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Affinity Partners, the firm founded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, will no longer be a part of the group of investors backing Paramount’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, a source confirmed on Tuesday. “With ​two ​strong competitors ​vying to secure ​the future ​of this ​unique American ​asset, ​Affinity ​has ​decided no longer to pursue ​the opportunity. We ​continue to ​believe ​there...

Local TV station owner E.W. Scripps said Tuesday that its board of directors has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid by larger rival Sinclair Inc. Scripps, whose assets also include the Ion broadcast network, said the board’s decision was unanimous. It followed Sinclair’s disclosure last month that it had taken an...

Producer John Davis tells all on this week’s Crew Call podcast, going back to his early beginnings of the business, his oil tycoon father Marvin Davis who owned 20th Century Fox from 1981-1984, his days as a Fox production exec of low-budget films, his mentor Frank Capra, and more. What...

Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow saw a jump in attendance and grosses last week, no doubt spurred by the hoopla generated by last month’s highly rated arrival of the TV series’ Season 5. For the week ending December 14, the Broadway prequel filled about 99% of seats at the...

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, the filmmakers behind this year’s horror smash Final Destination Bloodlines, are in final talks to direct sci-fi drama The Traveler for Paramount, sources tell Deadline. Lipovsky and Stein are taking over the reins on the Skydance project from Lee Isaac Chung, who as we...

Jacobi Jupe is set to join Scarlett Johansson in the next installment of the iconic horror franchise, The Exorcist, from writer-director Mike Flanagan. The film will tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to The Exorcist: Believer. It is produced by Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Morgan Creek Entertainment and...

EXCLUSIVE: Universal, we understand, is pulling the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster sci-fi thriller Soulm8te from its Jan. 9 release calendar next year. We hear that the studio is shopping the Kate Dolan directed movie, which was originally billed as being connected to the M3GAN universe. While that first 2022 PG-13...

Every year, the Academy members vote to create a shortlist of eligible films in certain categories. Crafts take up a good portion of the 12 categories that make up the shortlist, especially with this year’s addition of the cinematography and casting categories. 16 films advanced in the cinematography category, with...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Apple Original Films and Warner Bros’ F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski from a script by Kosinski and Ehren Kruger. Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem and Kerry Condon star. The pic has been taking...

Rob Reiner’s son could face death for his parents’ murder or spend the rest of his life behind bars The L.A. County District Attorney today announced Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first degree murder for the alleged killing of his parents. if found guilty, the younger...

Netflix and filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir scored big as the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature was released this morning. Netflix landed three films on the shortlist of documentaries that will continue in the race for an Oscar nomination: The Perfect Neighbor, directed by Geeta Gandbhir; Cover-Up, directed by Oscar winner...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has whittled down a field of 86 eligible films for this year’s Best International Feature Film Oscar to a shortlist of 15 — see the list below. The group now will advance to the next round of voting to determine the eventual...

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is getting into the crime scene cleanup business. The broadcast network is developing a one-hour drama in the space from We Were Liars writer Noah Rose Keeling and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies showrunner Annabel Oakes. Spotless comes from Universal Television. It follows chaotic cool mom Bridget...

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Kodjoe (Station 19, Code Black) will star and produce the Lifetime movie Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love alongside Garcelle Beauvais, who also executive produces. Additionally, Lela Rochon (Any Given Sunday) and Vaughn W. Hebron (Reasonable Doubt) will reprise their roles from the original film, Tempted by Love....

EXCLUSIVE: Seven Sisters, the FX drama pilot with a stacked cast led by Elizabeth Olsen, has received a series order. The project, from writer Will Arbery, director Sean Durkin and producer Garrett Basch, also stars newly minted Emmy winner Cristin Milioti (The Penguin), Odessa Young (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere),...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has enlisted Girls Trip scribe Tracy Oliver to adapt The Wedding Date from New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory, with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set to produce for Archewell, alongside Tracy Ryerson. The Wedding Date sees a chance elevator encounter on the part of a career-driven...

Donald Trump chimed in again on 60 Minutes, CBS and Paramount, this time complaining that the newsmagazine has treated him “far worse” since the David Ellison-led takeover of the company. He wrote on Truth Social, “For those people that think I am close with the new owners of CBS, please...

