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Lizzy Caplan Joins ‘The Morning Show’s Season 5 Cast

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EXCLUSIVE: Lizzy Caplan (Fleishman is in Trouble, Masters of Sex) has joined the cast of Apple TV‘s The Morning Show for Season 5. She will play Gwen, a passionate and uncompromising Broadway theater director.

Caplan is the latest big-name recurring cast addition to Season 5, following Jeff Daniels, Reneé Rapp, Jesse Williams, and Sean Hayes.

Plot details for Season 5 are under wraps.

The Morning Show explores the cutthroat world of morning news and the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning. It explores the unique challenges faced by the women and men who carry out this daily televised ritual.

The series stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, who also executive produce, as well as Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie, and Jon Hamm.

Season 4 took place in spring 2024, almost two years after the events of Season 3. With the UBA-NBN merger complete, the newsroom must grapple with newfound responsibility, hidden motives, and the elusive nature of truth in a polarized America.

Season 3 received 16 Emmy nominations, with Crudup landing his second Emmy Award win for his performance as Cory Ellison in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category.

The Morning Show is showrun and executive produced by Charlotte Stoudt, and directed and executive produced by Mimi Leder. The series is produced by the television studio Media Res, and executive produced by Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer through Media Res, along with Stoudt and Leder. Witherspoon executive produces alongside Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, while Aniston and Kristin Hahn executive produce through Echo Films. Zander Lehmann and Micah Schraft also executive produce.

Caplan most recently starred in Netflix’s six-episode conspiracy thriller Zero Day and the FX limited series Fleishman Is in Trouble, earning an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress. She also led the Paramount+ series Fatal Attraction, for which she received a second Emmy nom, appeared in the Lionsgate thriller Cobweb, and starred in Showtime’s Masters of Sex.

Her additional TV credits include season two of Hulu’s Castle Rock, Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told, Das Boot, the sequel series to Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film, and the BBC comedy thriller Ill Behavior. She also starred in the cult-favorite comedy Party Down, voiced Reagan Ridley in Netflix’s animated series Inside Job, and appeared in The Class, Related, True Blood, New Girl, and Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks. Caplan is repped by UTA, Rise Management, and Jackoway, Austen Tyerman

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Margot Robbie & Jason Blum Join Cinema United’s Filmmaker Leadership Council

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Oscar nominees Margot Robbie and producer Jason Blum have boarded exhibition trade org Cinema United‘s Filmmaker Leadership Council, a strategic group of producers and directors united in a single cause to champion the future of theatrical worldwide. The duo join council leaders Jerry Bruckheimer and Emma Thomas, and charter members Ryan Coogler, Brad Bird, Jason Reitman, and Celine Song.

The Filmmaker Leadership Council provides feedback and recommendations on pressing issues facing exhibition today—including consolidation, windows, the promotion and marketing of the cinematic experience, and highlighting innovation and technology. The Council meets quarterly. Former Imax exec Greg Foster is the Council’s Executive Director and a senior consultant for Cinema United.

“We are thrilled and honored to welcome two leaders like Margot and Jason to this influential group,” said Michael O’Leary, President and CEO of Cinema United. “Margot is a global superstar and the voice of a generation who loves movies on the big screen. Jason is beloved by fans around the world for creating incredible—and scary—experiences in theatres. They are both well-known, fierce advocates of the theatrical experience. I want to thank them both for their commitment, and I look forward to working closely with them to advance this great industry together.”

“It’s an absolute honor to have Margot and Jason join the Filmmaker Leadership Council,” said Council Chair Bruckheimer. “Their combined impact on this industry is enormous, and I know they will help our efforts immensely.”

“For me, the magic of cinema starts with the cinema itself,” Robbie said. “Storytelling in this format can be incredibly powerful, and I truly believe movie theatres are essential to our art form. I couldn’t be more grateful and excited to be able to work with such a powerful group of creatives to continue to drive the theatrical experience forward.”

Blum added, “Movie theaters are where fans are made. Bold, creative voices are bringing young audiences back to the movies, and that’s exciting. Turning moviegoing into a habit takes all of us, and this Council gives us a way to do that together.”

This week, Blum will speak to members of exhibition as part of a live conversation at Cinema United’s annual Fall Summit gathering in Los Angeles.

