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Yacht rock icon Christopher Cross announced via Facebook that he has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
"I'm not in the habit of discussing medical issues on social media, but I do so in the hope this will help other people to understand how serious and how contagious this illness is," he wrote. "Although I…
Patricia Bosworth, an actress-turned-writer whose biographies of fellow Actors Studio alumni Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda were best-sellers and, certainly with the Clift book, definitive for their times, died Thursday of complications related to COVID-19. She was 86.
Bosworth’s stepdaughter Fia…
UPDATED, 1:32 PM:Â Los Angeles County health officials today reported 11 more COVID-19 deaths in the region and 521 cases since Thursday. That brings the county’s coronavirus death toll to 89 and number of confirmed cases to 4,566.
Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County Public Health director, said during her daily…
The Supreme Court will postpone oral arguments planned for April, and said that it will consider “a range of scheduling options and other alternatives” if proceedings cannot be held through the remainder of the term.
The arguments were to be held April 20-22 and April 27-29. The court will continue to hold regularly…
Showrunner Matthew Wheeler has signed with Thruline and APA.
Wheeler most recently served as co-showrunner and executive producer on CBS' long-running hit series Hawaii Five-0, which as Deadline recently reported will be ending its 10-year run with a two-hour series finale tonight. He joined the writing staff in 2014…
EXCLUSIVE: In many ways, location scouts and managers were the canaries in the coal mine for the industry's coronavirus shutdown. As news accounts reported the spread of the virus, first in Asia and then in the U.S., homes and businesses began closing their doors to location shoots. It happened slowly at first, and…
UPDATED with latest: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control said Friday that the total number of coronavirus cases in the country has grown to 239,279, a jump of more than 26,000 over the past 24 hours. That’s the most deaths of any country in the world and the most in a 24-hour period in the U.S. — topping the mark…
AMC Networks is offering free programming across its networks — AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and the SVOD service Sundance Now as part of its “We’re With You” initiative to help entertain during the coronavirus pandemic.
Content will be available for free across digital and on demand, along with specially curated…
IFC Midnight has secured the North American rights to Egor Abramenko's directorial debut feature Sputnik, a sci-thriller set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, which has been postponed due to the current global health crisis. Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, and Anton Vasilev star in the…
With movie theaters closed to hopefully no later than early June, the major studios have a permission slip to test out big pic releases in the home. Now, they’re not so insane that they’ll burn down the house to keep warm. Major movies like Disney’s Mulan and Black Widow which have the potential to do $1 billion at…
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…
Snowfall co-creator Eric Amadio has teamed up with pop group The Chainsmokers and professional skateboarder Nyjah Huston on skateboarding drama Hardflip for Quibi.
The short-form digital platform, which launches on April 6, is working with wiip and Kick the Habit Productions, the production company set up by…
