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UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery’s Harry Potter television series has found its writer and director. Four months after Deadline revealed that Francesca Gardiner was one of three finalists to win the prize to reboot the classic kids franchise for the small screen, the Succession consulting…

AGBO, the Russo Brothers’ media company, has launched an innovation department, expanding its physical and virtual production capabilities under the guidance of a seasoned executive team. Under the new setup, AGBO's technology experts will build proprietary creative tools, with the aim of fostering…

The dual Hollywood strikes are history, but production has been slow to return in Los Angeles, especially for television projects. The city and county’s film office said today that local on-location filming declined by 8.7% the first quarter, recording only 6,823 shoot days from January through…

Investment in movie production in France rose 13.6% in 2023 to $1.45B (€1.34B), according to an annual report published by the country's National Cinema Centre (CNC) on Monday. The CNC said that $1.19B of the $1.45B investment hailed from France-based backers, in their third highest contribution…

The sixth season of Netflix’s Cobra Kai may be its final, but the cast and crew are making sure the show goes out with a bang. A new social media video (above) was released on Monday morning officially kicking off production and showing the beloved cast returning to Atlanta with a look at some…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran talent agent and Take 3 Talent founder Natasha Matallana Marken and manager-attorney Sherry Kayne, the former founder of Moxie Artists, have partnered to launch new bi-coastal management and production company Rebel Creative Group in collaboration with American High, the full-service…

EXCLUSIVE: Evette Vargas and producing partner Ricardo Reyes on Thursday announced the launch of Indigo Reign Films, a new full-service production company based out of Los Angeles. Indigo Reign will focus on elevated projects with social impact and multicultural representation, producing stories in…

EXCLUSIVE: Just across the East River from Manhattan, New York’s newest purpose-built film and TV production facility is slated to open this spring. The venue, Borden Studios, will occupy the top floors of a complex on Borden Avenue in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City. The privately…

FilmLA said Tuesday that on-location production in the city and county of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions was down more than 32% in 2023, and Q4 even more, as the Hollywood industry continues to recover from two industry labor strikes and a persistent post-Covid production decline in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine Otal has been named Senior Vice President, Production & Development at Macro Film Studios, the company’s President James Lopez has announced. Otal joins from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, where she served as Senior Vice President of Film. During her time there, she worked…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike White’s The White Lotus is not wasting any time ramping up for Season 3. On Nov. 9, the very day the SAG-AFTRA strike ended at 12:01 AM, the Emmy-winning HBO anthology series started casting for its upcoming third installment by releasing a list of the new characters. Filming is…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s reigning most popular series, Wednesday, is headed to a new locale. The upcoming second season of the Addams Family offshoot will be filmed in Ireland, sources tell Deadline. Details are still being firmed up, but I hear start of production is tentatively slated for late April…