Shirley Eikhard, the songwriter behind Bonnie Raitt‘s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “Something to Talk About,” has died. She was 67 and died Thursday at Headwaters Health Care centre in Orangeville, Ontario from cancer complications. In addition to Raitt, Eikhard had songs covered by Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, and Chet Atkins. Eikard wrote “Something to Talk […]
The mountain lion known as P-22, who lived in highly urban Griffith Park for more than a decade, was “compassionately euthanized” Saturday morning because of the serious injuries he suffered earlier this week and his generally poor condition, according to the California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife’s director,. P-22 was thought to be about 12 […]
One woman died on Saturday and eight other people were injured in a concert crush that occurred Thursday outside London’s famed O2 Brixton Academy, police said today. London resident Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, was hospitalized after a crush occurred outside the venue, where Nigerian singer Asake was to perform. In addition to the death, Metropolitan Police […]
College football’s bowl season kicked off Friday with the Bahamas Bowl and Cure Bowl, with seven more set for Saturday as the first batch of 43 postseason games through December. The run culminates January 9 with the College Football Playoff’s national championship game at SoFi Stadium, home to the L.A. Rams and L.A. Chargers and […]
Sharon Osbourne fell ill on the set of a paranormal television shoot Friday night in Santa Paula, Calif., and was rushed to a nearby hospital. The report by TMZ said the 70-year-old Osbourne was filming at the Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, a location once featured on the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventurers. There was […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Oldman has found “great joy” in playing the Falstaffian, flatulent-sharing, British espionage operative Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, which has just launched season two. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter star confirmed he will play Harry Truman in one scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Lank-haired Lamb plays the operative in charge of a host of […]
Stephen “tWitch” Boss’ mother, Connie Boss Alexander, has expressed her thanks at the outpouring of people remembering her son in the wake of his suicide on Tuesday at age 40. “Family and friends, thank you for all the love, prayers and encouragement,” Connie Boss Alexander wrote on her Instagram Stories Thursday. She was frequently seen on […]
Kim Simmonds, leader of the last post-Beatles wave of British blues bands with Savoy Brown, has died at the age of 75, the band announced. Simmonds died Tuesday, the band announced on Facebook on Thursday. The group had been together for more than 55 years. Simmonds had been battling stage 4 signet cell colon cancer, […]
Kim Simmonds, leader of the last post-Beatles wave of British blues bands with Savoy Brown, has died at the age of 75, the band announced. Simmonds died Tuesday, the band announced on Facebook on Thursday. The group had been together for more than 55 years. Simmonds had been battling stage 4 signet cell colon cancer, […]
Did Jack Dawson (as played by Leonardo DiCaprio) die needlessly in the film Titanic when he decided not to climb on the wooden door life raft with his beloved Rose (Kate Winslet)? Fans have long debated whether Jack could have clambered aboard the wooden door and potentially saved himself from his dramatic hypothermic drowning after […]
The prop master on Rust is looking to be dismissed as a defendant in Alec Baldwin’s countersuit involving the fatal shooting of DP Halyna Hutchins on the set last year. In court papers filed with Judge Michael E. Whitaker on Thursday, lawyers for Sarah Zachry maintain that their client is a New Mexico resident since […]
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. The battle to make the historical action film The Woman King started as early as 2015 when producer Cathy Schulman and actress-producer Maria Bello approached Viola Davis about starring in an all-Black […]
The Franchise, a comedy pilot for HBO that takes a wry look at superhero moviemaking, has found its cast. The project from Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci has cast Billy Magnussen, Jessica Hynes, Darren Goldstein, Lolly Adefope and Isaac Powell as series regulars and Daniel Brühl and Richard E. Grant as recurring guest stars. RELATED: 2022 HBO Pilots & Series […]
Dino Danelli, the drummer who was the backbone of blue-eyed soul hitmakers The Rascals (nee The Young Rascals) has died at age 78. Specifics were scant on what happened and where/when. However, group spokesperson Joe Russo wrote on Danelli’s Facebook page that the drummer struggled with coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure, requiring an angioplasty over […]
EXCLUSIVE: NBC is developing the hour-long family dramedy For Better And Worse from creators Ian Deitchman and Kristin Robinson, Rachel Kaplan’s Absecon Entertainment, and Universal Television, where Kaplan has an overall deal. Written by Deitchman and Robinson, For Better And Worse will follow the evolution of one couple, intercutting between three different stages of their […]
Ghosts spooked up record viewership with its holiday-themed episode on Thursday. The special one-hour episode of the CBS comedy took home an average of 7M viewers, according to live + same day Nielsen data. That’s a +7% gain from the series’ average viewership across Season 2. The episode also played well on social media, driving over […]
Who had Amazon supplying one of Netflix’s biggest original series on their 2022 bingo card? The Jeff Bezos-owned company, after closing its $8.5B deal to buy MGM, is now responsible for Wednesday, which has quickly become its rival’s second biggest English-language series. The Jenna Ortega-fronted show crossed the 1B hours viewed mark – only the […]
Brittney Griner spoke out today for the first time since being freed from a Russian penal colony. “It feels so good to be home! The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep […]
Tom Cruise has become notorious for performing his own stunts, and Top Gun: Maverick is no exception. In fact, the entire cast underwent intense training in order to perform many of the wild aerial stunts that audiences saw on screen when they flocked to theaters in May to see Cruise reprise his role as Pete […]
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the Season 2 finale of HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls Everything is in shambles. Or, at least that’s how it seems after the Season 2 finale of The Sex Lives of College Girls. As the school year at Essex College came to a close, […]
Donald Glover is attached to produce and star in a new film out of Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man universe, centered on the villainous Hypno-Hustler, that is in very early development, Deadline can confirm. Details as to the as-yet-untitled film’s plot are under wraps and a director has not yet been attached. But we hear that the script […]
