we first told you about in June.
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BY THE NUMBERS
$11B - YouTube's Q2 ad revenue, up 13% over the year-ago period
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MORE NEWS
📊 Peacock added 2 million subscribers in the second quarter, hitting 48 million, and also turned its first quarterly profit. Comcast reported the streaming results as part of its second-quarter earnings, and execs said they're already talking with potential partners about deals to follow next year's spin-off of NBCUniversal.
🎥 50/50 filmmaker Jonathan Levine is in talks to direct Paramount Tom Cruise Days of Thunder sequel.
⚖️ Paramount is proposing that a federal judge hold a three-day evidentiary hearing later in August as she weighs whether to issue a preliminary injunction to halt its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
🕺 With a big summer that includes promoting The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Tom Holland is ready to strap into his dancing shoes for his next role.
🤖 Darren Aronofsky's company Primordial Soup plans to raise $15 million to further its ambitions in AI.
🚦 Paramount+ has greenlighted a third series from Jez Butterworth and 101 Studios, the team behind the streamer’s MobLand and The Agency.
📋 The Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed its full lineup for the 32nd edition of the festival, with a total of 51 films set to screen across its four competition selections
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ON THE RADAR
Thu - Comic-Con begins; Christopher Nolan on Fallon
Fri - Rescheduled WHCA Dinner
Sun - Shark Week launches
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Sauron Is Coming - A Comic-Con promotion for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' in San Diego.
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