Louisette Geiss, Howard Kagan, Susan Stroman and Diane Warren talk exclusively with Deadline’s Greg Evans about how they came together to create ‘The Right Girl,’ a Main Stem-bound musical inspired by the real-life Hollywood villains and heroes of the movement, and where it all goes now that the pandemic has devastated live theater.
Alexandria City’s T.C. Williams High School, known for being the subject of Disney’s 2000 football drama Remember the Titans, is set to undergo a name change.
This week, members of the Alexandria City School Board in Virginia voted 9-0 in favor of changing the names of both T.C. Williams High and Matthew Maury…
The Pioneers Assistance Fund's Covid-19 relief effort has helped more than 8,000 movie theater workers with nearly $3 million in grants during the pandemic. The fund, which is part of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, is chaired by Chris Aronson, Paramount's president of distribution.
The…
Jery Hewitt, a legendary stunt coordinator who worked on 14 of the Coen brothers’ films, includingThe Big Lebowski and Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men, and dozens of other films and TV shows including Dick Wolf’s Law & Order franchise, has died. He was 71.
Hewitt's wife, stuntwoman Jennifer Lamb, who…
After three weeks of stasis, Joe Biden's transition to the White House has suddenly taken off like the 1967 Chevy Corvette the President-elect has long proudly owned.
In his first interview since being declared winner in the 2020 election and one day after the General Services Administrator finally signed off on the…
Almost two years after Netflix canceled One Day at a Time after three seasons, the praised reimagining of Norman Lear’s beloved 1970s sitcom is losing its network home again. And, just like it did in the spring of 2018, the studio behind the reboot, Sony Pictures TV, plans to shop the series to other outlets.
Pop…
EXCLUSIVE: Ayden Mayeri, who has appeared in Amazon's Homecoming and Fox's New Girl, is to star inI Love This For You, Showtime's Vanessa Bayer comedy pilot.
Mayeri joins Cybill Shepherd, who Deadline revealed was to star alongside Bayer and Molly Shannon, in the pilot.
If picked up to series, Mayeri, who has also…
UPDATED with closing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which came close to the 30,000-point mark in January before Covid-19 ravaged most of the world, surpassed the number Tuesday amid optimism for Joe Biden’s presidency.
The barrier was broken about an hour into the trading day and the Dow finished the session at…
One America News Network has been banned for YouTube for one week after posting a bogus video about a cure for COVID-19.
The far-right network, which has been an outspoken backer of President Donald Trump, will not be allowed to post original videos or participate in the platform’s revenue-producing partner program…
EXCLUSIVE: TNT’s Animal Kingdom has added Anthony Konechny to the cast in a recurring role.
Konechny, who has acted in Supergirl, Witches of East End and Fifty Shades of Grey, will appear in the show’s fifth season as a younger version of Denis Leary’s Billy.
Carla Frankenbach will write Animal Kingdom season 5, with…
Hal Ketchum, a singer-songwriter who rode the 1990s country music wave with hit singles including “Small Town Saturday Night,” “Past the Point of Rescue” and “Hearts Are Gonna Roll,” died Monday of dementia complications at his home. He was 67.
His wife, Andrea, posted the news on social media today. “May his music…
EXCLUSIVE: There is a marketing restructuring underway at Skydance Media. We can tell you first that WME senior marketing exec and former Paramount Pictures co-president of domestic marketing Rebecca Mall is in final talks to join the David Ellison-run studio in a newly designed head of marketing role that oversees…
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime may have found its next Homeland. The network is tying up a preemptive deal to acquire and turn the Nathan Englander Israeli-Palestine conflict novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth into a series that Homeland architects Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa will write and run as executive producers. Deal…
