EXCLUSIVE: Kim Kardashian’s foray into film and TV continues with another high-profile sale, this one hitting close to home for the reality star and entrepreneur. After a competitive bidding that went through the week, sources tell Deadline that Netflix has landed for development Calabasas, a TV series which Kardashian is executive producing with her American […]
Hulu is set to get two Family Guy holiday specials later this year. As the animated sitcom celebrates its 25th anniversary since its premiere, it was confirmed at PaleyFestLA that the Seth MacFarlane-created series would air two holiday specials later this year. Family Guy’s Season 22 finale is set to air on Wednesday, April 17 […]
Jon Snow may know nothing, as the famous line from Game of Thrones goes. But the actor who played him, Kit Harington, knows he is happy to step outside the hero role and flex another side of his acting chops. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor expressed delight at taking on a different […]
Ncuti Gatwa, the first Black Doctor Who, was extremely outspoken in a new interview. Gatwa is an LGBTQ Rwandan immigrant to the U.K. and made his comments to the magazine Attitude for its May/June issue. Asked about backlash on his assuming the role of Doctor Who, he said that it’s all part of a shift. […]
Iconic actor Danny Trejo is set to receive one of the biggest honors of his career. The star of Machete, From Dusk Til Dawn, Spy Kids, Con Air, Heat, and hundreds of other films and television series will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Thursday, the festival’s […]
Kelsea Ballerini has filed for a temporary restraining order against a fan who allegedly disseminated music that wasn’t finished without permission. The “Penthouse” singer has asked for the TRO against Bo Ewing, whom Ballerini claims “without authority or approval, surreptitiously gained access to, copied and disseminated still-in-production, unreleased masters and demos” of her music. “Defendant […]
Caitlin Clark can earn up to $500,000 during her rookie season, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has claimed in an effort to quell outrage on the No. 1 draft choice’s low base salary. The former Iowa star will make just $76,535 in base salary from the Indiana Fever, part of a four-year, $338,056 deal with the […]
Golf Channel reality series Big Break host Stephanie Sparks died April 13 at the age of 50. No information on cause or location was provided. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Sparks was an All-American collegiate golfer at Duke. She won many tournaments, starting with the 1992 North and South Women’s Amateur at Pinehurst. Sparks represented […]
Howie Schwab, a longtime ESPN producer and star of the ESPN trivia show Stump the Schwab, died today at 63, according to his family. No cause or location was given. Schwab began at ESPN in 1987 and worked there through 2013. He was a producer on multiple ESPN shows, but was best known as the […]
In the late 1990s Joker writer-director Todd Phillips, then applying his trade as an underground documentary filmmaker shot a non-fiction project titled Frat House, which nabbed the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance before being promptly acquired by HBO Films. “The premise of the documentary is that he pledged fraternities at colleges,” John Sloss, […]
The female star of Baby Reindeer says she felt a sense of responsibility for her co-star Richard Gadd, who wrote the Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim, based on his own real-life experience of being targeted. In the series which has topped the Netflix charts on both sides of the Atlantic since its […]
EXCLUSIVE: Thirteen years ago, a young Sidharth Sriram promised himself that the first time he would attend Coachella would be the first time he performed. Last weekend, that dream came true. Sriram, who has sung more than 250 songs on Indian productions, is now 33 and has in the past few days become the first […]
Hilary Swank has reflected on her role in Boys Don’t Cry two decades ago, saying changing awareness means she wouldn’t take the part today. Swank won her first Oscar for the role of real-life transgender man Brandon Teena, murdered in a hate crime, in the movie which was released in 2000. She told The Times […]
Unsurprisingly, the release of Taylor Swift’s 11th album has seen fans rushing to marry the star’s provocative lyrics with the correct ex-boyfriend. While several of the songs on The Tortured Poets Department are reported to be about her split from British actor Joe Alwyn, with whom she was in a relationship for six years, fans […]
Taylor Swift has released the video for the first single from her new album, thrilling fans with a collection of familiar faces making cameo appearances. Friday saw Swift release the cinematic black and white video for ‘Fortnight’, in which her character has scientists conducting experiments on her following a failed love affair. Two scientists are […]
SPOILER ALERT: Do Not Read If You Haven’t Seen Tonight’s Show Season 16 of MTV reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race is over, and America’s Next Drag Superstar has been crowned. This edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race featured 14 queens from across the country battling it out for the win. Contestants besides the final three included […]
An exasperated Bill Maher, notorious for not having his own children, asked on Friday’s ‘Real Time’ why he is the one who is always left trying to defend them. In his “New Rules” editorial, Maher trained his guns on the shocking Max documentary Quiet on Set, which detailed what the past young stars went through […]
Who’d have thought they’d see ya? Certainly not John Travolta, who had a reunion with castmate Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs on the red carpet at the TCM Film Festival. The two were part of sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, which ran on ABC from Sept. 1975 to May, 1979. Gabe Kaplan starred as a high school teacher in […]
Morgan Wallen has apologized for his arrest in connection with a chair-throwing incident from the roof of a Nashville bar. On April 7, the 30-year-old country star was arrested on three felony charges, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Wallen addressed his arrest today in a statement posted to his X account. “I didn’t […]
In the wake of its decision to cancel a pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s commencement address, the University of Southern California has released other speakers from their commitments to address attendees. Entertainment industry figures scheduled to appear included director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) and producer Miky Lee of Korea’s the CJ Group, which gave the world […]
Ania Trzebiatowska has compiled an eclectic selection of fiction and non-fiction titles for the third annual Sands International Film Festival, which kicked off Friday evening in St Andrews, Scotland. Mounted across this weekend in the ancient university town, Trzebiatowska — also a full-time programmer at Sundance — runs the festival with an impressive gang of […]
So Help Me Todd creator Scott Prendergast has reacted to news of the cancellation of the CBS comedy after two seasons. In a message Friday on Instagram, Prendergast gave a heartfelt thank you to CBS for what “has been the best professional experience of my life.” “I took a story about me and my Mom […]
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has set yet another Spotify record, becoming the most-streamed album in a single day, reportedly exceeding 200 million streams. Swift now has the top three most-streamed albums in a single day, with previous records held by Midnights and 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Swift also surprised fans with the release early […]
Five years after John Malone retired from the board of directors at Charter Communications, he is exiting his post as the company’s director emeritus, Deadline has confirmed. The veteran exec and Liberty Media chairman, who has served on Charter’s board since 2008, cited the same Clayton Act concerns that led Steven A. Miron and Steven O. Newhouse […]
She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany won’t back down from her comments about Disney CEO Bob Iger that were made during the SAG-AFTRA strikes. But she seems somewhat sorry that she smashed the CEO of the company that produces her show. In an interview with The Independent, Maslany defended her rebuttal when Iger claimed that the actors’ […]