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Cancelling Culture - One by one the emails hit inboxes, on letterhead of the National Endowment for the Humanities: That grant we gave you to make your documentary? It’s cancelled. Last week, the Trump administration summarily terminated funding for 85 percent of NEH grants, including awards for numerous documentary projects. >>> "A Shock "
Plan B For 'Adolescence' - Brad Pitt‘s Plan B Entertainment is in early talks to make what could become a second season of Adolescence after the series’ success on Netflix. Plan B co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner told Deadline that they are speaking to director Philip Barantini about the “next iteration” of the show. >>> Looking To "Widen The Aperture"
'Minecraft' Digs In At B.O. - Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie, driving theatrical business, is set for a second domestic weekend decline of 60%, for a tally of around $65M. But there are also five wide entries hitting the marketplace the week before the traditionally lucrative Easter weekend. >>>Strong Weekday Numbers
Payroll Deduction - The Bryan Cranston and Lily Gladstone thriller Lone Wolf, which wrapped its shoot in New Mexico at the end of February, has still to pay out dozens of crew members due to funding trouble. Somewhere along the line, what was meant to be an $11M movie became closer to $13M. >>>$1M Shortfall
Holy AI Grail? - Hoping to find a seam as an AI-powered next-gen entertainment studio and management company, GRAiL has been launched by ad exec/filmmaker Davide Bianca and producer/brand expert Jeff Krelitz. The focus will be original production, advertising and client representation in a specific lane: the rapidly expanding medium of filmmakers advancing storytelling using AI in all platforms. >>> End-To-End Production Pipeline
In Brief - Matt Johnson eyed to direct Magic: The Gathering movie... Matt Spicer to helm Netflix comedy Little Brother... Brandon Camp to direct Wishbone ... Sugar23 hires James Crane as Director of Business Development
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The latest episode of Hulu’s Good American Family challenges audiences' biases by flipping the script on the dominant narrative in the Natalia Grace case over the past decade.
After four episodes of seeing Natalia through the eyes of Kristine and Michael Barnett, Episode 5 begins to show us what life was like from Natalia’s perspective during the years where she was abandoned by her adoptive parents and forced to live on her own as a child.
In an interview with Deadline, show creator Katie Robbins unpacks Episode 5’s complete tonal shift and explains how she balanced these warring perspectives to tell this story. >>>Read The Interview |
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John Turturro has come aboard to star in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, a new crime thriller that Noah Segan wrote and is directing for MRC and T-Street, with the former financing and the latter producing.
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Zach Galifianakis rounds out the main cast of AMC and AMC+’s Jonathan Glatzer Silicon Valley drama headlined by Billy Magnussen. The previously untitled series will now be called The Audacity.
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Australian actress Alycia Debnam-Carey (Apple Cider Vinegar) is the newest addition to the cast of the still-untitled new Monsterverse movie from Legendary.
Even before the Tyriq Withers-starring thriller Him hits theaters this fall, Withers and Universal have found the next film on which to collaborate. Withers is set to co-star opposite Maika Monroe in the feature film adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel Reminders of Him.
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Netflix's new crime drama Nemesis has announced its recurring cast: Moe Irvin (Ahsoka), Stephanie Sigman (Narcos), Quincy Isaiah (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty), Jay Reeves (6888), Mike O’Malley (Heels), Khalilah Joi (Mayor of Kingstown), Shane Johnson (Power) and Siua Ikale’o (Chief of War). |
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- Number of days President Donald Trump has said he will pause recently-imposed tariffs on 75 countries |
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🎞️ The China Film Administration has confirmed that it will reduce the number of U.S. films allowed to enter the country, a response to Donald Trump imposing record tariffs on Chinese products.
🤖 Senate and House lawmakers Wednesday reintroduced The No Fakes Act, legislation that will give individuals the right to control the use of their digital likeness, as part of an effort to limit the use of AI deepfakes and voice clones.
🖥️ Netflix will increase its subscription price if a proposed 5% UK streaming levy is given the go-ahead. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Richard Kahn, a former president and longtime governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who also had a long career in film publicity and marketing, died April 5 in Los Angeles, the Academy announced. He was 95. 🕯️ Alice Tan Ridley, the mother of Precious and American Horror Story actor Gabourey Sidibe and a singer who performed for several decades in New York City subway stations, Harlem’s Cotton Club and other venues before finding national fame on America’s Got Talent in her late 50s, died in New York. She was 72. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries
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On the Radar
Thu - The Pitt S1 ends, Hacks S4 starts, Black Mirror S7 drops, The Masters tees off
Fri - Coachella starts; Yellowjackets finale
Sat - Passover begins; John Hamm hosts SNL
Sun - The Last of Us premiere;1923 finale |
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"A Witchy Place" - Asked at the the AMC Networks 2025 upfront why New Orleans is the perfect setting for Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, series star Alexandra Daddario told Deadline the city is a "witchy place." She continued, "My mother swears to God that there was a ghost in the house that I rented." |
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