Tom Staggs-Kevin Mayer’s Media Venture Buys Faraway Road, Producers of ‘Fauda’ and ‘Hit & Run’

UPDATED with official announcement: Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Blackstone-backed Candle Media has formally clinched its latest deal — for Faraway Road Productions, the company behind Fauda and Hit & Run. 

HBO said that the Season 2 premiere of Euphoria starring Emmy winner Zendaya drew 2.4 million viewers across all its platforms Sunday night, saying it is the strongest digital premiere performance of any HBO episode on HBO Max since the streaming service’s launch last May.

Remembering a legend. Following the death of comedian Bob Saget at age 65, many of his former costars and friends paid tribute and shared their condolences.

Byron Allen Media Group announced that its new Allen Media Digital division is launching SPORTS.TV, a new free-streaming platform. The SPORTS.TV app will act as an aggregator for sports, news, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcasting stations for free.

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is doubling down on podcasting.

EXCLUSIVE: Gentleman Jack producer Lookout Point’s investment in Shane Allen and Kate Daughton’s Boffola Pictures technically valued the new comedy indie at £4M ($5.4M), Deadline can reveal, while Lookout posted a £3.2M ($4.3M) loss for the Covid-impacted 2020/21 financial year.

An investment firm backed by Blackstone and run by onetime Disney colleagues Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs has taken a minority stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc.

Magical memories! Emma Watson, Tom Felton and more of the Harry Potter cast spilled their biggest on-set secrets during the 20th anniversary reunion — and even dished about who they were crushing on.

HBO recently unveiled the first poster for Euphoria season two starring Zendaya. The season premiere drops January 9, 2022. Along with Zendaya, the show stars Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeny, Jacob Elordi, Storm Reid, and Colman Domingo.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your compelling first teaser trailer and images from season four of hit Israeli series Fauda.

Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7B) over ten years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy.

Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Blackstone-backed media venture has set its next acquisition, of Faraway Road Productions, the company behind Fauda and Hit & Run, Deadline has confirmed.

For the past seven years, filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has been scratching his spy film itch with his ‘Kingsman’ franchise. Over the course of three films (the third of which, “The King’s Man,” arriving this week, read our review here), Vaughn has shown himself to be a pretty solid director of superspy material.

The return of One Tree Hill? Maybe so! Chad Michael Murray, who starred as Lucas Scott in the CW series, is surprised that the drama hasn’t been rebooted.

Chad Michael Murray is opening up about a future One Tree Hill reboot, which he knows will come around one day.

Countries all over the world are reacting to the rising Covid-19 numbers as the Omicron variant swiftly becomes the dominant strain.

, more than 10 celebrities participated in the latest edition of the show's «Mean Tweets» segment, and had epic responses to the rude social media messages.«Well Tom Holland is an absolute wanker,» the 25-year-old actor read, before responding with a shrug and epic comeback, «And he's also Spider-Man.»«This is just wrong,» Kevin Hart complained before reading the mean message targeted at him. «Shaq's penis is Kevin Hart,» the tweet read.