The Sacha Baron Cohen pic has generated more headlines than any movie in recent memory, and its Google searches over the past week rival ‘Star Wars.’ Here’s how the streamer’s $80 million negative-pickup deal for ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ got done while it still was in production.
The roles have changed between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, according to Trevor Noah and the Daily Social Distancing Show.
“It’s so hilarious to see how roles have been reversed. Because you remember when Obama was President, Joe Biden was the guy who got to have fun, while Obama had to give the somber speeches. Now…
A new film documentary on the incomparable Frank Zappa will be released over the Thanksgiving Weekend, and its first trailer is out.
Magnolia Pictures will release Zappa, directed by Bill & Ted's Alex Winter, to theaters and VOD on November 27.
Billed as an intimate and expansive look into the innovative life of the…
Bob Gibson, who cofounded the powerhouse music publicity firm Gibson & Stromberg in the late '60s and worked with some of the genre’s biggest acts, died Oct. 23 in Los Angeles at age 80. No cause was given.
Gibson & Gary Stromberg founded their publicity firm in 1969 and represented the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd…
EXCLUSIVE: The next projected layoffs stemming from NBCUniversal’s recent restructuring are starting next month, sources tell Deadline.
November 12 is penciled in as the target date as company brass are eying mid-next month for the second wave of staff reductions to begin, we hear. The cuts will likely come in waves…
After a week in which the average daily new coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County rose from around 1,000 to just a hair under 1,600, county health officials reported the region's chances of reopening under California Governor Gavin Newsom's guidance structure have dimmed further.
Newsom's tiered reopening structure…
The Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division, Special Assaults Section has arrested producer David Guillod. Detectives conducted a search and arrest warrant at Guillod’s Sherman Oaks residence.
The arrest is the second serious set of charges facing Guillod, who was out on bail from a prior sexual…
UPDATE, 9:26 PM PT:Miles Taylor appeared on Chris Cuomo’s CNN show and explained why he lied to Anderson Cooper in August about being Anonymous, the Trump administration figure who wrote a scathing New York Times op ed and book.
“Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, who…
EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has opted not to proceed with a second season of Brave New World. UCP, the studio behind the sci-fi drama series, based on Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking novel, will shop it to other outlets.
“There will not be Season 2 of Brave New World on Peacock,” the streamer said in a statement to Deadline…
The original Studio City location for Jerry’s Famous Deli has announced it will close on Friday.
The New York-style deli, located on Ventura Blvd., opened in 1973 as an outpost of Solley's Delicatessen. It was later purchased by Jerry's Famous Deli Inc.. The location, adjacent to a bowling alley, was the scene of many…
The first global LGBTQ+ virtual cable TV network Revry is set to launch OML on October 29. OML on Revry is the first 24/7 live TV channel catering to queer womxn which includes those who identify as lesbian, bi, trans female, gender non-binary and queer.
The OML on Revry channel highlights queer female or femxle…
EXCLUSIVE:Â I’m Sorry series creator Andrea Savage is set to direct the feature adaptation of Catya McMullen’s Off Broadway play Georgia Mertching Is Dead.
The play, which was awarded the 2019-2020 Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle for best new play by a new playwright, follows three 30-year old friends…
The IATSE legal department is blasting Senate Republicans for rushing through the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett while refusing to take action to help struggling workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
"It apparently was far more important to rush through a Supreme Court nomination than it is…