Derrick Borte’s Russell Crowe L.A.-set action-thriller Bear County sent a frisson through Hollywood last year when it was announced the production was shooting on Australia’s Gold Coast. Russell stars as an ageing L.A. night club owner whose plans for a comfortable retirement are put on hold when he robbed by a masked gunman.  He is […]

Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn, the creator and star of Apple TV drama series Pluribus, have the kind of easy camaraderie that comes from logging over a decade of prestige television together. Their rapport first sparked back in 2015, with the follow-up to Gilligan’s Breaking Bad —  the crime series Better Call Saul, which he […]

Russell Crowe has suggested Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II failed to ignite audiences in the same way as the original film because it lacked a “moral core”. He recalled how he had pushed back against moves to give his Gladiator character Maximus sex scenes, in his belief that it would not chime with a man grieving […]

The Kennedy Center said that it will remove Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the arts complex — but that may not happen until early Saturday morning. As a court-ordered deadline passed midnight, Justice Department attorneys asked a judge for a 12-hour extension of time, saying that thunderstorms earlier in the evening delayed the […]

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. It is finally time to stop watching and start voting, people. Emmy ballots are in hand (or laptop) and if you think this has been a long season, it has actually been longer than that. I cannot remember a year in the four decades or […]

Gene Shalit, the longtime film critic for Today show, known for his quirky puns and signature walrus mustache, has died. He was 100. His family tells NBC News in a statement, Shalit passed away peacefully today (Friday) after 100 years of an amazing life.” Shalit began his long career at The Today Show in 1970s, […]

After Jack Innanen campaigned for a role on Season 2 of The Heated Rivalry, he was reportedly benched from the homoerotic hockey drama. The Canadian actor responded to reports that he was offered a starring role in the Jacob Tierney-created Crave/HBO Max series but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts, noting he […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kent Moran’s psychological thriller The One, which he’s writing, directing and starring in has set Emily Kinney (The Walking Dead, Masters of Sex), Hayley McFarland (The Conjuring, Lie to Me), Zach Roerig (The Vampire Diaries, Friday Night Lights), and Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things, Orange Is the New Black). The Wishing Well Pictures’ production follows […]

The Department of Justice has approved Paramount’s $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros Discovery. A very early birthday present to CEO David Ellison, the anticipated sign-off by the Para-friendly Trump administration has been confirmed to Deadline by multiple sources. The big hurdle crossing towards ParaBros comes as state Attorney Generals in California, New York and […]

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is off to a record-breaking start. The tournament began Thursday with the opening match between Mexico and South Africa, with the former’s 2-0 victory clutching 6.3 million viewers across Fox, Fox One and Tubi, per a combination of early Nielsen ratings and internal data. That makes it the most-watched English-language […]

Despite the “musings” of Donald Trump, the ex-Apprentice host is still going to get his 80th birthday present from UFC boss Dana White this weekend. A federal judge has slapped down the last minute move by Susan Douglas and Paul Romano to choke out the June 14 scheduled and Paramount+ streamed cage fights from the […]

Jon Stewart has been on The Daily Show, excluding a nine year sabbatical in the middle, since 1999 and he’s seen a lot. The comedian was leading an FYC panel in New York on the Comedy Central show and talked up how technological changes have both impacted how they put together the show and the […]

Ali Hazelwood fans, unite. The Love Hypothesis is becoming a movie. The film began rounds of casting mid-July 2025. Hazelwood’s book arrived on shelves Sept. 14, 2021thanks to Berkley Books. The author has confirmed that the book began as fanfiction for the Star Wars characters Rey and Kylo Ren. Read more about The Love Hypothesis […]

EXCLUSIVE: It’s finally happened, and as Michael and Janet Jackson would have sang, ‘it makes ya wanna scream’. The Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has been caught in a landslide as the King of Pop’s biopic, Michael, is now the highest grossing musical biopic ever with $911.9M worldwide. It’s a feat that Lionsgate and Universal […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Night Agent will give fans what they want before calling it a day — Peter Sutherland and Rose Larkin together again. Luciane Buchanan, who played Peter’s (Gabriel Basso) charge-turned-partner and love interest Rose in the first two seasons of the Netflix action drama, will reprise her role in the series’ upcoming fourth and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off a leading role in the film Ready or Not 2, Kathryn Newton has been cast in a leading role in the Hulu pilot Durango, from writer Eliza Clark, 20th Television, and Media Res. Newton will play Bunny, who is beguiling, wild, and deeply guarded. She is someone who’s always been determined to keep […]

