Новости за 25.03.2020

The lights in late night continue to come back on. CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the first late-night show to start daily online videos following the industry-wide production shutdown, is the first broadcast late-night talker to resume airing original episodes starting on Monday, March 30. Colbert just made the announcement on Twitter. “I’m […]

Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an […]

EXCLUSIVE, Updated: AMC Theatres has issued a statement in regards to the news today that it has furloughed 600 employees at its headquarter in Leawood, KS, including CEO Adam Aron. Essentially, if the biggest chain is going to make a comeback and be available to its employees when this 2 1/2-month planned closure ends, it […]

AT&T said starting tomorrow it will offer premium video content for free to subscribers that don’t have channels like Starz, Epix, HBO and Cinemax. The move comes as AT&T’s WarnerMedia, where these networks live, is set to launch new streaming service HBO Max on a still unspecified date in May. It has been counting on […]

Deadline has confirmed all The Mandalorian season 2 noise out there: Michael Biehn has joined, with stand-up comedian Bill Burr returning as his season one character of Imperial sharpshooter-turned-mercenary Mayfield. Biehn, a vet of such movies as The Terminator, Planet Terror, Tombstone and Aliens is reportedly playing a bounty hunter from protag Mando’s past. Burr’s Mayfield worked with Mando on a […]

2ND UPDATE, 12: 50 PM: Three more people have died of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County in the past 24 hours, local officials said in their daily update today, bringing the total to 13. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of Public Health for L.A. County, also said that 138 new cases were reported since Tuesday’s update. […]

Two months ago, after striking out again and again, lawyers for Bill Cosby filed yet another motion to get the man once labeled “America’s Dad” out of prison for the 2004 rape of a Temple University employee. Now, the accelerating spread of the coronavirus may achieve for Cosby what the courts would not grant. “Nothing […]

Joe Biden held his first virtual press conference with reporters on Wednesday, and while he used the opportunity to criticize President Donald Trump for a slow response to the coronavirus crisis, he also chimed in on an issue that has faded from the headlines — the Democratic primary. Asked by a reporter if he planned […]

Democratic presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden has been accused of being out of the limelight as the coronavirus pandemic shuts down the country. So his handlers said set ’em up, Joe, and scheduled a whirlwind of video appearances. So far, they’ve spotlighted his famous knack for stumbling into word salad. Fresh off an […]

Jimmy Fallon gets a little help from his family and music guest John Legend in the latest #FallonAtHome segment of the Tonight Show. His charity of the day is Feeding America, a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and more. […]

Singer/songwriter Jackson Browne has revealed he has the coronavirus and has self-quarantined. The 71-year-old artist said he obtained testing when he had a cough and temperature, and is now resting at his Los Angeles home. Speaking to Deadline’s sister publication Rolling Stone, Browne seemed in good spirits. “My symptoms are really pretty mild, so I don’t […]

Manu Dibango, who brought African rhythms to Western popular music through his 1972 hit Soul Makossa, died from complications of the coronavirus, according to his official Facebook page. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the loss of Manu Dibango, our Papy Groove, who passed away on 24th of March 2020, at 86 years […]

Dr. Ian Lipkin, a frequent television guest and the medical consultant on the pandemic thriller Contagion, has tested positive for the coronavirus. .Lipkin leads Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity. He revealed his condition today while appearing on Fox Business from his home. “If it can hit me, it can hit anybody,” Lipkin said. […]

SPOILER ALERT:  This story contains details about the Season 4 finale of This Is Us. When This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman was writing tonight’s Season 4 finale, no one from the show had any idea that it would air during a global pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 17,000 people worldwide. […]

The atmosphere on Capitol Hill during the past week has been one of increased caution: Absent are visiting tourists and many congressional staffers. For members of the media who remain, the past couple of days have been especially tense and even surreal: They are trying to cover a massive, unprecedented $1-trillion-plus coronavirus relief bill at […]

Fans of Danai Gurira were sad to see her leave The Walking Dead on Sunday. They said goodbye to the katana-wielding badass Michonne, but she probably received the best goodbye from her former co-star Andrew Lincoln who said farewell with a special song. In a video on the official Walking Dead Instagram account, Lincoln — who played […]

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has a brand-new asset, albeit one that’s been around for nearly half a century. The former Microsoft CEO has agreed to pay $400 million to purchase the Forum in Inglewood from MSG. The deal clears a big hurdle in Ballmer’s plans to build a new arena for his NBA […]

UPDATED with vote results, 7:10 PM: The SAG-AFTRA National Board has voted overwhelmingly to approve a resolution giving its 38-person executive committee the authority to take actions on behalf of the board during “this time of extraordinary national emergency,” the guild said tonight. The resolution passed with 93.73% voting yes against 6.27% no votes. More […]

Discovery is the latest big media company to withdraw financial guidance and boost its cash cushion in uncertain times, tapping $500 million of a $2.5 billion revolving credit facility to “maximize flexibility in light of the current uncertainty” surrounding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its operations. Discovery is one media company with deep pockets, including […]

It’s been less than two weeks since, in the span of 48 hours, virtually all TV production ground to a holt amid fast escalating coronavirus outbreak. After the initial shock and while continuing to deal with the ongoing health crisis, Hollywood TV studios are starting to settle matters stemming from the unprecedented production shutdown. I […]