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UPDATED with latest: Hollywood’s strikes are over, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation starts to pick up again. The Primetime Emmys planned for September have been moved to January, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: The company that holds rights to the literary estates of Langston Hughes and Evelyn Waugh is heading on a West Coast charm offensive and has snapped up the estate of Somerset Maugham. International Literary Properties (ILP) launched in 2019 but has so far focused on the UK and East Coast…

EXCLUSIVE: Jobs are under threat at ITV Studios-backed Scared of the Dark and Come Dine With Me producer MultiStory Media as the indie kickstarts a formal consultation process. Deadline understands a handful of the producer’s circa-80 staff could be made redundant as part of the process that started…

Studio Lambert has introduced the world to Gogglebox, Race Across the World and The Circle but the indie has faced its greatest test in Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, and the road has been a bit of a bumpy one. Stephen Lambert’s 15-year-old British production house, which its founder says is…

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), Melissa Fumero (Blockbuster), Alejandro Edda (Narcos: Mexico), Sebastian Chacon (Daisy Jones & The Six), and Carlos Pratts (Fatal Attraction) have been set to star in Red Dirt, an indie action thriller from director Crash Buist (The Stratum) that…

Radical with Eugenio Derbez built on its smash opening in Mexico to hit no. 5 at the U.S. box office with a super $2.7 million at 416 theaters. The Pantelion/Participant release had delayed its debut Stateside by two weeks to skirt The Eras Tour juggernaut, allowing word of mouth to build for the drama…

This Is Spinal Tap is one of the most quotable films in cinema history and defined the genre of film known today as the mockumentary. Rob Reiner's 1984 directorial debut about an aging English metal band chronicled fame, groupies and their fateful tour and would set the bar for the style of film to satirize a subject…

A24's Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne's The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy…

EXCLUSIVE: UK producers are anxious that Channel 4 is scrambling to delay the premiere of more shows until 2024 for political reasons. The network has delayed at least 20 launches and several producers told Deadline that they believe Channel 4 wants to run a surplus in 2023 — even in the face of a…

Banijay has added to its UK scripted roster with the acquisiton of Help and The Buccaneers producer The Forge. The Big Brother maker’s UK arm has taken a majority stake in The Forge, its first since Chloe producer Mam Tor almost exactly a year ago. The deal includes a first-look agreement with…

The number of factual TV shows in the UK directed by women has gone backwards over the past two years despite a weighty campaign to improve gender representation. According to research from the Diamond diversity data collector and featured in the We Are Doc Women campaign, the proportion of UK…

Alexander Payne's The Holdovers from Focus Features pulled in an estimated $200k on six screens in New York and LA for a per-screen average of $33.3k, a good limited opening on an upbeat specialty weekend that also saw A24's Priscilla by Sofia Coppola off to a fine start. We’re in anomalous times…