EXCLUSIVE: Gianni Paolo has signed with Atlas Artists for management representation. Paolo is best known for his role as Brayden Weston on the Starz hit series Power and its spin-off Power Book II: Ghost, which recently concluded its run after four seasons. The Providence, Rhode Island, native was a standout...

Could Netflix close the deal again? On Tuesday, “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters made the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song. The chart-topping song from the streamer’s most-watched movie ever is performed by HUNTR/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami). Given the film and song’s following, this one poses a serious...

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing BadAsstronauts, the 2022 novella from top genre author Grady Hendrix, for film, with Todd Garner and Adam Goldworm to produce and Hendrix to exec produce. The novella is described as a blue-collar space odyssey about a washed-up astrophysicist who decides, against all logic and common...

Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner’s son was a no-show in court this morning, but Nick Reiner will face murder charges later today from the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Retained to defend the younger Reiner, former Harvey Weinstein and Karen Read lawyer Alan Jackson said Monday that his new client...

EXCLUSIVE: Three agents are departing Verve amid restructuring, Deadline has learned. According to multiple well-placed sources, longtime TV lit agent Chase Northington has been laid off, with MP lit agents Sara Nestor and Viviane Telio set to depart after not having their contracts picked up. It’s not yet clear on...

Wicked: For Good and Sinners lead the list of those films shortlisted in 12 Oscar categories today, making them the only feature films to make every list in which they were eligible — seven — including Best Song, where both films have two entries each making the final 15 hopefuls....

EXCLUSIVE: The Producers Guild is expanding access to its Set Etiquette Training program via a new collaboration with the Hollywood Commission. The program, which provides harassment-prevention training to participating productions for free, was previously only offered to to independent U.S.-based productions with at least 20 cast and crew members. Through...

Amazon has ordered its latest YA turn. The streamer has handed a greenlight to a series adaptation of The Probability of Miracles based on Wendy Wunder’s eponymous novel. It comes after Prime Video enjoyed success with other YA series such as The Summer I Turned Pretty, which wrapped its third and final...

Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw will feature Alden Ehrenreich (Weapons), Patrick Ball (HBO Max’s The Pitt) and three-tie Tony nominee Linda Emond in starring roles, producer Second Stage Theater announced today. Directed by Trip Cullman, Becky Shaw begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 18, 2026, with...

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Stern has been cast as a series regular opposite Rachel Bloom and Rory Scovel in ABC‘s half-hour pilot Do You Want Kids?. The single-camera comedy, from 20th Television, is about a married couple, Rosie (Bloom) and Alex Zilbalodis (Scovel), who in one universe have a baby and the...

EXCLUSIVE: Tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios launched his video podcast series Good Trouble last year with guests including Gordon Ramsay and Mike Tyson. The series, which was produced by Naomi Osaka’s company Hana Kuma, launched on YouTube. It is now returning for a second season and a new home. The...

The original 2009 Avatar sits on top of the boxoffice heap having made $2.9 billion, nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture and winning three. It took 13 years to get the second edition, 2022’s Avatar: The Way Of Water but that gap was barely felt, the sequel taking in...

Howard Stern announced this morning that he has extended his contract with SiriusXM for another three years. The radio host revealed the news live on The Howard Stern Show. A company spokesperson confirmed the contract extension but did not provide any additional details. In 2020, Stern re-upped for five years...

Susie Figgis, the renowned British casting director who worked on a veritable roll call of movie classics from Gandhi to The Killing Fields, and The Full Monty to Harry Potter, has died aged 77. Figgis started out on iconic British hits but also went on to cast blockbusters such as...

The BBC could be required to launch a Netflix-style subscription service or carry adverts under radical reforms being considered by the UK government. In a policy paper setting out a vision for the BBC’s next charter, ministers said they wanted to keep the licence fee, but reform and reduce the...

Numerous scandals and the recent resignation of the Director General should not “color” the BBC’s crucial charter renewal negotiations, the UK Culture Minister has told Deadline as he fired the starting gun on a green paper that will set the corporation up for the next decade. The government’s just-published green...

