The India-born Bollywood star and Miss World 2000 appears in Netflix’s ‘The White Tiger’ and toplined ‘Quantico,’ but her eye now is squarely on producing and starring in features. She talks about ambitions, formative influences and inspirations in the latest edition of Deadline’s video series.
Gregory Sierra, who was a key part of two major 1970s sitcoms as Julio Fuentes on Sanford and Son and Sgt. Miguel “Chano” Amenguale on Barney Miller, has died. He was 83.
Sierra died Jan. 4 in Laguna Woods, California, from cancer, according to a family…
UPDATED, 3:47 PM PT: The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will start the week of February 8, giving time for the former president’s team to prepare its defense and for the Senate to confirm Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave the timeline on Friday. The article of…
Ryan Murphy takes us Behind the Lens of his first big movie musical The Prom in today’s edition of my weekly Deadline video series, which focuses on filmmakers and their careers. Murphy of course is not only a director and writer but also one of Hollywood’s most prolific producers who always seems to have several…
California on Monday recorded by far the highest number of Covid-19 deaths it has seen over the course of the pandemic. But the shocking loss of 764 lives may not have been the biggest virus-related news in the state. Nor was the generally better news on Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations.
On Friday, the Associated…
Legit agent Irene Cabrera will head a new diversity and inclusion initiative at DDO Artists Agency to identify, recruit, develop and retain clients representing groups that have been traditionally overlooked.
The initiative’s long-term goal is to foster relationships and create new opportunities within a welcoming…
More than 30 unpaid crewmembers on the indie film Please Give Me You have filed wage claims with the California Labor Commissioner's office after the production was shut down last month when its financing fell through following a Covid-19 scare on the set. The film, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour and which…
EXCLUSIVE: A signature Fox program, America’s Most Wanted, is coming back to the network with a new season, set to launch in March.
Emmy-winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas will succeed John Walsh as host of the revamped America’s Most Wanted, which is being produced in-house by Fox Alternative Entertainment.
While AMW…
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists.
Every installment asks the same five questions…
Amazon has set a spring premiere date for Robert Kirkman’s adult animated seriesInvincible. The hour-long series from The Walking Dead creator will premiere Friday, March 26, 2021, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The first three episodes of season one will premiere…
In the latest sign of the media industry’s rethink of the traditional pay-TV bundle, NBCUniversal says it will wind down the operations of its sports cable outlet NBCSN by the end of the year.
Live telecasts on the network of sports events like NASCAR races and NHL hockey will migrate to USA Network and, to a lesser…
With less than two months to go before Genius: Aretha finally hits the small screen, the Oscar nominee who is portraying the Queen of Soul is hitting this year's Sundance Film Festival as one of the shindigs' jurors.
Cynthia Ervio will be joining the likes of SFF alum Raúl Castillo as one of the 22 jurors at this…
EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy, star of Netflix's Narcos: Mexico, has signed with UTA.
The agency has signed the actor in all areas of representation. He was previously with WME.
McNairy is currently filming the third season of the Narcos spin-off, in which he plays Walt Breslin, the American DEA agent sent to Mexico to…
