Maya Jama will host Love Island: All-Stars when the show airs to UK audiences in January, with fans of the ITV reality programme desperate to get a glimpse at some familiar faces making a return.
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EXCLUSIVE: Derval Whelan, who previously worked at Searchlight Pictures for 14 years until 2021, is returning to the Disney specialty label as their Head of Distribution. She takes over for former Head of Distribution Frank Rodriguez, who Deadline told you departed for Amazon MGM to be their General Sales Manager.
Whelan will be responsible for strategizing and implementing release patterns for the company’s slate. She’ll be based in New York.
Presidents of Searchlight Pictures David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield beamed, “We’ve known Derval for a long time, she was part of some of our most incredible successes over the years. Her expertise and acumen in the distribution space are unrivalled, and we couldn’t be happier to have her back at Searchlight.”
During Whelan’s time in distribution at Searchlight she worked on such Oscar winning titles as 12 Years a Slave, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Shape of Water, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Black Swan, and Slumdog Millionaire.
Most recently, Whelan was President of Distribution at Bleecker Street where she oversaw all aspects of theatrical distribution strategies on films including Dream Horse starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis. She also previously held positions at Sony Pictures Classics, Miramax and MK2 USA, and started her career at Orion Classics. She received her MA from the NYU Cinema Studies program.
Upcoming Searchlight releases include Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Golden Lion winner Poor Things, starring and produced by Emma Stone which hits theaters on Dec. 8 in NY and LA. That movie is currently 95% certified fresh. There’s also Andrew Haigh’s critically acclaimed romantic drama All of Us Strangers, which is nominated for four Gotham
Maya Jama will host Love Island: All-Stars when the show airs to UK audiences in January, with fans of the ITV reality programme desperate to get a glimpse at some familiar faces making a return.
Love Island is returning to our screens in January for a highly-anticipated new series called Love Island: All Stars. The ITV dating show has been highly-anticipated since it was rumoured last year, and now we finally have a trailer, confirming Maya Jama is back on hosting duties. In a cryptic teaser clip, released on the Love Island platforms today, we can see the glittering shadow of Maya dressed in a couture gown lit by spotlights as she walks onto a stage.The clip ends with a curtain falling while the Love Island theme tune plays, cameras flash and the new Love Island: All Stars logo is unveiled.
, in fact, when she ascended the museum steps in that closed Karl Lagerfeld’s spring/summer 2007 Chanel couture show). Following her , has largely been more about pura vida than pap shots, decamping to Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula to finish up her , Nourish, due out this spring.And yet she came out of hibernation on December 8 for a night in Miami with Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen, having signed on as the brand’s Environmental & Community Projects Advisor last year.
Did “RuPaul’s Drag Race” reclaim its Emmy crown in the Reality Competition Category? Like all nominees in the never-ending Primetime Emmy race of 2023, we won’t find out until January 15. In the meantime, the Paramount and MTV juggernaut is back on January 5th for its 16th season, which is the 15th anniversary of the flagship series.
Valerie Wu Intern “Schitt’s Creek” co-creator, producer and star Dan Levy has released the trailer for his upcoming Netflix comedy-drama film, “Good Grief.” “Good Grief” is the first project spearheaded by Levy since the end of “Schitt’s Creek” in 2020, although the actor has made recent film and television appearances in Disney’s “Haunted Mansion,” HBO’s “The Idol” and Netflix’s comedy drama series “Sex Education.” Notably, “Good Grief” will be Levy’s feature film debut as a director. It is also Levy’s first project under his Not A Real Production Company and Netflix. The film follows Marc Dreyfus (Levy), who struggles to cope with the sudden death of his husband, Oliver (Luke Evans).
or is he?The second season of the producer’s critically acclaimed historical series “Feud” finally has a release date.The drama’s first two eps will drop on FX alongside a director’s cut edition of the first episode on sibling network FXX on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at 10 p.m.
