Iran’s Supreme Court has accepted the death sentence appeal for Iranian Kurdish rapper Saman Seydi Yasin, which was issued in connection with ongoing widespread anti-government protests, the country’s judiciary said Saturday as reported by Reuters. Yasin, who has taken on social justice issues such as inequality and oppression in his music, was accused of “enmity against […]
Maxi Jazz, lead singer for the British electronic music group Faithless, died Friday, the band confirmed on Facebook. Jazz, whose real name was Maxwell Fraser, “died peacefully in his sleep” at his south London home, Faithless member Sister Bliss announced on Twitter. A cause of death was not revealed. Jazz was 65. He was a […]
The NFL on Saturday postponed the start of today’s Tennessee Titans-Houston Texans game in Nashville by an hour because of rolling power outages in the state due to the massive winter storm hitting most of the U.S. The game, which was to begin at 1 p.m. ET, has been scheduled to start now at 2:02 […]
Tamar Braxton is sharing news of her recent hospitalization for a severe case of the flu. In an Instagram post, Braxton revealed she was rushed to the hospital by ambulance in need of oxygen because she could not breathe. Braxton said it was surprising because she became severely ill just a day after spending time […]
From Trigger Point to The Empress to Marie-Antoinette, the past year has been another stellar one in the world of international drama as a wealth of streamers splashed the cash on shows across the globe and public broadcasters joined together to greenlight the best talent in the business. Below, Deadline identifies just a few of […]
After two truncated years of pandemic-related disruptions, film festivals around the world returned with full-flowing in-person events this year. Berlin kicked things off with Carla Simon’s Catalonia-set drama Alcarràs scooping the Golden Bear. The top prizes at Venice, San Sebastian, Sundance, London, and Locarno were also all scooped by women filmmakers. Over in Cannes, Swedish […]
The cowriter and coproducer of one of the all-time great Christmas songs – Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” — can only go “ho, ho, ho” when he hears her tell the tale of how the song came to be created. Carey collaborator Walter Afanasieff, speaking to the Hot Takes & Deep Dives podcast, Afanasieff claims […]
Mayor Karen Bass rescinded former Mayor Eric Garcetti’s final executive directive that would have created a program to illuminate the Hollywood sign, a representative for Bass confirmed today. The Los Angeles Times first reported that Bass shut down the directive on Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote to city department leaders stating that there would […]
US Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has got a lot of problems with you Congress people. And today, you’re gonna hear about them. Paul posted his eighth annual online salute to government waste as part of today’s Festivus celebration. His “Festivus Report” airs his grievances about an alleged $482,276,543,907 of federal spending he sees as “totally […]
Less than 24 hours after a video of KWWL-TV sports reporter Mark Woodley doing a live remote in the middle of a blizzard for the channel’s morning show went viral, the big cable networks were out chasing their own viral video moments amid record low temperatures. CNN sent correspondent Lucy Kafanov out into the streets […]
Ronan Vibert, a veteran film and television actor who worked with some of the top directors and talent during his long career, died last night at age of 58 after a short illness, according to his management. Vibert grew up in South Wales before gaining a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and […]
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay a record $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Facebook users who alleged that the company allowed third parties to access their personal data. The UK research firm Cambridge Analytica, whose clients included former president Donald Trump, was the most prominent example of what the complaint described […]
Ryan Coogler has revealed the complicated backstory on what his film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was supposed to be before the tragic death of the original film’s star, Chadwick Boseman. Speaking to the New York Times, Coogler said the original intent was to make the film’s center about the relationship of fathers and sons. The […]
Netflix has issued estimates for the 2023 compensation of its top executives, with Co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos set to take home $34.65 million and $40 million, respectively. The forecast by the board of director’s compensation committee, disclosed today in an SEC filing, is in line with 2022. Hastings will receive $650,000 in base […]
With two days to go until Christmas, I can’t think of a better gift for film lovers or those with an interest in iconic forces in the entertainment industry than the 2022 autobiography My Place in the Sun, which chronicles the life of George Stevens Jr — now 90 and still going strong in a […]
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. Robert Eggers has previously said that he never wanted to make a Viking movie. It wasn’t until he traveled to Iceland in 2015 that he began to see the beautiful landscapes and do research […]
In what has become an end-of-year tradition, Barack Obama revealed his favorite movies of 2022. The list is, as usual for Obama, weighted toward prestige films. One title that’s not on the list: Avatar: The Way of Water. It could be that Obama simply hasn’t caught James Cameron’s latest. It’s best seen on the big, […]
