Posts by Nathan Pine
Avatar Entertainment Adapting Novel ‘La Caza Del Ejector’ As TV Series
EXCLUSIVE: Avatar Entertainment has acquired rights to Spanish journalist Vicente Vallés’ novel Hunting the Executioner (La Caza del Ejecutor). The London- and L.A.-based production and management company and content financier has attached screenwriters Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero to adapt the book into an eight-part TV shows. Avatar founder Larry Robinson is executive producing…
Read MoreDWTS’ Jenna Johnson, Harry Shum Jr. React to Carrie Ann Inaba’s “Lift” Critique
DWTS’ Harry Shum Jr. Defends Dance Experience After He, Jenna Johnson Land Highest Score Carrie Ann Inaba and Jenna Johnson one, two stepped into a tense exchange. After the Dancing With the Stars judge schooled the dance pro about an element of her and partner Harry Shum Jr.’s performance during the Oct. 13 episode, Johnson shared she’s willing to “take all the…
Read MoreGuillermo Rodriguez Reveals the DWTS Cast He’s Made Lasting Connections With After His Elimination
Guillermo Rodriguez is dancing out of the ballroom with some very special friendships. After the Jimmy Kimmel Live! star and pro Witney Carson were eliminated during Dancing With the Stars season 35’s Super Bowl-themed episode on Oct. 13, he shared insight into his growing bonds with fellow contestants Ezra French and Connor Wood. “It’s a…
Read MoreMoby, Hannah Stocking & Adam Rose In TikTok & Made By Us Microdramas
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok and creator economy firm Made By Us Studios have vertical video on the mind, and have enlisted major digital and music stars to help them. The two have partnered on a multi-year deal to make a slate of creator-led micro-series for TikTok and its app, PineDrama. Deadline has the news for you ahead…
Read MoreMoby, Hannah Stocking & Adam Rose In TikTok & Made By Us Microdramas
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok and creator economy firm Made By Us Studios have vertical video on the mind, and have enlisted major digital and music stars to help them. The two have partnered on a multi-year deal to make a slate of creator-led micro-series for TikTok and its app, PineDrama. Deadline has the news for you ahead…
Read MoreCollin Gosselin Says He Was Physically Restrained, Sedated During 21-Month Stay at Mental Health Clinic
“Within seconds, five or six staff members were on top of me,” he recalled. “Hands grabbed my arms, my legs, my shoulders. They flipped me over onto my stomach and someone forced me down into the mattress while another person pinned my legs to the bed so I couldn’t kick.” “Someone yanked my pants down,”…
Read MoreUrban One Lines Up ‘Foul Play’ And ‘Power & Influence’ TikTok Microdramas
EXCLUSIVE: Black content distributor Urban One, Inc. is launching a pair of microdramas that will launch on the Bossip TikTok account. Dreux Dougall, who has credits for Lovecraft Country and Tanya Hoffler-Moore (Tyler Perry’s House of Payne) are behind of corporate-set thriller Power & Influence and revenge drama Foul Play, respectively. Each series will feature…
Read More‘A Long Winter’: First Trailer For Fred Hechinger & Kit Connor Film
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first trailer for Andrew Haigh‘s Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festival drama A Long Winter, starring Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitriona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. Based on Haigh’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s short story of the same name, the film is set during the early 1950s in a remote…
Read More“American COVID” symptoms: hoarse voice among signs of XFG variant
XFG, a COVID-19 variant nicknamed “American COVID” or “Stratus,” is circulating as health authorities report an increase in coronavirus activity, just as we head into the colder months. XFG remains the most common current COVID-19 variant in the United Kingdom, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The agency said on October 8 that…
Read MoreLaunch Financing To Expand Short-Term Indie Film Lending On Back Of New $15M Senior Credit Facility
EXCLUSIVE: Beverly Hills-based film finance specialist Launch Financing is poised to scale up its short-term gap loan services for indie productions in the U.S., Canada and the UK having secured its first ever institutional $15M senior credit facility. The film-lending arm of producer-financier Chris K. Daniels’ The Launch Company, has previously funded more than 60…
Read MoreDanny Trejo, Sandra Escacena, Aria Bedmar Star In New Spanish Horror
EXCLUSIVE: Danny Trejo has joined the cast of Together Until Death (Juntas Hasta la Muerte), a new Spanish horror-comedy written and directed by Igna L. Vacas. Principal photography got underway this month in the Canary Islands on the film, whose ensemble is led by two of Spanish horror’s rising young actors: Sandra Escacena, star of…
Read MoreBen Frow Expected To Leave Skydance’s UK Network 5 After 14 Years
EXCLUSIVE: The end of an era is approaching at 5, the UK television network that sits within David Ellison’s newly minted Skydance empire. Deadline can reveal that Ben Frow will step down as Paramount UK’s chief content officer next year, a role in which he has overseen 5 (formerly Channel 5) for 14 years. A…
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