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Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired Nachiket Pantvaidya as general manager of productions in India. 

EXCLUSIVE: British actor Tim Downie (Outlander, Good Omens) has signed on to star in the feature film All That Glitters, a young adult comedy-drama inspired by Shakespeare and how his work may have been shaped by modern life. 

EXCLUSIVE: From dark to light – Piv Bernth, one of the architects of the Nordic Noir genre, is working on Feelings & Things, a comedy-drama set in a shopping mall. Bernth and her Apple Tree Productions banner are reuniting with Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz on the project, which they hope to shoot next year.

EXCLUSIVE: David Tennant (Doctor Who), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), Daniel Mays (Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget) and Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Killing Eve) are joining Amblin and Netflix’s movie The Thursday Murder Club.

An Apple Original Films title is heading to the big screen for the sixth time with the June 27, 2025 release of Joseph Kosinski‘s Formula 1 movie starring Brad Pitt. Warner Bros. has won the rights to handle both domestic and overseas. This follows Paramount releasing Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon ($157M WW), Universal with Argylle ($96.2M WW), and Sony with Napoleon ($221.3M WW), Fly Me to the Moon (July 12), and Wolfs (Sept. 20).

Warner Bros. Discovery’s search for a new comms chief is over with the media giant expected to name Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary for former president Barack Obama, to the job, Deadline has learned.

Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show on Monday, offering “a quick state of play” on the 2024 presidential election.

The Boston Celtics are the 2024 NBA Champions.

FilmLA is raising its fees next month, citing rising costs and the continuing downturn in Los Angeles on-location film and TV production. The city and county film-permitting office said today that it is imposing a roughly 4% increase effective July 1.

As she makes her directorial debut, Jennifer Esposito recently reflected on how her early career was impacted by a “Harvey Weinstein-esque” producer.

Five-time Grammy winner Céline Dion recently promised fans that she’d return to the stage despite her struggles with stiff person syndrome, and tonight was another big public appearance for her at the NYC premiere of the Amazon MGM Studios documentary, I Am: Céline Dion.

Five years later, Tom Bergeron is dancing to the beat of his own dream.

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the ailing parent of video kiosk operator Redbox and streaming services like Crackle and Popcornflix, has gotten rid of its entire board of directors.

NBCUniversal has renewed Access Hollywood and its companion daily talk show Access Daily with Mario & Kit through 2026 in syndication.

EXCLUSIVE: Seven years after Ryan Bartlett left UTA to launch Hyperion, the veteran talent agent is leaving the boutique agency to join Independent Artist Group. He will work in IAG’s talent department, reporting to Andrew Rogers in a reunion for the duo who were agents together at Paradigm where Rogers headed Motion Picture Talent.

EXCLUSIVE: “This is purely strategic,” exclaims Why Not Me? host and La La Land executive producer Mike Jackson of having John Legend as the first guest on his new podcast series. “There’s a method to the madness.”

It was quite a reunion this morning on Live with Kelly and Mark. Married co-hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos had a surprise meeting with their All My Children‘s Baby Enzo.

Ian McKellen has been taken to a hospital after falling off stage during a performance of Player Kings in London’s West End, the BBC reports. His exact injuries are not known, but his rep Claire Dobbs tells Deadline he “is doing OK.”

Sony sat out CinemaCon in April this year, but was the first major studio to present at CineEurope in Barcelona today, culminating in a screening of Apple Original Films’ Scarlett Johansson/Channing Tatum-starrer Fly Me to the Moon which Sony is releasing theatrically.

Netflix has set July 1 for the release of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, per the streamer’s app.

In the week leading up to Jeremy Strong‘s Tony Award victory, Broadway‘s An Enemy of the People broke the box office record at Circle in the Square Theatre, grossing $1,266,338 and topping its own previous records.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) has been cast in the Paramount+ series 1923 in a recurring role for Season 2. Production is set to begin later this year.

UPDATE, with League statement: Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, will cease issuing contracts for work on productions in development as negotiations with the Broadway League have stalled.

Shares of AMC Networks plunged more than 35% Monday as the company said it plans put up for sale $125 million-worth of convertible senior notes due in 2029 in a private offering, plus additional notes for up to $18.75 million.

Nearly three years since James Arthur McDonald Jr. bailed on a meeting with SEC over allegations of defrauding investors for millions, the FBI picked up the former CNBC pundit in Washington state this weekend.

As the old saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Katy Perry was in tears when she said “goodbye” to American Idol last month, but today she teased the first single of her post-Idol music career with a celebratory announcement.

The fourth movie directed by Get Out Oscar winner Jordan Peele hits theaters on Oct. 23, 2026 via Universal.

EXCLUSIVE: Ronald D. Moore is back at Sony Pictures Television, signing a multi-year overall deal with the independent studio. Under the pact, Moore, his Tall Ship Productions banner, and longtime collaborators Maril Davis and Ben McGinnis will develop and produce scripted series for cable and streaming platforms.

After the success of Squid Game, it wasn’t long before Netflix was pitched on bringing the series into the unscripted space. EP Nicola Brown says she is sure they must have been pitched many iterations of how to best bring the drama series to life, but it was production companies The Garden and Studio Lambert that were chosen to produce the series, in what she describes as a “great creative marriage.”

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Basso (The Night Agent) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl) are in final negotiations to join Netflix‘s new film from Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, according to multiple sources.

Tatiana Maslany is set to star in The Nightbeast, a pilot for Amazon MGM Studios from Leah Rachel (Chambers) and Travis Jackson (Hemlock Grove).

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Season 2 of House of the Dragon.

EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Weiss and Michelle Nader, collaborators on Hulu’s Dollface, have sold a romantic comedy pitch to New Line Cinema, sources tell Deadline.

EXCLUSIVE: A24 will hold a special screening Sing Sing, the Greg Kwedar film starring Colman Domingo, af the correctional facility in Ossining, New York on June 20, the distributor said, followed by a Q&A and series of additional showings for the general population inside the facility and outside guests.

The Gilded Age will expand its fortunes in season 3 by adding four new characters.