Conan O’Brien’s new international travel series Conan O’Brien Must Go will premiere on Max on Thursday, April 18, the comedian, podcaster and longtime late-night host unveiled today at SXSW. All four episodes will be available to stream. Max and Conan announced the show last spring. “My fans around the globe never asked me to visit […]
A skid row hotel best known for its grisly Netflix true crime examination of a young woman’s mysterious death is now for sale. The Cecil Hotel was the subject of an episode in the the 2021 Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. The story examined Elisa Lam, a Canadian student who […]
Scott Kenyon, a longtime Innovative Artists agent, died on February 15, 2024. No cause or location was given. Kenyon began his career in 2008 at the New York office of Innovative Artists, where he was hired as the assistant to Maury DiMauro, VP and head of the agency’s strategic marketing and endorsements department. After his […]
EXCLUSIVE: Specialty distributor 3388 Films has acquired rights to Vietnamese smash Mai, and has set a March 22 theatrical release across North America and Europe. From director Tran Thanh, the romance drama is now the No. 1 movie of all time in Vietnam, having crossed 500B VND ($20M) locally this past week. Mai will go […]
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired North American rights to the romantic comedy The Zombie Wedding. The film is based on the eponymous interactive play and is the first title to launch the Weekly World News IP-driven studio slate of movie projects. Freestyle Digital […]
Veteran television actress Jean Allison, best known for roles in shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Perry Mason, has died at 94. Her family’s obituary said she died Feb. 28 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, but no cause was given. Allison, a character actress, built a long resume in popular TV. She appeared in episodes of […]
Will Hollywood experience another actors strike in the coming months? After more than a year of negotiating with the video game companies on a new Interactive Media Agreement, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland indicated the guild might soon be walking away from the table due to sticking points regarding artificial intelligence. “We have strike […]
Slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey swept the five categories it was nominated in for at the 44th annual Razzies, which “honor” the worst of filmmaking. The awards were announced today. ‘Winnie the Pooh’ won the Razzie in the picture, director, screenplay, screen couple and remake/rip-off/sequel categories. The film, based on the beloved children’s literary […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ousted four months ago from the company he co-founded, is now fully back in control. His return to its board of directors as part of a reshaped oversight team was announced on Friday. Altman was fired in November as CEO and director by the OpenAI board, a shocking development for a […]
There may soon be another actors strike in Hollywood — this time against the video game industry. SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland weighed in on the possibility while giving updates on the union’s negotiations on its Interactive Media Agreement during a Saturday panel at SXSW. “We’re currently in bargaining with all the major game […]
While Drive to Survive has sped to a successful six seasons on the Netflix platform and been given credit for a surge in interest in motor racing, particular in the US, the same production team has stumbled to a halt with the tennis world, and now The Times of London reports that documentary series Break […]
One man is preparing for a “quite unbelievable” Oscars night, having found himself nominated three times this year in the same category. Special effects supervisor Neil Corbould is up against himself twice over, after being recognised in the category for his work on three movies – Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, The Creator and […]
The Princess of Wales’s uncle has made his exit from the UK’s revamped Celebrity Big Brother series, after lasting just five days in the house. Friday evening’s show saw businessman Gary Goldsmith was the first contestant to be evicted from the lineup, following his much-hyped entry into the house last Sunday. Goldsmith had caused controversy […]
Warner Bros chief Pam Abdy says she would “love to make a sequel to the box office blockbuster Barbie, after the original movie “ignited audiences around the world.” Abdy, the co-chair and CEO of Warner Bros Motion Picture Group, told the BBC that Warner Bros and Barbie director Greta Gerwig were “always talking” about the […]
Alexei Navalny’s sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished. Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival programmed the documentary Navalny in honor of the Russian opposition leader and democratic reformer, who died in an Arctic prison in northern Russia on February 16. The film directed […]
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains some details of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, set for an eight-episode launch on the streamer on March 21. “Why should I get bent out of shape about what the world might look like 400 years from now,” flippantly says scientific researcher Saul Durand (Jovan Adepo) in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem. […]
A hit song by Bananarama in the ’80s told us that Robert De Niro’s Waiting. Tonight, on Real Time with Bill Maher, he finally got the chance to get a few things off his chest. Maher tried to balance things between show business chat and trying to draw out De Niro on a few political […]
We Were Dangerous begins so strongly and so confidently that it promises to take a grim but familiar period movie trope — the victimization of vulnerable young women in an authoritarian, male-dominated, post-war Christian world — and turn it inside out, mining it for deadpan, absurdist comedy instead of political outrage and focusing on the […]
In the era of action films like John Wick, the bar for adrenaline-fueled entertainment has been set high, and there exists a fine line in the world of cinematic remakes that one has to draw between regard for the original and fresh perspectives. Doug Liman directs the remake of the classic 1989 film Road House, […]
Shortly after the roaring world premiere of Road House at SXSW, a guest at the screening became dehydrated and passed out at Austin’s Paramount Theatre. The movie’s star Conor McGregor stayed behind to help get the guy back on his feet. Deadline was on the scene and witnessed. Before the EMT arrived, the gentleman was […]
After the rolling laughs, hoots, hollers, whistling and clapping at tonight’s world premiere of Road House at SXSW on Friday, Amazon MGM Studios may want to think again before putting this Jake Gyllenhaal-Conor McGregor rock ’em sock ’em beefcakes pugilist movie on Prime Video. It doesn’t take an elbow to the head to wake up […]
Reggae artist Matisyahu has had the House of Blues in Chicago cancel his scheduled performance Friday because of the “threat of protests.” Matisyahu said that House of Blues had canceled the show and paid the contractual penalty, which he promised to donate to an organization that advocates for the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in […]
A Vermont man has pleaded guilty in Bennington, Vermont, to a reduced charge in the June 12, 2023 crash that killed actor Treat Williams. Ryan Koss, age 35, agreed to a plea of negligent driving with death resulting. He was given a one-year deferred sentence and will have his driving license revoked for a year. […]
Stormy Daniels skipped the red carpet Friday but took the stage briefly after a screening of documentary Stormy, which had its SXSW premiere on the festival’s opening night. She was emotional, often wiping away tears, as she embraced director Sarah Gibson and talked about how important the film is to her. But she displayed her […]
UPDATE, 5:34 PM: Over two years after Rockmond Dunbar filed a lawsuit against 20th Television and Disney over his pink slipping from 9-1-1 out of his insistence on a religious exemption to Covid vaccine mandates on the show, a federal judge today has said the legal battle can go to trial. Kind of. “The Court […]