The awards, announced at ToruńCamerimage in Poland, recognize color grading across five categories. Winners will receive a special full-color version of the festival’s Golden Frog trophy.
The wayOUT Gayla honors have named Michael Feinstein, Michael Urie, Raven-Symoné, and Dan Bucatinsky as the recipients of their 2026 Impact in Entertainment Awards. The four will be be presented at the nonprofit’s upcoming 10th Anniversary Gayla on Nov. 14th at the Avalon in Hollywood. The annual wayOUT Gayla honors those who create lasting change […]
Bela Bajaria and 1,000 Netflix staffers have been let go, and Peter Rice has parachuted in as the streamer’s content chief. But, the real change at the streamer may still be to come, as Deadline has learned. As a coterie of mostly former and some current Netflix executives have banded together in opposition to co-CEO […]
EXCLUSIVE: After leading Disney’s critically acclaimed live-action take on their modern animated classic Lilo & Stitch, which grossed over $1B worldwide last year, and staying on for its sequel, Maia Kealoha has found another new project with the studio, sources tell Deadline. We understand that she’s set to lead Stolen Wishes, a new film to […]
EXCLUSIVE: The screenwriter-forward Austin Film Festival has officially wrapped its 2026 edition, revealing its Audience Award winners and turning to plans for 2027, setting the opening of submissions for its Film and Script competition beginning next month. Vincent Grashaw’s Bruton, the drama based on true story and starring Theo Rossi, Aya Cash, Tammy Blanchard and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Leila Gerstein has sold Netflix the pitch for a new romantic dramedy that she’ll write and executive produce, sources tell Deadline. We’re told the show follows the citizens of a small New England community whose lives are upended when their town becomes the unexpected location of the wedding of the world’s biggest pop star […]
Billboard 's Latin and Español editors offer an analysis of the likely winners and deserving contenders across the top four categories.
Deadline on Tuesday launched the streaming hub for its Sound & Screen Film, its showcase of the music behind the awards season’s buzziest films and the artists who created it. A total of 11 films from 13 studios, streamers and production companies took part in the event, one of Deadline’s most popular, which took place […]
The BBC is removing Little Britain from iPlayer as it reviews all content featuring David Walliams following today’s allegations. A BBC spokeswoman told Deadline that the show that gave Walliams his big break will be taken down in its entirety. “These are serious allegations,” said the spokeswoman. “As such, the BBC is looking carefully at […]
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films breaking out in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep […]
The long-running initiative celebrating the best of the internet will allow winners, nominees and other honored individuals to claim their work, with Shonda Rhimes and Adam Scott among the founding members.
ITV News and The Guardian are preparing to publish potentially bombshell allegations about a British celebrity following a legal battle over their investigation. Last week, the man lost his bid for an injunction against ITV News producer ITN and The Guardian to prevent the media outlets from publishing allegations of sexual misconduct. Now, a deadline […]
The American French Film Festival announced the winners of this year’s awards during the closing ceremony on Nov. 8. The films were voted on by audiences attending the festival, members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, a jury of entertainment professionals and a student jury consisting of high school and college-age participants from the […]
“We wanted this score to be a love letter to Ghana and to the history of film,” Kris Bowers says of his work on The Eyes of Ghana, the latest feature from Canadian filmmaker Ben Proudfoot. The Oscar-winning musician was speaking at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film event, where a live orchestra performed parts of […]
In her Tribeca Festival documentary Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, Linda Perry fans were treated to a rare POV of the 4 Non Blondes frontwoman’s life and musical process. At Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film, the five-time Grammy nominee performed “What Lies with You” from her fourth solo album Let It Die Here, and […]
In Tenzing, audiences are transported to Mount Everest through the film’s original music, which features elements of its Nepali setting. At Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film, the film’s composer Rebekka Karijord presented original music from the Jennifer Peedom-helmed biographical drama about Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s historic 1953 ascent of the Himalayan summit, explaining how […]
Record-setting 17-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren received a rock-star welcome as she hit Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film to accompany and discuss her original song “One Right Here” for Maserati: The Brothers, about the rise of the Italian racing car dynasty. The songwriter, who was nursing a bout of laryngitis, was greeted with a cheer […]
The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything , a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history. Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winners had dabbled in science fiction, Harrison’s was “the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world”. She called it “a historic win, for a writer whose decades of work are lightly worn on every page”. The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (Profile, £16.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com . Delivery charges may apply. Continue reading...
