Wall Street Journal (WSJ) journalist Evan Gershkovich, who is serving a 16-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on contested espionage charges, could be on the cusp of a freedom as part of a rumored, imminent prisoner swap between Russia and the U.S. alongside Germany. Per a report by the well-informed Politika.Kozlov political newsletter, re-printed […]
The UK’s new Culture Secretary will meet BBC Director General Tim Davie as early as today to discuss the fallout of the Huw Edwards scandal. With the BBC veering from one crisis – Strictly Come Dancing – to another, with Edwards’ guilty plea yesterday morning, Nandy will drill into what the BBC knew when, we […]
Miranda Wayland, a former senior Amazon and BBC diversity exec, is to run the UK’s Creative Diversity Network (CDN). The body runs the industry-backed Project Diamond diversity data collection project. Wayland will lead the CDN’s work on Diamond annual reports and other ‘deep dives’ into specific areas, as well as the implementation of a new […]
British filmmaker Steve McQueen will be feted at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival with the Outstanding Director Award for career achievement. The announcement was made this morning by the Polish festival. “Steve McQueen is an artist known for his uncompromising engagement in tackling difficult social and political issues,” Marek Żydowicz, Camerimage Festival Director, said this […]
If you live long enough, you may someday tell your disbelieving grandkids of those many hours spent crawling on the 405 freeway. That’s because the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in the early stages of a project to connect the San Fernando Valley to West L.A. with a train. The so-called Sepulveda Transit […]
In an interview today on the Rich Eisen Show, Matt Damon admitted he still has strong interest in making a second Rounders movie. The 1998 cult classic drama starring Damon and Ed Norton explored the underground world of high-stakes poker. The story is about two friends who need to win at high-stakes poker to quickly pay […]
Pete Davidson recently checked into a wellness facility for mental health treatment, People reported today. The comic had shows in Florida and New Jersey scheduled, but both are now canceled. Davidson underwent treatment last summer to address post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, People reported. Last year, Davidson was charged with reckless driving after crashing a car […]
Randal Malone, an actor and president of The Southern California Motion Picture Council, died at 66 on July 28 at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles from kidney disease. His death was confirmed by H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe, a longtime friend and advisory board member of the SCMPC. Malone played a “film star” on […]
Chris Evans has shared a photo taken on the set of Deadpool & Wolverine, showing him in costume with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool, and film director Shawn Levy. Evans had a secret cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine, marking his return as Johnny Storm, aka the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch. It’s been 17 years […]
Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker shares a name with a 19th century alpinist, the first woman to summit the Matterhorn, in 1871, and the Eiger, in 1864 (feats she accomplished in a full-length dress — traditional women’s attire in the Victorian era). In her new documentary, Walker tells the story of a present-day climber, […]
Kamala Harris said that Donald Trump’s remarks before the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday were the “same old show,” calling him out for being divisive and disrespectful as he answered questions from three moderators. But Harris, in remarks to an international gathering of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority in Houston, did not specifically call […]
The Creative Coalition and Icon Mann are launching a voter registration effort aimed at millennials and Gen zers with a rally call featuring David Oyelowo, Aldis Hodge and Iain Armitage, among others. The “Your Voice, Your Vote” call is being planned for Monday, with exact details to be announced. Among the other entertainment figures signed […]
YouTube’s biggest star, MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson), acknowledged in a statement to the Associated Press Wednesday that he used “inappropriate language” in his early online days. The statement came as part of the damage control to racial and sexist comments made by a younger MrBeast on a recently resurfaced 2017 podcast, and the fallout from […]
Jamie Lee Curtis has already scored a few social media points by mocking Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which she compared unfavorably to her film, Everything Everywhere All At Once. She claimed Doctor Strange was missing “a dynamite dildo fight scene as well as a very erotic hotdog hand mating dance.” In contrast, […]
The long-gestating reboot of the popular sci-fi franchise Battlestar Galactica, from Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp., is no longer set up at Peacock. First announced as being in development at the NBCUniversal streamer in 2019, the new incarnation of Battlestar Galactica never got to a green light but remained in development, including a writer change within […]
It’s been three years, are you ready to play again? Squid Game is returning to Netflix for Season 2 on December 26 – a dystopian treat just after Christmas – and the streamer has revealed that its biggest ever show will conclude with its third season. The second season of the Korean drama series returns […]
Colin Farrell is starring in the HBO Original series The Penguin based on the DC Comics character. and the showrunner is comparing it to Scarface. Lauren LeFranc said in a recent interview that the spinoff from Matt Reeves’s The Batman focused on the villain Oswald Cobblepot is similar to the 1983 crime drama film directed […]
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team led a big day for Team USA at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, which translated to a huge audience for NBCU platforms. Tuesday saw a total audience delivery of 34.7M viewers across NBC, Peacock, and the company’s other digital platforms, according to data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That’s nearly […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jordan E. Cooper has joined Disney’s Freaky Friday 2 as Jett. He stars alongside returning cast members Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon and Chad Michael Murray in the sequel to the 2003 $160.8M grossing global family pic. Nisha Ganatra (The High Note, Late Night) is directing. Kristin Burr and Andrew Gunn are […]
Former clients of KMR Talent who are waiting to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay have been advised not to seek arbitration against owner and president Mark Measures, who revealed in March that his commercial talent agency was with grappling with a devastating “payment breakdown.” In a letter obtained by Deadline, the […]
NBC’s Chicago P.D. will welcome Toya Turner (New Amsterdam, Warrior Nun) in a series regular role for Season 12, Deadline has confirmed. She will portray police officer Yara Page. This is not Turner’s first time in a One Chicago series. She appeared in both Chicago Fire and Chicago Med but in totally different characters from […]
Hector David Rivera, best known as the Green Ranger in the live-action Power Ranger series, is wanted in Nampa, Idaho, after allegedly assaulting a man. Rivera has appeared in several series as the Green Power Ranger, most notably Power Rangers Samurai. He would reprise the role in Power Rangers: Megaforce and several video games. He has also […]
Eiza González is in negotiations to co-star opposite Vince Vaughn and James Marsden in the 20th Century pic Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. BenDavid Grabinski will write and direct, with Andrew Lazar producing. Deadline first reported in May that 20th Century landed the project following a heated bidding war. While plot details are vague, […]
There’s a lot of summer left for Marvel Studios/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine and this weekend the third installment will becoming the highest grossing chapter stateside in the Deadpool franchise, in addition to becoming the highest R-rated pic at the domestic B.O., with around $380M by Sunday. Deadpool finaled its domestic B.O. at $363M, while Deadpool […]
An investigation into a sex trafficking ring at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con Convention has led to 14 arrested and 10 victims “recovered,” California’s Attorney General said Wednesday. “Unfortunately, sex traffickers capitalize on large scale events such as Comic-Con to exploit their victims for profit,” said Rob Bonta announcing the sting at the just concluded mega-gathering. Along […]
