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Jake Kanter
International Investigations Editor
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Jake rejoined Deadline in December 2022 after serving as Media Correspondent for The Times of London since August 2021. Previously, he was Deadline's International TV Editor for two years, during which time he broke a several exclusives on some of the highest-profile companies and organizations in Europe. He also played a key role in originating Deadline’s series The Film That Lit My Fuse and our International Insider newsletter. He is based in London.
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‘Happy Valley’ & ‘The Penguin’ Star Con O’Neill To Lead Short Film ‘ANON’ From ‘Everything Now’ Writer Dylan Brady Â
EXCLUSIVE: Con O'Neill, the British actor who has starred in Happy Valley, The Penguin, and Chernobyl, will lead ANON, a short thriller film exploring anonymous hook-up culture.
ANON spotlights a brief encounter between a closeted taxi driver (O'Neill) and a young male passenger, which leads to…
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Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds After Andrew Stripped Of Royal Title: “Today, She Declares Victory” – Updated
UPDATED with Giuffre Family statement: Prince Andrew will be stripped of his royal titles by King Charles III amid continued controversy over his links to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, most recently in the heartbreaking posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent…
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ChatGPT-Composed Bill De Blasio Interview Was “Humiliating”, Times Of London Associate Editor Tells Newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: A senior figure at The Times of London has bemoaned the damage done to the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper’s reputation after a reporter was duped by a man pretending to be Bill de Blasio.
Ian Brunskill, an associate editor at The Times, emailed the newsroom lamenting the “humiliating”…
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StudioCanal Settles Lawsuit That Threatened To Injunct ‘How To Kill Your Family,’ The Upcoming Netflix Series Starring Anya Taylor-Joy
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has settled a copyright lawsuit in which the European studio said it was seeking an injunction against How to Kill Your Family, the upcoming Netflix series starring Anya Taylor-Joy.
Deadline can reveal that StudioCanal took legal action against Bella Mackie, who wrote the H…
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Why Disney Ditched ‘Doctor Who’: Sources Say Ratings, Big-Ticket Budget & MAGA Politics Were Factors In BBC Deal Failing To Regenerate
EXCLUSIVE: Dana Walden was in London earlier this month, but it’s safe to say that renewing Doctor Who was not among the Disney entertainment chief’s priorities. Sources have been telling Deadline for more than a year that Disney has been lukewarm on the sci-fi series, and by Tuesday afternoon, it…
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Steve Coogan Defiant After Settling Court Battle Over ‘The Lost King’: “Not One Frame Of The Film Has Changed”
Steve Coogan has written a defiant op-ed defending the creative decisions on The Lost King after paying “substantial damages” to settle a defamation complaint against the movie.
In a piece for The Guardian newspaper, Coogan said the 2022 film, chronicling the extraordinary discovery of King…
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Deadline’s AI Column: Paranoia In The UK, Where There’s Deadlock Over Guardrails In Actor Contracts
Welcome to Rendering, a new Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Published with our TechLine newsletter, Rendering will examine how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding…
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Music Competition Show ‘Who’s In The Band’ In Works At ABC With Simon Cowell, Joe Jonas, Mel B & ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star Rei Ami
EXCLUSIVE: ABC is putting work into finding the next big TV music competition series — and it has turned to a maestro of the genre to test a new format.
Deadline hears that the Disney-owned network has set Simon Cowell as a judge on a proof-of-concept taping of Who’s In The Band, a talent search…
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Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions Facing Legal Threat Over ‘Alien Autopsy’ Sky Doc Series
EXCLUSIVE: Louis Theroux's Mindhouse Productions has been sued by a filmmaker behind 1995’s Alien Autopsy amid production on a Sky series about the extraterrestrial hoax.
Mindhouse is working with BAFTA-winning director John Dower (Lockerbie) on a documentary about Alien Autopsy, which became…
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‘The Graham Norton Show’ Producer To Make BBC Claudia Winkleman Chat Show After Presenter Quit ‘Strictly Come Dancing’
EXCLUSIVE: Claudia Winkleman is poised to land her own BBC chat show — and Deadline can reveal it will be made by the company behind The Graham Norton Show.
The Daily Mail first reported on the talk show plans on Friday, but Deadline can now confirm that the series is set to be produced by So…
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UK AI Company Wonder Studios Raises $12M From Investors Including Atomico & Adobe
Wonder Studios, a British company weaving AI into storytelling, has completed a $12M raise.
Founded by Xavier Collins and Justin Hackney in April, Wonder’s news investors include Atomico; Adobe Ventures; Erik Huggers, a key architect behind BBC iPlayer; and Upside Ventures, established by…
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James Bond Producer EON Reports $20M Payment From Amazon MGM Studios For Stake In Spy Franchise
EXCLUSIVE: We have just got some insight into the financials behind Amazon MGM Studios’ blockbuster deal to take creative control of the James Bond franchise.
EON Productions, the company controlled by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, has filed an earnings report in the UK revealing that…
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