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Gérard Depardieu is due to attend court in Paris on Monday as his trial on sexual assault charges, related to events alleged to have taken place in 2021 on the set of The Green Shutters, kicks off this afternoon.

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Osaka’s longtime agent Stuart Duguid is among the first guests to feature on FREEAgent, the new podcast launched by creative entrepreneur Kenny Annan-Jonathan. 

The Responder creator Tony Schumacher has landed his next project, a BBC series from Element Pictures about two people robbing from the same Liverpool casino and the collision course this sets off.

EXCLUSIVE: The Camden Film Quarter has moved a step closer after the local authority in the London district adopted the so-called ‘Masterplan Vision’ for the new development.

Alan Cumming, Emmy-winning actor and host of The Traitors in the States, will host this year’s BAFTA TV Awards for the first time.

EXCLUSIVE: Jaclyn Philpott is leaving her role as Executive Director of the Association Of Film Commissioners International. She was named as leader of the industry org in late 2022. She’ll vacate the position at end-April.

EXCLUSIVE: Art becomes fiction as René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and their peers give the whodunnit genre a surreal makeover in This is Not A Murder Mystery. Deadline can share an exclusive new image from the series, which is produced by Belgium-based indie Panenka.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent European powerhouse Studiocanal, part of the Canal+ Group, is bringing to market at Series Mania awaited crime thriller “The Corsican Line,” which toplines Raphaël Acloque, a lead in “24: Legacy” and Lina El Arabi, absolute star of 2024 Netflix smash “Furies,” one of its best performing French series of all time after “Lupin.” A Canal+ Création Originale, “The Corsican Line” also reunites “Mafiosa” writer-director Pierre Leccia and Mediawan’s Image et Compagnie, headed by Nicole Collet. Unspooling in Corsica against spectacular settings, “The Corsican Line” combines crime and family, arguably the two biggest draws of scripted entertainment, with a tale offering a knowing immersion – Leccia is a Paris-based Corsican – in Corsica, its people, its ways and its ruthless mafia underworld.

Opening night: March 23, 2025Venue: Broadway’s Barrymore TheatreWritten by: William ShakespeareDirected by: Kenny LeonCast: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap, Anthony Michael Lopez, Daniel Pearce, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Neal Bledsoe, Julee Cerda, Ezra Knight, Gene Gillette, Rob Heaps, and William Connell, Ty Fanning, Ben Graney, Daniel Reece, Christina Sajous, Greg Wood, with swing Abiola Obatolu. Running time: 2 hr 35 min (with intermission)Deadline’s takeaway: Othello, director Kenny Leon’s new Broadway staging of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies starring two of our greatest actors – Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal – in two of the Bard’s best roles doesn’t take too long to recover from an odd misstep: the projection of words onto a back wall suggesting the time is The Near Future. The modern-dress production – a practice that’s become so common among stagings of Shakespeare over recent decades that the disclaimer is anything but necessary. Indeed, I’m not sure when I last saw a Shakespeare in period dress, unless & Juliet counts.

George Clooney spoke with 60 Minutes tonight about the upcoming Broadway adaptation of his Oscar-nominated movie, Good Night, and Good Luck. In the play Clooney, now 63, plays newsman Edward R. Murrow, a role he said he was not ready to play when he directed the film in 2005.

Kevin McCloud is gearing up to revisit an unfinished project in the upcoming season of Grand Designs, following years of turmoil.The 65 year old presenter is back at the helm of the Channel 4 show for its 26th series, where he'll be touring some of the UK's most daring and unique home builds. But this series also offers Kevin McCloud the opportunity to catch up with Graeme and Melanie.

Hallmark Media has renewed its longest-running series, When Calls the Heart, for a record 13th season. The network made the announcement tonight during the show’s Season 12 finale.

As he presented the Mark Twain Prize to Conan O’Brien at the end of a ceremony at the Kennedy Center this evening, David Letterman said to the audience, “I’m not a historian, but I believe that history will show, in history for all time, this will have been the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, ever.”

Korea’s CJ ENM has signed a partnership agreement with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed to expand the presence of not just Korean, but also other Asian films and talent, in mainstream Hollywood.  

Nikki Glaser was one of the few celebrities to walk the red carpet at this year’s Mark Twain Prize — certainly not because of the honoree, but perhaps because of the “elephant in the room.”

The idea that Robert Downey Jr. should play one of Marvel’s ultimate bad guys predates his tenure as one of its ultimate good guys.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment are in final talks to take domestic rights to Sundance’s most buzzed about movie this year, the Bill Condon directed, Jennifer Lopez feature take of Broadway musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Although Harvey Weinstein isn’t attending any red carpet events these days, one exclusive event took him off the guest list before his fall from grace.

Nearly 15 years after the Superman origin story ended, Smallville fans will have to wait a little longer for a potential animated continuation.

Larry Tamblyn, the founding frontman for The Standells, brother of actor Russ Tamblyn and uncle of Amber Tamblyn, has died. He was 82.

EXCLUSIVE: Heading into the weekend, Disney‘s Snow White was being nicknamed Snow Woke in vitriol online circles, which begged the question how this princess movie would fare at the box office in a Trumpian era country that’s divided by blue and red states.