Rowan Woods is stepping down as Creative Director of the Edinburgh TV Festival after two years. The news comes a few weeks after the fest launched a consultaton that could see it move away from its Edinburgh home for the first time in 50 years. Woods said: “After two successful...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled its full lineup including for its main Tiger Competition. The Tiger contenders include U.S. director Charlotte Glynn’s The Gymnast, Georgian director Ana Urushadze’s Supporting Role and Yellow Cake by Brazilian filmmaker Tiago Melo, who is best known internationally as a producer, with...

EXCLUSIVE: Wicked’s Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are in early planning stages to reunite in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George, to be directed by multiple Tony Award and Olivier Award recipient Marianne Elliott in London in 2027, Deadline has learned. There are...

EXCLUSIVE: A sequel to hit feature documentary Human Forever is in production. Human II Forever will be released in 2026. Human Forever became the most-watched human interest documentary in Dutch cinema history. Produced and directed by Jonathan de Jong, it zeroed in on humanitarian activist Teun Toebes’ three-year journey around...

The UK government has fired the starting gun on BBC charter renewal, a once-in-a-decade review of the broadcaster’s funding and operating agreement. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy will today publish a “green paper” setting out potential reforms of the BBC, which will form the backbone of a public consultation. The paper...

“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night,” Michelle Obama said of Rob and Michele Reiner on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight. The Reiners were found slain from apparent knife wounds in their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon. Late last night, the Reiners’ 32-year-old son Nick was arrested by...

On Sunday night, filmmaker/actor Rob Reiner was found dead in his Brentwood home alongside his wife, Michele Singer. In the hours since, many in Hollywood and around the world have spoken in tribute to Reiner, who delivered many acclaimed films in his time, including “A Few Good...

While he is remembered mostly for his movie classics like This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men and The American President, Rob Reiner also was largely responsible for a TV classic, the 1989 NBC comedy series Seinfeld. A...

The worlds of entertainment and politics have been mourning iconic director-actor Rob Reiner and wife Michele Reiner after the couple’s killing yesterday, with tributes pouring in from former collaborators, friends and governmental figures. Now, late-night figures are adding to the chorus of voices, honoring the Oscar-nominated multi-hyphenate, who left an...

Netflix has effectively cancelled its military coming-of-age comedy-drama series “Boots,” the final show of legendary producer Norman Lear, ending as a one-and-done on the streamer. The verdict has been announced more than two months after the eight-episode first season was released on the platform. The show launched...

EXCLUSIVE: Dharma Productions is relaunching its talent agency after officially splitting with Cornerstone. The Karan Johar- and Adar Poonawalla-led Dharma confirmed it has acquired Cornerstone’s stake in Dharma Cornerstone Agency and is relaunching the business as Dharma Collab Artists Agency (DCAA), which will operate across, film, music, sports, digital media...

Much like the darkly comic material in Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, North American distributor Neon is getting in on the fun with a special free screening geared toward “all Fortune 500 CEOs.” In the latest example of outside-the-box marketing, the indie film production company noted it was happy to...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has opted not to order a second season of military coming-of-age comedy-drama Boots, the last show from legendary producer Norman Lear. The news comes more than two months after the eight-episode first season was released on the platform. From what I hear, this was not a straightforward cancellation....

Donald Trump swore he was going to sue the BBC over its self-admitted “error of judgement” the UK public broadcaster displayed in edits for a 2024 documentary on the January 6 insurrection, and on Monday he really did. For more than $5 billion. “This action concerns a false, defamatory, deceptive,...

The 1992 courtroom drama A Few Good Men goes down as Rob Reiner’s highest-grossing movie at $243 million worldwide, but also his most Oscar nominated with four. Featuring a knockout ensemble including Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, stand-up comedian Kevin Pollak in a breakout serious role, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Christopher...

Amazon has announced that the second season of its “Fallout” TV series is going early. The season premiere of the new run will now launch tomorrow, Tuesday December 16th, at 6pm US-PT. That’s a day earlier than the previously announced December 17th release. Whereas the first season...

EXCLUSIVE: Linear channel and streaming service MGM+ is developing a period hourlong series from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, Deadline has learned. Set in 1950s Los Angeles, the noir drama centers on a private investigator dealing with crime and dirty cops in the shadow of glamorous Hollywood, I hear....

