Exclusive: Veteran producer and executive Becky Sloviter has been named President of Miramax Motion Picture Group, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
The news follows Miramax’s announcement three weeks ago that Jonathan Glickman had been officially appointed as CEO, taking over from the exiting Bill Block.
An Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Sloviter launched her production company, A Dare To Be Great Situation, in 2022 and has most recently been under a first-look overall deal with ABC Signature. Prior to that, she served as Head of Funny Story Films, a division of MRC Film, there producing upcoming titles including the road trip comedy The Inheritance from Emmy winner Ashley Nicole Black and the Annie Murphy starrer Witness Protection, from screenwriters David West Read and Rupinder Gill, alongside Alloy Entertainment.
In addition to the acclaimed Andy Samberg rom-com Palm Springs, which won the Critics’ Choice Award...
The news follows Miramax’s announcement three weeks ago that Jonathan Glickman had been officially appointed as CEO, taking over from the exiting Bill Block.
An Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Sloviter launched her production company, A Dare To Be Great Situation, in 2022 and has most recently been under a first-look overall deal with ABC Signature. Prior to that, she served as Head of Funny Story Films, a division of MRC Film, there producing upcoming titles including the road trip comedy The Inheritance from Emmy winner Ashley Nicole Black and the Annie Murphy starrer Witness Protection, from screenwriters David West Read and Rupinder Gill, alongside Alloy Entertainment.
In addition to the acclaimed Andy Samberg rom-com Palm Springs, which won the Critics’ Choice Award...
- 4/23/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Casting Society (CSA) announced its 39th Annual Artios Awards winners in film, television, theatre, commercials, short form and short form series on Thursday night, honoring Oscar Best Picture nominees “Barbie,” “The Holdovers,” “Past Lives” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (which beat out “Oppenheimer”) along with Academy Award animation frontrunner “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
In addition to the film victors, television winners included “The Bear,” “Succession.” “Reservation Dogs,” “The Last of Us” and “Beef,” while the theatre winners spotlighted “Leopoldstadt,” “Into the Woods,” “Downstate,” “Merrily We Roll Along” and “The Inheritance.”
The awards were held in three-pronged ceremonies in Los Angeles (hosted by Niecy Nash-Betts), New York (hosted by Alex Edelman) and London (hosted by Samantha Morton). The award ceremonies hosted more than 1,500 attendees combined.
SEEArtios Awards: Presenters to include Rachel Brosnahan, David Oweloyo, Alfred Molina, James Marsden, Sarah Hyland…
At the Los Angeles ceremony,...
In addition to the film victors, television winners included “The Bear,” “Succession.” “Reservation Dogs,” “The Last of Us” and “Beef,” while the theatre winners spotlighted “Leopoldstadt,” “Into the Woods,” “Downstate,” “Merrily We Roll Along” and “The Inheritance.”
The awards were held in three-pronged ceremonies in Los Angeles (hosted by Niecy Nash-Betts), New York (hosted by Alex Edelman) and London (hosted by Samantha Morton). The award ceremonies hosted more than 1,500 attendees combined.
SEEArtios Awards: Presenters to include Rachel Brosnahan, David Oweloyo, Alfred Molina, James Marsden, Sarah Hyland…
At the Los Angeles ceremony,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers, Past Lives and Barbie were among the film winners at the 39th Artios Awards, which the Casting Society handed out Thursday in three ceremonies spanning two continents. See the full winners list below.
Other movies that took home the hardware are Annie Awards juggernaut and Animated Feature Oscar favorite Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Memory and Summoning Silvia.
Winners from the small screen included the Emmy-laden Succession, The Bear, Beef, The Last of Us, RuPaul’s Drag Race and Queer Eye. Among the other Artios recipients from TV were Reservations Dogs, Big Mouth and American Born Chinese — all of which, like Succession, ended their runs last year.
The 2024 Artios Awards — which celebrate excellence in casting across feature films, TV and theater — were presented in three ceremonies hosted by Niecy Nash-Betts at the Beverly Hilton in Los Anegles,...
Other movies that took home the hardware are Annie Awards juggernaut and Animated Feature Oscar favorite Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Memory and Summoning Silvia.
