Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has joined the Stability AI Board of Directors. It was only a year ago when AI was thought to be a dirty word during the double strikes that shut down the business, when Cameron cited his 1984 sci-fi classic The Terminator — about artificial intelligence that becomes sentient and wreaks havoc […]
EXCLUSIVE: With the Mohamed Al Fayed exposé generating headlines this week, the disgraced business mogul’s portrayal as a mild-mannered matchmaker in The Crown, which landed Salim Daw a BAFTA nomination, has been in the spotlight. But the EP behind the BBC’s Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods has said he is “reluctant to point a finger” […]
SRM Entertainment and Suretone Entertainment’s Suretone Pictures are in negotiations to form an alliance. The plan is to capitalize on Suretone Pictures’ film productions, tv content creation, existing library and distribution strengths, alongside SRM’s merchandise, manufacturing and distribution businesses as it looks to ramp up as a content provider. SRM and Suretone Entertainment’s Suretone Pictures […]
Johnny Depp’s bohemian fantasy starts at full throttle, with the artist Amelio Modigliani (Riccardo Scamarcio) breaking up the Café Dome, then exiting on a trolley straight through their stained glass window, smashing the Art Nouveau rosebuds to bits while still clutching an ice bucket with a souvenired bottle of champagne in it. A waiter pursues […]
The upcoming Broadway revival of Gypsy starring Audra McDonald has found its Louise and June: Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson will move over from the soon-to-close The Notebook in the two roles. Woods, who currently plays Middle Allie in The Notebook on Broadway, will take the role of Louise, aka Gypsy Rose Lee, while Tyson, […]
EXCLUSIVE: 5X Media has signed a wealth of digital talent as the management company and production house’s roster continues to expand. Under producer-manager Michael Morriatti, 5X has in the past few weeks signed digital creatives Eliana Ghen, James Hoyles, Reza Jackson, Roxy star Mallory Pruitt, actress Lindsey Kroning and actor-model Presley Walker. 5X has also snapped up […]
The world’s biggest documentary film festival is starting to roll out its competition lineup for the 2024 event. International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), set to run from November 14-24, unveiled the full slate for the Short Documentary section today, featuring 12 world premieres among the 16 titles in competition. Among them is Iron, a new […]
EXCLUSIVE: He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more. Deadline understands that London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial […]
Veteran producer Christine Vachon spoke publicly this morning about what she described as the “tragedy” behind Todd Haynes’ now-shelved gay romance flick starring Joaquin Phoenix at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Vachon — a regular at the Spanish festival — discussed the abandoned project as part of her keynote at the festival’s industry-focused Creative Investors’ […]
When Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race on July 21, it left PBS Frontline‘s The Choice with a big gaping hole. The documentary of the two major parties’ presidential nominees has been a quadrennial tradition, and its filmmaker, Michael Kirk, had weeks earlier screened a four-hour rough cut of Biden vs. Trump. “We’d […]