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Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout drama series scripts in 2026 Emmy contention. Stepping away from Hulu’s Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale and into the world of The Testaments, viewers were met with something lighter, more vibrant and youthful, a tale based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name....
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After a somewhat quiet decade at the box office, Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day might very well be the filmmaker's biggest box office hit in 10 years....
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Its location in the skies was significant – directly over the UBS AI in Entertainment Summit at the Shutters on the Beach hotel, where Suno CEO Mikey Shulman was among the speakers. Source...
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Sharon Horgan has claimed that studio executives usually give tougher notes on female characters, revealing that she often has to battle against the desire to “soften our edges.” Reflecting on her interactions with studio chiefs at SXSW London, the BAFTA-winning Bad Sisters star said: “It’s very funny, actually, to get...
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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM is eyeing a sequel to The Last Sunrise, its forthcoming film adaptation of the bestselling romance novel from the After series’ Anna Todd, multiple sources tell Deadline. Reps for the studio declined comment. We’re told that screenwriter Anna Klassen has returned to pen the second film, based on a previously unannounced...
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Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan may have thrown their full support behind John Candy: I Like Me, the Prime Video documentary on their famous father from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds. But would they entertain a scripted biopic of the man? Not likely. “As long as Ryan does it,”...
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Sadie Sink (Stranger Things, The Whale) will star in and executive produce The Marriage Plot, a limited series for FX and Hulu adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel. The project hails from writer Will Arbery (Succession), who also executive produces with Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Widow’s Bay), who also will direct. The...
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Suggestions for June tripping. Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2026 The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is taking place this weekend among the many special events will be the presentation of The 22nd Annual Doug Wright Awards. Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration holds its grand opening...
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After hitting major film stardom in the ’80s, Michelle Pfeiffer was a very rare presence on television screens — unless you count sitting in the audience for her Oscar nominations or avery occasional guest shot like playing herself on The Muppets or a brief voice-over on The Simpsons. She didn’t...
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Sunday’s Tony Awards on CBS are set for huge ratings. The show has no sports competition or anything else of note running against it. Luckily, the NBA finals are off that night. Singer Pink is the off beat choice as host, and she’s going to surprise everyone with a knockout...
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Rachel Zegler, who will return to Broadway in Evita next spring, will deliver a special tribute to A Chorus Line at the upcoming Tony Awards ceremony, and Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. will perform “Without You” from Rent during the In Memoriam segment. A Chorus Line turns 50 this year,...
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Vasana Montgomery, the Love Island USA contestant removed from the villa after videos of her using a racial slur resurfaced on social media, has broken her silence following her exit. The Islander who was set to appear in Season 8 of the Peacock dating series has issued an apology for...
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Peabo Bryson was such a spectacular singer. Losing him this week at age 75 was a real blow. Peabo still had his remarkable voice, and wasn’t done with his career. It turns out the singer “If I Ever I Have You in My Arms Again” recorded what turns out to...
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The deal expands Concord’s presence in Latin music Source...
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EXCLUSIVE: Kathleen Kennedy has paid fond tribute to Marjane Satrapi, the artist, animator and Persepolis filmmaker who died Thursday at 56. “We’ve lost a true original,” the longtime Lucasfilm president said in part. Read her full remembrance below. Kennedy worked with Satrapi on Persepolis, the filmmaker’s 2007 pic that earned...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase is returning for its 24th year with a new class of rising actors. Led by the casting team behind ABC Entertainment, Hulu Originals, Onyx Collective and Freeform, the annual program continues its mission of identifying, mentoring and creating meaningful industry exposure for emerging talent....
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EXCLUSIVE: Diane Sawyer’s deep dive into the life and work of fitness guru Richard Simmons has piqued audience interest. The ABC News special, which aired on May 12, has tallied 10.2M viewers to-date across ABC, Disney+ and Hulu, per a combination of Nielsen Big Data + Panel and Disney’s internal...
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EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive situation, FilmNation has acquired I’d Like to Speak to Your Manager, an absurdist action-thriller spec from Gabe Delahaye, for feature development. No word yet on the film’s plot. Fortunate Jack will join FilmNation in producing. Delahaye is a writer whose feature career has quickly gained momentum following...
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EXCLUSIVE: Monument Releasing has acquired U.S., Canada, UK and Australia/New Zealand rights to Damien Hauser’s ground-breaking Africa sci-fi Memory Of Princess Mumbi. The film made history last year as the first Kenyan picture to debut in the independent Venice parallel section, before going on to make its North American debut...
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Country superstar Alan Jackson is set to give his final concert performance later this month in Nashville, and NBC has announced the show will be filmed to air in primetime this year. Alan Jackson: The Last Show will air as a primetime television event later this year on NBC and...
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has halted pre-production on its untitled epic drama about ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal starring Denzel Washington in the titular role with his frequent collaborator Antoine Fuqua directing. The film was planning to shoot later this year in Italy but insiders now say things have been put on pause...
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Salem, a former Midwestern high school teacher who is now a full-time stand-up, is launching a new podcast with All Things Comedy, titled After School Snack, on June 11. The podcast sees Salem attempt to circumvent his lack of culinary skills as he recreates his guests’ favorite nostalgic snacks from...
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As you have heard, “Euphoria” is done after three seasons on HBO. The final season — completely detached from the first two — was not pretty. Creator Sam Levinson — knowing no one was coming back — killed off two of the three main characters. They were Nate, played by...
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Our system really is broken if Jennifer Lopez is telling the truth. She says her twins — Max and Oskar (formerly Emme and referred to by Lopez as Lulu) — each got into the five colleges to which they applied. Congrats, they’re smart kids, especially since they deal with ADHD,...
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EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone‘s Kelsey Asbille is set to star opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth in The Kellys, the action film from Thunder Road that Amazon MGM has acquired for worldwide release on streaming, as we first reported yesterday. Character details are being kept under wraps, with production underway. Directed by Brad Peyton,...
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Who controls the machinery of copyright in the United States, and what happens to music if that control shifts? Source...
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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive first look at the trailer for The Tropic Sun and His Eyes ahead of its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. Filmed in Haiti’s northern Cap-Haïtien region, the movie follows Ruben, a young man (Stevenson Jean) who embarks on a journey to reconnect with his...
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey will apparently be rated R, making it the second such big-budget Nolan film to receive that rating after Oppenheimer....
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Another set of unlucky thrill-seekers have found themselves stranded thousands of feet in the air in the trailer for Fall 2: Deadpoint....
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The measures were announced by Marc Miller, Canada's Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages. Source...
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EXCLUSIVE: Bob Yari’s Magenta Light Studios has acquired theatrical rights in multiple territories to the family-adventure film Flavia, starring Molly Belle Wright, Martin Freeman, Jonathan Pryce and Toby Jones. Magenta will release the Brit pic in U.S. theaters on December 4, 2026, and has also acquired the film for Denmark,...
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Franzoni joined WCM in 2016 and rose through the ranks in the A&R team Source...
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EXCLUSIVE: American restaurateur Steven Schussler, known for founding a string of theme restaurants including the Rainforest Cafe, is teaming with writer CJ Hoke on a biopic based on his book It’s A Jungle In There.The memoir, titled It’s A Jungle In There: Inspiring Lessons, Hard-Won Insights, and Other Acts of Entrepreneurial...
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Founded in 2021, mprs – pronounced 'Empress' – was spun out of artist management and services company mtheory when Universal Music Group acquired mtheory's label division Source...
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Founded in 2021, mprs – pronounced 'Empress' – was spun out of artist management and services company mtheory when Universal Music Group acquired mtheory's label division Source...
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