The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual report for Fiscal Year 2019 shows that Oscar-related revenue dipped half a percentage point, to $131.1 million. It’s not a big drop, but it’s an unhappy marker for a group that has taken pride in annual increases and has been banking on future income to finance its ambitious Academy Museum.
International Women’s Day arrives on March 8, and NBC Sports Network will celebrate by using an all-female crew to broadcast and produce game coverage of the St. Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks National Hockey League matchup.
The game will mark the first NHL contest broadcast and produced solely by women in the…
A woman who claims singer/songwriter Rick James raped her at a group home in 1979 is suing his estate.
The woman, who was not identified in court papers, said James raped her at a group home in Buffalo. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday against the James Ambrose Johnson Jr. 1999 Trust, which is run by the singer's…
Grammy winner and actress Queen Latifah performed Stevie Wonder's Love's in Need of Love Today at the National Basketball Assn.’s Saturday Night skills competitions.
But she added a rap verse to the song in honor of the late Kobe Bryant, who had four MVP awards at the event and had the MVP trophy renamed in his…
The NBA All-Star Weekend 2020 Saturday night coverage showed gains across all platforms, the network claimed.
The preliminaries to the actual All-Star game today saw the Skills Challenge, a unique obstacle course that tests the participants' ball-handling, passing and dribbling abilities while under pressure; the…
Daniel Lee Martin, a reality TV host on the Sportsman Channel and a popular country music singer, committed suicide after law enforcement deputies attempted to serve multiple warrants related to charges of sexual abuse of minors, according to officials.
Martin appeared on the Sportsman Channel as host of the shows Brot…
UPDATE, writethru: Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog raced to a $100M worldwide opening this weekend, including $43M from the international box office, and a domestic record for a videogame pic. The adaptation of Sega's globally popular property is playing in 40 offshore markets, repping 60% of the overseas footprint…
The indie distributor Neon is becoming the cool, popular kid in Hollywood and on the box office playground since they dominated the Oscars with the multiple Parasite wins. This weekend, the distributor, founded by Tim League and Tom Quinn, saw the return of Portrait of a Lady on Fire in theaters, while Parasite took a…
ITV has postponed another episode of Love Island following the death of Caroline Flack but the show will return on Monday night with a tribute to the former presenter.
The British broadcaster said that the decision had been made after "careful consideration" between Flack's representatives and the Love Island…
A planned April premiere in Beijing and a tour of other cities in China for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, has been cancelled because of ongoing problems caused by the coronavirus quarantine, Deadline has confirmed.
Daniel Craig and the cast will not attend the Beijing screening or the subsequent publicity…
EXCLUSIVE: Megan Fox and Bruce Willis are joining Emile Hirsch in Randall Emmett’s directorial debut Midnight In The Switchgrass, which Highland Film Group will be selling at the upcoming EFM.
Set in 2004, the film will follow an FBI agent (Fox) and a Florida State officer (Hirsch) who team up to investigate a string…
Nikita Pearl Waligwa, an actress who starred in the 2016 Walt Disney film Queen of Katwe, has died. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, according to Ugandan media.
The film was about a chess prodigy rising from a Ugandan slum and was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi. She began playing chess at age nine…
President Donald Trump has a special task on his agenda today – make the “Great American Race,” aka the Daytona 500, great again. He will be the grand marshal of the event and give the “start your engines” command.
It’s also rumored that the President will take a lap around the track in the vehicle known as “The…
