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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. GLOBAL SUMMER B.O. COOKING AS IT NEARS POST-COVID RECORD CURRENT FORECAST PUTS THIS SUMMER 8% AHEAD OF 2024 We know what you’re doing this summer: You’re going to the movies. Gower Street Analytics is predicting the summer’s global box office will hit $12.4 billion, which would be near a post-Covid record for the season, measured from May 1 to August 31. Summer 2023 remains the champ since the pandemic at around $13.6 billion. An assembly line of event product means everything. That’s something Hollywood didn’t have prior to the $313.7M global opening of Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie in early April. Minecraft remains 2025’s highest-grossing MPA title at $953.5M. >>>Billion-Dollar Contenders On The Way Related: Disney Leads U.S. Box Office With $1.1B Year-To- Date '28 Years Later’ $5M+, ‘Elio’ $2.5M-$3M Previews Director Danny Boyle On Return To Horror Series Deadline Exclusives & Originals 'X' Marks The Spot -  An X Games competition series could be heading to the small screen after Bunim/Murray Productions struck a deal to work up X Games Battleground, a series that will unite 30 of the most iconic and influential X Games athletes in a competition format. >>>30th Anniversary   Timely Portrait - New Mountain Films has acquired Roads Of Fire, winner of the Best Feature Documentary Award at the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Director Nathaniel Lezra’s film about the global migration crisis, interweaves the lives of a human smuggler navigating the treacherous Darién Gap (the only land bridge between North and South America), an asylum seeker rebuilding her life in New York City, and volunteers working on the frontlines of a growing humanitarian emergency. >>> Theatrical Release Plans Set Netflix Goes Linear - Billed as a “new kind of partnership,” Netflix's deal to distribute the linear signal of French network TF1 could lead to similar deals in other territories, media analysts are predicting. Pulling off such an arrangement in the U.S., however, will be far trickier. >>>Aggregator-Style Deals Iger's Soccer Club Stands On Business - Less than a year after Bob Iger and spouse Willow Bay dropped around $100 million to became the controlling owners in the $250 million-valued National Women’s Soccer League team ACFC, the club has come out in strong opposition to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. >>>"Immigrant City" Campaign History's "Other Women" - Audible is launching new audio show Mistresses with Jameela Jamil and Dr Kate Lister. The scandal-laced original will shine a light on the overlooked stories of six of history’s extraordinary "other women," including mistresses, concubines and courtesans. >>>“Historical Gossip Correspondent” Nobuo Inaba Talks NHK At 100 - Japan’s NHK, one of the world’s oldest public broadcasters, turns 100 this year. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, President Nobuo Inaba issued a rallying cry for public service broadcasting in an era of fake news, digital disinformation and with audiences tuning out from the traditional players. >>>Combating Social Confusion It Starts On The Page: 'The Handmaid's Tale' - Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout drama series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention. Today, it's the series finale script for The Handmaid’s Tale with an intro by creator and executive producer Bruce Miller, in which he reveals how Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss played a key role in his decision how to end the series. >>> See The Script              The Deadline Interview ‘We Were Liars’ Stars Emily Alyn Lind And Shubham Maheshwari Talk Cady And Gat’s Romance: “There Was Going To Be A Crack” One of the core elements of E. Lockhart’s young adult novel We Were Liars is the will-they/won’t-they dynamic between Cadence Sinclair Eastman and Gatwick Patil. The television series adaptation follows Emily Alyn Lind’s Cadence, who goes by Cady, and Shubham Maheshwari’s Gat across eight episodes within a timeline slightly more condensed than that of the novel.  Here, the actors talk about the finale and the outcome of Gat and Cady’s romance. >>>Q&A Related: ‘We Were Liars’ Author E. Lockhart Teases Moment She Felt She Was “Standing In A Novel” That Inspired Third Book In Universe ‘We Fell Apart’ Casting About exclusive Connie Britton has joined the as-yet-untitled HBO original comedy series from Bill Lawrence (Shrinking) and Matt Tarses (Scrubs) as a recurring guest star. She will play the ex-wife of lead Steve Carell’s character. Michelle Williams will star as the title character in an Off Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie this fall opposite Mike Faist in a production directed by Hamilton's Thomas Kail. Hot on the heels of landing a role in David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth, Carla Gugino has inked a deal to star opposite Lou Taylor Pucci (You) in Winthrop, a new horror film based on the cult podcast Knifepoint Horror. Quotable   "Probably the best thing he ever did" - David Lynch’s longtime producer Sabrina Sutherland on 'Unrecorded Night,' the late filmmaker’s unreleased limited series Renewals, Cancellations & Pickups   Exclusive ​​​​​​​‘Twenty Twenty Six’: BBC Satire Series Officially Heading Stateside With Hugh Bonneville Reprising Role Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix Disney+ Sets ‘The Remarried Empress’ Adaptation More News   ⚖️ Three federal appeals court judges have ruled that Donald Trump can continue to be in charge of the California National Guard over Gavin Newsom. However, with a preliminary injunction hearing set for Friday morning the win may be short-lived. 🤖 A collection of Chinese film studios have set plans to reimagine the kung fu classics in their libraries by the likes of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan using AI technology.   🏆 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has elected its 2025-26 Board of Governors, among them Marlee Matlin (Actors branch), Jason Reitman (Directors) and Jason Blum (Producers). 📺 CNN's Frederik Pleitgen filed his first report on Wednesday after arriving in Tehran. The network said that Pleitgen is the first Western journalist to enter the country since the conflict with Israel started.  by the numbers   $417.5M -  Amount Alcon Media Group LLC is paying to acquire Village Roadshow Entertainment Group’s library Hirings, Promotions & Exits Patrick Whitesell’s WTSL Adds Longtime Endeavor Exec Jason Lublin As President And Partner Exclusive Veteran Agent Dan Burnside Joins Artistry As Partner & Co-Head Of Feature & Television Department Exclusive Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Downsizing; Exiting Execs Rishi Rajani & Naomi Funabashi Eye New Venture CJ ENM America Hires ‘Walker’ Exec Courteney Tarantin As VP Of Scripted TV Kyle Loftus Elevated To President Of Independent Artist Group ABC News Reveals Promotions In New York And D.C. Newsrooms Obituaries 🕯️ Allan Freeman, a groundbreaking movie marketing executive who worked on campaigns for Star Wars, The Shining, The Omen and Best Picture Oscar winners Rain Man, Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs, among many other films, has died. He was 88. 🕯️ Lou Christie , the falsetto singer-songwriter known for such songs as "Lightnin’ Strikes" and "I’m Gonna Make You Mine," has died. He was 82. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries On the Radar Sat - FIFA Club World Cup kicks off Sun - NBA Finals, Game 7 Tue - Scarlett Johansson on Fallon Wed - The Bear S4 Premiere Photo of the Day A 'Hard' Time - Sherry Cola, Anna Chlumsky, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp and Gigi Zumbado at the L.A. Premiere of Bride Hard at the DGA Theater Complex. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. 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