After an all-too-brief respite, Southern California is once again being hit with a winter storm. Today’s weather isn’t expected to match last month’s deluge, but some pockets of heavy rain are expected to last into Sunday. That’s not good news for already saturated hillsides. The cold storm was forecast to bring “steady light to locally […]
A former NBA player and actor was sentenced to 90 years to life in prison on Friday for a series of violent sexual assaults. The Los Angeles Police Department said an investigation into Rashid Byrd began in 2019. A victim reported she had been sexually assaulted. “During their investigation, detectives learned [that] in 2010, Byrd […]
In many ways, longtime International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees president Matthew Loeb is the personification of that Teddy Roosevelt adage of “speak softly, and carry a big stick” …well, maybe except for the speak softly part. “From where I sit, this is really about security in an industry that is precarious already,” Loeb states […]
In a People interview, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Emma Caulfield Ford, who played the demon Anya on the TV series, updated her health and detailed her MS battle, which she kept quiet for more than a decade. The report indicates Caulfield Ford’s symptoms have been extremely mild, and she doesn’t take medication. She has […]
A Royal family spokesperson has attempted to calm widespread speculation on the condition of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, who has not been seen in public since Christmas. She was admitted to the hospital in January for what was termed “planned abdominal surgery,” and given a recovery timeline that would keep her from official […]
Treat Williams’ Blue Bloods character, Lenny Ross, was the best friend and former partner of New York City Police Commissioner Francis “Frank” Reagan (Tom Selleck). In a conjunction of the series with real life, both were given a tribute on Friday. Williams died in real life last June at age 71 after a motorcycle accident, […]
The Brothers Sun star Justin Chien has spoken out following Netflix’s decision not to proceed with a second season of the action comedy-drama. In an Instagram story, Chien reposted Deadline’s story that broke the news of the cancellation and reactions from the series’ casting director Jenny Jue and Kode Abdo, along with his own message […]
It’s not an April Fool’s joke – Sex and the City is bowing on Netflix on April 1. The series is one of HBO’s most important library titles and has a modern spinoff series in And Just Like That… The latter remains exclusive to Max. Deadline revealed last June that Warner Bros. Discovery struck a deal […]
Jujutsu Kaisen won Anime of the Year at the eighth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which were handed out Saturday in Tokyo. The Japanese manga series, which debuted in 2018, also won Best Action of the Year, dominated this year’s event, also winning Best Cinematography, Best Character Design, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Opening and Best Ending Sequences, […]
Activists from the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) disrupted Victoria Beckham’s show at Paris Fashion Week. The BBC reports that demonstrators joined Beckham’s models on the catwalk, wearing T-shirts that read “Animals aren’t fabric” and waved signs reading “Viva vegan leather.” Beckham’s own fashion brand does not use fur or exotic skins, but […]
One of the BBC’s highest profile news presenters broke rules on impartiality by referring to transgender women as “males” live on air, the corporation has determined. Justin Webb, one of the anchors of the flagship radio news Today programme, was holding a discussion in August 2023 on whether male-born transwomen chess players had an advantage […]
The BBC’s decision to axe one of its longest running daytime shows has been called “disastrous” by one of its writers. Medical soap opera Doctors will air its final episode in December after 24 years, with the BBC citing rising production costs and the need to invest in other programs for the cancellation. As the […]
On the one side, you have an atheist and avowed bachelor. On the other, a psychologist who thinks family and faith are the keys to progress from our current problems. Those polar opposites made for some intense sparring on Friday’s Real Time, as Bill Maher faced off aganst a fiesty Dr. Phil McGraw, author of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will not be proceeding with a second season of The Brothers Sun, the action comedy-drama from Glee and American Horror Story co-creator Brad Falchuk and newcomer Byron Wu. The news comes almost two months after the eight-episode first season of the series starring Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, Sam Song Li, Joon Lee and Highdee Kuan was released on January 4. The […]
The colorful Iris Apfel, whose embrace of vibrant fashion was captured in a 2014 documentary film, died Friday at 102 at her home in Palm Beach, Florida. Her agent, Lori Sale, issued a statement. “Iris Apfel was extraordinary. Working alongside her was the honor of a lifetime. I will miss her daily calls, always greeted […]
UPDATE: As expected, layoffs commenced today at Universal Music Group, which includes Interscope, Republic, Capitol, Def Jam and Island, as well as catalog division Universal Music Enterprises and UMG corporate. The layoffs started after Wednesday’s fourth quarter earnings call, where CEO Lucian Grainge talked of a “strategic organizational redesign.” EARLIER: Universal Music Group is planning what […]
When movies come out, we grade them with reviews, define them by box office returns or eyeballs on streaming services, and maybe trophies down the line. But every successful, ambitious film starts with a dream, followed by compromise and adversity. Deadline offers the occasional peek into the creative aspirations, and the sweat and blood that […]
As they say in Hollywood quite often, “Who knew?” Take the 2022 film Babylon. It had Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt starring, and Oscar-winning La La Land writer/director Damien Chazelle handling that end. Then it went out and did just $15 million domestically against an $80 million budget. Reviews were mixed. No awards were given. […]
The biggest event disaster since the Fyre Festival concert fiasco has drawn a second apology from its promoters. The director of the disastrous Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow, Billy Coull, posted a lengthy explanation of what went wrong on Facebook. The event, billed as “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” promised attendees chocolate fountains, performances by Oompa Loompas, […]
James Gunn’s Superman (ne Superman Legacy) has cast Wendell Pierce as Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White. News comes in the wake of production starting Thursday in Atlanta, GA. The movie is scheduled to hit cinemas on July 11, 2025. Perry White debuted in a Superman radio serial in 1940. He’s Clark Kent and Lois Lane’s […]
Actor Terrence Howard has been ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $1 million in back taxes, interest, and penalties. The action comes after Howard allegedly threatened a Justice Department lawyer and claimed that it is “immoral for the United States government to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves.” He stands accused of […]
SAG-AFTRA is sending its latest TV animation agreement to its members for a vote. The guild announced Friday that the executive committee had approved the 2023 contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, so it will now be sent to all members for ratification. According to SAG, the new three-year contract also […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning Nomadland producer Peter Spears has optioned Mike Nichols: A Life, the 2021 biography of the director by Mark Harris, for development as a dramatic feature film. The planned adaptation of the book, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, will not be a cradle-to-grave biography but will focus on a young Nichols as he […]
Lifetime’s two-night documentary special Where is Wendy Williams? has set a new ratings record for the network. The documentary averaged 1.2 million total viewers over the two nights in Nielsen Live+3, and 6.2 million total viewers across linear and digital platforms to date. The network says Where is Wendy Williams? is Lifetime’s best new non-fiction performance in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Priyanka Chopra Jonas is set to star in The Bluff, the AGBO Studios and Amazon MGM Studios movie being directed by Frank E. Flowers. Prime Video’s The Boys Karl Urban is in talks to star. Flowers, who also co-wrote The Bluff, is hot off writing this past two weeks’ No. 1 hit Bob Marley: […]