2nd UPDATE:Elon Muskhas officially namedLinda YaccarinoasTwitters new CEO. I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!, Musk tweeted Friday. @LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Linda Yaccarino in MarchCindy Ord/Getty Images for The Female Quotient Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app. I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!...

Foxis closing out the 2022-23 television season with a ratings win in delayed viewing. The online grid is averaging a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic season-to-date, according to live+seven-day Nielsen data. Thats compared to NBCs 0.9, CBS 0.7 and ABCs 0.6. Animal Control, Accused, Special Forces: World’s Toughest TestFox This data only accounts for linear viewing and does not take into account each networks internal multi-platform data. The data belowdoesaccount for some of Foxs streaming numbers....

Knowing producer Bill Lawrence has plenty of benefits, including access to his address book full of connections. We met for breakfast and we got on and he invited me to his house to hang out. We met every day at around 9 a.m. with coffee in his studio. I think we both hopefully learned a few tricks off each other. The collaboration earned Howe and Mumford an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music....

Liz expertly explores what this might mean for business in thisanalysis piece. Another key question is how the U.S.writers strikewill make its way across the Atlantic to the French Riviera. Plenty more to come. Deadline The Deadline team will be on the ground and reporting back.Bookmark this pagefor coverage. Catch you on the Croisette! Coverage can be readhere. Getty The GSU was formed last year during an air raid, Babik told Deadline....

Most of Chinas larger film studios are sending junior sales and/or acquisition execs to Cannes to explore international business. But the big bosses are more preoccupied with rebuilding their industry back at home. That has made investment unstable for both independent and mainstream films. China Flag, Cannes Film FestivalGetty However, both films have European funding and are not claiming Chinese nationality. Some of them will be back in Cannes this year, but their numbers are greatly reduced....

Xia Magnus (Sanzaru) is set to direct from his script written with Alyssa Polk. Pics producers are Academy Award nominee Alexandra Milchan (Tar) and Theo Vieljeux (Monica). The company is co-repping domestic with CAA Media Finance. Isabelle Huppert, Finn WittrockJoe Pugliese/Paul Smith Photography This is exactly the kind of project we were looking for after films likeSanctuary. The celebrated French actress most recently starred inCaravaggios Shadow, Polish Oscar entryEO, the Focus Features picMrs....

Lionsgate, which was also behindHacksaw Ridge, is launching world sales on the hot package ahead of theCannesmarket. The film will see Wahlberg play a pilot transporting a dangerous criminal for trial. Additional casting is underway. Mel Gibson and Mark WahlbergGetty Pic is based on Jared Rosenbergs 2020 Blacklist script. Alex Lebovici of Hammerstone Studios is serving as executive producer and is financing. Watch on Deadline Lauren Bixby and Christopher Davis negotiated on behalf of the studio....

Watch on Deadline Were in very good shape, considering the circumstances, he added. Denis Medicaland dramasWolfand the untitled pilot from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs in the next month. If picked up, these could air later in the 2023/24 season for the 2024/25 season. “Night Court”, “Law & Order: Organized Crime”, “Quantum Leap” and “La Brea"NBC This will obviouslyimpact decisions onAmerican Auto, Grand CrewandYoung Rockas well. Here is NBCs fall schedule....

Steve McQueen and Michaela Coel are among the duos high-profile admirers. The companys oft-noted press shyness suits Garnett and Wenger. Neither enjoys the spotlight. ‘Normal People’BBC When figureheads leave a UK broadcaster there is a misguided expectation from some that fireworks should follow soon after. It was the same when Tessa Ross left Film4 after many years. Things have been measured. Ravi had been knocking on doors and chatting, says one industry exec....

Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud, and Will Catlett have been set forUniversalPictures untitled monster thriller fromRadio Silence. The pic has been set for an April 19, 2024 release. The trio join Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, and Kevin Durand in the thriller. Angus Cloud, Kathryn Newton and Will CatlettEvan Murphy/Austin Hargrave/Michael Buckner for Deadline Radio Silence is comprised of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Chad Villella is producing alongside William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt at Project X Entertainment....

When do we want them? You know when we wanted it? Yesterday, she said, as she took the megaphone. Rep. Katie Porter on the picket line at The Culver StudiosRosy Cordero Speaking with Deadline, Porter reiterated that theWGA strikecould have ramifications that extend far beyond the entertainment industry. So this strike is about the entertainment industry, but its also about so much more. Goodman told Deadline that Porters support is very meaningful....

An adverse economic climate and a number of existential questions are confronting those in the ad trenches. With live, linear tune-in continuing to decline, what is the meaning of a prime-time schedule anymore? In a cord-cutting world, how will the profit models ofstreamingplay out? TV upfront weekAdobe Buyers still love this time of year. They get to see the best of whats coming from companies, and companies are excited to present that....

The D-Day veteran, devoted husband, father and friend, passed away in 2015. The doc opened on his birthday he would have been 98 on May 12. His military career was astounding, his relationship with his family. “It Ain’t Over”, “Blackberry” and “Fool’s Paradise"Everett This is a guy who went out for dinner with Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe. He lived an amazing life. And you see what a good person he was....