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It was the faded monochrome photograph of a small Black boy, both hands gripping a valise, as he leaves London with a party of other school-age evacuees, that caught the Oscar-winning filmmaker ’s eye while he was researching his ‘Small Axe’ film anthology. He tells Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye that image spurred him to create his deeply personal new film about the Nazis’ 1940 air campaign against England, which screens at the London and New York film festivals next month.
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UTA’s Jeremy Zimmer Urges Hollywood Creators To Be “More Daring”, Says Audience Is “Weary” Of Repetition
UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer urged Hollywood’s creative community to rethink their approach in order to help audiences rediscover their passion for film, TV and streaming.
“We have to encourage some of the best creators and the best writers to be a little bit more daring in the work they want to do because…
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SAG Awards’ Netflix Viewership On Par With Last TNT & TBS Telecast
Being on a global, well distributed streaming platform like Netflix did not give the SAG Awards a viewership bump. Since the Feb. 24 awards show did not make Netflix’s Feb. 19-25 weekly Top 10 list, we knew the ceremony drew fewer than 2.1M views in the first 24 hours but its exact delivery was unknown…
WGA East Announces 2024 Council Election Results
The WGA East announced the results of the 2024 Council election on Thursday, adding several new members to the group.
The council consists of 20 members and five officers, 13 of which are newly elected this year. Here are the results:
Sara David has been elected Vice President of the Online…
‘Dark Winds’ & ‘A Discovery Of Witches’ Climb Nielsen Charts After Netflix Debut
AMC is the latest to benefit from the Netflix effect, with A Discovery of Witches and Dark Winds jumping onto the Nielsen charts in the week the series debuted on the streamer.
Dark Winds tallied 929M minutes viewed from August 19 to August 25 with a strong concentration among the 50+ audience…
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FCC Chair Rejects Donald Trump’s Call For ABC To Lose License Over Presidential Debate
The chairwoman of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, said that the agency does not revoke broadcast licenses “simply because a political candidate disagrees with or dislikes content or coverage.”
Her statement came in response to two prominent Democrats’ calls for the agency to make a statement after…
How Showtime’s ‘Dexter’ & ‘Your Honor’ Performed After Landing On Netflix In The First Half Of 2024
In a clear sign of the times, more competitors have been licensing content to Netflix in the past year or so, including Showtime, which handed Your Honor and Dexter over this summer.
Netflix’s latest edition of What We’re Watching, which pulls back the curtain on viewership for all of its titles…
New Line’s ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Adds Ben Hardy & Mia Tomlinson
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Hardy and Mia Tomlinson have joined Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in New Line’s The Conjuring: Last Rites.
Wilson and Farmiga are reprising their roles as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the Michael Chaves directed sequel. Chaves previously directed The Conjuring…
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View All What We're WatchingSharon Horgan Joins Hulu’s Amanda Knox Limited Series
EXCLUSIVE: Bad Sisters co-creator and star Sharon Horgan has been tapped as a series regular on Hulu's Amanda, playing Amanda Knox’s mother Edda Mellas opposite Grace Van Patten who stars as Knox.
The limited series is based on the true story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder…
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FTC Chief Lina Khan Says Her Tough Antitrust Stance “Uncomfortable For Some People” As Election Looms
Lina Khan, the youngest person to chair the powerful Federal Trade Commission, has come down hard on monopolies and anticompetitive behavior, so some business leaders and Wall Streeters are nudging Kamala Harris to dump her if the Democrats win the White House.
Kahn, who became FTC chief in 2021 at…
Dave Chappelle Takes Top Spot Among Comedy Specials In Netflix Numbers As Katt Williams, Ricky Gervais & Jo Koy Score Big
Dave Chappelle remains Netflix's top draw in stand-up comedy as his special The Dreamer led the field in its latest ratings report.
Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer cracked the top 50 programs watched between January and June 2024 with 17.4M views. This is despite the fact that the special was actually…
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View All Deadline Studio @ TIFF 2024Iris Apatow Signs With Sugar23
Iris Apatow has signed with Sugar23 for representation following a highly competitive pursuit.
Next up, Apatow stars alongside Douglas Booth and Alison Pill in Young Werther, an adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Classic The Sorrows of Young Werther for director José Avelino Gilles Corbett…
Meghann Fahy Recalls Accidentally Kicking Jennifer Coolidge “In The Face” During ‘White Lotus’ Scene
Following her stay at the White Lotus, Meghann Fahy feels bad for kicking Jennifer Coolidge while she was down.
The Emmy Award nominee recently recalled filming the Season 2 finale of Mike White‘s hit HBO series and accidentally kicking her co-star in the scene where Fahy’s Daphne discovered the dead…
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