‘Hamilton’ Film Coming Exclusively to Disney+ Beginning July 3 Today, The Walt Disney Company, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas Kail announced that Disney+ will fast track the premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton. The 11-time-Tony Award®-, GRAMMY Award®-, Olivier Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical will now arrive […]
Pixar SparkShort “Loop” Promotes Autism Acceptance, Celebrates Difference and Helps Inspire Change Throughout April, celebrations across the globe promote autism acceptance and ensure that autistic people are seen, heard and celebrated for their unique experiences of the world. Inclusion is also at the heart of Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShorts program, an experimental storytelling initiative that […]
Marc Guggenheim Set By Studio 8 To Script ‘Prophet’ From Character Hatched By ‘Deadpool’ Creator Rob Liefeld Marc Guggenheim has been set by Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 to adapt Prophet, the Image Comics character hatched by Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld. The aim is to build a franchise around John Prophet, a DNA enhanced super-soldier placed […]
GameRefinery: How developers have changed mobile games in the pandemic Mobile game developers have increased free gifts, added more playable content, launched charitable campaigns, and adapted location-based titles during the pandemic, according to a new report from GameRefinery. The mobile game insight and analytics firm said that game developers and publishers have refined their live […]
Hot Package: Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt In ‘Ball And Chain’ We might not have a clear path to a resumption of production yet, but the material market is certainly back in full bloom. The hot spec package tonight is Ball and Chain, with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt attached to play a bickering couple […]
Out Of This World! Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space With Elon Musk’s SpaceX I’m hearing that Tom Cruise and Elon Musk’s Space X are working on a project with NASA that would be the first narrative feature film – an action adventure – to be shot in outer space. It’s not a […]
Disney CEO Bob Chapek Promises COVID-19 Furlough Employees Will Be “Back To Work” Eventually Facing the crushing consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, the Walt Disney Company couldn’t sugarcoat the decline of the bottom line in its second-quarter earnings today, but newly minted CEO Bob Chapek asked the company to tough it out. Noting the “very […]
“No Projections” For When Marvel Movies & Other Disney Tentpoles Will Resume Production Disney CEO Says As the coronavirus crisis continues to take lives around the world, there is no time table yet for when production on big budget Marvel movies will start up, but blockbuster still belong in cinemas, Disney’s CEO declared today – […]
MGM Film & TV Casting Head Seth Yanklewitz Exits Studio In the wake, of MGM’s recent cuts and the departure of co-Presidents of Production, Cassidy Lange and Adam Rosenberg yesterday, Deadline has learned that the studio’s EVP, Talent and Casting, Seth Yanklewitz, is also leaving. Yanklewitz, a 20-year-plus casting veteran, whose career credits include such […]
AMC Tells Universal It Won’t License Studio’s Movies After CEO’s Statements On Windows & ‘Trolls World Tour’ AMC boss Adam Aron has just fired off a letter to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley in response to NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the $95M PVOD success of […]