‘Hustlers’ Director Lorene Scafaria Stepping In For John Carney On Paramount ‘Bee Gees’ Movie

Dame Joan Collins wowed her fans as she celebrated Christmas Day in Beverly Hills in style.

The production world is in mourning on Thursday, with the news that Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated art director James J. Murakami has passed away.Murakami is best known for his Emmy-winning work as the art director on HBO's Deadwood, and his many collaborations with Clint Eastwood.He passed on December 15 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after complications from a fall, his wife Ginger confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

GREAT British Sewing Bee viewers have all been left saying the same thing about Johannes' naughty blunder. The Strictly Come Dancing star was seen fashioning a Harry Styles inspired jumpsuit in the BBC sewing competition. Tonight's celebrity special of the BBC One programme saw four celebrities go head-to-head for the sewing title.

Netflix on Wednesday revealed that the title for its long-in-the-works Luther stand-alone movie that returns Idris Elba as the complicated detective behind the BBC crime drama that ran for five seasons on the BBC.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Noah Cyrus was seen leaving Italian restaurant Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California with Zack Bia on Monday night. The 22-year-old singer — who recently revealed she'd been battling with addiction — arrived at the high-profile restaurant in a service car while Bia drove up in his grey Mercedes. They both got to the restaurant at the same time and had dinner for two hours before leaving together in Bia's car. New flame alert: Noah Cyrus was seen going out to dinner with DJ Zack Bia at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California  Night out: The 22-year-old spent two hours in the restaurant having dinnerCyrus wore a long white dress underneath a black leather trench coat and paired it with black heeled boots.Bia, 26, kept it more casual by wearing jeans, a black hoodie, and New Balance sneakers.

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager will kick off New Year’s Eve on NBC as the hosts of the primetime two-hour special, A Toast to 2022! beginning at 8 p.m.

Gabrielle Beaumont, who may have directed more primetime hours of television than any other women in history, died peacefully on October 8th at her home in Spain, her brother Christopher Toyne confirmed to Deadline.

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Rodriguez is set to join Jenna Ortegain Winter Spring Summer or Fall for MPCA. Percy Hynes White is also on board. Ortega is also serving as an executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega is teaming with her Wednesday co-star, Percy Hynes White in Winter Spring Summer Or Fall for MPCA. Ortega is also serving as an executive producer.

Sundance has crowned “Bones and All” director Luca Guadagnino winner of the International Icon Award.The filmmaker will be honored along with previously announced honorees Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell, and Nikyatu Jusu at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance event, presented by IMDbPro. The ceremony is set to take place on Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: In Kapital Entertainment’s first foray into features, Aaron Kaplan’s indie studio has received a green light for One Mile and a sequel, starring and produced by Ryan Phillippe. Shot back-to-back, both films will be distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Albert Brenner, a production designer and/or art director on such films as Bullitt, The Turning Point, Pretty Woman and Backdraft who racked up five career Oscar nominations, has died. He was 96. The Mirisch Agency told Deadline he died December 8 in his sleep.

Mark Mylod’s The Menu, from a script by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, has become one of Searchlight Pictures’ best success stories since its release last month, racking up the company’s biggest opening weekend since Slumdog Millionaire.

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Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama, has established an enviable track record with Oscar voters, earning a Best Documentary Feature nomination last year with Crip Camp, and a win in 2020 for American Factory. It’s back in the Oscar race this year with Descendant, a Netflix documentary directed by Margaret Brown. 

Moonage Daydream is returning to the really big screen.

Mark Strong (1917, Kingsman films), Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials, Small Axe) and Chris Mason (Broadchurch, Dirty John) have been cast opposite Emily Watson, Shirley Henderson and Travis Fimmel in HBO Max’s series Dune: The Sisterhood (wt), from Legendary Television.

A biopic of martial arts legend Bruce Lee is currently in the works from the acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee.Ang, whose movies include Brokeback Mountain and Life Of Pi, has cast his own son Mason in the lead role, according to Deadline.The latest pass on the script will be by Dan Futterman, who rose to fame as an actor in The Birdcage before writing such films as Capote and Foxcatcher.At present the screenplay has gone through several versions, including one by Jean-Christophe Castelli, who wrote Ang's 2016 movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.  Icon: A biopic of martial arts legend Bruce Lee is currently in the works from the acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee; the late action star is pictured in Enter The Dragon, released in 1973 Another pass was by the team of Alex Law and Mabel Cheung, whose work includes the Hong Kong films The Illegal Immigrant and Echoes Of The Rainbow.The most recent version was by Wells Tower, whose script Pain Hustlers has been bought by Netflix to be made into a film starring Emily Blunt. Bruce Lee had a foot in both America and Hong Kong from the start, born in San Francisco to a Cantonese opera star and his wife who were stateside on tour- before his tragic death aged just 32.

EXCLUSIVE: Names of programming executives impacted by today’s layoffs across Paramount Global’s CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios are starting to emerge. As expected, all of them are on the Paramount TV Studios side, largely as a result of Paramount+’s scripted originals team being folded into that studio.