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It’s times like these that we need “Great Moments in Presidential Leadership.” In the meantime, Trevor Noah posted a clip from tonight’s The Daily Social Distancing Show to remind his viewers that “what we have here is failure to communicate.” Seated again at his home, Noah spent time talking about how the faithful celebrated Easter […]

Even by neo-presidential standards, Monday’s White House briefing on the coronavirus outbreak was a humdinger. As some news organizations grapple with whether to show Donald Trump’s daily updates live, CNN today took the game to the player with some choices onscreen words during the presser. As #TrumpMeltdown trended at No. 1 on Twitter well into […]

Drive-ins continued to hang on stateside as we weathered our fourth weekend of a coast-to-coast — let’s be honest, global — theatrical shutdown. About 25 drive-ins booked DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour, and among the grosses we could get our hands on (as Universal isn’t reporting numbers), the weekend looked to be north of $60K led […]

The DGA-Producer Pension and Health Plans has eliminated premiums for three months on COBRA health insurance coverage for participants whose coverage expires June 30. “Recognizing the shutdown of production in mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak will impact participants losing eligibility July 1, 2020,” the DGA statement said, “the board of trustees of the Directors […]

When ABC and Bob Iger asked High School Musical director Kenny Ortega to participate in the April 16 special, The Disney Family Singalong, he was immediately on board. “I wanted to find something I can do to participate and it was so great to be given the call and invited by ABC to join,” Ortega told Deadline. […]

All four members from the fictional band The Wonders from the 1996 movie That Thing You Do! will reunite for a livestream on Friday to help raise money for a COVID-19 relief fund and to pay tribute to Adam Schlesinger, who wrote the title song. Tom Everett Scott, who played drummer Guy Patterson; Johnathon Schaech, […]

ABC has announced a slew of A-list performers added to the lineup for The Disney Family Singalong Thursday on ABC. Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Alan Menken, Elle Fanning, Josh Groban, Darren Criss, Tori Kelly and Marcus Scribner join the casts of of High School Musical, Descendants, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Zombies, […]

One year after the WGA ordered thousands of its members to fire their agents in a dispute over packaging fees and agency-related production entities, neither side shows any signs they are willing to give in. At least where it comes to the four biggest packaging agencies – WME, CAA, UTA and ICM Partners – writers […]

Walt Disney said Monday it’s entered into a new $5 billion, one-year credit agreement. That follows $6 billion the company raised last month with a sale of debt securities. The current agreement matures in April of 2021 and could be extended for a year. It provides for advances to be made for a year to […]

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that […]