Winners from the small screen included the Emmy-laden Succession, The Bear, Beef, The Last of Us, RuPaul’s Drag Race and Queer Eye. Among the other Artios recipients from TV were Reservations Dogs, Big Mouth and American Born Chinese — all of which, like Succession, ended their runs last year.
The 2024 Artios Awards — which celebrate excellence in casting across feature films, TV and theater — were presented in three ceremonies hosted by Niecy Nash-Betts at the Beverly Hilton in Los Anegles,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Austin Stowell to star in ‘NCIS Origins’ (Photo credit: Dave Allocca / Courtesy of CBS)
CBS has found its young Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Catch 22‘s Austin Stowell has signed on to play Gibbs in the NCIS prequel, NCIS: Origins, which was given a series order in early January 2024.
“NCIS: Origins, produced by CBS Studios, is the newest chapter in the NCIS franchise, exploring Gibbs’ early years. Narrated by Mark Harmon, the new series begins in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs,” reads CBS’s synopsis. “In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.”
Harmon originated the character and played Gibbs for 19 seasons, beginning in 2003. In addition to narrating, Harmon will be involved in the prequel as an executive producer.
CBS has found its young Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Catch 22‘s Austin Stowell has signed on to play Gibbs in the NCIS prequel, NCIS: Origins, which was given a series order in early January 2024.
“NCIS: Origins, produced by CBS Studios, is the newest chapter in the NCIS franchise, exploring Gibbs’ early years. Narrated by Mark Harmon, the new series begins in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs,” reads CBS’s synopsis. “In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.”
Harmon originated the character and played Gibbs for 19 seasons, beginning in 2003. In addition to narrating, Harmon will be involved in the prequel as an executive producer.
- 3/4/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
“Bridgerton” and “Fair Play” actor Phoebe Dynevor lamented in an interview with the London Evening Standard about the limited roles available to women her age. Dynevor, who is 28 years old, said great parts are out there for “male actors” and “for older women,” but not so much for female actors her age.
“I have read some great scripts recently. I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but there is still, like, not that many parts going,” Dynevor said. “There is such a space for male actors … There are so many of them. And they’re all great. They’re all very talented young men. and they do not stop working. And good for them.”
“But you know, when I think about the girls my age … there’s way more room for [male actors] and there is still not enough room for us,” she continued. “It’s a really good time for older...
“I have read some great scripts recently. I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but there is still, like, not that many parts going,” Dynevor said. “There is such a space for male actors … There are so many of them. And they’re all great. They’re all very talented young men. and they do not stop working. And good for them.”
“But you know, when I think about the girls my age … there’s way more room for [male actors] and there is still not enough room for us,” she continued. “It’s a really good time for older...
- 2/7/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Luigi Caiola, who co-founded the Broadway production and investment company Caiola Productions with his sister Rose and participated in the development of more than 50 shows, died November 26 at his home in Miami. He was 64.
His death was announced by his family. A cause has not been determined.
A managing member of B&l Management LLC, a New York City real estate development company founded by his father Benny Caiola in 1974, Luigi Caiola, along with sister Rose Caiola, launched Caiola Productions in 2011 out of their shared passion for the theater. The entity has been involved in dozens of Broadway shows, including Tony Award winners Dear Evan Hansen, The Color Purple, Once on This Island, Company, All the Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the recent revival of Parade.
Born on September 15, 1959, Caiola was a fervent activist for the LGBTQ+ community. Having survived New York’s devastating AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s,...
His death was announced by his family. A cause has not been determined.
A managing member of B&l Management LLC, a New York City real estate development company founded by his father Benny Caiola in 1974, Luigi Caiola, along with sister Rose Caiola, launched Caiola Productions in 2011 out of their shared passion for the theater. The entity has been involved in dozens of Broadway shows, including Tony Award winners Dear Evan Hansen, The Color Purple, Once on This Island, Company, All the Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the recent revival of Parade.
Born on September 15, 1959, Caiola was a fervent activist for the LGBTQ+ community. Having survived New York’s devastating AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Alfie Allen, Charlie Murphy and Jack Gleeson are to star in a Dutch-Belgian thriller series from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams, Night Train Media and Submarine.
They are starring alongside emerging Dutch star Martijn Lakemeier in the eight-part drama, which is for Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgium’s Streamz.
