‘Nailed It!’ Producer Magical Elves Taps Dan Goldsack As Development Chief

As Elon Musk makes headlines with his machinations to purchase Twitter, venerable British broadcaster BBC has announced plans to produce a docuseries about the controversial tech billionaire.

British broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered an apocalyptic comedy series starring Friday Night Dinner and The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.

EXCLUSIVE: James McArdle (Mare Of Easttown) and Fionnula Flanagan (The Others) have been set to lead the ensemble cast of Four Mothers, an Irish-set adaptation of Gianni di Gregorio’s 2008 festival and box office hit Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo Di Ferragosto).

EXCLUSIVE: Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley is aboard as executive-producer on UK feature The Unraveling, which will reunite the creative team behind BAFTA and BIFA-nominated 2016 thriller The Ghoul.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s upcoming film This Much I Know To Be True – check it out below.The film will be released in cinemas globally on May 11, with tickets on sale for the screenings now. Grab yours here.The first clip from This Much I Know To Be True was revealed in February, and saw Cave discuss his own definition of his artistry.

Nine Inch Nails have revealed the list of support acts joining them on their first US tour since 2018.Boy Harsher, 100 Gecs, Yves Tumor, Ministry and Nitzer Ebb are among the openers personally curated by frontman Trent Reznor. The tour, which was announced back in February, is set to kick off on Thursday (April 28) in Raleigh, North Carolina.The line-up announcement comes after the news that Nine Inch Nails would be replacing Foo Fighters at two festivals this summer, following the death of the band’s drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorKris Thykier’s Archery Pictures, whose credits include John Madden’s “Operation Mincemeat” and Sky thriller “Riviera,” has acquired the television rights to Ned Beauman’s highly anticipated new novel “Venomous Lumpsucker.” The dark comedy is a madcap adventure story set in a dystopian world ravaged by climate change.The story is set in the near future, when tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year, and a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help preserve the remnants, or just assuage humankind’s guilt (depending how you look at it).Humanity’s last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where the DNA of every organism can be preserved forever, until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates them in their entirety. In the aftermath, a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up in search of the venomous lumpsucker, a lost fish that they both desperately need to save.

Thania Garcia Don Omar has enlisted the trifecta of reggaeton for his new track “Soy Yo,” bringing together Latin icons Wisin and Gente de Zona (Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom) for the melodious collaboration.“Soy Yo” is a fusion of urban and tropical rhythms pulling influence from both Omar and Gente de Zona’s Afro-Caribbean roots and Wisin’s Puerto Rican reggae-style rap. Miami’s luxurious Biltmore Hotel serves as background to the song’s accompanying music video, filmed under the direction of Saban Music Group CEO Gustavo López.The storyline of the video follows a passion-fueled love affair between Omar and his female co-star, who is involved in another relationship.

Camera are rolling on an ITV drama that tells the true story of Britain’s biggest ever police manhunt.

EXCLUSIVE: European organization ACE Producers has unveiled the 17 producers who will participate in the third edition of its ACE Animation Special workshop. Scroll down for the list.

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with British multi-hyphenate Charles Dorfman, who, through his two banners Samuel Marshall Films and Media Finance Capital, has worked across a range of titles from The Lost Daughter to 2nd Chance and his own directorial debut Barbarians. In his first major interview, he outlines his ambitions as a writer-director and as a financier-producer. 

EXCLUSIVE: Israel, the nation that brought the likes of Fauda and Shtisel to the world, has become the latest regulatory battleground as producers push for streamer quotas and greater ownership of IP.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have shared a performance from their upcoming film This Much I Know To Be True – watch it below.The Andrew Dominik-directed movie serves as a companion piece to the 2016 music documentary One More Time With Feeling, and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in March.It’ll be released in cinemas globally on May 11, with the first full trailer arriving last month.Per an official description, the project captures Cave and Ellis’ “exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life songs from albums ‘Ghosteen’ [Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds] and ‘Carnage’ [Nick Cave And Warren Ellis].Today (April 14) the pair have released a special This Much I Know… performance of ‘Ghosteen Speaks’, which appears on the aforementioned 2019 Bad Seeds album. Tune in here:The first clip from This Much I Know To Be True arrived in February, and saw Cave discuss his own definition of his artistry.In the full trailer, Cave said, “We all live our lives dangerously, in a state of jeopardy, at the edge of calamity” while music from ‘Ghosteen’ played in the background.The film features also features a special appearance by Cave and Ellis’ close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon has commissioned a new Canadian original comedy series titled “The Sticky,” Variety has learned.The series is inspired by the true story of “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” The English language half-hour series will be set in Quebec.It revolves around Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to manifest destiny.

EXCLUSIVE: Snabba Cash and The Rain star Evin Ahmad is to lead Netflix’s upcoming female-led action adventure series Palomino, with filming kicking off in Barcelona later this year.

Disney World with her lookalike daughters over the weekend. The Britain’s Got Talent judge travelled to the amusement park in Orlando, Florida, with her husband Chris Hughes and their girls Lexi, 16, and Hollie, 10, for the 50th-anniversary celebrations.