EastEnders is set to bring a fan-favourite character back to Albert Square after five years, as Johnny Carter will be returning home. The character has so far been played by two actors - Ted Reilly and Sam Strike - and will now be recast by a Grantchester favourite. Charlie Suff, who played Tommy Wilson on ITV's popular period drama, is gearing up to take a stab at the solicitor, who is Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) and Linda Carter's (Kellie Bright) son.
EXCLUSIVE: The Artists Equity movie Unstoppable remains exactly that: After the production was shut down during the WGA strike, the William Goldenberg directed, Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome starring sports movie will return to shooting on Dec. 12 with Don Cheadle, Michael Peña and Bobby Cannavale joining the cast.
William Earl This awards season’s premier contending filmmakers, talent and artisans will gather for exclusive panels at Variety FYC Fest on Dec. 6 in Los Angeles from 9 a.m.
Michaela Zee Robert Downey Jr. will not be returning as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to Kevin Feige. In a recent Vanity Fair cover story about Downey Jr., the president of Marvel Studios addressed whether or not they would resurrect Iron Man/Tony Stark after his death in “Avengers: Endgame.” “We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again,” Feige said of Stark’s final moments in the 2019 film.
The groundwork was laid for Nicole Newnham’s Oscar-contending documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite back when the director was just a girl.
If there was any doubt about the “Game of Thrones” brand and what else it could sustain—dozens of spin-offs were put into development, but almost all were scrapped— well, the prequel “House Of The Dragon” put any concerns to rest. Earlier this week, new posters for Emma D’Arcy’s Rhaenyra Targaryen and Olivia Cooke’s Alicent Hightower were unveiled, signaling the way for a new trailer, and it’s finally arrived from CCXP in Brazil.
Valerie Wu Intern Former “Vanderpump Rules” star Rachel Leviss has returned to entertainment with a new iHeartPodcast, “Rachel Goes Rogue.” Leviss, who was previously known as Raquel Leviss, starred in Bravo’s reality television series “Vanderpump Rules” from Seasons 5 through Season 10. A spin-off from “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, “Vanderpump Rules” follows the personal and professional lives of restauranteur Lisa Vanderpump and her staff members. In what was to become her last season on the show, Leviss became embroiled in the #Scandoval: a headline-making, explosive sexual affair with fellow cast member Tom Sandoval.
Michaela Zee Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series returns featuring the biggest stars in this year’s Oscar race for Season 19. The four episodes will debut on PBS SoCal on Jan. 11 at 8 to 10 p.m., followed by encores on KCET and public television stations across the country and the WORLD Channel (check local listings).
ABC:Monday, Jan. 22: “The Bachelor” (8 p.m. season premiere starring Joey Graziadei), “20/20” (10 p.m.)Wednesday, Feb.
Rose Ayling-Ellis is leading a TV adaptation of Will Dean‘s first Tuva Moodyson novel about a deaf journalist in development with Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Brendan Fraser, a newly minted Academy Award winner, is set to star in the Searchlight Pictures comedic drama “Rental Family.” Japanese filmmaker Mitsuyo Miyazaki, who goes by Hikari and worked on Netflix’s “Beef,” is directing and producing the film. She’s also co-writing the script with Stephen Blahut, whom she collaborated with on the docu-drama “37 Seconds.” Principal photography will begin this spring in Japan, with release plans to be announced at a later date.
EXCLUSIVE: After taking his time in finding his next big role after winning this years best actor Oscar, Brendan Fraser looks to have zeroed in on that role as sources tell Deadline he is set to star in Searchlight’s Rental Family. Beef helmer Hikari will direct from a script she co-wrote with Stephen Blahut. Hikari has been developing the project since 2019 and will produce along with Shin Yamaguchi as well as Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev of Sight Unseen Productions.
While there seems to be a big debate raging this year about superhero fatigue and the decline of Marvel Studios, Sony has quite a few new superhero films ready to go over the next year or so. You have to imagine the studio is desperately hoping superhero fatigue will take a break in 2024.
EXCLUSIVE: Claire’s is teaming up with Sony Pictures Television — Kids to create a new series for young people for the global marketplace.