Beyoncé easily set a personal Emmy best today with six nominations for her Netflix special Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, outdoing her double-nominated 2016 visual album Lemonade, and the single nominations she received for 2013’s Super Bowl halftime show (short form entertainment) and special class program with…

It will be quite a few more sunny days before Warner Bros makes its trip to Sesame Street. The studio’s untitled film adaptation of the children’s TV classic has moved from its January 15, 2021, to that summer: The pic now will open on June 4, 2021. Warners also said today that its legal drama Just Mercy, starring…

New research by streaming tracker Parks Associates predicts the amount of revenue lost to piracy and password sharing will increase 38% to $12.5 billion over the next five years. While it is seldom noted publicly by streaming purveyors, about 27% of U.S. broadband households engage in some form of piracy or account…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that might well put Apple in the awards season conversation, the company has made a big worldwide rights acquisition of The Banker, a fact-based period drama that George Nolfi directed and co-wrote. Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson play entrepreneurs who tried to circumvent the racial…

"It's not bad, you know, can't complain, mustn't grumble," deadpanned Charlie Brooker at the news of Black Mirror "Bandersnatch" picking up a pair of nominations this morning for Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media with a Scripted Program. "I'm going to go further…

It wasn’t a whimper but it doesn’t qualify as a bang, either. The Big Bang Theory, which concluded its historic 12-year run in May, was skipped over in the comedy and acting categories in the just-announced nominations for the 71st Emmy Awards but the CBS sit-com’s finale episode did earn three nominations, including…

Having aired in June, the current third season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale may not be eligible for Emmys, but nonetheless, due to the Academy’s ‘hanging episode’ rule, Season 2 has 11 nominations this year. The rule means that while the final three episodes of Season 2 fell outside of the Emmy eligibility window for…

EXCLUSIVE: In a moment in which Facebook is finalizing a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $5 billion primarily for the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Deadline hears that AGBO is mounting a movie about the young pink-haired data consultant, Christopher Wylie, who purportedly was at…

Greta Gerwig and Oscar Isaac will star in an Off Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed by the Tony-winning Sam Gold for New York Theater Workshop’s 2019/20 season, the NYTW announced today. Performance schedules and additional casting will be announced later, but the production is expected to…

A deadpan “Really?” was Pose actor and red carpet sartorial king Billy Porter’s initial reaction to his Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as the no-nonsense ballroom emcee Pray Tell on the FX series about the New York City ball scene in the ’80s. Porter, who was on vacation when…