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Friday The 13th” fans. The prequel series titled “Crystal Lake” is getting close and has even cast beloved TV actress Linda Cardellini in the role of Jason Vorhees’ murderous mother, Pamela Vorhees. As fans may remember, Pamela was the original killer in the first film of the horror franchise.

Nicholas Hoult has booked his next movie role!

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-comedian Leslie Jones has signed for management with OPE Partners, which is the new name of recently rebranded Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.

Dame Prue Leith has shared a rather shocking kitchen mishap from her past, revealing she once "stabbed" a colleague in what she calls a "shameful" accident.The beloved Great British Bake Off judge recounted the incident, explaining that at the time she was pregnant and felt "unbalanced" both "physically and mentally". Prue recalled the moment she was holding a "short, sharp knife" and lost her footing. In an attempt to catch herself, Prue ended up accidentally stabbing a chef.

EXCLUSIVE: After wrapping production this month in Hawaii, Deadline can reveal the final members of the Halloween Store cast.

Silver Lake has successfully taken publicly traded Endeavor private again, closing its acquisition of outstanding shares that will see the entertainment giant led by Ari Emanuel wave goodbye to the New York Stock Exchange after four years.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s the end of the line for Endeavor, at least as the company’s public-facing name. On Monday, Endeavor announced the closing of the deal to go private with private-equity firm Silver Lake. With the move, Endeavor is changing its name to WME Group, reflecting its refocusing on the representation business.

Naman Ramachandran BookMyShow‘s Red Lorry Film Festival crowned Venice winner “Paul and Paulette Take a Bath” and Cannes-winning “Souleymane’s Story” as winners of its competition segment over the weekend, as the sophomore edition of the Indian international film festival wrapped after three days of packed screenings across Mumbai. “I’m Nevanka” claimed the Critics’ Pick award at the festival, which expanded to Hyderabad this year with its “Parallel Verse” program.

Alex Ritman Kaley Cuoco is set to take the lead in upcoming mystery thriller series “Vanished,” announced during Series Mania in Lille, where AGC will launch sales. Sam Claflin (“Peaky Blinders,” “Me Before You”), three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard (“Polisse,” “The Bélier Family”) and Matthias Schweighöfer (“Oppenheimer,” “Army of the Dead”) will also star in the series to be direct by Barnaby Thompson (“Pixie,” “Mad About the Boy — The Noel Coward Story”).

EXCLUSIVE: The Flight Attendant and The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco is set to lead buzzy series package Vanished, which AGC Television is launching for this week’s Series Mania in Lille where it’ll likely be the hottest brand new show on sale.

Alex Ritman Sheridan Smith (“Cilla,” “The C Word”) and Michael Socha (“The Gallows Pole,” “Showtrial”) are set to star in new BBC drama “The Cage,” written and created by Tony Schumacher (“The Responder”) The series is being produced by the Fremantle-owned Irish banner Element Pictures (“Poor Things,” “Normal People”) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One and is described as a “high-stakes, high energy” crime story set within the world of a Liverpool Casino with “two unforgettable characters at its heart.” “The Cage” follows Leanne (Smith) and Matty (Socha), who discover they are both robbing from the safe at the inner-city casino they work in, and realise their lives are set on a collision course; with each other, the local gangster they’re stealing from, and the police. The five-part thriller will be directed by Al Mackay (“Kidnapped,” “Without Sin”) and shot in and around Liverpool and Merseyside in the U.K.

Naman Ramachandran Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM has locked a three-year partnership with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The deal, unveiled as CJ ENM celebrates its 30th anniversary, aims to amplify Korean and Asian filmmakers’ presence in the global film landscape.

Naman Ramachandran Kid-targeted U.A.E. animation powerhouse Animotion Media is expanding its global footprint, linking with India’s Reliance Animation Studios to bring hit properties to the South Asian market in a major distribution play.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” a musical remake from director Bill Condon and star Jennifer Lopez, is finally close to finding a buyer after its buzzy Sundance Film Festival premiere in January. Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and independent studio LD Entertainment are circling domestic rights, though a deal has yet to close. It’s unclear how the trio will work together to roll out the film.

Naman Ramachandran “Black Warrant,” the hit Netflix series currently in the platform’s India Top 10 nearly three months after its premiere, was the focus of a panel at the ongoing Cinevesture International Film Festival in Chandigarh, India. The discussion featured creator-showrunner Vikramaditya Motwane, producer Sameer Nair of Applause Entertainment, and lead actors Zahan Kapoor and Rahul Bhat, who explored the “synergy for success” that has made the prison drama a streaming standout. Based on “Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer” by Sunil Gupta and journalist Sunetra Choudhury, the series chronicles Gupta’s 35-year career at India’s notorious Tihar prison, where he oversaw infamous inmates including serial killer Charles Sobhraj and and kidnappers Kuljeet Singh (alias Ranga Khus) and Jasbir Singh (alias Billa).

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Naman Ramachandran The ultimate confrontation between good and evil is set to unfold as the long-running superhero anime sensation “My Hero Academia” prepares to take its final bow. At the AnimeJapan 2025 expo in Tokyo, Toho Co., Ltd. revealed a teaser trailer and key art for the eighth and final season, which will pit protagonist Deku against the villain Shigaraki.

Chrissy Teigen is the banker for Deal or No Deal Island season 2!

The Paley Center for Media opened its new archive, which comprises over 160,000 television, radio programs and advertisements, at the Beverly Hills Public Library with a little help from FX boss John Landgraf.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Good Daughter” limited series adaptation at Peacock has added four new series regulars, Variety has learned. Olivia Williams (“Dune: Prophecy,” “The Father”), Michael Dorman (“Joe Pickett,” “Patriot”), Audrey Grace Marshall (“The Flight Attendant,” “The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder”), and Drew Cheek have all joined the series, which is based on the Karin Slaughter novel of the same name. They will star alongside previously announced cast members Rose Byrne, Meghann Fahy, Brendan Gleeson, and Harper Steele.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Back in the early days of the broadcast networks, natural history shows were a part of the programming diet: NBC ran “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” for much of the 1960s, and around that time ABC brought “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” to U.S. audiences. Over the past several decades, however, those kinds of programs mostly became the domain of PBS (“Nature”) and cablers like Discovery (“Planet Earth”).