Australian streamer Stan has joined the crew of Nautilus after the Shazad Latif-starrer shot in Queensland. All episodes of the Captain Nemo story will “soon” dock at the service, dropping all at once. Stan tapped up Disney Entertainment for the Aussie rights. The series stars Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) and Australian actress Georgia Flood (Apples Never Fall), alongside […]
EXCLUSIVE: More layoff news in what already has been a depressing week. Disney is in the middle of a new wave of cuts as part of a “cost-saving initiative,” sources tell Deadline. We hear about 300 or so people are affected by the layoffs that started yesterday and are continuing today and tomorrow, with a […]
Major League Baseball has scheduled two crucial late-season games between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets as Hurricane Helene barrels toward the Florida Gulf Coast and south Georgia. The two wild-card hopefuls instead will play a doubleheader Monday — one day before the MLB Playoffs start. The hometown Braves are hosting the Mets for […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jonah Hauer-King is set to join the ensemble of Kathryn Bigelow‘s next film at Netflix. The untitled thriller also stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Greta Lee, Tracy Letts, Moses Ingram, Anthony Ramos and Gabriel Basso. Bigelow will direct. Netflix had no comment on the casting. The film’s title and plot remain under wraps, though […]
There’s only so much you can do when you catch your spouse stepping out on you – cry, get a divorce, forgive. In China, they’ve come up with an additional option when such circumstances present themselves (an admittedly not infrequent scenario for couples all around the world). There, you can hire someone to “intervene” in […]
Disney+ has laid out how its password sharing crackdown – or what streamers calls “paid sharing” – will unspool and what subscribers can expect. In a blog post today called Paid Sharing on Disney+: Here’s What You Need to Know, it said the “features and capabilities” are now available in the U.S., Canada, Costa Rica, […]
Donald Trump loves to rant on social media, and his latest target was late-night show host Stephen Colbert. The former president of the United States went on a tirade against the comedian after watching him in a PBS interview. “I briefly watched an interview of Stephen Colbert on highly government subsidized PBS, and found it […]
With the awards race ramping up, and festival favorites emerging, the list of films in the Best Picture Oscar race can seem long, and, this early in the season, distinctly unclear. Fortunately, both Deadline’s Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic, Pete Hammond, and Film Awards Editor Damon Wise keep on hand an ever-evolving dossier of […]
With nearly a quarter of a century in Hollywood, McG is returning to his Newport Beach roots. The Uglies director’s River Jetty Restaurant Group has been tapped as the new operator of The Lido Theater as it reopens following a restoration to its original Art Deco design, just in time to host screenings for next […]
EXCLUSIVE: Acquisition news out today will have comedy fans giving thanks — Thank You Very Much, the documentary about the late Andy Kaufman, has been picked up by Drafthouse Films. The film directed by Emmy winner Alex Braverman is presented by Morgan Neville’s Tremolo Productions, Elara Pictures, and Jenifer Westphal’s Wavelength. The acquisition deal covers […]