EXCLUSIVE: Dances With Films on Monday revealed its lineup for the 2026 New York edition of the festival, set for January 15-18 at the Regal Union Square in Manhattan. The cinematic event will open with Vindicta, directed by Dominik Sedlar, a thriller-drama inspired by true events from World War II....

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics is set to release Perfect Chinglish, the debut stand-up special of Cat Ce, on December 23rd. Filmed at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club in Las Vegas, the 44-minute special highlights Ce’s perspective as a Chinese American navigating culture, language, identity, dating, and her rise in Hollywood. In addition...

Is she playing the Phantasm, Poison Ivy, Vicky Vale, or someone else entirely? Find out below...

The studio just landed an interesting director to tackle a wild tale about the NBA great.

Actors from 'Fallout,' 'Superbad,' and 'Workaholics' are also part of the ensemble cast.

A bootleg of the first of four “Avengers: Doomsday” ‘year to go’ teaser trailers has leaked online and the strategy that Marvel is employing has seemingly been revealed. As previously reported, four teasers are being played in front of copies of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” with the...

AMC is developing a TV series adaptation of the iconic 1991 Kathryn Bigelow-directed action film “Point Break” The original remains a hallmark of the action genre, a film full of iconic lines and scenes combined with a well-aging respect for its strong filmmaking fundamentals. Patrick Swayze, Keanu...

Disney Pictures is in early development of a new live-action film centered on the “Beauty and the Beast” villain character Gaston. The character, who first appeared in Disney’s original 1992 animated classic, is an arrogant and ruthless hunter infatuated with the beauty Belle who has no affection...

Netflix has acquired a pitch for a film adaptation of the upcoming action-strategy sandbox game “Kingmakers” which is being developed by 21 Laps and Story Kitchen. Redemption Road Games developed and tinyBuild will publish the game which boasts massive, real-time simulated battles and is set in medieval...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Candice Guardino has inked a deal for Comedy Dynamics to release her debut special, Italian Bred, on January 27, 2026. Inspired by true events, the show follows Candice as she slips into multiple characters, including her brassy grandmother, taking audiences on a journey through her childhood as part...

Sally Struthers, the Gloria Stivic to Rob Reiner’s Michael “Meathead” Stivic on All in the Family, weighed on the latter’s death telling Deadline, “There are no words. This is beyond devastating and my heart is with their family.”  Struthers starred in 157 of 202 episodes of CBS’ All in the...

EXCLUSIVE: Meta Golding (Ransom Canyon, Rabbit Hole), Luke Tennie (Shrinking, Abbott Elementary), Christopher Thornton (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Travis Van Winkle (Fubar, You) are set for recurring roles in HBO Max’s hit medical drama The Pitt for Season 2. From creator R. Scott Gemmill and producer John Wells, The Pitt chronicles the urgent challenges U.S....

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is already declaring the success of Sheriff Country‘s fall debut after the series grew its audience for seven consecutive weeks following its October premiere. The series has delivered around 6.24M viewers per episode on Friday nights, according to live + same-day data from Nielsen, consistently winning its 8...

Lionsgate has premiered one final trailer for filmmaker Paul Feig’s new thriller “The Housem aid” which opens in cinemas this Friday. Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone, and Elizabeth Perkins star in the film, which plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an...

Magnolia Pictures has premiered the teaser trailer for the Bob Odenkirk-led action feature “Normal”. Odenkirk plays Ulysses, a man who comes to the sleepy town of Normal to serve as the temporary sheriff after the passing of the original sheriff. A bank robbery in Normal leads Ulysses...

Peacock has premiered the trailer for its upcoming Cold War set series “Ponies” starring Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) and Haley Lu Richardson (“The White Lotus”) and set in Moscow in 1977. In the series two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) work anonymously as...

NEON and Cweature Features have premiered the trailer for the Adam Scott-led “Hokum” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year. Scott plays a reclusive novelist who retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, but the staff’s tales of an ancient...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Bugonia, Focus Features’ dark social satire written by The Menu and Succession scribe Will Tracy and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. The film premiered at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and has since been nominated...