Production has begun in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with Williams directing along with Arne Toonen, and we hear the ambition is for Safe Harbor to be a returner that aims to balance edge-of-the-seat thrills with character-based stories and a twisty plot line. Further shooting will take place in Belgium and Ireland, Deadline understands.
The series follows gifted hacker Tobias (Allen) and his ambitious best friend Marco (Lakemeier), who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into...
They are starring alongside emerging Dutch star Martijn Lakemeier in the eight-part drama, which is for Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgium’s Streamz.
Production has begun in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with Williams directing along with Arne Toonen, and we hear the ambition is for Safe Harbor to be a returner that aims to balance edge-of-the-seat thrills with character-based stories and a twisty plot line. Further shooting will take place in Belgium and Ireland, Deadline understands.
The series follows gifted hacker Tobias (Allen) and his ambitious best friend Marco (Lakemeier), who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into...
- 11/28/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Chile-based Escala Humana Prods., led by Sebastián Brahm, is developing an ambitious English-language series titled “Golpe” about a little-known story behind the CIA’s involvement in the fall of Chile’s first Socialist president, Salvador Allende.
Intended for a U.S. audience and based on declassified U.S. government documents, the first season of the historical crime drama series, titled “The Abduction of a Commander-in-Chief,” will dramatize the CIA’s covert attempt to trigger a coup before Marxist candidate Salvador Allende assumes power in 1970 Chile and a CIA officer’s initial instinct to undermine it.
“It pits traditional corporate interest in U.S. interventionism against the ultra-liberal disciples of Milton Friedman that would later run the show, to whom the chaos of a communist regime was a necessary step before full-scale privatization; Chile was a global test case and ‘Golpe’ will tell the story,” said Brahm, adding that he reviewed...
Intended for a U.S. audience and based on declassified U.S. government documents, the first season of the historical crime drama series, titled “The Abduction of a Commander-in-Chief,” will dramatize the CIA’s covert attempt to trigger a coup before Marxist candidate Salvador Allende assumes power in 1970 Chile and a CIA officer’s initial instinct to undermine it.
“It pits traditional corporate interest in U.S. interventionism against the ultra-liberal disciples of Milton Friedman that would later run the show, to whom the chaos of a communist regime was a necessary step before full-scale privatization; Chile was a global test case and ‘Golpe’ will tell the story,” said Brahm, adding that he reviewed...
- 11/27/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.The Deep Blue Sea.REMEMBERINGTerence Davies has died, aged 77. Michael Koresky, who wrote a monograph on Davies in 2014, penned a beautiful Sight & Sound obituary, in which he wrote that “no one made movies like Davies, who precisely sculpted out of a subjective past, creating films that glided on waves of contemplation and observation, inviting viewers to join him in the burnished darkness of a past about which he felt complex, contradictory feelings.” Last year, Dan Schindel wrote for Notebook about the role of poetry in Benediction (2022), and in 2012, Michael Guillen interviewed Davies about The Deep Blue Sea (2011). "The problem with film is that it's always in the eternal present,” says Davies. “But it's closest, I think, to music. You don't have to be a musician to follow a symphonic argument. If you love the music,...
- 10/11/2023
- MUBI
Madison Wells Live will present a private industry reading of “The Thing About Jellyfish,” a new play by Keith Bunin based on the best-selling novel by Ali Benjamin.
The reading will take place on Oct. 6 in New York City. It will be directed by Tyne Rafaeli and feature Matilda Lawler, star of Max’s “Station 11.” The ensemble will also include Mia Williamson, Lexi Perkel, Antonio Watson, April Matthis, Mateo Castel, Zak Orth, Stephanie Janssen and Robert Stanton. Madison Wells holds the exclusive film rights to “The Thing About Jellyfish.”
According to the official plot description, Suzy Swanson’s world is shattered when she learns of her best friend’s drowning, just days before starting seventh grade. Convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting, she vows to solve the mystery of what really happened, no matter the costs. Retreating into a silent world of imagination,...
The reading will take place on Oct. 6 in New York City. It will be directed by Tyne Rafaeli and feature Matilda Lawler, star of Max’s “Station 11.” The ensemble will also include Mia Williamson, Lexi Perkel, Antonio Watson, April Matthis, Mateo Castel, Zak Orth, Stephanie Janssen and Robert Stanton. Madison Wells holds the exclusive film rights to “The Thing About Jellyfish.”
