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On Tuesday, Netflix offered a first look at Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!, a one-off comedy special hosted by Rob Lowe, saying that it will debut globally September 28. In the special, featuring some of the most famous films in cinematic history, along with a plethora of Hollywood A-listers, screenwriters, academics and critics, Lowe invites […]

“To those New Yorkers who have yet to meet me, I say this – you may not know me. But I know you,” the State of New York’s first female governor, Kathy Hochul, said in her debut public address after being officially sworn in early Tuesday. One of her favorite speeches, by Theodore Roosevelt, she […]

EXCLUSIVE: Writer and producer Lauren Ashley Smith (A Black Lady Sketch Show) is expanding her relationship with CBS Studios, signing an overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, Smith will be creating comedies for network/streaming on all platforms. Smith is currently writing and executive producing a U.S. remake of British comedy Timewasters for ABC […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tyson Ritter (Preacher, Lodge 49) has joined the cast of Prisoner’s Daughter, the latest film from director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen). He’ll appear in the family drama opposite previously announced cast members Brian Cox (Succession) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld). The film written by Mark Bacci tells the story of Max (Cox), a tough but proud ex-con, […]

The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to move forward a key part of President Joe Biden’s agenda: a massive, $3.5 trillion budget plan to expand social programs like Medicare, tackle climate change and fund pre-K and community college. But the narrow vote — 220 to 212 — signaled the tricky process facing the White […]

Chris Paul, an 11-time NBA All-Star with a sizable off-court portfolio, has joined “media flow management” software firm Greenfly as a strategic investor. Paul is described as a “power user” of Greenfly’s services, as a player as well as in his charity work and as former president of the NBA Players Association. He has also […]

Heading into the opening remarks of CinemaCon on Tuesday AM, Illumination Chairman and Despicable Me franchise producer Chris Melendandri gave an impassioned speech about moviegoing and why the big screen is vital. For without the big screen, there would be no streaming. The two go hand in-hand and it’s important for the small screen guys to know […]

Netflix’s Magic: the Gathering animated series has found its Gideon Jura in Brandon Routh (The Rookie, Arrow, Superman Returns). The series hails from executive producer Jeff Kline (Transformers: Prime) Routh announced his casting Tuesday morning over Netflix’s Geeked Twitter account, which also unveiled the series’ premiere year. “I’m Brandon Routh and I play Gideon in the […]

Social commentator Fran Lebowitz, known for being an endless source of witty and pointed observations about American life, has accrued a lot of fans over the decades. None bigger than filmmaker Martin Scorsese. “I admire her clarity and unequivocal stances,” Scorsese says of his friend in a statement provided to Deadline. “We need people to […]

EXCLUSIVE: In its latest push into the fast growing, red-hot crypto/NFT space, UTA has signed new client Rally and is working “to educate and inspire” creators, artists, celebrities and athletes to connect with fans on the platform. Rally, a fan engagement and monetization toolkit, is looking to expand more broadly in entertainment. UTA Marketing, the […]

HBO’s Lovecraft Country may take place in 1950s Jim Crow America, but the story didn’t just stay in one setting, which gave costume designer Dayna Pink a lot to work with. So much so that Pink isn’t nominated in a period costume category, instead she is nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes […]

NBCUniversal has promoted Will Gonzalez to EVP and Chief Data Officer, Direct-to-Consumer, and will charge him with overseeing Peacock’s global data strategy. Gonzalez was part of the team that launched Peacock in 2020, as SVP, Decision Sciences. In his new role, Gonzalez will lead a team of of data scientists, data engineers, data governance and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Logan Marshall-Green (How It Ends) is set as a new series regular — and a key character — in the upcoming second season of ABC’s Big Sky, opposite returning leads Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick. In Season 2 of the David E. Kelley series based on the books by C.J. Box, when private detectives […]

With the global film industry in a state of flux amidst unprecedented shifts in the production and distribution landscape, Tom Quinn’s indie label Neon isn’t just weathering the storm, it’s completely thriving. Currently in its fifth year of operation, the production and distribution company is quietly riding high after debuting three titles to critical acclaim […]

UPDATED: New York’s new governor Kathy Hochul said that she talked to President Joe Biden on Monday night, and “he pledged his full support to my administration and anything we need.” Minutes after she went through a ceremonial swearing in ceremony, Hochul said that her priorities including combating Covid, distributing relief payments and “changing the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Filipina actress and singer Lovi Poe (Malaya) is joining Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike) and Poppy Delevingne (Riviera) in director Ben Cookson’s The Chelsea Cowboy, based on the life of actor, gangster and lothario John Bindon. In her biggest English-language movie role to date, Poe will play British blues singer Dana Gillespie who employed Bindon […]

Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers has gotten off to a strong ratings start. As usual, no hard numbers are being released, but the high-profile limited series, starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, was the most-watched Hulu original ever — drama, comedy, limited series or unscripted — on premiere day as well as after five days on […]

Channel 4’s Chief Content Officer Ian Katz has used his spotlight session at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival to warn that privatization would “destroy” the channel. Katz made no bones about the potential changes to Channel 4 both on and off air: “It would be a very different beast to the Channel 4 we know […]

Ammonite, Apples, Promising Young Woman, Supernova, The Dig, The Father and The Mauritanian are among the first wave of movies recommended by a European Film Awards committee for nomination at this year’s event. A record number of movies have been suggested by the committee this year in light of the pandemic disruption. More than 40 […]

UK sales and distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has boarded worldwide rights to the documentary Once Upon A Time In Uganda, which is set to have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest next month. Set in the slums of Uganda, the film follows two men from opposite sides of the world who comes together over […]

Bill Clotworthy, the standards and practices exec lovingly referred to as “Dr. No” by the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live, died on Thursday in hospice, in Salt Lake City, UT. He was 95. The executive’s son, actor Robert Clotworthy, confirmed the news to Deadline. Born on Jan. 13, 1926, in Westfield, New Jersey, William Griffith Clotworthy […]

In June 2020 Disney announced that Splash Mountain, one of the mainstay rides at its U.S. parks whose theme was based on the Uncle Remus Br’er Rabbit story from the studio’s controversial 1946 film Song of the South, would be reimagined based on its more recent film The Princess and the Frog, which gave the […]

2ND UPDATE, 8:04 PM: Alyssa Milano took to TikTok on Monday to offer another update on her uncle Mitch Carp’s health status, sharing that he is “on life support.” Carp suffered a major heart attack while driving on a West Los Angeles highway on the morning of August 17. This led him to lose consciousness with […]

Sony, which was last seen at CinemaCon in 2018, brought the confab back to post(ish)-pandemic life today. Its President of the Motion Picture Group, Josh Greenstein, took center stage and reiterated the Culver City lot’s “commitment to protecting and preserving the theatrical window.” That drew a great roar from the Caesar’s Palace Colosseum crowd. Despite […]

Here’s something no one saw coming at CinemaCon, unless you could decipher the three-hour block Sony reserved for its presentation: The studio surprised those who braved the mid-pandemic Las Vegas confab tonight with a screening of Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife.  The pic hits theaters on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. In the follow-up to the classic 1984 […]