Less than a day after Rob Reiner and his wife were slain in their LA home, Donald Trump has attacked The American President director. In fact, Trump doubled down today on the killing of Reiner, attacking the acclaimed filmmaker who the LAPD say was murdered by one of his sons....

Netflix has appointed Dani Dudeck, a former senior exec at Instacart, Zynga and MySpace, as chief communications officer. Dudeck will assume her new duties in mid-January, she wrote on LinkedIn. Rachel Whetstone, former chief communications officer, left the company in October 2024. The tech veteran had been with the company...

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein lead honorees for tjhe American Cinematheque’s 5th annual Tribute to the Crafts, which will take place January 16, 2026 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Sinners is being honored for both Francine Maisler’s casting and Ludwig Göransson’s music score. Frankenstein also will...

The LAPD plans to present its conclusions in the killing of Rob and Michele Reiner to the L.A. County District Attorney’s office tomorrow. At the same time, with the director’s son Nick Reiner in custody for murder, the police have changed the suspect’s status to no bail. “As a result...

Laura Fernández Espeso has exited Spanish production giant Mediapro after nearly a year as General Director. Less than year since she was promoted from CEO of The Mediapro Studio, Espeso is leaving by mutual agreement as part of a management restructure that will see former Movistar Plus+ chief Sergio Oslé...

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of our scoop that John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, two of today’s most in-demand studio filmmakers, will write, direct and produce a new Star Trek movie for Paramount, we’ve learned that the duo has signed with WME for representation in all areas. No word...

Oscar-nominated Macedonian director Tamara Kotevska’s Man Vs Flock, about an elderly farmer fighting to remain on land earmarked for a new highway, has won one of the top prizes at the Les Arcs Film Festival’s Industry Village. The drama was among 12 upcoming films presented in a Work in Progress...

EXCLUSIVE: Disney looks to be taking one of its iconic villains and giving it the live-action spin as sources tell Deadline the studio is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston. Dave Callaham is writing the script with Michelle Rejwan...

AMC Networks has promoted two members of its communications team. The company has upped Kathryn Brenner and Stephen Cox to SVPs, Publicity. The pair will help lead publicity and talent relations strategies across the company’s brands, which include cable networks AMC, BBC America, IFC and Sundance TV and streaming services...

Cozy crime hit Bright Minds – aka Astrid et Raphaëlle – and a doc about the painstaking rebuild of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris have taken top honors at France’s TV Export awards. French producers and distribs are building a rep around the world for cozy crime shows. The drama...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Paramount Pictures’ Roofman. Co-written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, the film is a deeply nuanced and entertaining look at the unbelievable true story of real-life thief Jeffrey Manchester, played by Channing Tatum. While the crime...

After hitting it big in Hollywood with projects like Silicon Valley and The Big Sick — first, an actor, and then behind the camera — Kumail Nanjiani’s career has come full circle. For the first time in a decade, he’s returned to his roots in stand-up, tackling his first proper...

Genie Francis, who played General Hospital‘s Laura to Anthony Geary’s Luke as one of the great supercouple’s in soap opera history, recalled her former co-star in an emotional post on X. “He spoiled me for leading men for the rest of my life,” Francis writes in a four-part response to...

I found myself this morning typing the words “Rob Reiner Appreciation” and first, not believing I have to do this on such a sad occasion, but also due to the irony I felt because as a huge fan of this man and his work I have often felt he was...

EXCLUSIVE: Zachary Hart (Slow Horses) has been cast as a series regular in Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed. He joins previously cast leads Toby Wallace and Lola Petticrew in the live-action series based on Ubisoft’s best-selling video game franchise. Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two...

EXCLUSIVE: Surf’s up! Point Break, one of the most iconic films of the 1990s, is getting the TV treatment. AMC is developing a small-screen series based on the 1991 film that starred Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The series comes from David Kalstein, who recently worked...

EXCLUSIVE: Adolpho Veloso, the acclaimed Brazilian cinematographer who shot Trains Dreams, Clint Bentley’s beautifully realized adaptation of Denis Johnson’s elegiac novella starring Joel Edgerton, says that the picture’s Pacific Northwest locations reminds him of his homeland.  It was where he filmed Leandro Lara’s Rodantes in the southwestern Amazonian region of Rondônia, a belt of...

