Ahead of Oscars Sunday, Jane Fonda’s recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment released a statement condemning and warning about escalating attacks on free speech and media — a direct response to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr’s threats against TV broadcasters’ licenses for their Iran War coverage.  “Today is not a normal Oscars,” the […]

A 1989 Studio Ghibli favorite Kiki’s Delivery Service, the latest edition of Oscar-nominated shorts and eight-time nominee Hamnet are looking strong this weekend. Roadside Attractions’ first outing with Oscar Nominated Shorts has set a box office record for the poplar annual trio of animated, live action and documentary shorts packaged into three feature length films. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Firefly fans are in for a treat. Nathan Fillion has just revealed at Awesome Con that an animated Firefly series is in advanced development based on the beloved cult sci-fi franchise—and Deadline has the details. Fillion spoke on a panel at the Washington, D.C. event and live taping of his “Once We Were Spacemen” […]

Paul Simon is one of Saturday Night Live’s most regular musical guests. Lorne Michaels’ friend has hosted the show four times and has been a musical guest 13 times (including as the oldest musical guest). He turned up again on tonight’s show to introduce Harry Styles’ second musical performance. Styles’ first song was introduced by […]

If your favorite character was “the guy who punched Dana in the hospital” (Doug Driscoll, portrayed by Drew Powell) on HBO Max’s The Pitt, then Saturday Night Live‘s satire of the hospital drama is the show for you. The Lorne Michaels-created late-nighter opted for a pastiche of the Emmy-winning phenomenon — about three months after […]

Curry Barker’s buzzy horror Obsession made the jump from TIFF to SXSW tonight with one change – a few less head smashes in what may be the film’s goriest scene and biggest jump scare. In Toronto, where Obsession screened at the Midnight section, “there was about six or seven more smashes. And we were getting […]

John Alford, a British actor with a checkered history with the law, has died at the age of 54. Alford, who starred in BBC kids soap Grange Hill and ITV fireman drama London’s Burning, died in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage girls. Alford, who reverted back to his birthname […]

Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan once pondered that the extras who make up the hive mind on the dystopian future show should be naked. In addition, he regaled that a top Sony TV executive wasn’t a fan early on of his multi-Emmy winning Breaking Bad, which the studio ultimately produced. Such stories were part of a […]

A trio of top media execs talked up unscripted with gusto today and they have a right to be upbeat, the format is huge. Decades old Dancing With The Stars — the ABC series based on BBC format Strictly Come Dancing — is  coming off one of its best seasons ever with its highest rated finale in […]

The hit Zooey Deschanel comedy series The New Girl signed off close to eight years ago, with cast reuniting for a 2020 voting PSA and also a small assembly at the Actors Awards last year, but what about a real reunion in the streaming era where revivals thrive? Jake Johnson who played Nick, the better-half […]

Red, White & Royal Wedding, the sequel to Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video’s Red, White & Royal Blue, has wrapped production. A cast has been collected, and the plot clarified, following various updates from Casey McQuiston, author of the foundational book of the same name, as well as the cast. The second installment was […]

The 28th edition of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece comes to an end this weekend with Sunday’s awards ceremony, where the top prize of the Golden Alexander will be announced. Yorgos Krassakopoulos, head of program for TiDF (as well as the separate Thessaloniki Film Festival in November, which showcases narrative films) assesses this […]

Boy George has a little bit of advice for Chappell Roan after the “Pink Pony Club” singer went viral for confronting a group of photographers. A video of the singer was widely circulated on social media this week, in which she asked photographers to leave her alone and to “stop following me” and “harassing me.” […]

“Let’s go!” yelled Ready or Not 2: Here I Come star Kathryn Newton before the lights went down at tonight’s world premiere at SXSW. “Yeah, I’m loud,” she exclaimed to the filled Paramount Theatre, who of course, were full of plenty of noise on night 2 of the Lone Star State capital’s film and TV […]

There are no degrees of separation between the cast of this film. Many interesting projects seem to be born out of the pandemic quarantine and just now coming to fruition. Filmmakers with all this time on their hands apparently with nothing else to do were inspired to develop some interesting movies, it seems. The latest […]

