| | | | 🌴 Dwayne Johnson is due at the Cannes market next week to discuss upcoming A24 wrestling pic The Smashing Machine with potential buyers. 🌴 Actress and filmmaker Judith Godrèche, who has been at the forefront of a fresh #MeToo wave in France this year, has been invited to world premiere short film Moi Aussi, which highlights the stories of victims of sexual violence, in Official Selection. 🌴 Greta Lee (Past Lives) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) are in negotiations to star in director and producer Louis Leterrier’s upcoming sci-fi horror film 11817, which will be introduced at the festival. 🌴 Republic Pictures has acquired North American rights to DreamQuil, the psychological thriller starring Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly. HanWay will continue sales at the Cannes market next week. 🌴 Olivia Colman and John Lithgow are leading Jimpa , a movie about a trans non-binary teenager visiting their gay grandfather from Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You), with Protagonist Pictures launching international sales at the festival.
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Monkey Business - The first Planet of the Apes movie under the Disney regime after the absorption of Fox hits theaters this weekend, with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes poised to do $50M+ domestic and $130M WW. >>>Comps Explosive Book Auction - Eruption, a big-scale disaster novel tale that Michael Crichton spent 20 years working on before James Patterson finished it, just went out to studios and other major buyers. >>>Sherri Crichton's Statement
Mattel Makes A Deal - Skydance and Mattel Films have closed a deal with Sam Hargrave to direct a live-action movie based on Matchbox, Mattel’s die-cast toy vehicle line. >>>Potential Franchise
Doc Talk Podcast: Filmmaker Debra McClutchy - In the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we speak with Debra McClutchy, a member of the APA who earned an Oscar nomination for co-directing the archive-driven short film The Martha Mitchell Effect. She discusses where archival producers find the rarities that make a historically-focused film stand out – and the potential threat and potential opportunity posed by artificial intelligence. >>> Listen Hail To The Chief - Chicago Fire original cast member Eamonn Walker is stepping away from his series regular duties on the hit NBC series after 12 seasons portraying boss Wallace Boden. >>>Season Finale Reveal
Change Of Residence? - A little over a month after Season 3 of Resident Alien wrapped its run on Syfy, the future of the quirky sci-fi comedy-drama is up in the air. Among the options is a move from Syfy to NBCU cable sibling USA Network. >>>Would Require Budget Cuts |
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Travis Kelce's foray into Hollywood continues with his first major acting job: a role in Ryan Murphy‘s high-profile new FX horror series Grotesquerie.
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Jack O'Connell is set to join the cast of 28 Years Later, the sequel to 2002’s 28 Days Later.
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Teri Hatcher is set to star in the new Lifetime movie The Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story alongside Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica). It will premiere on June 29.
Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced.
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Shawn Hatosy (Animal Kingdom) and Ian Anthony Dale (Accused) have joined the cast in heavily-recurring roles on the network’s upcoming Rescue: HI-Surf, the long-in-the-works lifeguard drama from John Wells and Matt Kester.
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Danny Huston has signed on to star alongside Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser and Kevin Durand in the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures. |
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More News ⚽ After Fox Corp. reported so-so quarterly earnings, CEO Lachlan Murdoch stumped for the company's joint streaming venture with ESPN and Warner Bros. Discovery during a conference call with Wall Street analysts. He said 150 engineers are working on the "incredibly exciting product," which is slated to launch this fall.
👨💻 AGBO, the Russo Brothers‘ media company, has launched an innovation department, expanding its physical and virtual production capabilities under the guidance of a seasoned executive group with backgrounds from Epic Games and the tech team behind Avatar.
👁️ CBS has revealed its 2024 summer schedule, which includes the broadcast debut of the Paramount+ drama Tulsa King, the 26th season of Big Brother and the new true-crime series The Real CSI: Miami.
🌍 After its Sydney debut last year, South by Southwest festival is expanding to London in June, 2025. SXSW London will combine entertainment, music and technology, and the debate and discussion of challenging issues including AI, climate change, politics and society. ✍️ Grammy-winning Mexican superstar Peso Pluma has signed with CAA in all areas. |
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BY THE NUMBERS 3 - Number of weeks 'Baby Reindeer' has been atop Netflix's TV chart |
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Wed - TKO Group earnings; Palm Royale S1 finale; Let It Be debuts
Thu - WBD earnings
Fri - AMC Networks earnings; Doctor Who S14 debuts
Sat - Maya Rudolph hosts 'SNL'
Mon - Upfronts begin in NY; Webby Awards |
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Tomorrowland - The Anaheim City Council gave final approval on Tuesday to Disney's $1.9B DisneyForward plan, which will transform Walt's original park. |
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