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu and A24 have tapped three more for series regular roles in their new drama series, The Spot: Macon Blair (Blue Ruin), Daveed Diggs (Hamilton), and Michael Patrick Thornton (Waiting for Godot). Character details are under wraps. As previously announced, Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor lead the series from...

The writers behind the adapted screenplays of the films Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Peter Hujar’s Day and Train Dreams have been nominated for the 38th annual Scripter Awards. This year’s TV nominees are the scribes and authors behind Dark Winds, Death by Lightning, Dept. Q, Slow Horses and...

EXCLUSIVE: Gabe Hordos, an animator who has worked on movies such as How To Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda, launched his own animated short film The Old Knight on YouTube last year. But it wasn’t until Hordos started working with A.I. company Chronicle Studios that he started to...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively bought a feature pitch based on the highly anticipated action-strategy sandbox game, Kingmakers, developed by Redemption Road Games and published by tinyBuild. Christopher MacBride is adapting the script. Securing the film rights to the game was a coup for Netflix, which leveraged its creative partnership with...

EXCLUSIVE: Talent Manager Andrew Lee has departed 3 Arts Entertainment to launch management and production company Combo Breaker. Lee tells Deadline that the company “will focus on the intersection of the traditional and the new entertainment landscape, making bold choices on new ideas, whether in film, streaming, experiential, or digital.”...

Anthony Geary, an eight-time Daytime Emmy winner who portrayed one-half of General Hospital‘s iconic soap opera supercouple Luke and Laura, died Sunday in the Netherlands following an operation three days earlier. His death was reported by his husband Claudio Gama to TV Insider. “It was a shock for me and...

EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine McGraw, one of the breakout stars of Universal and Blumhouse’s supernatural horror franchise The Black Phone, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Directed by Scott Derrickson from scripts written with C. Robert Cargill, The Black Phone films adapt the short story by Joe Hill from...

EXCLUSIVE: SPOILER ALERT! IT: Welcome to Derry completed its first season on HBO and HBO Max last night. The ambitious origin story spinoff of the creepy murderous clown was set in 1962, with Bill Skarsgard returning in the title role of the sewer-dwelling kid-killing clown. There are ’60s touchstones, including...

EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment on Monday announced their signing of Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, and host Michael Yo for representation. Earning a Daytime Emmy nomination for his work co-hosting The Insider for CBS, Yo has also been seen hosting Scrambled Up, the family-friendly game show created by Cleve Keller and Dave...

EXCLUSIVE: International Emmy-nominated Brazilian actress Grazi Massafera will play Fernanda Giannasi in José Eduardo Belmonte’s upcoming film about the Brazilian activist. Giannasi has been dubbed the “Brazilian Erin Brockovich” for her courageous fight for the rights of workers, leading a movement that helped lead to asbestos being banned in the...

The Voice’s two-night live finale is getting a preshow hosted by Ariana Madix and Dylan Efron. Madix, the Vanderpump Rules star who also hosts Peacock’s Love Island USA, and Efron, who recently appeared on Peacock’s The Traitors, are hosting the episode, which will air in between its two-part finale on Tuesday...

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Craig, the rising genre filmmaker who directed and co-wrote the cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. Marking Craig’s feature directorial debut, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil premiered at Sundance and went on to win the SXSW Audience Award before...

Following the success of Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Special Reunion special, CBS is doing a followup. The hourlong Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Special Reunion Pt. 2 will air Dec. 22 at 8 PM on CBS and stream on Paramount+. Like the original special, the second part is hosted...

Geraldine Viswanathan is the latest to join Amy Poehler in the upcoming Peacock comedy series Dig. Hugh Laurie also recently joined the cast. The series reunites Poehler with Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur. Based on Kate Myers’ bestselling book Excavation, Dig is centered on four women — one of them played by Poehler —...

Kathy Bates, who broke out in Rob Reiner’s 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery, as obsessed fan Anna Wilkes, a role which delivered her a Best Actress Oscar, exclaims, “He changed the course of my life.” Reiner and his wife Michele were found at their Brentwood home yesterday with several...