Nancy Glass, who runs Glass Entertainment Group, the company behind Netflix doc Bitconned, started a podcast business in 2021. Since then, she has produced a dozen audio series and has turned a number of them into true-crime television series and is shopping a few more. Titles such as Betrayal, Burden of Guilt and Curse of […]

The Shaggs — an all-girl band featuring the three suburban Wiggin sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire — were always an acquired taste. Formed in 1965, they released one album, Philosophy of the World, in 1969, and disbanded in the mid-’70s. Almost all (around 900) of the original 1,000 copies of the album disappeared in mysterious […]

Like a mad dog with a bone, the Trump administration won’t or can’t let it go with CNN today over the cable news channel’s coverage of the ongoing war with Iran. “Fake News CNN is at it again,” proclaims a missive just put out by the White House mere hours after former Fox News host […]

EXCLUSIVE: And then there was one. Paramount, which three years ago had three SVOD platforms available in the U.S., will soon have only one. Paramount+ will absorb BET+ at the beginning of June when more than 1,000 hours of BET+ content — originals, movies, and specials — will migrate to the flagship streamer. The news […]

EXCLUSIVE: Joey Lawrence, known best for his roles as Joey Russo on the hit ’90s series Blossom and as Joe Longo in Melissa and Joey, has signed with Defining Artists for representation. A former child actor, Lawrence’s first major film role came in the cult comedy film Summer Rental opposite John Candy. More recently he […]

After pulling out his Sebastian Maniscalco impression for the second time on Saturday Night Live, Marcello Hernandez has earned more praise from the fellow comedian. Following this weekend’s episode of the NBC sketch comedy series, Maniscalco suggested he “come in and do it myself,” raving that Hernandez and host Harry Styles “absolutely nailed it” in […]

Before Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie conquers every country in the world, it’s all about Disney Pixar’s original Hoppers which after a $59.5M global weekend ($28.5M domestic, $31M from 45 territories), taking the animated movie to $164.7M WW ($86.8M of that domestic, $77.9M international). That’s one of the top three U.S. films worldwide year to […]

Closure, Michal Marczak’s searing account of a man desperately searching for his missing teenage son, won the Golden Alexander in International Competition today at the prestigious Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. It’s the festival’s top honor. Marczak’s film, which premiered in World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance, follows a man named Daniel whose son […]

Harry Styles is aware of the discourse around him. In his second time pulling double duty as both musical guest and host (though the Grammy winner has been a musical guest a number of times before as both solo artist and band member for One Direction), the musician addressed his queerbaiting allegations with a tongue-in-cheek […]

In 2019, Jack Black teamed up with Jack White on a Tenacious D song. The Minecraft star and the former frontman of The White Stripes will team up again, this time on Saturday Night Live. Black will host the show on April 4 with White as musical guest.

Matrimony is murder in director Jorma Taccone’s gory marital dark comedy Over Your Dead Body, which made its world premiere Saturday at SXSW. In the film, written by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, a married couple with a strained relationship goes on a seemingly romantic trip to a remote cabin, where both have secretly planned […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 4 of The Last Thing He Told Me, titled “Ghosts.” When The Last Thing He Told Me author Laura Dave thought about continuing Hannah Hall’s story and writing The First Time I Saw Him following the cliffhanger ending in both the first book and Season […]

Paramount has passed on Max Landis’ treatment for a new G.I. Joe, sources tell us. Note, a specific direction for the next screen version of a Real American Hero hasn’t been decided according to those we’ve spoken to. The studio, we hear, is still taking meetings. One of the takes in the mix is that […]

The Miami Film Festival has set its lineup for the 43rd edition of the international cinematic event, running April 9-19 in the Sunshine State. This year’s festival will unveil 40 world premieres, two international premieres, 11 North American premieres, and five U.S. premieres in a program of over 160 narratives, documentaries, and shorts from around […]

Hulu has opted not to proceed with its Buffy reboot, starring and executive produced by Sarah Michelle Gellar. She broke the news to fans on Instagram Saturday morning. The news comes a year after the streamer ordered a pilot for the project, with Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, directing from a script written […]

