Shares in iHeartMedia jumped more than 35% on Friday following a report from Bloomberg that said the radio giant has started early talks with satellite radio’s SiriusXM to combine. Bloomberg reported that the merger talks […]
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Tom Cruise’s next movie is a comedy about the world’s most powerful man who decides to become humanity’s savior. Even Cruise’s admirers might wonder how this character will be welcomed by Trumped-out filmgoers who might […]
EXCLUSIVE: Industry veterans Jon Mason and David Lewis have launched Mason-Lewis Entertainment, a New York-based talent and literary management company repping artists across film, TV and theater. The pair previously worked together at Buchwald, where […]
They say you can’t go home again. But don’t tell that to Oscar winner John Ridley. The writer-director and co-host of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast returned to his hometown for the 18th annual Milwaukee Film Festival. […]
Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: Documentary event. The showcase, which took place April 18 at the PMC Theater in Los Angeles, featured five buzzy nonfiction titles in the middle […]
Legendary actor John Candy has been gone for more than three decades, but his children Jennifer Candy-Sullivan and Chris Candy are celebrating his life and body of work in the new documentary John Candy: I […]
When allowing cameras for the Fox Sports documentary You See L.A. into the lives of her players, UCLA women’s basketball head coach Cori Close, who just led the Bruins to a national championship, tried to […]
Fifty years ago this year, a film called Taxi Driver premiered, confirming the emergence of an incredible talent in the medium of cinema: director Martin Scorsese. Five decades after that milestone — and with dozens […]
Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin has now revitalized two horror franchises that both deal with the villainous undead. In both Evil Dead Rise and The Mummy, Cronin displays a curiosity for using these tropes to display […]
Universal used a portion of its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas on Wednesday to reveal the first trailer for Focker-in-Law, the latest installment in the Meet the Parents franchise and the first one since 2010. […]
Warner Bros. and DC have unveiled the first teaser from their body horror flick Clayface, only for those in the room at CinemaCon. In the trailer, we see a highly disfigured character with red eyes […]
The American Cinematheque’s This Is Not a Fiction festival, which kicks off this week in Los Angeles, has emerged as something truly special in the documentary exhibition space. The third edition of the event, running […]
Film Independent said Tuesday that Juan Devis, the producer and former chief creative officer at the Los Angeles media company behind public broadcasters PBS SoCal and KCET, has been named president of the nonprofit arts […]
Jason Reitman has been set to deliver the commencement address during this year’s graduation ceremony for the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The event, to take place May 15 at the Shrine Auditorium, will also […]
During its CinemaCon presentation Monday, Sony Pictures debuted the first trailer for Insidious: Out of the Further, the upcoming sixth installment in the horror franchise. Watch it above. The film bows on August 21. Amelia […]
20th Century Studios said Monday that it has acquired theatrical film rights to 99 Nights in the Forest, the popular action-survival game hosted on Roblox that was developed by Grandma’s Favourite Games. No writer or […]
Disney‘s shuffling of its communications team under new CEO Josh D’Amaro and his communications chief Paul Roeder continues. On Friday, the company said that Nastasya Morauw, VP, Communications & Awards at Disney’s Searchlight Pictures, is […]
The 2026 Coachella Music and Arts Festival kicks off Friday, the start of two weekends of music in the Southern California desert that will include headlining performances by Sabrina Carpenter on Friday, Justin Bieber on […]
Even as Ryan Gosling launched his “Hail Mary” and Super Mario re-discovered his “Galaxy,” the bets were piling up on Kalshi: Which movie would win the summer? Or would there be a winner at all? […]
Disney is planning to lay off as many as 1,000 employees over the next few months, Deadline has confirmed, the first cuts to come from the entertainment giant since naming its new CEO Josh D’Amaro. […]
CPH:DOX has become one of the world’s most important documentary film festivals, and it’s only becoming more influential each year. The just-wrapped 2026 edition unveiled more than 50 world premieres alone and welcomed many of […]
PBS and HBO were among the platforms with multiple mentions Tuesday in the first batch of nominations revealed for the 86th annual Peabody Awards, which honor the year’s most captivating and impactful stories across broadcasting […]
The video spread at a velocity only social media can generate. Missiles rained down on the USS Abraham Lincoln, blasting fighter jets into the sea, the vessel breaking apart in a dramatic fireball — shared […]
Pro golf star Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover crash Friday near his home in Jupiter, FL, and was arrested on the scene for suspicion of driving under the influence. Woods, 50, was uninjured […]
As new leaders assume power in Hollywood, the town is trying to deal with their operating styles. “Why are you bothering me?” That was Jack Warner’s usual way of opening a meeting in a previous […]
UPDATED with more details: Netflix has raised the monthly subscription prices across its three major tiers, the second hike at the streamer since the beginning of last year. The new pricing bumps the fee to […]
It took a lot of guts for Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche to create a dance and theater piece that called for her to perform strenuous and complicated choreography in front of a live audience […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday revealed recipients of the 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, with three individuals and two writing teams selected for the annual honor. This year’s batch of […]
The series Yellowjackets, Paradise, Baylen Out Loud and All Her Fault, Hedda director Nia DaCosta, The Pitt‘s Katherine LaNasa, I Love LA‘s Rachel Sennott, CNN’s Abby Phillip and podcasts from Oprah Winfrey, Jameela Jamil and […]
Searchlight Pictures on Thursday rolled out the trailer for Wild Horse Nine, the new film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. It marks his first feature film since The Banshees of Inisherin, which was nominated […]
The documentary community is still absorbing the win by Mr. Nobody Against Putin at the Academy Awards on Sunday. The film didn’t exactly “come out of nowhere” to claim the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, but Netflix’s The […]
An incident at the end of the 98th Oscars involving One Battle After Another star and Best Supporting Actress nominee Teyana Taylor and a security guard has gotten the attention of the Academy of Motion […]
Welcome to the 98th Oscars. Unlike recent years, when there was little suspense and lower ratings, this has most everything one could hope for. There are big commercial films in the Best Picture race, and wide-open […]
While compulsively watching The Sopranos on HBO 20 years ago, I never imagined that the network itself soon would become corporate bounty. As such it was conquered successively by AT&T, Discovery, Warners and Paramount+. The […]
Harry Styles is both host and musical guest on this week’s Saturday Night Live, but he lost out on at least 15 minutes of rehearsal time if you go by the NBC late-night show’s promo. […]
The southern Italian city of Naples is built on history – a modern metropolis atop ancient ruins from Roman times. That sheer breadth of time lends a kind of stability to the place, and yet […]