“Funny story for you,” I tell Michelle Pfeiffer. She’s sitting across from me in the Deadline office, the picture of elegance. I also suspect that she might be fun. I hadn’t meant to tell her this anecdote, but here we are, so I push on: “I went to high school in England with a boy […]

Slam Frank, the critically acclaimed and provocative new musical that reimagines Anne Frank’s story “through an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,” will begin a limited engagement Off Broadway this September. Previews begin at the Orpheum Theatre on September 17, exactly one year after the start of the developmental run that brought attention and praise to […]

Margaret Kerry, the early sitcom actor and dancer who modeled the movements and expressions for Disney animators as they drew Peter Pan‘s pixie Tinker Bell into being, died of lung cancer on Thursday, June 11, in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was 97. Her death was announced by her family in a Facebook message. “It is […]

Arte’s Franco-Iranian web series Happiness has won the audience award at Seriencamp, while the Cologne fest has reported record attendance. Happiness, which featured as a Deadline Global Breakout earlier this month and launches its second season in two weeks, centers on an Iranian student who moves to Paris and received a five-minute standing ovation in […]

Universal and Amblin’s Steven Spielberg alien sci-fi movie, Disclosure Day, is posting a significantly better than expected global start of $93.9M. Originally, the movie, which is a throwback to 1970s movies like Parallex View, was eyeing a low $65M. Overseas is overindexing with $49.9M in addition to $44M from North America where the Emily Blunt, […]

For an NBA team thriving on the new (new coach, new mix of players, new horizons), the New York Knicks have been headlining a decidedly old medium: radio. WFAN, which pioneered sports talk when it launched in 1987, has been aflame with Knicks conversation since April as the team has pursued its first championship since […]

After a glitzy Monte-Carlo premiere of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan broke down the evolution of the relationship between their characters, Negan and Maggie, and promised the upcoming season of the show breaks new ground. “I think we played as much hate as we could over the […]

Ariana Grande has launched the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation to support youth mental health, arts education and community causes. On Friday, the 3x Grammy winner announced the nonprofit, which is designed to uplift and directly fund small organizations doing meaningful work through partnerships that will create longterm impact. “I am beyond excited to finally announce […]

Bill Ritter, an anchor for WABC-TV New York’s ABC7 Eyewitness News since 1999, announced Friday during his staple 6 p.m. newscast that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and is stepping down from the role. Ritter, a San Diego native whose journalism career started in Los Angeles first with the Los Angeles Times and later […]

EXCLUSIVE: While NBC drama pilot What the Dead Know did not make the cut for a series order, the network has remained high on the general premise and the project’s star, Taylor Schilling. The crime procedural, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, will be redeveloped with the same lead and a new writer. Universal Television, […]

Roku shares rocketed to a 4-year high on Friday after word emerged that the streaming company is in talks to sell itself to an unnamed media company. The stock surged 20% to close at $143.66, rising another fraction in after-hours trading, after Bloomberg reported that a media company had held acquisition talks with Roku. Reuters […]

While Aaron Sorkin is revisiting the godfather of Facebook, Jesse Eisenberg has moved on from playing Mark Zuckerberg after more than 15 years. Following their collaboration on The Social Network (2010), which recounted Zuckerberg’s creation of the social platform, Sorkin admitted he tried for three days to get Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated performance in […]

Amazon MGM Studios alum Adam Keen has launched Agenda Collective, a full-service entertainment public relations firm, with offices in Los Angeles and New York City. With a roster of studios including studios, filmmakers, showrunners, writers, producers, authors, sales companies and production entities, Agenda’s focus is aimed at delivering “immediate, high-impact support across film, television, corporate […]

Elon Musk saw his net worth surge as SpaceX hit the public market Friday. The biggest public offering ever was priced at $135 a share. The shares opened at $150 and jumped some more when they started trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol SPCX. The stock is up 18% nearing the close at about […]

