| 'DEVIL' DANCES TO $324M WORLDWIDE |
| 'THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2' SET TO MATCH ORIGINAL'S GLOBAL BOX OFFICE AFTER JUST TWO WEEKS OF THEATRICAL PLAY |
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is already close to matching the original 2006 film’s global total of $326.5M at the worldwide box office after just two weeks in theaters.
Through Saturday, the reteam of director David Frankel, and stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, grossed $324M worldwide with $101.8M in its first week Stateside and $222.2M abroad in a 100% offshore footprint.
The sequel’s second weekend is ran neck-in-neck with New Line’s Mortal Kombat II for No. 1 in North America, each with around $42M apiece. >>>Italians Flock To 'Prada' |
Deadline Exclusives & Originals |
Masterstroke? — Greg Mottola, who is already in the DC Studios family having helmed episodes of Peacemaker, is a front-runner to direct the untitled Deathstroke and Bane feature. >>>Others In Mix
White Loves Blighty — Steve Coogan has revealed that Mike White's taste for cult British indie films was the reason he joined the cast of The White Lotus Season 4. Coogan told Deadline that White loved 24 Hour Party People, while the British star also expanded on Helena Bonham Carter’s exit. >>> “Whole Part Was Rewritten From Scratch”
Merger Meaning — As Paramount prepares to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the likely merger of HBO Max and Paramount+ would dominate the unscripted television market, new research has found. Parrot Analytics has found that if the two services had been combined in the first quarter of 2026, it would have a 25.1% share of demand for unscripted content across the SVOD services. >>> Ahead Of Disney/Hulu
Series Orders — NBC's most robust pilot season since the pandemic is over, with four of the network's eight pilots going to series: dramas The Rockford Files, toplined by David Boreanaz, and Line of Fire, starring Peter Krause, and comedies Sunset P.I. (single-camera), headlined by Jake Johnson, and Newlyweds (multi-camera). >>> 'Key Witness' & Others Not Moving Forward
New Sheriff In Town — Sheriff Country executive producer and showrunner Matt Lopez has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the breakout CBS drama series. >>>Multi-Year Pact |
THE DEADLINE INTERVIEW
How ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Director Olivia Newman Established CGI “Protagonist” Octopus Narrator And Met Request Of “More Marcellus” Upon Delivering Film’s First Cut |
It took quite a team to assemble everything needed for Marcellus the octopus, one of the main characters in the Netflix feature film adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures.
The film, which hews very closely to Van Pelt’s bestseller, brings together two curmudgeons of sorts — a widow, Tova Sullivan (Sally Field) and a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus (voiced by Alfred Molina). The unlikely pair learn to care for each other during Tova’s shifts cleaning her local aquarium in the fictional Puget Sound town of Sowell Bay, Washington.
In our interview, Newman, who also directed the Sony Pictures and Hello Sunshine feature film adaptation of Delia Owens’ Where The Crawdads Sing, walks Deadline through the process of casting Molina to voice the wise CGI octopus. >>>Q&A |
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ExclusiveMatt Bomer has joined Season 2 of Peacock and Sky’s spy thriller drama The Day of the Jackal as a recurring opposite star Eddie Redmayne. Details about Bomer’s character are being kept under wraps, but he is playing a villain.
ExclusiveImogen Poots and John Reynolds have been tapped as the leads of Sex Criminals, Prime Video‘s series adaptation of Image Comics’ title.
A hot new bombshell enters the Love Island USA villa as Ciara Miller has been set to co-host companion series Aftersun.
ExclusiveKristofer Hivju has joined Swedish drama Where the Sun Always Shines, which has been renewed for a second season by SkyShowtime. |
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🏆 Stephen Graham and co made history for Adolescence at the BAFTA TV Awards in London tonight, with Netflix’s manosphere hit winning four awards for the first time ever.
🏈 Fox Corp. has acquired two additional NFL games outside its regular Sunday package, CEO Lachlan Murdoch told Wall Street analysts today. He said there is "no tension with the league" amid early rights renewal discussions.
🤝 The WGA West appears to have finally reached a tentative agreement with its staff union. The Writers Guild Staff Union said on Friday that they’d reached a deal on their first union contract with their employers after nearly three months on the picket line. Now, the agreement will be put to the full 116-member bargaining unit for ratification.
⚽ Elon Musk’s X is getting into the World Cup daily vid game with a series led by soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano. Throughout June and July, Romano, a globally-recognized soccer journalist mainly known for his transfer videos, will host 40 vids and three live streams as the World Cup plays out in North America.
🐻 Black Bear and Artists Equity have partnered on the dramatic feature A Woman in the Sun, starring Renée Zellweger and Sissy Spacek alongside rising star Mia Threapleton. |
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197,200 — Hannah Waddingham boosts SNL UK ratings after mid-season slump |
OBITUARIES
🕯️ Michael Pennington, the theater actor who played Moff Jerjerrod in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, has died aged 82. 🕯️ Tony Amatullo, an associate producer on TV series including Fame and Miami Vice, died Sunday, May 3, in New York City from acute myeloid leukemia after being diagnosed last August. He was 76. 2026 Deaths Photo Gallery |
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🏆 Stephen Graham and co made history for Adolescence at the BAFTA TV Awards in London tonight, with Netflix’s manosphere hit winning four awards for the first time ever.
🏈 Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the company has acquired two additional NFL games beyond its regular Sunday package for the upcoming season. Speaking to Wall Street analysts on the company's quarterly earnings call, the exec said there is "no tension with the league" amid early rights renewal talks.
🤝 The WGA West appears to have finally reached a tentative agreement with its staff union. The Writers Guild Staff Union said on Friday that they’d reached a deal on their first union contract with their employers after nearly three months on the picket line. Now, the agreement will be put to the full 116-member bargaining unit for ratification.
⚽ Elon Musk’s X is getting into the World Cup daily vid game with a series led by soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano. Throughout June and July, Romano, a globally-recognized soccer journalist mainly known for his transfer videos, will host 40 vids and three live streams as the World Cup plays out in North America.
🐻 Black Bear and Artists Equity have partnered on the dramatic feature A Woman in the Sun, starring Renée Zellweger and Sissy Spacek alongside rising star Mia Threapleton. |
| Happy Potter — Stars of the new Harry Potter series were out in force at the BAFTA TV Awards. Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies, embraced Lox Pratt, who plays Draco Malfoy in HBO's upcoming series. |
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