Phil Campbell, the Motörhead guitarist and backing vocalist, has died. He was 64. The musician’s sons and bandmates announced that he “passed away peacefully” on Friday night in intensive care, following a “long and courageous battle” after a major operation. The nature of the operation was unclear. “It is with great sadness that we announce […]

An overwhelming number of Los Angeles City Council members have some serious issues with Casey Wasserman remaining in charges of the upcoming the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, but LA28 doesn’t seem to care. “With the Board’s position on leadership established, LA28’s focus remains on delivering a fiscally responsible, privately funded Games that protects taxpayers […]

War of the Worlds star Ice Cube now has another reason to stare forlornly at his computer. In what was a near-sweep, he and the film were big, uh, winners at the 46th Razzie Awards, which were revealed late Friday. Cube took Worst Actor, and Amazon Prime Video’s cyber-take on H.G. Wells’ classic novel was […]

Rachel Mason’s excellent 2019 documentary feature Circus of Books took us inside an ordinary mom and pop business with a difference. Starring her own mother and father, Barry and Karen, it told the story of the Masons’ flagship store, a bookshop that was, for a while, at the heart of the West Hollywood gay scene, […]

The honeymoon is far from over for Samara Weaving’s final girl Grace in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which world premiered tonight at SXSW. The sequel picks up where Radio Silence’s (Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin) 2019 comedy horror sleeper hit left off, with the recently widowed bride covered in blood on the […]

With his new docuseries Amerigo coming to PBS, Emmy-winning producer David McCourt wanted to examine a complicated question. If his own grandfather “came to this country at 16 years old, uneducated, got a job as a janitor, raised my mother, bought a home, and died debt-free,” do these possibilities still exist for the average American […]

Larry David has lifted the lid on his HBO sketch comedy series that he’s making with President Barack Obama. The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star has revealed the name of the show and its premiere date alongside a trailer of the show. Life, Larry & The Pursuit of Unhappiness will premiere on Friday June […]

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen recently returned after a week from inside Iran, as the first American network team to enter the country since the start of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on the country. Along with photojournalist and producer Claudia Otto, Pleitgen trekked by vehicle to Tehran and back, reporting on the apocalyptic scene of strikes on […]

Refresh for latest… With the 98th Oscars looming on Sunday, the 63rd ICG Publicists Awards is under way at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Deadline is posting the winners as they announced; see the list below. The awards honor unit publicists, individual publicists, outstanding publicity campaigns for television and motion picture, journalists and […]

Steven Spielberg took a bit of a jab at Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments alluding to the cultural irrelevance of art forms like ballet and opera, during an appearance today at SXSW. Asked about the future of the moviegoing experience, Spielberg said, “It’s an important topic to talk about, and I look out at this auditorium […]

Although the devil is returning for another serving of Prada, one character might have been too evil for an invitation to the sequel. Adrian Grenier recently discussed not being asked to return for The Devil Wears Prada 2 after playing Andy Sachs’ (Anne Hathaway) chef boyfriend Nate in the 2006 feature adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s […]

Judy Pace, a model and actress known for her roles in Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, has died. She was 83. The Brian’s Song actress’ daughters Shawn and Julia Pace Mitchell announced that their mother “died peacefully in her sleep” on Wednesday while visiting family in Marina Del Rey. Born June 15, 1942 in Los […]

Marking a return to big-budget comedy for Vince Vaughn, the time-travel action comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice premiered Saturday at SXSW, but it’s the ensemble cast that brings the laughs. In writer/director BenDavid Grabinski’s romp, Vaughn and James Marsden star as partners in organized crime, Nick and Mike. As their crime family […]

Ryan Gosling, who hosted last week’s Saturday Night Live, stayed in the Big Apple to return the favor to Harry Styles. Styles crashed Gosling’s opening monologue last week, appearing in the front row of Studio 8H as the Project Hail Mary star kicked off his aside. Tonight, Gosling was in 30 Rock to introduce Styles’ […]

Saturday Night Live again went with a cold open that skewered Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth for their lack of planning for the fallout from the war in Iran. Over the past week, as gas prices have shot up, the president has tried to offer a counter argument, while Hegseth has blamed the media for […]

