EXCLUSIVE: Kasey Inez (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Jahking Guillory (Black Lightning), Pedro Correa (The Middle) and Damon Gupton (Babylon) will topline Summer of Violence — the first feature written and directed by actress Nicki Micheaux (Lincoln Heights), which has wrapped production. Summer of Violence is a coming-of-age pic, emerging from Micheaux’s time with […]
UK newspaper The Sun on Friday explained why it has removed a column from Jeremy Clarkson that slammed Meghan Markle. Clarkson’s “comment article,” which published last Friday, “provoked a strong response and let to a large number of complaints to IPSO, the independent press regulator,” the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper wrote in a post on its […]
Chris Albrecht‘s time at Legendary Television is just about over. Deadline has confirmed that Albrecht is expected to vacate his post as president. He was placed on leave in October after new details from his days at HBO emerged from the book “It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO” By Felix Gillette […]
Dan Harmon is shedding some light on what viewers will not see in Peacock’s upcoming Community movie. On Friday’s episode of Six Seasons and a Podcast, the Community creator revealed that fans hoping for a repeat of the iconic paintball sequences will likely be disappointed. “It’s a lot easier for me to rule stuff out than tell […]
A tearful Ellen DeGeneres continues to grieve the loss of her friend Stephen “tWitch” Boss, days after his death by suicide. In an emotional video Friday, DeGeneres urges everyone to “love each other and let people know we’re there for them.” “I just wanted to say that the past 11 days have been really tough […]
Patti Smith hosted a New York screening of Corsage last week, one of many showings since the Oscar-shortlisted Best International Feature contender premiered to a warm welcome in Cannes, where it won Best Performance, Un Certain Regard, for star Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi for short. It’s fitting that Smith, royalty […]
Congress cleared a massive, $1.7 trillion year-end spending bill on Friday that boosts funding for the arts and for public broadcasting. The 225-201 passage in the House, one day after the bill was approved by the Senate in a 68-29 bipartisan vote, also averts a government shutdown. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the […]
Former That’s So Raven star Orlando Brown has been arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Ohio, police confirmed to Deadline. Police in Lima, Ohio, received a call Thursday about a fight in progress. When officers arrived, Brown was taken into custody on a charge of domestic violence by threat, according to Patrolman Dylan […]
Edward Berger caused a splash in 2015 with the sleeper-hit TV series Deutschland ’83, a slow-build spy drama set in the deep freeze of the cold war. This year he went even further back into Germany’s history for All Quiet on the Western Front, a brutal retelling of Erich Maria Remarque’s First World War novel, […]
We’re hearing that bad weather in the Midwest significantly impacted Thursday grosses with Winter Storm Elliott intensifying into a bomb cyclone. As of this morning, more than 1 million customers are without power across the country, around 4K flights canceled and wind chill in the -20 to -30 degree range as the country gets hammered […]
Shazam! star Zachary Levi is coming to the defense of new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. Both came under fire recently after it was revealed that Gunn is penning a new Superman movie and that Henry Cavill won’t be returning as the Man of Steel, as well as other DC changes. The […]
Danai Gurira is this week’s guest in this special episode, taken from our AwardsLine magazine piece entitled “On My Screen.” In the Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever, the actress resumes her role of Okoye — a part she also played in the Avengers franchise — and here we discuss the night of the Los Angeles […]
From comics to films, superhero stories have always had an impassioned audience. This Oscar season has seen new people donning the mantle of the heroes, which gives the costume designers the chance to elevate their design while still paying homage to the original comics. After the death of Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever brings a new […]
Robert Niro and his Tribeca Festival Co-Founder Jane Rosenthal have joined the chorus of calls for Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti to be released from prison, along with “other members of Iran’s art and entertainment community who have risked their lives to speak out against the government.” Double Oscar winner De Niro is the highest profile […]
Two people have been reported killed and four wounded after a shooting near a Kurdish cultural center in Paris, according to reports. Two of those wounded in the shooting are said to be in a critical condition and two others were seriously injured. According to AP, a 69-year-old suspect was wounded and arrested after opening […]
Good afternoon Insiders and a happy holiday to you all, Max Goldbart here seeing out the year. We’re inching slowly towards the holiday and have just got a quick summary of the week’s headlines and some Essentials for you this week. We’ll be taking a well-earned (we hope!) break next week but back all systems […]
The Traitors has been a revelation (SPOILERS BELOW) and the ratings haven’t been bad either. Last night’s finale of the BBC entertainment hit closed with 3.2M, a series high for a ‘word of mouth’ shocker that has steadily accrued viewers over the past weeks. For some, the Claudia Winkleman-hosted caper has really been all they […]
Indonesian movies had racked up more than 53 million admissions in their home market as of December 18, according to local box office analyst Bicara Box Office, overtaking the previous record of 51.9 million admissions set in the pre-pandemic year of 2019. Bicara is predicting it will be 54.97 million admissions by the end of […]
James J. Murakami, an art director, production designer and set designer on numerous film and television projects, died Dec. 15 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91 and suffered complications from a fall, according to his wife. Murakami earned an Emmy for his work on HBO’s Deadwood and an Oscar […]
Days after the January 6 Committee recommended four staggering criminal charges against former president Donald Trump, the panel this evening released its final report. “Our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions, fomenting violence, and, as I saw it, opening […]
Trevor Bauer, the L.A. Dodgers pitcher who was serving a two-year suspension, was reinstated to Major League Baseball today by an arbitrator. Bauer’s suspension, originally slated for 324 games, now amounts to 194 games. Bauer is eligible to resume playing immediately, but the Dodgers will have to mull whether they want him back. They have […]
Tokyo-based production executive Bill Ireton is stepping down from his role at Sony Pictures International Productions, Japan, where he oversaw local production, to launch an independent production venture effective January 1, 2023. The new venture will develop and produce content for multiple platforms, primarily based on Japanese I.P. for audiences around the world. During his time at […]
“I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning — until today,” said KWWL-TV sports reporter Mark Woodley doing a live remote in the middle of a blizzard for the channel’s morning show. Woodley was drafted onto the weather team when the storm hit, and he was unusually candid with his feelings […]
Christmas and Emma Thompson seem to go together. The celebrated two-time Oscar-winning actress costarred not only in 2019’s Last Christmas, but in what become a certified holiday classic, 2003’s Love Actually, a yuletide-set romantic comedy that has become so beloved, returning year after year, that ABC News recently devoted an entire Diane Sawyer hour to […]
Thom Bell, who helped to create the soul songs style that became known in the 1960s and 1970s as “The Sound of Philadelphia,” died Thursday in Bellingham, Washington. He was 79 and no cause of death was given. His lawyer, Michael Silver, confirmed the death. Bell, along with fellow producers and songwriters Kenny Gamble and […]