Новости за 21.06.2020

It’s been a quiet morning for President Donald Trump, who spent Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma at his first mass rally in months. But the Commander-in-Tweet took some time out to salute the nation’s fathers. Trump, of course, is the father of five, including Ivanka, Barron, Donald Jr., Tiffany, and Eric. In an earlier proclaimation, […]

UPDATE: The Trump campaign has issued a denial that pranksters held down Tulsa rally attendance. “Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. Parscale said registrations for the Tulsa rally were […]

Father’s Day has been around in some form since the Middle Ages, arriving officially in the US in 1910 as a proposal to honor men who lost their lives in a mining accident. The idea was taken up by Sonora Smart Dodd, who along with her five brothers were raised by her father alone and […]

After making a strong debut in Japan last weekend, Sony’s Little Women this session crossed the $100M mark at the international box office. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic tale now has an offshore cume of $101M and a global haul of $209M to date. The current frame was worth $475K from 12 overseas […]

12 Years A Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen has called out “blatant racism” in the UK’s film and TV industries. Writing in an op-ed for newspaper The Observer, the Oscar winner said he was tired of listening to excuses and hoping for action. He stated that the UK is “far behind” the U.S. in representing black […]

Tom Petty’s family issued a statement objecting to Donald Trump’s use of the song I Won’t Back Down at Saturday night’s rally, claiming that his campaign was not authorized to use it. “Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind,” […]

UPDATED, 7:44 PM: D.L. Hughley posted a video on social media tonight saying that he has been diagnosed with coronavirus and was being released from a Nashville hospital. The comic and activist, who had passed out during a stand-up set the night before, said he initially was being treated for “severe exhaustion and dehydration.” Hughley noted […]

Come as you are — leave with a multimillion-dollar ax. A guitar that Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert sold for a cool $6.01 million at auction Saturday. The price was more than 50% higher than any other guitar ever sold at an auction. The late singer-songwriter’s 1959 Martin D-18E, along with […]

Ansel Elgort, star of the upcoming HBO Max drama series Tokyo Vice and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake, has issued a statement after he was accused by a woman of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. The woman, who identified herself only as Gabby, released a lengthy statement on Twitter Friday with the […]

Donald Trump boasted of his administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis at his Tulsa rally on Saturday, but one comment quickly stood out amid concerns of holding such a large-scale event during the ongoing pandemic. The president told the crowd, “You know testing is a double-edged sword. We have tested now 25 million people. It is […]

Los Angeles County saw a spike in confirmed new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours, jumping by a near-record 2,056, according to health officials. They also reported 48 deaths, up from the 38 reported Friday. Those numbers bring the totals to 81,636 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across L.A. County and 3,110 deaths, according […]

Ever since Disney got its hands on Lucasfilm in 2012, a Boba Fett stand-alone movie was rumored to be in development, the last instance of which had Ford v. Ferrari filmmaker James Mangold attached to direct. Boba Fett the movie never came to be, but in the wake of Solo: A Star Wars Story fizzling […]

A Mamma Mia 3, could be in the cards down the road. Judy Craymer, who produced the combined $1 billion-plus-grossing feature films Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, as well as the original West End $4 billion-grossing ABBA musical, told the Daily Mail recently, “I think one day there will be another film, because there’s meant […]

In its first-ever chance to be part of Deadline’s Contenders Television event, Disney+ chose its original movie Togo to highlight in its panel session, with director-cinematographer Ericson Cole, writer Tom Flynn and star Willem Dafoe joining a virtual panel to discuss the imposing logistics of mounting this true-life family adventure about an extraordinary sled dog […]

Deadline’s Contenders Television, which just wrapped its nine-hour telecast, broke ground in multiple ways. An invitation-only event held annually at a large theater, it went virtual this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The live-streamed presentation also set a record with its largest roster of participants ever, 44 shows from 22 studios and networks. You […]

Will Arnett has become something of a cult icon in the Lego world thanks to his performance as Batman in The Lego Batman franchise. His latest creation is Lego Masters, a Fox competition series on which a group of contestants compete to come up with the craziest builds. “When Phil Lord and Chris Miller came […]

The Masked Singer’s latest season featured Sarah Palin as a bear, Rob Gronkowski as a white tiger and Lil Wayne as a robot. So, it’s somewhat surprising to hear executive producer Craig Plestis say that he wants to ratchet up the weirdness of the Fox mystery signing competition. “I want to increase the bonkers level […]

Half crime drama, half character study, Starz new series Hightown takes a dark, morally shaded genre usually populated by men and hands it to a woman. Created by showrunner Rebecca Cutter, that woman is jaded, fast-living National Marine Fisheries Service agent Jackie Quinones (Monica Raymund), whose hedonistic Provincetown lifestyle is thrown into disarray when she […]

As President Donald Trump was about to take the stage at his much publicized rally in an indoor arena in Tulsa, OK, the pre-media focus turned to empty seats and the cancellation plans for an outdoor speech for an overflow crowd. “Smaller than expected crowd trickles into Tulsa rally,” CNN’s chyron read on Saturday evening, […]

Growing in popularity and acclaim every year over its six-season run, Schitt’s Creek came to a truly happy ending with its nuptials-fueled series finale in April. However, for co-creator and star Daniel Levy, real satisfaction for the Pop TV show was to be found in staying true to itself. “Our biggest concern at the end […]

Certified legend Norman Lear joined EGOT winner Rita Moreno and producer/showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event for Pop TV’s One Day at a Time. The series got a new lease on life after Pop picked it up for a fourth season following Netflix’s cancellation of the series revival of Lear’s popular […]

The story of infamous New York City drug kingpin Bumpy Johnson aptly fit in Chris Brancato’s wheelhouse. The co-creator, showrunner and executive producers of Epix and Disney TV Studios’ Godfather Of Harlem penned the 1997 film Hoodlum, which centered on the early life of Johnson in the 1920s and ’30s. This time, he’s tackling Johnson’s […]

Often prophetically ahead of real-life realpolitik, Showtime’s Homeland came to a very insurgent end earlier this year after eight seasons. The series’ conclusion was both unconventional and satisfying, Emmy winner Claire Danes said during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event. “There was something subversive for us on ending with Carrie smiling,” the actor who portrayed brilliant […]