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Film How An Extravagant Chinese Financier Charmed Hollywood’s Elite Before Vanishing, Owing People Millions
As quickly as flashy China fixer-turned-movie producer Kenneth Huang took the town by storm, his company had collapsed and he had disappeared. A six-month Deadline investigation reveals that he left behind in his wake a litany of lawsuits; colleagues and investors owed tens of millions of dollars; a messy and unresolved dispute over the ‘xXx’ franchise; mortgage defaults on a palatial Bel Air home; more than $160,000 in unpaid office rent; and scripts from writers, including ‘John Wick’ scribe Derek Kolstad, with nowhere to go.
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Fox Nation Removes ‘Trial Of Hunter Biden’ Amid Legal Threat — Update
UPDATE: Fox News has removed the series The Trial of Hunter Biden from it subscription streaming service Fox Nation following a legal threat from Biden’s attorneys. "This program was produced in and has been available since 2022. We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and — out of…
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Garret Dillahunt, Elizabeth Mitchell, Shawn Ashmore & Jessy Schram To Star In Psychological Thriller ‘The Huntsman’
EXCLUSIVE: Garret Dillahunt (Where the Crawdads Sing), Elizabeth Mitchell (The Purge: Election Year), Shawn Ashmore (ABC’s The Rookie) and Jessy Schram (Unstoppable) have been tapped to star in The Hunstman, a psychological thriller from director Kyle Kauwika Harris (Out of Exile) that’s going into…
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‘Queenie’ Trailer Sets Up Drama Series Ahead Of Season 1 Premiere
The first trailer for Queenie, the freshman series from Onyx Collective for Hulu, has been released (above) and it dives into the complicated life of a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London. The drama will be available to binge on June 7. When viewers meet the titular Queenie…
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Roku Teams With NBCUniversal For Olympics Streaming Hub, Sets Measurement And Ad Pacts With iSpot And The Trade Desk
Roku had a busy Tuesday leading up to its annual NewFronts presentation for advertisers, announcing an Olympics team-up with NBCUniversal as well as measurement and ad pacts with iSpot and The Trade Desk. The Olympics partnership comes with less than 100 days to go before the Paris Olympics kick off…
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‘Wonka’ Reawakens The Movie Musical To Land At No. 6 In Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there's nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the…
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ProSiebenSat.1 Shareholders Narrowly Reject Plan To Split Up German TV Giant
ProSiebenSat.1 Media’s shareholders have narrowly voted to reject a plan that would have seen the business split up. Majority minority shareholders MediaForEurope (MFE) and PFF IM had called for management at the German TV giant to explore a proposal to separate the core broadcasting and content…
Amazon’s ‘Cross’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal; Wes Chatham, Matthew Lillard & Jeanine Mason Cast
Ahead of the series premiere of Cross, Prime Video is already prepping a second season of the drama based on the best-selling Alex Cross book series by James Patterson. Wes Chatham (Ahsoka), Matthew Lillard (Good Girls) and Jeanine Mason (Upload) are set to star opposite lead Aldis Hodge in Season 2 of…
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View All What We're Watching‘Baby Reindeer’ Takes Over Netflix As Viewership For Richard Gadd’s Stalker Series Grows
Baby Reindeer has taken over Netflix. Richard Gadd’s breakout stalker series was already No. 1 on the streamer’s English-language TV list and, not only did it retain that title for the second week in a row, its viewership shot up to 22M views from April 22 to April 28. Related…
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Heads To Cannes Market With Goodfellas, French Deal Set With Le Pacte
One of the year’s most anticipated films will be on sale for independent buyers at the upcoming Cannes market. We can bring you news that French sales company Goodfellas has boarded Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis ahead of the movie's world premiere in Competition at the festival. Speculation has…
Trump Hush Money Trial: Karen McDougal’s Attorney Details “Catch And Kill” Deal With National Enquirer
UPDATE: Jurors in the Trump hush money trial got a glimpse at how National Enquirer won the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story of an alleged affair with The Apprentice host — all for the purpose of making sure that the claim never saw the light of day. Texts seen by jurors today…
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View All Film Festivals & Photo Galleries‘Wednesday’ Creators & ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Scribes Alfred Gough & Miles Millar Ink First-Look Deal With Sony Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice writers and creators of the smash hit Netflix series Wednesday, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, have signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures to develop films through the duo's Millar Gough Ink banner, Deadline has learned. Season 2 of Wednesday, the most watched…
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New Docuseries To Explore Lives Of Queer Mormon Teens From Wilson Cruz & Big Iron Productions
EXCLUSIVE: The new docuseries Not Part of the Plan exploring the lives of four queer Mormon teens from executive producers Wilson Cruz (Visible: Out on Television), Amy Redford (The Lincoln Project), Xan Parker (Ron Howard's Rebuilding Paradise) and Hadleigh Arnst, is currently being shopped. The…
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