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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Chris Fleming (HBO’s Live at the Palace) and Irina Shayk (Hercules) have inked deals to join The Catch, Universal Pictures’ new baseball-themed romantic comedy starring Emma Stone and Chris Pine. Character and plot details for The Catch remain under wraps. Fleming remains…

EXCLUSIVE: Dermot Mulroney will say goodbye to NBC’s Chicago Fire and will wrap up his storyline early in Season 15, sources close to production tell Deadline. Mulroney joined the hit firefighter drama from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television in the show’s 13th season as a series…

EXCLUSIVE: Ever since its 2021 release, readers of Lynn Painter’s #1 New York Times bestselling BookTok phenomenon Better Than the Movies have been fan-casting the movie version — and now, we can report that Beatrice Kitsos (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) and David Iacono (Jurassic World Rebirth)…

EXCLUSIVE: While there was no mention of X-Men in Comic-Con’s Hall H this past weekend, Marvel Studios seems to be getting closer to forming its team of Mutants. Sources tell Deadline that Samara Weaving is the choice to play Emma Frost in the upcoming X-Men movie. After meeting with a number of…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall (The Beauty, The Listeners) has officially been cast as the female lead, Katherine Solomon, on the untitled new Netflix series based on the world of Dan Brown’s novel The Secret of Secrets. She will star opposite her husband, Morgan Spector, who will play the character Robert…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has ordered The Trial of Louise Woodward, a five-episode limited series based on a true story, starring two-time Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus). Created by Matthew Barry (Industry), who is also showrunner, writer and exec producer, The Trial of Louise Woodward tells…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award winner Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale) and up-and-comer Mileiah Vega (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) have wrapped lead roles in The Let Go, a Colorado-shot, music-driven indie drama from writer-director Kristen Wolf. The Let Go follows Chick (Wiley), a resilient single…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox’s Memory of a Killer has added Natalie Zea (Fire Country, Chicago Med) to its Season 2 cast in a heavily recurring role. The new season is set to premiere midseason 2027 on Fox. Inspired by the book and 2003 award-winning Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer, Memory of a Killer stars…

EXCLUSIVE: After receiving some of the best reviews of his career on The Odyssey, John Leguizamo is ready for his next voyage with Matt Damon as sources tell Deadline that Leguizamo is in negotiations to join Damon in the untitled event project from filmmaking duo Daniels. Daniels, aka Daniel…

John Legend has signed for the cast of Bill Condon's South African apartheid era drama The Road Home in the role of American singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. He joins an all-star cast led by South African actor, writer, director and producer Thabo Rametsi (Silverton…

Micaela Diamond (Broadway’s Parade, TV’s Grotesquerie) and Will Pullen (Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Netflix’s The Unforgivable) have been added to the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' landmark 1935 American drama Awake and Sing! Diamond and…

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) and Claire Foy (All of Us Strangers) will star in You Are Here, a BBC and Starz adaptation of author David Nicholls’ bestseller. Nicholls has penned the eight-part adaptation, which will be produced by Normal People maker Element Pictures. Lenny Abrahamson, who…