In a whopping deal, Amazon and Netflix are battling ferociously for Crime 101, a package based on a novella by Don Winslow that has Chris Hemsworth and Pedro Pascal attached to star. American Animals helmer Bart Layton is attached to direct. Deal talks have been going on for months, and started before the strike. Bidding came down to Amazon and Netflix, sources say.
Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, and Shane Salerno’s Story Factory are the production companies that put the package together along with CAA. It’s a great crime story in the vein of Heat. High level jewel thefts are taking place up and down the Pacific Coast and police have linked the crimes to Colombian cartels. Detective Lou Lubesnick has other ideas, and he zeroes in on one perp, a thief looking for a final score. HarperCollins published the story as part of the Winslow collection Broken in 2020. >>>Potential $100M Deal |
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The Inside Game - Venus Williams and Wondermind, co-founded by Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey and Daniella Pierson, are tackling the subject of mental health challenges faced by athletes in tennis-focused Behind The Racquet. The docuseries, which is currently in development, aims to raise awareness and destigmatize conversations about the challenges athletes face on and off the court, exploring mental health in tennis through the lens of those who live it. >>> A 360-Degree View
CAA's Big Day - Creative Artists Agency has signed Emmy nominees Padma Lakshmi and Margaret Qualley for representation. The moves come just days after the agency landed Andrew Lloyd Webber and his The Really Useful Group. >>>More Signings
The Music Man - Grant Singer has signed with LBI Entertainment, hot off making his feature directing debut in Reptile. Benicio Del Toro stars with Justin Timberlake in the thriller for Black Label Media and Netflix. The pic will be released October 6 after its Toronto premiere. >>>Video of the Year Winner
Highwire Act - Management firm Elevate Entertainment is adding a podcast division. The new unit, called Highwire, is set to launch with an initial slate of four unscripted podcasts. It will produce both unscripted and scripted podcasts featuring Elevate talent as well as unaffiliated guests spanning several global industries. >>>Centered On A-list Talent |
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Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), running alongside the main festival from August 30 to September 9, celebrates its 20th edition this year. Partly modeled on Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, GdA was launched in 2004 as an alternative space for independent filmmakers alongside the star-studded, red-carpet focus of the main festival. Deadline talked to Artistic Director Gaia Furrer and Delegate General and GdA founder Giorgio Gosetti in the lead-up to the 20th edition. >>> Read The Interview |
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Shadow and Bone star Kit Young is part of the Season 1 cast of FX’s Alien series, sources tell Deadline. Young was a late addition who joined Alien after the bulk of the main cast, led by Sydney Chandler, was set, including Alex Lawther as a soldier named CJ, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, a CEO, as well as Essie Davis as Dame Silvia and Adarsh Gourav as Slightly. Young plays a character named Tootles in Noah Hawley’s prequel to the Alien franchise. Filming of the show in Thailand has been suspended due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.
The upcoming 32nd season of Dancing With The Stars will be without Witney Carson. The longtime DWTS pro dancer announced the news Sunday that she would not be returning in a video on TikTok. Carson won the Season 19 mirrorball trophy with Alfonso Ribeiro in 2014. |
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BY THE NUMBERS
1.2 million households - The Live+5 day viewership for the first episode of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s new series 'Ahsoka'. Those numbers are in line with previous Star Wars property 'Andor,' but off from 'Obi-Wan Kenobi.' |
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👸 All seven seasons of ABC’s Once Upon a Time will start streaming on Hulu Sept. 1. The fairytale drama has been streaming exclusively on Disney+ since it left Netflix; it will now be shared by the two Disney entertainment platforms, whose programming has become increasingly intertwined in recent months.
⚖ Two women are alleging that veteran porn actor Ron Jeremy sexually assaulted them at the Rainbow Bar & Grill and are suing the Sunset Strip landmark for “negligence in maintaining a safe environment for their female patrons.”
💰 Primetime Emmy-winning producer Bruna Papandrea is looking to sell her production company Made Up Stories per sources. This is very early in the process with no bidders as of yet, nor an indication if the Big Little Lies EP will maintain a stake in the next phase of the company which she co-founded with her husband Steve Hutensky and Australian producer Jodi Matterson six years ago. |
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Trending  Barbie is poised to become the highest-grossing Warner Bros. movie of all time globally, and was expected to have done so on Monday. The last worldwide estimate this weekend was $1.34B, meaning just $1M separates it from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
🔻 Barbie came in second at the box office this weekend with $15.1M after a heated race with Sony’s Gran Turismo, which collected $17.4M. |
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OBITUARIES
🕯 Josh Seiter, a former contestant on The Bachelorette, has died. He was 36. Seiter was featured in Season 11 of the ABC dating show which had Kaitlyn Bristowe searching for love. The Chicago resident, exotic dancer and law student was eliminated in the first week. 🕯 Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, popularly known as Joe the Plumber after he confronted then-presidential candidate Barack Obama about taxes at a 2008 campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. He was 49. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries |
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On the Radar
Wed - Venice Film Festival opens
Fri - Telluride begins; Disneyland workers' contract expires
Sun - Special Ops: Lioness S1 finale
Mon - Labor Day |
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Long Live The King - Lupita Nyong’o remembered her Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman on the anniversary of his death. "This is a photo I took on film at the airport as we arrived in South Korea in 2018," wrote the Oscar winner. "We spent a glorious 72 hours there, and the memory fills me with so much joy. Death is hard to understand, maybe even harder to accept. But the love generated from the life he lived will fuel every anniversary marking his absence." |
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