Cruise & Beckham's Paramount Synergy; Scorsese & DiCaprio Back 'Carthage'; C-SPAN At A Crossroads

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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. CRUISE & BECKHAM GET SET TO KICK IT  THE DUO WILL APPEAR TOGETHER ON 'BECKHAM & FRIENDS LIVE'  Is it just two mates sitting around watching the UEFA Champions League final on a summer Saturday, or is it Tom Cruise & David Beckham opening the gates of Paramount cross-promotion heaven? We may never truly know the answer to that grand puzzle. But as Deadline was first to report, we do know that as Cruise’s Paramount-distributed Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning continues its global run, the four-time Oscar nominee is going to be onscreen Saturday with the former England captain and Inter Miami CF co-owner. Just a few weeks after celebrating at Beckham’s star-studded 50th birthday party in London, Cruise will join the Manchester United alum on Paramount+’s  Beckham & Friends Live. It's a big get for Beckham’s latest big step in front of the camera. The pair will chat live while watching Paris Saint-Germain play Inter Milan in the Champions League final at Munich’s Allianz Arena. >>>More Famous Friends Expected Deadline Exclusives & Originals C-SPAN At A Crossroads - C-SPAN, funded by the cable industry, has seen its revenue fall as consumers cut the cord. At the same time, the most popular streaming alternatives have yet to carry the C-SPAN channels to make up for the loss. >>>"Crisis Of Funding" Wolf Pack Unites - Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chad A. Verdi, LBI Entertainment’s Christopher Donelly and Gareth West have teamed to produce Carthage Must Be Destroyed, an action to be directed by Ocean’s Eleven scribe Ted Griffin. >>>Rust-Belt City In Decline 'Last' Not Least - On the heels of the Season 2 finale Sunday, HBO’s acclaimed drama The Last Of Us has finalized its list of 33 submissions for the 2025 Emmy Awards. They include Outstanding Drama Series, 10 acting and 3 writing/directing entries. >>>Key Episode It Starts On The Page: 'Severance' -  Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Drama) features 10 standout drama series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention. Here is the “Cold Harbor” script with an intro by creator Dan Erickson, in which he reveals the finale’s original title and the two scenes that were most challenging to write. >>>Read The Script Oh Mama! - Baz Bamigboye sits down with Judy Craymer, the (dancing) queen of all things related to the Mamma Mia! stage musical and its movie iterations. Over lunch, she teases ambitions for a third film, including the prospect of casting Sabrina Carpenter. >>>Broadway Return              The Deadline Q&A ‘Dancing With The Stars’ EP On Show’s Cultural Importance & Why The Emmys Should Take Notice Unfortunately for certain bona fide hits on broadcast TV, longevity in primetime doesn’t necessary lead to — or even guarantee — a major win at the Emmys. The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men never won, nor has Grey’s Anatomy or NCIS. And then there is Dancing with the Stars, which is about to launch its 34th season on ABC and has never won for Outstanding Reality Competition. Here, Ryan O’Dowd, BBC Studios’ President of Unscripted TV — who also serves as an EP on DWTS — talks about the show’s durability, those breakout moments that crack the zeitgeist and how he “wouldn’t rule out” the day we might finally see a male duo compete for the mirror ball trophy. >>>Read The Interview Casting About exclusive Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth has joined the cast of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. Set to recur should the pilot go to series, she joins series regulars Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy. CBS began the official countdown to Survivor 50 Wednesday by revealing most of the returning players who will participate — one of whom may be a target as early as day one simply because of his success with The White Lotus. The HBO Harry Potter series has found its three leads. Newcomers Dominic McLaughlin, Alastair Stout and Arabella Stanton have been cast as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. They will play the starring roles in a TV epic that will span at least a decade. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint did the same for the hit blockbuster movies.   exclusive Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot has cast more key roles. Jocko Sims (New Amsterdam), Warren Christie (The Watchful Eye), Wren Zhawenim Gotts (Echo), Meegwun Fairbrother (Avatar, The Sticky) and Alyssa Wapanatâhk (Peter Pan & Wendy) are set as series regulars and Xander Cole (People of the West ) as recurring on the series, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic semi-autobiographical novels. exclusive Isabel DeRoy-Olson (Fancy Dance) and Luke Barnett (The Crossing Over Express) have joined the cast of AMC and AMC+ thriller Dark Winds for Season 4. Quotable   "He couldn’t make the leap that people would see me onscreen kissing someone"  - Kathy Bates on why director Garry Marshall didn't cast her in 'Frankie and Johnny' More News ♟️ The first Broadway revival of Chess will arrive this fall with Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher in the starring roles. The production will open fall 2025 at a Shubert theater to be announced. Tony winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) will direct. ⚖️ Kevin Costner already faces legal action from New Line over a cofinancing deal on Horizon: An American Saga, and now the star/director of the Western films has been hit with a sexual harassment suit by a veteran stuntwoman over a “violent unscripted” rape scene. Costner’s longtime attorney Marty Singer called the action a “shakedown.”  📺 Hacks is returning for a fifth season. Max renewed the Emmy-winning comedy series ahead of the season four finale this Thursday.  by the numbers   $1.5B  - Latest proposed film and TV production incentives in Texas over a 10-year period Hirings, Promotions & Exits   David Leavy To Depart As COO Of CNN, Will Return To Warner Bros. Discovery Ken Dilanian To Serve As MSNBC’s Justice Correspondent And Erielle Reshef To Join Network As National Correspondent AMC Networks Ups Olivia Dupuis To EVP Publicity Obituaries 🕯️ Rick Derringer, who had a No. 1 hit with The McCoys in “Hang on Sloopy,” created a classic rock staple in “Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo,” produced the Edgar Winter Group’s hit “Frankenstein” and songs for “Weird” Al Yankovic, died Monday. He was 77. 🕯️ 2025 Hollywood & Media Obituaries Photo Gallery On the Radar Wed - Television Academy Honors; Sean Penn on Everybody's Live Thu - Hacks finale; ATX TV Festival begins Fri - Lester Holt's last day as NBC Nightly News anchor; Your Friends and Neighbors finale Sat - Netflix's Tudum Live event; Produced By Conference Mon - Gotham TV Awards Photo of the Day Wax On - Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, Ralph Macchio and Jonathan Entwistle attend the Karate Kid: Legends premiere in New York. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. 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