One of Rob Reiner’s greatest filmmaking credits is the classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. But he became the maker of an actual documentary – not a faux one – with Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. This morning (while working on the sequel to Spinal Tap in New Orleans) he learned he’s become an Emmy […]
Evan Wright, a writer and journalist whose 2004 book on the Iraq War, Generation Kill, was adapted into an HBO miniseries, died July 12 in Los Angeles by suicide, his family confirmed. Born in Ohio, Wright earned a degree from Vassar College before entering journalism. In the mid-‘90s, Wright worked for Hustler, serving as entertainment editor […]
Viggo Mortensen is calling out Amazon for its handling of the Ron Howard film Thirteen Lives, which he starred in alongside Colin Farrell. In a new interview, the actor called out the studio for scrapping the global release of the Thai cave rescue thriller to push it to their Prime Video streaming service. “They were going to […]
Joe Biden heard some very hard words today from Jeffrey Katzenberg about his reelection chances. The longtime Democratic donor and fundraiser spoke with Biden today in Las Vegas before the announcement that Biden had Covid again, we can confirm. In a small meeting with a handful of senior advisors, Katzenberg laid out to the 81-year-old […]
I had a wide-ranging conversation via Zoom on Wednesday with Television Academy chair Cris Abrego and president and CEO Maury McIntyre to talk all things Emmys shortly after Abrego presided over this morning’s 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations announcement. Among the topics covered were the breadth and freshness of many of the nominations, and […]
The three most nominated programs at the Emmys this year, Shōgun (25 nominations), The Bear (23) and Only Murders In the Building (21), are all labeled differently — as FX, FX on Hulu and Hulu Originals series, respectively. But they have something in common — they all stream on Hulu. As Co-Chairman of Disney Entertainment, […]
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoliers for the entirety of UnPrisoned Season 2. For UnPrisoned creator Tracy McMillan, the goal of Season 2 of the Hulu and Onyx Collective series was to take the Alexander family from rupture to repair. In Season 1 of the comedy series, Edwin Alexander (Delroy Lindo) got out of prison […]
Tyler James Williams has earned his third Emmy nomination for his role as the no nonsense but still gentle first grade teacher Gregory Eddie on ABC’s Abbott Elementary. Last year, he watched as nominations were announced live from the Hudson River in New York, but this year he tells Deadline he was at his home […]
President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House said. The president canceled a planned speaking engagement in Las Vegas before the group UnidosUS. “Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing […]
Some of the entertainment industry’s top filmmakers will go up against each other at the 76th Emmy Awards. Oscar winner Ron Howard’s Jim Henson Idea Man earned eight Emmy nominations this morning, more than any other nonfiction contender in the race. The Disney+ film about the Muppets creator is nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction […]
The Record Plant, the iconic Los Angeles recording studio that boasted that it spawned more hits and Grammy Award-winning music than at any other studio in the world, is closing its doors after 55 years. Record Plant Recording Studios on North Sycamore Avenue in Hollywood opened in 1972, following the opening of a New York […]
The Republican National Convention drew an estimated 14.81 million viewers on its second night, a drop from the second night in 2020, according to Nielsen. One of the highlights of the night was a speech by Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter in law. About 19.42 million watched the second night of the RNC in 2020, […]
Hulu announced on Wednesday that Roy Wood Jr. (The Daily Show) will tape his first comedy special for the streamer at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. in early September, seeing it launch on Hulu and Disney+ internationally. The as-yet-untitled special comes on the heels of three for Comedy Central: Imperfect Messenger (2021), No One […]
Eddie Rosenblatt, president of Geffen Records during its days as one of the hottest record labels in the music business, died Tuesday at a hospital in Santa Barbara of pneumonia at 89. Rosenblatt led Geffen in the 1980s and 1990s, helming a roster that included Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana, Whitesnake, Peter Gabriel, Sonic Youth and […]
NBC will be happy and relieved with its late-night Emmy haul with Late Night with Seth Meyers staving off the threat of John Mulaney, and Saturday Night Live almost doubling its nominations from last year. Comedy Central, which tied its own record with seven nominations for The Daily Show, HBO, which increased the number of […]
UnPrisoned Season 2 follows the chaos of Season 1 with more messy moments, set to some great needle drops. Finn (Faly Raktohavana), particularly, has a moment with music this season. Edwin also loves records and jazz. A Doja Cat needledrop sets the season off as Paige confidently walks onto a news segment following her Ted […]