Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, reported a mixed bag of first-quarter results, beating Wall Street expectations for earnings but falling short in total revenue. Earnings per share slipped 18% from the prior-year quarter to $2.72, but that was still well above analysts’ consensus of $2.56. Revenue climbed 7% to $27.9 billion, short […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, made a somewhat startling statement to Judy Woodruff on the PBS News Hour yesterday. Fauci, who has long banged the drum of “we’re not out of this yet,” was asked by Woodruff how close we are to the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci said that […]
Mattel handily exceeded Wall Street forecasts for the first quarter, reporting a 19% rise in total revenue to $1.041 billion and adjusted earnings per share of 6 cents. Even before the results cleared the wire after the close of the trading day, Mattel stock was surging on reports of preliminary discussions with two private equity […]
When Grace and Frankie drops for its seventh and final season April 29, fans will have to bid farewell to more than just good laughs about yam lubricant and hydraulic-assisted toilet seats. The comedy from Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris is one of the last remaining series that features golden agers who actually address […]
UPDATED, 12:59 PM: Johnny Depp lost any chance at staying in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise because of domestic violence allegations by Amber Heard, the actor’s former CAA agent testified today at the $50 million defamation trial. How To Watch The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial: Livestream And Schedule “My opinion is it was related […]
Rain Management Group has brought on Yasmin Felice Morris as a Talent Manager, effective immediately. Morris began her career in her hometown of Chicago working for veteran casting director Claire Simon, supporting shows including Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., and Empire, as well as features, commercials, and theatre. She later segued into talent covering rising stars […]
EXCLUSIVE: More details about the creative overhaul of HBO drama series The Idol are starting to emerge. Deadline broke the news yesterday that director Amy Seimetz had exited the series, which comes from pop star The Weeknd and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. Suzanna Son, the breakout star of Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, is one of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime and Paramount Television Studios have suspended production for four days on upcoming series American Gigolo, a reboot of the popular 1980 movie. The move comes a couple of days after the Paramount network and TV studio severed ties with the series’ developer, writer, director and executive producer David Hollander following an investigation into […]
Randy Rand, the founding bassist for Autograph, which had a hair-metal hit with “Turn Up the Radio” in the mid-1980s, has died. The news was posting on the band’s social media pages, but no details were given. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery “Although beyond devastated, we find some comfort and solace knowing […]
EXCLUSIVE: Crown Media Family Networks has nabbed another big star before the Christmas movie season. Aimeé Teegarden (Friday Night Lights Star-Crossed) has signed an exclusive multi-picture overall deal with the company. “Aimeé’s charming performances have resonated with viewers and critics alike, we are thrilled to continue working with her on new feel-good movies.” said Lisa Hamilton […]
Netflix and Native woman-led racial and social justice organization IllumiNative today announced the cohort of eight Indigenous producers set to participate in the first-ever IllumiNative Producers Program. Participants will include Ashley Browning (Lovers Cycle), Taylor Hensel (ᎭᏢ ᎢᏁᎾ (Where Are We Going?)), Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Ivan MacDonald (Buffalo Stone), Coyote Park (Destiny in Sedona), Blake Pickens (The […]
MGM motion picture group chairman Michael De Luca and president Pam Abdy are leaving the studio, sources said. This follows the acquisition of the studio by Amazon. Deadline hears there will be a town hall meeting today to explain the changes. As the pieces fall into place on merged studios like Warner Bros Discovery (De […]
EXCLUSIVE: The true-crime story of the Murdaughs, which includes money, power, family drama, corruption, local politics, drugs and murder, is the subject of a drama series, which is in development at UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group. Michael D. Fuller (Locke & Key) and Erin Lee Carr (Britney vs Spears) will create, write and […]
Neon said Wednesday that it has acquired North American rights to The Royal Hotel, the social thriller that marks the next film from The Assistant writer-director Kitty Green. Her Assistant star Julia Garner will topline the pic alongside Jessica Henwick. Hugo Weaving also stars. The pic, which will start shooting this summer in Australia, hails […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has solidified its cast for the upcoming fifth and final season. Kelly Bishop (Gilmore Girls) will return as a guest star, reprising her role as matchmaker Benedetta, and Alfie Fuller and Jason Ralph, who recurred in Season 4, have been promoted to series regulars for Season 5. Additionally, Peter Friedman (Succession), […]
Hulu pilot History Of A Pleasure Seeker continues to add to its cast. Olumide Olorunfemi, who recently featured in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Bebe Bettencourt, who starred in Australian drama series Eden, have joined. The project, which is based on Richard Mason’s novel, is a musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907 — […]
EXCLUSIVE: NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony has boarded Lil’ Heroes, an animated series based on the NFT collection, from Exile Content Studio and Spanish artist Edgar Plans. Anthony and his producing partner and co-founder of his Creative 7 content company, Asani Swann, will executive produce the series and Anthony also will voice one of the characters […]
Gravitas Ventures, an Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company, today announced the launch of its new theatrical release label, Gravitas Premiere, which will acquire 4-6 cast-driven, high production value films per year and release them wide theatrically with significant P&A support. The first title on Premiere’s docket is Katie Aselton’s dramedy Mack & Rita, starring Diane […]
Laika’s CEO and President Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) is gearing up to direct the stop-motion animated feature The Night Gardener, written by Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque, for his storied Hillsboro, Oregon studio. (Check out a film still unveiled by Laika below.) The film based on Dubuque’s original idea is billed as a […]
Apple Original Films has landed an untitled feature film about the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. The film is currently in production in New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver. The film, directed by Guggenheim, which will incorporate documentary, archival and scripted elements, will recount Fox’s extraordinary story in […]
Al Ortiz, a CBS News veteran who has been serving as interim executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, announced that he will retire later this summer. Ortiz stepped into the role at the evening newscast after the departure of Jay Shaylor last year. On Wednesday morning’s editorial call, Ortiz said, per the […]
‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ Loses 100,000 Viewers Last night’s concluding part of Piers Morgan’s Donald Trump interview lost 100,000 viewers from Monday’s opener, bringing the total down to 200,000 average across the 8pm hour. The second Talk TV Uncensored show, which aired unedited footage of the former POTUS’ supposed storming off set, was still ahead of […]
Netflix has signed a multi-picture partnership with Japan’s Studio Colorido, including the previously-announced feature Drifting Home, which will debut on the service September 16. Below is a new trailer for the anime movie, which is an original story about two childhood friends that drift into a mysterious sea alongside an entire housing complex. The partnership […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley is aboard as executive-producer on UK feature The Unraveling, which will reunite the creative team behind BAFTA and BIFA-nominated 2016 thriller The Ghoul. Gareth Tunley (The Ghoul) is writing and directing the feature, which has been developed with the BFI and is set to star The Ghoul actor Tom […]
Those clamoring for more middle adult fare in movie theaters will have their fill with Olivia Wilde’s upcoming 1950s thriller, Don’t Worry Darling. Warner Bros. CinemaCon session showed off the first trailer for the New Line movie which stars Florence Pugh as a housewife named Alice, living with her hubby Jack, played by Harry Styles, who’s […]