Writing a song to reflect Muhammad Ali could be as daunting a task as any Ali faced in the ring. Marcus “Bellringer” Bell had help, though, he says. For his song “Walk With Kings” from Prime Video’s The Greatest, he turned to another legend: author Rudyard Kipling. Bell shared the story at Deadline’s Sound & […]
EXCLUSIVE: After landing the rights to the Catan board game in 2025, Netflix is making its first major move with the IP as sources tell Deadline Aaron and Adam Nee to write and direct a live-action movie based on the game. Netflix had no comment. The studio closed a deal for the exclusive global rights […]
A group of CNN veterans — among them camera operators and fact-checkers — have opted to take voluntary buyouts as part of an offer spurred by Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to four people familiar with the matter. The deadline for these employees to accept the buyout came Sunday, according to these people. […]
Alex Gibney goes into four hours of detail in his documentary Musk. Over the end credits, songwriter Daniel Pemberton and singer David Byrne summarize Elon Musk in one song, “Let Me Sell You a Dream.” In a virtual Q&A at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film event, they shared how the song’s title and chorus encapsulate […]
Netflix and Skydance’s animated film Swapped is set in a world like our own but different. A bird and a forest creature swap places, and the voices of Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan and more bring an alternate world to life. At Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film, composer Siddhardtha Khosla explained how he […]
In Project Hail Mary, amateur astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) learns to communicate with an alien he meets on a desperate mission in space. For the film’s score, composer Daniel Pemberton aimed to create a new musical language, sharing at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film how he developed the sound for the adaptation of Andy […]
Jamaican author Marlon James and Scotland’s Douglas Stuart have the chance to become two-time Booker Prize winners when the prestigious fiction award is handed out Monday in London
As her powerful drama I Am Helen gets set to launch, Nicola Coughlan has told Deadline society is not doing enough to address the challenges wrought by toxic masculinity. The Bridgerton star spent months working with I Am Helen co-creator Dominic Savage shaping the two-part drama, in which she stars opposite Gangs of London’s Joe […]
Robbie Blue, the choreographer for pop and rap stars Tate McRae and Doechii, took home three World Choreography Awards at the 2026 ceremony. He and his associates were recognized for the intricate moves of McRae’s “Saturday Night Live” dance and Doechii’s electric 67th Grammys performance. The 16th annual ceremony took place Nov. 8 at the […]
As Ojai Film Festival wraps up its 27th year, the winners of this year’s awards have been announced. The opening night title, Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans, won Best Dramatic Feature, while tonight’s closing night film, Rob Burnett’s In Memoriam, won Best Comedic Feature during Sunday’s awards ceremony. In Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Anders […]
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner “Fjord” took the audience award at Jakarta World Cinema, which wrapped with Banjong Pisanthanakun’s Thai horror film “Inherit” and handed three Indonesian short filmmakers funding for their first features. “Fjord,” which also opened the festival, won the Jakarta World Cinema Audience Award, the event’s only feature prize. The closing ceremony […]
Taiwanese literary IP developer and production company Mirror Fiction announced the winners of its fifth Mirror Fiction Award and unveiled five projects for its 2027 slate at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF). The NT$1 million ($32,000) Grand Prize went to Iris Kong for “The Stand-In Family” (provisional title), a suspense novel about four strangers […]
EXCLUSIVE: Heated Rivalry fans who have been eagerly awaiting Season 2 of Crave’s hockey series are in for a great surprise. The hugely popular romantic drama starring Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams has not one but two six-episode seasons on the way, sources tell Deadline. And that’s not all, there is a movie coming up, […]
After weeks of wondering who could be up the mystery James Bond screen test, Deadline has not only found out who the actor is, another suitor was also added to the mix. While not confirmed, insiders tell Deadline Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult joined Jack Lowden, Josh O’Connor and Callum Turner in recent screen tests […]
Music is the fuel that so often drives our deep emotional connection to the storytelling we see on screen, so what better way to feel its power than with a live orchestra playing against the backdrop of some of our favorite films of the season at Sound & Screen Film? The event, one of Deadline’s […]
Katherine Ryan has said she is feeling “grief and relief” after Russell Brand was convicted of rape and sexual assault in London on Thursday. Ryan was one of the first prominent industry figures to call out Brand’s behavior, with Deadline revealing in 2023 that she repeatedly accused him of being a “sexual predator” during the […]
A portrait of a First Nations elder by Queensland photographer Sylvia Liber is the winning image in the annual Head On Portrait prize. Head On Photo festival founder Moshe Rosenzveig says: ‘The awards give photographers from around the world an opportunity to have their work seen by new audiences, and we’re delighted to be showcasing this year’s winners and finalists’ The Head On Portrait awards 2026 exhibition can be viewed 7-29 November at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery in Sydney Continue reading...
