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Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp is going from the world of the Upside Down to world of the culinary arts in the newly released comedy Abe from Brazilian director Fernando Grostein Andrade (Wandering Heart, Quebrando o Tabu). The film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year, features Schnapp as the food-obsessed titular pre-teen Abe — although
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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that
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Sean Penn had an intruder Friday … a swab that went way up his nose to test for the presence of COVID-19. Sean’s doing great work in the ‘Bu … he helped organize and fund a COVID-19 testing facility through his org, the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE). In case you haven’t followed it, the
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EXCLUSIVE: Sports fans are in a pandemic moment when we have no choice but to watch old game replays, videogame tournaments with NBA player/gamers, even a Dodgeball callback resurrection of ESPN’s The Ocho, a daylong marathon of obscure sports including cherry pit spitting, slippery stairs, stone skipping and cup stacking contests that seem funny but
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Universal Pictures and Amasia Entertainment are partnering on The Green Hornet and Kato, which is currently in feature development. Universal optioned the rights to the iconic characters, first created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker in 1936, after Amasia co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo took control of the motion picture franchise rights in
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Editor’s Note: As Deadline continues its Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series on the struggles of people in the entertainment industry impacted by the coronavirus-related shutdowns and layoffs, we’ve launched a new series, Reopening Hollywood (or Broadway, as the case may be), focused on the incredibly complicated efforts to get the industries back on their feet
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New York’s Public Theater has canceled this year’s free Shakespeare in the Park season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first summer in 58 years that Central Park’s Delacorte Theater will stay dark. The 2020 summer season was set to include a production of Richard II, directed by Saheem Ali, and a return four-engagement
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EXCLUSIVE: Levantine Films, the film/TV production company behind the Gurinder Chada-directed Blinded By The Light, has acquired small screen rights to Rodney Barnes’ and Jason Shawn Alexander’s best-selling graphic novel series Killadelphia: Sins of the Father. Levantine has partnered with Barnes on his adaptation for a television series which Levantine and Barnes will produce. The
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Executive producer of the festival award winning film, “For The Love of Jessee”, Curta Schlarbaum had a dream. Together she and director David McAbee penned the tale, and 18 months later came up with a heartfelt, emotionally charged, romantic triumph. Along with a cast of many including iconic superstar actress Adrienne Barbeau, rising stars Mandahla
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Frontières, the genre-focused industry initiative, has named Annick Mahnert as its new executive director, following the recent departure of former chief Lindsay Peters. Mahnert will steer the org through its upcoming event, the International Co-Production Market, which will still take place July 23-26 but in a virtual form due to the global coronavirus disruption. The market
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