Entertainment Greenwich Ent. Acquires Music Doc ‘Charli XCX: Alone Together’ – Deadline Christin Hakim, November 3, 2024March 19, 2023 EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Charli XCX: Alone Together, a documentary that follows international pop star Charli XCX as she records an album during the pandemic with online input from her fans. Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler directed the film, which Greenwich plans to release in… Continue Reading
Entertainment Amazon Studios & Howard Announce 3rd Year For Entertainment Program – Deadline Christin Hakim, October 20, 2024March 19, 2023 Amazon Studios and Howard University have once again banded together for the Howard Entertainment program. The effort is meant to diversify the entertainment industry by creating a pipeline for Black and other underrepresented students into its ranks, according to a statement from the partners. This marks the program’s third year…. Continue Reading
Automotive Cannes Film Festival – Deadline Christin Hakim, September 8, 2024March 19, 2023 A married man falls for a trans woman in Joyland, the first Pakistani feature to play in Cannes. Saim Sadiq’s atmospheric Un Certain Regard drama also explores a whole family, presenting a picture of a clan torn between modernity and tradition in contemporary Lahore. Haider (Ali Junejo) has a seemingly… Continue Reading
Entertainment Indian Streaming Platform ZEE5 In Deal With Applause Entertainment – Deadline Christin Hakim, May 16, 2024March 19, 2023 ZEE5 Global, the streaming platform specializing in South Asian content, has inked an agreement with local content studio Applause Entertainment that will see the latter create multiple Hindi shows for the streamer as ZEE5 originals. The first project under the agreement will be Kaun Banegi Shikharwati, a dramedy series with… Continue Reading
Entertainment Redbox And Lionsgate Set Multi-Year Distribution Deal For Redbox – Deadline Christin Hakim, May 8, 2024March 19, 2023 EXCLUSIVE: Redbox has set a multi-year distribution deal with Lionsgate for the release of Redbox Entertainment titles and also stocking Redbox streaming services with Lionsgate library fare. Formed in 2019, the entertainment division of the longtime operator of DVD kiosks is an important part of the company’s expansion plan. It… Continue Reading
Entertainment Applause Entertainment Adapting Gandhi Biographies Into Drama Series – Deadline Christin Hakim, January 20, 2024March 19, 2023 EXCLUSIVE: Mahatma Gandhi’s life is to be detailed in a multi-season streaming period drama series akin to Netflix global smash The Crown, Deadline can reveal. Sameer Nair’s local production powerhouse Applause Entertainment has acquired rights to Indian historian and journalist Ramachandra Guha’s Gandhi Before India and Gandhi – The Years… Continue Reading
Automotive Ricky Gervais Defends Trans Jokes In Netflix Special – Deadline Christin Hakim, December 12, 2023March 19, 2023 2nd UPDATE: Ricky Gervais is defending his trans jokes in his Netflix comedy special SuperNature that have sparked outrage on social media. “My target wasn’t trans folk, but trans activist ideology,” he told The Spectator in an interview. “I’ve always confronted dogma that oppresses people and limits freedom of expression.”… Continue Reading
Real Estate TPG Real Estate Acquired Cinespace Studios In Chicago And Toronto – Deadline Christin Hakim, August 31, 2023March 19, 2023 TPG Real Estate Partners has acquired the studio campuses of Cinespace Studios in Chicago and Toronto — combined the second largest independent sound stage platform in North America — as the buying, selling and building of sound stages continues at a fast clip. It’s the firm’s second major deal in… Continue Reading
Entertainment YMU Launches U.S. Entertainment Division With Former UTA & ICM Execs – Deadline Christin Hakim, June 22, 2023March 19, 2023 EXCLUSIVE: UK management firm YMU is launching a U.S. entertainment division under the leadership of former UTA agent April Tombs. As a branding and endorsements agent at UTA Tombs navigated partnerships for clients including Hilary Duff, Queen Latifah, Anthony Anderson, Jenna Dewan, and Brooke Shields. She has joined YMU as… Continue Reading
Entertainment Covid Outbreaks Hit Movie Studios, TV Production Hard In L.A. County – Deadline Christin Hakim, May 31, 2023March 19, 2023 For the past few months, the entertainment industry has been one of hardest hit — if not THE hardest hit — sectors in Los Angeles, consistently logging the highest number of Covid outbreaks in the county. Now, as studios are setting return-to work-dates for employees, at least three lots are… Continue Reading