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking to Studio N CEO Mikyung (Michelle) Kwon, the Korean banner behind Netflix hit Bloodhounds, last year’s Korean blockbuster My Daughter is a Zombie and recently-launched […]
The popularly known Premios Heat were hosted for the first time in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Thursday night (Nov. 5).
The New York Times Company is in exclusive talks to acquire the beloved cinephile social media platform Letterboxd, Deadline has confirmed. The only other remaining bidder, A24, is out of the running. The New York Times first reported that its parent is in pole position to buy the site from Canadian hedge fund Tiny, pegging […]
EXCLUSIVE: Halloween may be over, but the horrors never cease — election notwithstanding. With that, some big news today: Sources tell Deadline that Lionsgate and subsidiary 3 Arts Entertainment are partnering to launch Render Road, a new horror production banner. This is the initiative Lionsgate CEO John Feltheimer alluded to on today’s Q2 earnings call, […]
The Rockford Files, NBC’s upcoming reboot of the 1970s series, is getting a special preview on Jan. 2 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, immediately following the network’s NFL telecast. The drama starring David Boreanaz will have its time slot premiere on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Deadline revealed in May that The […]
EXCLUSIVE: Halloween season may have come to an end but Sony Pictures isn’t done adding to its already stacked cast for another spooky feature as sources tell Deadline Nicholas Galitzine is in final negotiations to play Ichabod Crane in Hollow opposite Sydney Sweeney. The film also stars Belmont Cameli and is based on filmmaker Lindsey […]
EXCLUSIVE: MBC Studios is gearing up for the world premiere of Saudi director Hana Alomair’s psychological thriller Traveller’s Hell at the Cairo International Film Festival next week and Deadline can reveal the international trailer. The chilling drama follows the trials of a young woman who unwittingly picks up a serial killer posing as a stranded […]
Chris Harrison is back in the dating world and viewers are getting their first taste of his post-Bachelor endeavors. Fox Nation has debuted the first trailer for The Vow, the Harrison-hosted dating show first revealed by Deadline earlier this year. The show will see 30-year-old Jace Cates as its first eligible bachelor. He will embark […]
EXCLUSIVE: With Clayface still shapeshifting his way through theaters — to over $90M worldwide, so far — DC Studios has set Francis Galluppi to pen a John Constantine movie for the studio, sources tell Deadline. Reps for DC declined to comment. We understand the project is in very early development. This comes ahead of the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment’s upcoming Magic: The Gathering movie looks to have found its first big star ready to enchant fans of the popular card game as sources tell Deadline Maya Hawke is set to join the live-action film based on the Hasbro franchise. Hawke’s role has not yet been disclosed. Legendary and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Six months after announcing she was leaving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Whitney Leavitt is back in business with Hulu. Deadline understands that Leavitt is to star and produce her own show for the Disney-owned streamer. The streamer has greenlit the untitled series, which comes from Mormon Wives producer Jeff Jenkins Productions, 3BMG […]
EXCLUSIVE: Genre specialist WTFilms has boarded comedy-thriller The Dregs, about a group of friends whose trip to the Italian Alps takes a terrifying turn after they drink a cursed bottle of Grappa, for an AFM sales launch. The movie brings together a buzzy cast, announced by Deadline earlier this year, featuring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe) […]
EXCLUSIVE: Impossible Dream Entertainment, the production company behind Oscar winners Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, is teaming with the UK’s Wall to Wall to develop and exec produce The Invited, a supernatural mystery thriller series inspired by the ghost story novels of bestselling author Wendy Webb. To be clear, the series won’t draw on any one […]
The World of David Walliams, an attraction at British theme park Alton Towers, is shutting up shop. The Merlin Entertainments-owned park said it would permanently close the Walliams-themed attraction after it opened in 2021, bringing to life characters from his books, such as Gangsta Granny. A Merlin Entertainments spokesperson told Deadline: “As the 2026 peak […]
Simon Stone’s Elsinore, starring Andrew Scott, leads this year’s British Independent Film Awards nominations with 12 nods. Scroll down for the full list of winners. Elsinore earned nominations for Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Simon Stone, Best Screenplay for Simon Beresford, Best Lead Performance for previous winner Andrew Scott, and Best Supporting Performance […]