Ronnie Schell, a prolific TV character actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of the amiable Pvt. Duke Slater, pal of Jim Nabors’ hayseed Gomer Pyle on the ’60s sitcom of that name, died of natural causes today at UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 94. His death was announced by family. Born Ronald […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate, LuckyChap, and Hasbro Entertainment are partnering with two star writing teams — Neil Widener & Gavin James (A Minecraft Movie) and Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum (Dumb Money) — to flesh out ideas for a Monopoly movie based on the iconic board game, sources tell Deadline. Studio insiders stressed that it’s still very early days […]

Stockholders expressed deep dissatisfaction with the 2025 compensation package of Warner Bros. Discovery’s chief executive David Zaslav in a non-binding vote at the company’s annual meeting this week. In an SEC filing Friday, the company said 84.3% of votes cast in the yearly say-on-pay tally were against the package, meaning just 15.7% supported it. That’s […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the entirety of Every Year After. A character like Michael Bradway’s Charlie might seem all charm and charisma, but as the story of Ever Year After — based on Carley Fortune’s debut novel Every Summer After — unfolds, there is more to the elder Florek brother than meets […]

Joe Negri, a jazz guitarist best known to generations of children and their parents as the kindly, music-loving handyman of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, died Saturday, May 30, at a senior living facility outside Pittsburgh. He was 99. His death was announced by his family. Beginning in 1968 and continuing through 2001, Negri, who had been […]

EXCLUSIVE: Inanna Sarkis (Maintenance Required) is set for a role alongside Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger in Beach Read, 20th Century Studios’ adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel from Emily Henry, which is shooting this month, sources tell Deadline. Reps for 20th declined comment. We’re told that Sarkis will play Shadi, the best friend of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Joanna “JoJo” Levesque (Moulin Rouge The Musical!) will star with Luke Cage and Evil star Mike Colter in LA-set drama-romance The Very Thought of You. The stars will also exec-produce the project, which is written and produced by John Zaring (Pursuit of Happiness). Described to us as a “soulful, jazz-infused love story” set in Los Angeles’s Eagle […]

EXCLUSIVE: Matty Matheson and Ricky Staffieri, stars of FX’s The Bear, have partnered with producer Hannah Welever to launch Super Athletic Film Co., a production company focused on championing a new class of creatives in their work on original stories for film & TV. Matheson and Staffieri forged an instant bond on the award-winning culinary series The […]

Bari Weiss has tapped Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips as senior global affairs correspondent for CBS News, Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski announced Friday. Phillips’ reporting will appear on all CBS News programs and platforms. “Trevor Phillips cuts through the noise. His decades-long career is a masterclass in seeing beyond groupthink and pursuing […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from the Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 5 premiere. The first few moments in the Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 5 premiere answer the big cliffhanger from the Season 4 finale: Does Kanan (Mekai Curtis) take down his mother, Raq (Patina Miller)? The answer is no, but […]

Prolific Emmy-winning comic Wanda Sykes, known for her tell-it-like-it-is style, recently revealed she ruffled some feathers in the scene — having turned down an appearance on Netflix’s The Roast of Kevin Hart and getting unprompted feedback after a joke she told about Bill Maher at the 2026 Golden Globes. During a recent appearance on Vulture‘s […]

In the documentary Amazomania, which just screened at the DC/DOX festival in the nation’s capital, vintage footage shows a Swedish filmmaker and journalist in what appears to be a jungle setting, tying on his worn boots. A machete is suspended within easy reach, its long blade thwacked into a wooden post. Erling Söderström, the filmmaker-journalist, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Scott Thomas collected her Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival’s opening ceremony on Friday night. At a press conference the following morning, the star slipped between English and French and talked about her career to date. She then sat down with Deadline and gave us the lowdown on playing an icy […]

Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa made their first appearance on Love Island USA ahead of the premiere of their weekly talk show Love Island USA Aftersun. The Summer House star and the podcaster entered the villa to host a game with the Islanders. The duo had their slo-mo entrance, making them officially part of the […]

The Directors Guild of America is one step closer to sealing the deal on a four-year contract with the major film and television studios after union’s National Board of Directors unanimously voted to recommend ratification to the membership this week. The contract now goes to the full membership for ratification. That vote is expected to […]

RuPaul is back on the big screen with a handful of limited indie openings from Cannes-premiering Promised Sky to award winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant and O Horizon starring Maria Bakalova. The weekend is sprinkled with limited release restorations including Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros from Mubi and The Third Man from Rialto Pictures. […]

