EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a year of evolution for the European Film Market and its TV track Berlinale Series. Management is changing at sister festival Berlinale, with Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian exiting amid worries about finances, and the number of films screened reducing. Meanwhile, Berlinale Series boss Julia Fidel has …
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Five years after snagging a majority stake in A3, Adam Bold is being accused of “a campaign of chaos” by the Agency’s CEO and president and being a coke addict, a “creeping” leach who created a toxic and hostile workplace, and a spendthrift who is steering “what remains of a …
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EXCLUSIVE: Bob Iger finally had his wish come true today “I’m elated,” the Disney CEO told Deadline Wednesday tonight of his reaction to the deal between SAG-AFTRA and the studios. “It’s been, as you know, a long summer in this town and it’s an industry that really needs to …
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“With the new world order you are going to see much lower budgets,” Miramax TV boss Marc Helwig has predicted, as he forecast the market for first-look deals will “further contract.” A recent Miramax show for Netflix UK cost somewhere between £5M ($6.1M) and £7M ($8 .6M), a far cry …
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Ivan Dunleavy, who ran legendary U.K. studio Pinewood for 17 years before departing in 2017 following a buyout, has a new studio venture, this time in Ireland. Tara Studios, based at the 154-acre Borleagh Manor estate in County Wexford less than an hour’s drive from Dublin (and, crucially, connected via …
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The 11x Oscar nominee remembered the late distribution boss on Wednesday night at the Will Rogers Pioneers Dinner, the two having worked together during the latter’s time at Weinstein Co. with The Master and at MGM with Licorice Pizza. Paul Thomas Anderson had the first 70MM made movie in 20 …
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The launch of generative AI products over the past nine months has the world talking about how it will change the future. Many are frightened. Others are excited about the opportunity. A report last month from Next Move Strategy Consulting predicts the AI industry will grow 20x in the next …
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Four years ago — before Flyana Boss were running across our TikTok FYPs with their viral hit “You Wish” and rapping about “sugar, spice, Kanekalon, and cinnamon” — the formidable duo were just two ordinary besties living in Los Angeles. But Bobbi LaNea and Folayan, hailing from Detroit and Dallas, …
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Hilarie Burton. David Becker/Getty Images for iHeartRadio Hilarie Burton Morgan wanted to follow in her One Tree Hill character’s footsteps by starting her own record label — but creator Mark Schwahn had other ideas. “I was supposed to [start a music label] with our boss [Mark Schwahn]. That was the …
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Avalon boss Jon Thoday has said he is “surprised” that ITV bosses weren’t aware of Phillip Schofield’s relationship with a much younger runner on This Morning. Speaking during the Power of TV debate at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the boss of the Starstruck producer and Rose Matafeo agency said “it …
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As the US regulators tighten the belt on the cryptocurrency industry, legal experts believe SBF attorneys will have a challenging time freeing proving his innocence The defense lawyers representing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) swung into action to prove the innocence of their client after new fraud charges were …
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EXCLUSIVE: “We are not going to have the UK used as a backdoor to undermine SAG-AFTRA’s dispute,” the leader of UK actors union Equity has declared. Speaking exclusively to Deadline prior to Equity’s first rallies in support of the U.S. actors’ cause, Paul Fleming denied that the labor action which …
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