Robbie is a 3x Oscar nominated actress and producer. She starred in Warner Bros’ highest grossing movie ever, Barbie, which made over $1.4 billion worldwide. She stared earlier this year in Warner Bros/MRC’s feature take of classic novel Wuthering Heights. She next stars and produces Warners’ Ocean’s prequel which is shooting in Monaco under the direction of Bradley Cooper who also stars.

Three-time Oscar nominee Blum leads Blumhouse Atomic Monster. Blumhouse has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures and has produced the highly-profitable Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious, and Sinister franchises which have grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide on combined budgets under $40 million. This past summer Blumhouse Atomic Monster had two movies which grossed over $900M combined on very low budgets: A24’s highest grossing movie ever Backrooms and Focus Features’ highest grossing movie ever, Obsession.

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The Now Agency Opens Social Distribution Network

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EXCLUSIVE: As the worlds of entertainment and brands move closer together, The Now Agency has a plan to scale content.

The New York-based social media agency is launching a social distribution network (SDN), which is aimed at helping brands push their content towards a network of more than 50,000 third-party publishers.

“Great content alone is no longer enough to win on social,” said Gabe Feldman, co-founder and Managing Partner of The Now Agency. “Brands need to think just as critically about how that content is engineered to break through the discovery mechanisms that determine its reach, and how distribution can scale that reach beyond a brand’s owned channels.”

In effect, the social distribution network will allow content such as podcasts, interviews, live streams, YouTube programing and other types of long-form content to reach vetted third parties, who turn the content into social-native clips and distribute them through their own channels. The content will span the entertainment, lifestyle, sports and culture spaces.

The Now Agency says content discovery that was once tied to a creator or brand’s follower base, but that platforms are now sharing based on signals such as watch time, engagement, discussion and shares.

“The opportunity isn’t simply to produce more content,” added Jonathan Chanti, Co-Founder of The Now. “It’s to build a system that gives every strong piece of content more chances to find its audience. Social distribution should be treated as infrastructure, not an afterthought.”

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‘Spider-Man’ Sony Universe TV Series Nears Amazon Order (EXCLUSIVE)

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EXCLUSIVE: Will the real Ben Reilly please stand up? Prime Video is closing in on an order for a new series set in Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters based on the popular Clone Saga storyline from the Marvel Comics, more specifically the second Clone Saga story arc that focuses on two Spider-Man clones, Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker, sources tell Deadline.

Reps for Amazon MGM Studios and Sony TV declined comment.

The new series, written by American Born Chinese creator Kelvin Yu, will succeed Spider-Noir, which was recently canceled by Prime Video after one season. It starred Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly whose alter ego was the title character. In the comic books, Spider-Man Noir is Peter Parker, with the identity switched for the TV series because of rights carveouts.

Details about the new series are scarce.

In the comics, Ben Reilly is a successful, stable Spider-Man clone whose name is a combination of the first name of Peter’s uncle Ben and the maiden name of his aunt May and who develops a superhero identity of his own, the Scarlet Spider. Kaine Parker is the flawed first clone of Spider-Man.

Sources caution that, while the comics serve as source material and inspiration, there may be significant changes in the screen adaptation.

There is some conflicting information, with some saying that the TV series would follow Ben and Kaine as they grapple with their newly discovered identities as clones while also facing other clones. (Another clone in the comics becomes the villain Spidercide.)

Others claim that the series may alter Ben and Kaine’s origins as clones, and they could take on new identities.

In what is considered Clone Saga’s most controversial twist in the books, Ben Reilly at one point is declared the real Spider-Man and Peter Parker the clone, a switch that was eventually reversed after backlash from fans.

Like Spider-Noir, the new series falls under the multi-title deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television aimed at generating a suite of TV series based on IP from Sony’ Universe of Marvel Characters, most of them in the world of Spider-Man. It also will have a linear debut on Amazon’s MGM+ platform followed by a streaming release on sibling Prime Video.

Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who oversee the universe for Sony TV and executive produced Spider-Noir, are expected to also executive produce the Clone Saga series with Yu.

As Deadline reported at the time of the Spider-Noir cancellation earlier this month, Amazon and Sony TV were continuing to develop multiple projects under the pact, with one of them nearing a series order.

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