According to the official plot description, Suzy Swanson’s world is shattered when she learns of her best friend’s drowning, just days before starting seventh grade. Convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting, she vows to solve the mystery of what really happened, no matter the costs. Retreating into a silent world of imagination,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In The Inheritance, an old man of apparently sound health falls dead under mysterious circumstances. He leaves behind three adult children and a fortune. The three children, together and individually, have a huge pile of unresolved issues, as you would expect, because otherwise, there wouldn’t be any point in telling this story. Ideally, they should get equal shares of their father’s wealth, but here’s the hook: the dead man apparently updated his will just before his death, and according to the new will, somebody else is going to be the sole heir to the huge fortune.
The Channel 5 miniseries, created by Aschilin Ditta, is now available for you to binge over the weekend. It absolutely doesn’t offer anything new or original. We have seen stories like this many times before. But that doesn’t mean you should skip this one. Because everyone loves a good murder mystery.
The Channel 5 miniseries, created by Aschilin Ditta, is now available for you to binge over the weekend. It absolutely doesn’t offer anything new or original. We have seen stories like this many times before. But that doesn’t mean you should skip this one. Because everyone loves a good murder mystery.
- 10/2/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Channel 5’s The Inheritance starts with a really intriguing mystery and solidly sets things up for a riveting climax, but unfortunately ends with a ridiculously frustrating twist. It is not that what happens at the end of it is logically unacceptable, but the makers should have done certain things differently if it was supposed to finish this way. In this article, we are going to take a closer look at the miniseries and analyze its ending in order to clear all the doubts that you might have in your head. I am hoping you all are reading this only after watching the series, but in case you haven’t managed to watch it yet, then this is where you should stop.
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Miniseries?
Dennis Watson, father of Daniel aka Dan, Sian, and Chloe, suddenly drops dead at his house. Although he was old,...
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Miniseries?
Dennis Watson, father of Daniel aka Dan, Sian, and Chloe, suddenly drops dead at his house. Although he was old,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Upon its August 2023 premiere, the Amazon Prime Video original film “Red, White & Royal Blue” quickly gained a massive audience, a large portion of which reportedly created new subscriptions just so they could view it. Now, the two-hour adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s 2019 novel of the same name is set to embark on a 2024 TV awards run that, of course, won’t include the delayed 75th Emmys but could more than reasonably begin with the 81st Golden Globes. If it does make its way into the upcoming Best Limited Series/TV Movie lineup, it will be the first one-off film in seven years to earn Golden Globes recognition as a general program.
Directed and co-written by Tony winner Matthew López (“The Inheritance”), “Red, White & Royal Blue” stars Taylor Zakhar Perez (“The Kissing Booth” franchise) and Nicholas Galitzine (2021’s “Cinderella”) as two fictional world leaders’ offspring whose bitter rivalry unexpectedly evolves into a romance.
Directed and co-written by Tony winner Matthew López (“The Inheritance”), “Red, White & Royal Blue” stars Taylor Zakhar Perez (“The Kissing Booth” franchise) and Nicholas Galitzine (2021’s “Cinderella”) as two fictional world leaders’ offspring whose bitter rivalry unexpectedly evolves into a romance.
- 9/19/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
The “prince of England’s hearts” falls for the American president’s son (or is it the other way around?) in “Red, White & Royal Blue,” an effervescent gay rom-com that might be easily dismissed as a mere trifle, were it not for the still-historic novelty of its existence. Arriving less than a year after “Bros,” director Matthew López’s Amazon-backed, R-rated lark goes even further to normalize queer romance on-screen, taking a classic “chick flick” premise — the kind once reserved for Mandy Moore and Amanda Bynes movies, à la “Chasing Liberty” or “What a Girl Wants” — and recasting it with dudes.
Are gay men the target audience? No question, although “Red, White & Royal Blue” (adapted from the book by Casey McQuiston) reminded me more of that surprising subsection of manga known as “yaoi” — or “boys’ love” comics — marketed primarily to young female readers. These stories, which typically feature slender,...
Are gay men the target audience? No question, although “Red, White & Royal Blue” (adapted from the book by Casey McQuiston) reminded me more of that surprising subsection of manga known as “yaoi” — or “boys’ love” comics — marketed primarily to young female readers. These stories, which typically feature slender,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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