Houston police announced today that a suspect in the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff has been arrested and charged with murder. The suspect, identified as Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, was arrested in Houston last night, according to Houston Police Department Chief Troy Finner. A second man, Cameron Joshua, 22, was charged with the unlawful carrying […]
Taking on the role of siren Bianca Barclay in Netflix’s Wednesday was a “no-brainer” for Joy Sunday, a rising star who previously appeared in Netflix’s Dear White People, Freeform’s Good Trouble, and most recently, the MGM film Dog. Following the show’s hit debut, Sunday reveled in the moment and all the care that went into […]
EXCLUSIVE: Los Espookys is ending with season two at HBO as the cast moves on to other projects. Earlier this year it was announced that Julio Torres, who co-created and starred in Los Espookys, is developing the comedy series Little Films and the coming-of-self series Lucky under his first-look deal with HBO. Created by Torres, […]
Harvey Weinstein’s fate is now in the hands of the jury. After hearing a final rebuttal in the prosecution’s closing argument this morning, the West Coast panel of nine men and three women have begun their deliberations in the much-accused producer’s rape trial. The jury is set to go behind closed doors and formally start […]
EXCLUSIVE: After landing the hot package Red Shirt earlier in the week, Amazon Studios has added another high-profile property to its slate, as sources tell Deadline the studio has landed the action comedy Moxie starring Keke Palmer. Deadline broke the news that the package was out to buyers before the Thanksgiving Holiday and Amazon moved […]
The mid-80s were magical for Ke Huy Quan. Not only was he chosen by Steven Spielberg to co-star with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the young Vietnamese-American actor followed that up with The Goonies too. But with very few roles for Asian actors at that time, Quan decided to stop […]
ABC has handed out its latest pilot order – a legal soap from former Charmed showrunner Joey Falco. Falco, who also wrote for Sleepy Hollow and Heroes Reborn, is writing and exec producing Judgement. The series plays out over two timelines. Fifteen years from now, a woman being vetted for a Supreme Court seat recounts […]
Apple is heading to London for a new chapter of Gugu Mbatha-Raw-fronted drama series Surface after handing it a second season renewal. The series, which was created by Veronica West and exec produced by Reese Witherspoon, launched in July and ran through September on the streamer. Surface stars Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman who has […]
EXCLUSIVE: David Peter Bloom was a Wall Street whiz kid convicted of securities fraud for defrauding investors of almost $15M and earlier this summer was arrested on suspicion of 12 counts of grand theft in LA for a scheme run out of Hollywood hipster dive bar Frolic Room that entangled The Hills star Caroline D’Amore. […]
It was fascinating to see my good colleague Valerie Complex describe, in her review of the Antoine Fuqua/Will Smith slavery drama Emancipation, having almost walked out of the film, not because it was unworthy, but because she found the depiction of Black suffering and death almost too much to watch. In the end, Complex stuck […]
Quentin Oliver Lee, a New York stage and opera performer who most recently appeared earlier this year in the acclaimed, award-winning Off Broadway production of Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things, died yesterday of colon cancer. He was 34. “Quentin passed in the wee hours of the morning,” his wife Angie announced on Lee’s Instagram […]
Universal and 87North’s action horror pic Violent Night is off to a healthy start with $1.1M previews last night. Hopefully this movie will give the weekend box office a pulse and overperform which is typically a slow period post Thanksgiving, and even worse given the fact that the marketplace is still in rebuild. Pic fired […]
Refresh for updates: The longest-acting movie awards voting committee is underway this year with the New York Film Critics Circle unveiling its 2022 winners list Friday. Already the group has bestowed its annual hours on a few A24 movies: Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Actor from the biggest arthouse hit of the year, Everything […]
The hundreds of layoffs at CNN this week were, as CNN boss Chris Licht predicted, a “gut punch,” but the question for staffers — and viewers — is what will happen next. For viewers, the changes may be apparent in a number of ways, particularly at HLN, where the Robin Meade-anchored Morning Express is ending […]
Julia Reichert, the documentary filmmaker who won an Oscar in 2020 with husband and directing partner Steven Bognar for American Factory, died last night of bladder cancer. She was 75. A longtime resident of Yellow Springs, Ohio, her death was announced by the area’s public radio station WYSO, where Reichert had previously hosted a weekly […]
The new Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon A One More Time has finalized its Broadway plans: The production will begin previews Saturday, May 13, 2023, at the Marquis Theatre, with an opening night set for Thursday, June 22, 2023. Featuring such Spears hits as “Oops I Did It Again,” “Lucky,” “Circus,” and “Toxic” the […]
An emotional Sharon Stone told a talk at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival on Friday that her decision to take get behind AIDS research fundraising organisation amfAR in the mid-1990s had been a career-destroying move at the time, but one she never regretted. The actress, artist and activist explained she had been incredulous when […]
Roll up, roll up, Insiders. The Deadline International team have once again been travelling the world to bring you the latest news and analysis from the global film and TV biz, with Mel and Zac both in the Middle East. Max and I actually found the TV world descending on London for once, so we […]
The ambitious plan to turn the iconic but dilapidated Littlewoods Building in Liverpool, UK, into a major TV and film studios has taken a big step forwards. The project’s developer, Capital&Centric has entered into a partnership with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Liverpool City Council to get going on the first phase of the […]
The life of Justin Fashanu, the first footballer to come out as gay, and his brother John Fashanu, is to be turned into an ITV drama from BAFTA-nominated writer Kwame Kwei-Armah. Justin Fashanu was an extremely talented footballer who became the first black British footballer to be sold for £1M ($1.2M) at the age of […]
Kanye’s return to Twitter was short-lived. A month after the controversial rapper’s account was restored as Elon Musk took over the social media platform, it was suspended again Thursday night following a tweet by West featuring an image of a swastika inside a Star of David. West’s Twitter account was initially locked temporarily for 12 […]
Dubai-based Middle Eastern exhibition giant Vox Cinemas has unveiled its first slate of original Arabic films, which it is producing under a commitment first announced in 2021 to make 25 films out of the region in five years. The company, which operates 600 cinema theatres across the Middle East, announced the new projects on the […]
It’s all over for The Midnight Club on Netflix, as the young adult series has been canceled after one season. Word of the cancellation comes on the heels of news that series’ executive producers Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy are leaving Netflix for an overall deal with Amazon Studios. Their Intrepid Pictures had been under a […]
Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has given his thoughts on the passing of bandmate Christine McVie, remembering their 40 years of making music together. “Christine McVie’s sudden passing is profoundly heartbreaking. Not only were she and I part of the magical family of Fleetwood Mac, to me Christine was a musical comrade, a friend, a […]
UPDATE: Today co-anchor Hoda Kobt gave an update on weatherman Al Roker’s condition on the Thursday morning edition of the show. Roker has been hospitalized twice because of blood clots in his lungs and legs. The second time came just a day after he was originally discharged. “It was wonderful hosting the [Macy’s Thanksgiving Day […]
