Author: Living Legends
EXCLUSIVE: After nearly a decade at Buchwald, veteran talent agent Ben Gorman has moved to Prototype Talent Agency. Gorman began his career as an assistant at the now-defunct Abrams Artists Agency, followed by stints at Independent Artist Group (then known as APA) and The Gersh Agency, before spending several years at Pakula/King & Associates as […]
UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery’s Harry Potter television series is set to begin filming next summer. They have found a costume designer in Holly Waddington, who recently won an Oscar in her craft for Poor Things starring Emma Stone. Killing Eve scribe Laura Neal has joined the writers room. Deadline exclusively profiled showrunner Francesca […]
A Lien, written and directed by brothers David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, brings audiences into the fraught and complex experience that a noncitizen can go through in the U.S. legalization process. Clocking in at just under 15 minutes, the story follows a young couple (Victoria Ratermanis and William Martinez) navigating their Green Card interview at the […]
Emmy winner Matthew Rhys has signed on to play the lead and executive produce Widow’s Bay, Apple TV+’s 10-episode series from creator Katie Dippold, with Hiro Murai set to direct the pilot. Widow’s Bay is about a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor (Rhys) who refuses to believe […]
It’s not a common occurrence for composers or songwriters to be involved in a film so early on, which is why songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille were thrilled with the opportunity to help craft the story of Emilia Pérez with director Jacques Audiard. The early collaboration was fruitful, as among the film’s 13 Oscar nominations, the duo […]
It’s the Valentine’s Day 4-day weekend and nothing says I love you more to moviegoers than Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World and Sony/StudioCanal’s Paddington in Peru. But it’s also Presidents Day weekend, so consider Captain America to fit that bill. And with ttk% K-12 schools off, expect Paddington in Peru to get some […]
Amy Schumer overtook Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx on this week’s Netflix Top 10 as her new film Kinda Pregnant came in at No. 1 on the English films list. With 25.1M views in the first few days after release on February 5, it was also Netflix’s most-watched title of the week. Back in Action […]
EXCLUSIVE: After scoring massive viewership with Carry-On, his Netflix action-thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, which drew rave reviews in its December launch, director Jaume Collet-Serra has found his next project in Play Dead, a survival thriller described as Don’t Breathe meets 1917, sources tell Deadline. Specifics as to the film’s plot are under […]
SXSW has announced new keynotes and featured speakers for its 39th edition. Keynote additions include Insecure‘s Issa Rae, Signal President Meredith Whittaker, and the duo of actor Joe Manganiello and Ben Lamm, founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. Newly announced featured speakers include the creators and stars of HBO’s The Last of Us; video game […]
NORTH CAROLINA (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced on Monday a temporary restraining order to prevent ‘unlawful health care cuts’. The order stops the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from stripping funds that support medical and public health research at universities and research institutions across the country. On February 7, the NIH announced it would cut indirect cost rates to 15 percent, making it hard for medical research to continue. The NIH is the primary source of federal funding for medical research in the US, essential to funding clinical trials and treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s…