UPDATED July 15: Ticket sales for the 2027 London revival of Sunday in the Park with George starring Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande will begin this fall, a several-month delay from the original May 2026 launch, Deadline has confirmed. The summer 2027 production date for the Sondheim musical…

David W. Zucker has been comparing the pilot season system to the modern era’s commissioning free-for-all. In an interview with Deadline, the executive producer of The Terror: Devil in Silver and Alien: Earth, compared the certainty of pilot season versus the current system, where “plugs get…

EXCLUSIVE: Idris Elba’s 22Summers is teaming with Moses Babatope's Nigerian outfit Nile Media Entertainment Group and Chee Keong Cheung's UK genre firm Action Xtreme on a slate of action films originating from across West Africa. The aim is to develop and produce a slate of “high-energy…

Apple TV’s dark comedy Where’s Wanda? is coming back in October. Season 2 of the German-language series from UFA Fiction will return on October 21, with new episodes dropping weekly through December 9. We’ve got three first-look images above and below. The eight-parter stars Heike Makatsch…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing a TV series about the underground rave scene in London, one of the first to come from its pact with Will Graham, Tonia Davis and Max Linsky’s Invitation Media. Industry director Ed Lilly is writing and directing Code, which is being produced by A Leagu…

Filming is underway on one of Peru’s most ambitious film or TV projects ever, Los Principiantes. The eight-part Spanish-language drama, inspired by real events, is set in 1980s Lima, Peru, and follows the rise of an elite law school cabal that infiltrates academia, politics, and organized crime…

EXCLUSIVE: The UK film and TV industry is being urged to help block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger by a coalition including Alan Cumming, with a government decision on whether to intervene expected imminently. The Traitors host Cumming posted a video as part of a coalition…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Wallis-Tayler, a former executive producer on Ambulance, is suing the Banijay-owned production company behind the BAFTA-winning BBC documentary series, alleging that the show damaged his mental health. Wallis-Tayler has launched High Court legal proceedings against Dragonfly…

The Venice Film Festival's immersive sidebar celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a selection of projects, including titles featuring contributions by high-profile names such as Margot Robbie and Omar Sy.  Overall, Venice Immersive will present 68 projects from 26 countries, of which…

Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz will lead the Concorso Internazionale jury at this year's Locarno Film Festival.  He will be joined by Italian producer Marco Alessi, French actress Lolita Chammah; Chilean actress Paulina García; and Olivier Père, former General Delegate of the Quinzaine des…

EXCLUSIVE: Alternativa has launched a distribution arm that will sell impact-driven films to broadcasters and streamers. Alternativa Distribution will be run by former yesDocu and TikTok exec Avital Lavi. It goes out of the gate with a ten-movie slate including Zoljargal Purevdash’s If Only I Cou…

Mnet, the music entertainment channel owned by Korea's CJ ENM, is partnering with Universal Music Group's Republic Collective on an initiative to produce and launch a global K-pop girl group.  Under the partnership, Republic will collaborate across the full scope of the project, dubbed Girls…