While on one coast the Tribeca Film Festival was opening with a well-received music documentary The Apollo, Ron Howard’s latest foray into documentary filmmaking, Pavarotti, was unveiled on the other coast Wednesday evening for a capacity screening at CAA. The audience was an invited industry crowd that also included…

In January 2013, Martin Scorsese assembled the cast of his projected next movie, titled The Irishman, for a read-through of the shooting script. Their names — De Niro, Pacino and Pesci – did not resonate as “Irish.” Moreover, the actors, all in their 70s, would play ages 30 to 80 with the help of newly developed…

Shannon Ryan, who most recently served as chief marketing officer for Fox Television Group, is joining Disney as president of marketing for ABC Entertainment and Disney Television Studios.

The move, which had been in the works for months, reunites Ryan with her boss at Fox, Dana Walden, chairman of Disney Television St…

We take on the Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy race in this week’s edition of Deadline’s TV Talk podcast. One thing we agree on for sure: there will not be a repeat of the outcome last year, when Matthew Rhys finally won for The Americans in its sixth and final season.

Now, that doesn’t mean we won’t have a repeat wi…

With over a decade of experience as a producer under his belt, Ant Timpson made a terrifying leap into the director's chair with Come to Daddy, a twisty genre-bender premiering in Tribeca tonight, calling on the talents of Elijah Wood to bring his vision to life.

A lover of genre films, Wood first met Timpson in the ea…

The main battle between the the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents, which represents the major talent agencies, has been over two thorny issues: packaging fees and agency-affiliated production companies.

The issues do not impact all 234 of the guild's franchised agencies, however. An estimated 94%-95% of the TV p…

UPDATE, writethru: Along with its record-breaking first day in China, Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is crushing into the all-time books with a cumulative $169M through Wednesday at the international box office. That one-day gross includes the $107.5M start in the Middle Kingdom yesterday as well as debuts in 24…

Grab the tissues and get prepared for the best ugly cry you’ve ever had because Jane the Virgin is leaving us. The series finale isn’t set to air on the CW until the summer, but for the cast, they just filmed the last episode and as you might guess, it was emotional, heartwarming and filled with tears.

The cast took to…

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Circus of Books, Rachel Mason’s documentary about growing up alongside the iconic West Hollywood gay porn book store run by her parents. The deal comes ahead of the pic’s world premiere at in the Feature Documentary section at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Mason’s film spotlights t…

Amber Midthunder, who recurred in the first season of the rebooted CW’s Roswell, New Mexico, has been promoted to series regular for the just-announced second season.

Midthunder appeared in seven Season 1 episodes as Rosa Ortecho, the sister of Liz (Jeanine Mason).

Written by The Originals scribe Carina Adly MacKenzie…