The Justice Department said that it concluded that Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery was “not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers,” citing their review of the streaming, linear television and theatrical release marketplaces. In a statement, the DOJ noted the multiple transaction in which Warner Bros. has been an […]

After more than 25 years of reluctantly being the face of the franchise, the actress formerly known as Heather Donahue is prioritizing her image over a Blair Witch return. With a reimagining in the works at Lionsgate and Blumhouse, Donahue (who currently goes by Rei Hance) explained why she is “not participating” in the Dylan […]

In FX’s anthology series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, Grace Gummer takes on the role of Caroline Kennedy, sister to JFK Jr. In the show, Gummer has some zinger scenes, from a particularly arresting mother-daughter tête-à-tête with Naomi Watts as Jackie Kennedy, to a devastating set piece opposite Constance Zimmer as […]

EXCLUSIVE: Evangeline Lilly has joined the feature documentary Farmacy of Light as narrator and executive producer. Following its award-winning festival run last year, Farmacy of Light has been updated with the narration, and the final version will be available for free global streaming from June 23 to 27. Starring Erik Cutter (The Need To Grow), […]

Writer-producer Jack Thorne reached national treasure status last year in the U.K. with Netflix hit Adolescence, which finished its year-long victory lap with four big wins at the BAFTAs last month. Without missing a beat, Thorne returned almost immediately with his take on William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, in which a plane […]

DC/DOX is off to a smashing start. The documentary film festival in the nation’s capital opened Thursday night with the Billie Jean King film Give Me the Ball!, exploring the career and cultural impact of the tennis legend. King, 82, took part in a discussion after the screening, where she was joined by members of […]

With a streak of blue in her blonde hair and a silver electric guitar pendant teamed with a flower print dress and sneakers, Emmanuelle Seigner has an air of rock chick meets relaxed femininity as she sits down to talk to journalists at the Taormina Film Festival. The French actress is one of the guests […]

Blake Lively will be getting some money from Justin Baldoni out of what happening during the making of It Ends With Us and the reputational fallout in the summer of 2024. “Lively is entitled to fees and costs,” wrote Judge Lewis Liman today in deeply reasoned 47-page order. Following the 11th hour settlement in May […]

Gay ice hockey romance series Heated Rivalry, corporate drama Industry and horror comedy Widow’s Bay lead the 42nd Annual TCA Awards nominations with five each, the Television Critics Association announced Friday. They’re followed by Hacks, The Pitt and Pluribus with 4 each and The Comeback, Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Shrinking with 3 each. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Kavutskiy has rounded out the cast of his feature directorial debut, the dark comedy Little One, with four additions: Mark O’Brien (Nuremberg), Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line), Carmen Christopher (Never Change!), and Jamie McShane (Task). Character details for these four are under wraps, with production underway in Los Angeles under a California tax credit. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Thomas Devlin, a rising screenwriter in the horror/thriller space, has inked with WME for representation. Recently, Devlin landed arguably his biggest gig to date as screenwriter for the upcoming reimagining of horror classic The Blair Witch Project. Dylan Clark, an up-and-comer out of the YouTube space, is directing the film for Lionsgate and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Theo Rossi (The Penguin, Sons of Anarchy) has joined the cast of Delphi, the new TV series out of the Creed universe, from Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society. Rossi joins Wood Harris (The Wire), Niles Fitch (Forever), Dasan Frazier (A Different World), Graham Patrick Martin (Catch-22), Brittany Adebumola (M.I.A.), Rene Moran (Cross), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hamilton), […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nicol Paone (The Kill Room) is set to direct the independent feature Greatest Night Of Summer following the previous exit of filmmaker William Atticus Parker (Forty Winks). Carter Dau (Don’t Look Away) and Recker Eans (Wizards Beyond Waverly Place) have newly joined the cast, which comprises Jacob Moran (The Black Phone franchise), Christian Convery […]

EXCLUSIVE: Camille Cottin is among the new names to join Villaflor, the Netflix political thriller from Oscar-nominated director Santiago Mitre. Soledad Villamil and Valeria Lois round out the cast, alongside the previously announced stars Verónica Llinás and Peter Lanzani. Back in January, Deadline exclusively reported that Mitre was making the Argentina-set thriller for Netflix. At […]