Lindsay Dougherty will succeed Steve Dayan as leader of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, making her the first woman to ever hold the local’s top post. Dayan announced today that he is retiring on April 30, and the local’s executive board has voted unanimously for Dougherty to serve out the remainder of his three-year term. Dayan […]
UPDATED with winners list: Netflix’s The Power of the Dog was named the Best Film on Sunday at the EE British Academy Film Awards. The victory in BAFTA’s marquee category, along with a win by Jane Campion as Best Director, helped cement the Western as a front-runner in the race for the Oscar. The in-person […]
Instagram is rapidly becoming the go-to source of Jussie Smollett defenders. Today, Smollett’s fellow Empire castmate Taraji P. Henson took to the service to plead for home confinement rather than jail for Smollett, who was sentenced Thursday to 150 days incarceration for his role in creating a hate hoax. She posted a stark black and white […]
A new television version of David Bowie’s classic film The Man Who Fell To Earth had its world premiere today at SXSW, and Showtime has followed up by releasing the first five minutes of the drama series. Inspired by the Walter Tevis novel of the same name and the iconic Bowie film, The Man Who […]
As events continue to play out, “Z” has instantly become the most ominous symbol in the world’s culture and economy. A symbol of the Russian military, “Z” is appearing on vehicles and T-shirts across Russia and in pro-Putin sectors of the world as a sort of state-induced meme. Its ubiquity is having a worldwide impact. […]
If you go to see this, The Prank’s on you. Unspeakably lame in every department—writing, directing, acting and intent—this immature little goof on a high school murder mystery is notable only for the presence of Rita Moreno, looking and sounding some twenty years younger than her actual 90 as a sinister school teacher who should […]
Fox is launching mockumentary comedy Welcome To Flatch on March 17 and will drop the first seven episodes on Hulu. It’s an unusual move for a linear broadcast network and something that director and exec producer Paul Feig called “unbelievable”. “To come up with this idea for a network show is unheard of. People don’t […]
Sean Penn doesn’t have Covid, after all. Paul Thomas Anderson announced from the stage at last night’s DGA Awards that Penn — his Licorice Pizza cast members who was going to present the filmmaker with a special medallion — had to skip the event because Penn had tested positive. Deadline is told that Penn did […]
Authorities are apparently taking no chances on Jussie Smollett’s safety while incarcerated at the Cook County jail. Reacting to Smollett’s outburst upon being sentenced Thursday for his conviction on charges related to drumming up a hate hoax. authorities have placed him in a psychiatric ward. That’s typically where high-profile prisoners are kept. Smollett yelled to the […]
Following Dame Shirley Bassey onto the stage after her performance of Diamonds Are Forever at the BAFTA Film Awards, Rebel Wilson entered to the strains of the Bond theme wearing a shimmering hot pink dress, complete with 80s-style padded shoulders. “Ladies and gentlemen and gender-fluid youth,” she opened, “welcome to the 75th and final EE […]
UPDATE: Human Rights Campaign Interim President Joni Madison said last night that she has spoken to Disney CEO Bob Chapek, but did not reveal specifics about their conversation. Madison revealed the contact in a speech at the organization’s Los Angeles dinner. “You may have seen news earlier this week that HRC is not going to […]
Tova Borgnine, an early star of home shopping network QVC and a beauty products entrepreneur, died on Feb. 26 at her home in Chester County, Pa. She was 80. Her death was announced by Michele Uram, president of Tova Beverly Hills, her company. No cause of death was given. . Tova Borgnine joined QVC in 1991, […]
Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) was the big film winner at last night’s vritual Irish Film and Television Academy awards with eight wins. Scroll down for the full list of winners. Director Colm Bairéad’s debut won best film, best director and lead actress for Catherine Clinch in addition to multiple […]
The EE British Academy Film Awards are set to take place Sunday at Royal Albert Hall, with the in-person ceremony kicking off at 5 p.m. London time, or 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. In the UK, the BAFTAs will air delayed as per usual on BBC One, BBC One HD and BBC iPlayer at 7 […]
Watching the new action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in which Nicolas Cage plays a fictionalized version of, well, Nicolas Cage, I kept thinking that if director Tom Gormican didn’t get him to agree to do this film, which depends on audience recognition of a genuine action star, he could have easily gone […]
Jane Campion scooped the top prize of the night at the DGA Awards on Saturday — the Theatrical Feature Film award — for her Western The Power of the Dog. This honor at DGA is historically the biggest predictor of who will win Best Director at Oscar, so Campion should get ready for more possible […]
Tonight on SNL, the “Weekend Update” anchors welcomed film critic Terry Fink (Alex Moffat) to the desk to share his thoughts on this year’s set of Oscar-nominated features. Fink kicked things off by noting that he’d watched not only the nominated films, but every single film from the past year over the course of the past […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal won the DGA Award for Best First-Time Feature on Saturday night. Taking home the gold for Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, for which she is also Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, she wrote the script from a book by Elena Ferrante and shot the majority of the film on the Greek island of Spetses […]
Zoë Kravitz’s Saturday Night Live debut featured a quick appearance from her The Batman co-star Paul Dano. In the latest Please Don’t Destroy segment, Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy prepare to gift host Kravitz with a special token of their appreciation – a cat. It’s a proper gift for Kravitz, who stars as […]
Zoë Kravitz tonight made her debut appearance as host of SNL, speaking in her opening monologue about her new Warner Bros. film, The Batman. “In the movie, I play Catwoman — sorry, the Catwoman,” Kravitz joked. “To prepare for the role, I watched the movie musical Cats every day for a year, which is actually […]
“I suggested it as a joke, and then it actually happened,” deadpanned Kate McKinnon as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tonight. And yes, Saturday Night Live decided to literally rip tonight’s White House-set cold open from the headlines Taking viewers behind closed Oval Office doors via the actual Ukraine war briefing meeting held on […]
The meat of this melancholy, live-action country ballad is left up to the imagination, somewhere in the missing years between the title credits and the point at which Michael Morris’s feature debut actually starts. It’s probably just as well, since To Leslie is a hard enough watch as it is, not because it’s significantly depressing […]
The Directors Guild of America is presenting its 74th annual DGA Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, and Deadline is posting the winners as they are announced. Check out the list below, and refresh for updates. On the red carpet earlier, DGA nominee Jane Campion responded to Sam Elliott’s widely reported criticism […]
DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened tonight’s DGA Awards gala with a history lesson and a look ahead at the “exceptional challenges” facing the guild next year when it begins negotiations for a new film and TV contract. The guild’s current contract, reached just days before the Covid pandemic shut down production across the country, […]
The 49th annual Annie Awards are underway Saturday night, with the virtual ceremony presented by ASIFA-Hollywood honoring the year’s best in animated fare across movies, TV and video games. Deadline is following along and updating winners in 36 categories in real time. Keep track below. Coming into the night, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the […]