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas have released their heartwarming, yet uneven cinematic duet with Power Ballad, which premiered Saturday at SXSW. In the John Carney-helmed film, which he co-wrote with star Peter McDonald, Rick (Rudd) is a wedding band frontman living in the quaint, picturesque setting of Ireland, where he settled down with a wife […]

Shorter seasons have reshaped the television landscape, controversially so. A trio of NBCUniversal development executives has mixed opinions. Financially, a longer season is a better model, said Vivian Cannon, EVP, Drama Development, Universal Television. “If you’re doing eight episodes, that means that everything you’re putting into your budget per episode is divided by eight, like […]

Another weekend and it’s another dust-up between Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom — this time about media censorship or control, depending on who you ask. As the former Apprentice host’s sycophantic FCC chair threatens outlets over their Iran War coverage, a golfing Trump took to his Truth Social feed Saturday to brag about how he […]

Donald Trump’s FCC chairman threatened broadcaster licenses and warned that news outlets should “course correct” before their renewals come up after the president blasted the media over their coverage of the Iran war. Brendan Carr wrote on X on Saturday, “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news […]

The Kennedy Center must provide one of its ex officio board members information on Donald Trump’s plans to close and renovate the arts institution, and to allow her to voice her opinion at the body’s upcoming meeting next week. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, in a ruling issued on Saturday, nevertheless declined to immediately rule […]

By rights, The Shaggs shouldn’t even be a footnote in the history of rock, pop or jazz. Their first and only real album, Philosophy of the World, came out in 1969 in an edition of just 1,000, paid for by their disciplinarian father, Austin Wiggin, who only bankrolled their endeavors because his mother, a palm […]

While many action films before have featured strong leading women, director Vicky Jewson takes on the genre through a darkly comedic, emotionally wrought female lens in Pretty Lethal, which premiered tonight at SXSW. In the Kate Freund-penned film, five young ballerinas and their coach head to a showcase in Budapest, only to get stranded in […]

Marco Grazzini is leaving Virgin River after six seasons to enter a “new chapter” in his career. The actor, who plays Mike Valenzuela, is departing the Netflix drama after Season 7. “Character departures are very common in this business—especially on a long-running and beloved series like Virgin River,” Grazzini said in a statement to Deadline. […]

Sarah Michelle Gellar was not always keen on reprising her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer after the series ended in 2003, following seven seasons. However, as Gellar has signed up to return to the Buffy-verse in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, she has reflected on never closing the door on the possibilities that may […]

The André Øvredal directed horror pic Passenger will now go on May 22, over Memorial Day weekend instead of May 29. The Melissa Leo-Jacob Scipio-Lou Llobell starring movie will now join the competitive, yet heavily traffic-ed weekend, against Disney/Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, NEON’s Boots Riley comedy I Love Boosters which world premiered last night […]

Jimmy Kimmel knows that publicists have a difficult job when their clients become the center of a scandal after making public remarks. Timothée Chalamet recently received backlash over his comments about ballet and opera, and Kimmel took a swipe at it during his acceptance speech at the 2026 ICG Publicists Awards. The late-night talk show […]

Donald Trump announced that Matt Floca has been tapped to serve as the executive director of the Kennedy Center, amid reports that Ric Grenell, who has led the arts institution for more than a year, would be exiting. Trump seemingly confirmed Grenell’s departure in a Truth Social post. Trump posted on Truth Social, “I am […]

We have a return date for the final six episodes of Brilliant Minds Season 2. The medical drama returns to the NBC schedule on Wednesday, May 27 at 8 pm, and will air in that timeslot going forward for the season’s final six episodes, the network announced Friday. Additionally, Ed Begley Jr. (Better Call Saul), […]

As SXSW 2026 picks up steam, Bleecker Street opens body horror satire prize-winner from last year’s fest, Slanted from writer-director Amy Wang, on 588 screens. Shirley Chen  (Dìdi) stars as Joan Huang, a high school outsider who idolizes in girls and dreams of being a prom queen with the help Ethnos, a mysterious cosmetic surgery […]

Come Sunday, the team behind Train Dreams will finally learn the results of their four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. And, for producer Ashley Schlaifer, it’s been a very long road to this moment. The Clint Bentley-directed film premiered at Sundance in 2025, was snapped up by Netflix and went on to win Best Feature, […]