In the second edition of Deadline’s video series, she talks passionately about how ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ sparked her love of cinema when she was 10 but reveals that it wasn’t until watching a re-run of ‘A Woman Under the Influence’ years later at an indie theater that she wanted to be a filmmaker.
In the latest travel ban, the White House on Sunday announced that non-citizens would be barred from entering the US if they are coming from Brazil, where COVID-19 cases are exploding.
The administration "has determined that the Federative Republic of Brazil is experiencing widespread, ongoing person-to-person…
This year’s NTT Indycar Series Genesys 300 is racing from NBC Sports to NBC for the first televised primetime of the series since 2013. The race from Texas Motor Speedway is set to air on June 6 at 8pm ET moving from its originally scheduled window on NBCSN.
Programming will kick off at 1:30pm ET on NBC Sports Gold…
Even as government officials scolded and health experts warned, Americans flocked to the beaches this Memorial Day weekend after two months of confinement.
Beaches from the East coast to the West coast and along the southern tip in Florida, Texas and more were packed, and lakes saw an influx of boaters and party…
Professional sports teams can once again hold their training camps in New York State, says Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Speaking at a press conference at Jones Beach today, Cuomo said any restrictions on team activities have been lifted. The decision comes as the NBA and NHL ponder a return to action, which would potentially…
The governor of Italy’s Veneto region, Luca Zaia, said today that the Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September. Dates are September 2-12 for the Lido event which would mark the first major film industry gathering not recently postponed or canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. There has been no…
Broadway star Nick Cordero’s has had a positive uptick in his health as he continues to battle coronavirus at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.
His wife, Amanda Kloots, issued a positive report late on Friday after some discouraging words on earlier in the week. She did not specify what caused the setback, but…
EXCLUSIVE: The near future for 2020 college graduates is very much akin to a horror movie filled with an immense amount of uncertainty. They leave the great halls of knowledge into the biggest pandemic of the last 100 years, with 43 states currently seeing record unemployment.
Knowing a lot about horror, and surviving…
Film director Michael Moore correctly predicted the results of the 2016 presidential election, one of the few liberals who saw what was happening in the key battleground states.
Now, he’s again looking at the upcoming election, and doesn’t like what he sees (at least, so far). Speaking out in a Vanity Fair article…
As the national death toll from COVID-19 approaches the stunning 100,000 milestone, The New York Times is devoting its entire Sunday May 24 front page to a list – a partial list – of the dead.
And the grim, powerful impact of the newspaper’s unusual approach might have contributed to yet another round in the ongoing…
Out, a short film from Pixar Animation Studiosstreaming on Disney+, features Pixar’s first gay main character.
The 9-minute film debuted Friday as one of seven films in the studio’s SparkShorts program. SparkShorts aims to “discover new storytellers, explore new storytelling techniques, and experiment with new…
Sonjia Warren Brandon, who founded and ran the Commercials Unlimited talent agency and handled advertising bookings for hundreds of film and TV stars for decades, has died.
Her death on May 8 in LA was from natural causes. The information was confirmed by Brandon’s daughter, Treva Brandon Scharf, who said her mother…
The latest COVID-19 numbers in New York show the lowest levels of death since March, and other metrics indicating the state is making headway as it battles the world’s highest levels of infection.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 84 people died in the 24 hours before his Saturday morning press briefing. The total was…
