“Power in the hands of someone that reckless and arrogant is a dangerous thing.” So says the last interviewee at the end of Where’s My Roy Cohn?, Matt Tyrnauer’s fascinating and timely new documentary on the life of infamous and, many say, evil New York lawyer Roy Cohn. He’s the man known for serving as Chief Counsel…

Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger found out 10 minutes before announcing the Walt Disney Company’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Pixar that Steve Jobs’s cancer had returned with a vengeance. That’s just one of the revelations in his new Random House memoir, with the first excerpt appearing today on Vanity Fair…

AT&T, which paid $49 billion to acquire DirecTV in 2015, has faced increasing pressure from investors to get the satellite distributor on a more promising path. This week, the notion that the companies could part ways has gained currency. That would be a surprising outcome given the empire-building of AT&T. The…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I are going at it again, trying to predict the outcome of several races for the Primetime Emmy show this weekend. First up we tackle the Comedy Series categories with a debate about how Veep might pull off yet another win for its seventh and final season, or if Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Ma…

Jim Parrack (True Blood, Escape from Dannemora) is set to co-star opposite Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler in Fox's spinoff series 9-1-1: Lone Star.  9-1-1: Lone Star hails from 9-1-1 creators/executive producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear. Set in Austin, it follows Owen (Lowe), a sophisticated New York…

David Sproxton is stepping down as the managing director of Aardman, the Oscar-winning animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Sproxton, who co-founded Aardman in 1976 with Peter Lord, will be replaced by Sean Clarke, a 20-year veteran of the company, who is currently head of rights and brand…

EXCLUSIVE: Dennis Staroselsky is joining Diane Keaton and Jeremy Irons for Dennis Dugan’s (Grown Ups, Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore) forthcoming indie comedy Love, Weddings & Other Disasters. The story is about the people who work on weddings to create the perfect day for the loving couple – while their own relationships…

Seven-time Tony Award winning producers Sue Wagner and John Johnson announced today the formation of Wagner Johnson Productions, a new venture that will see the longtime collaborators produce and general manage an array of theatrical productions including their current slate of the Almost Famous musical and the full…

It's that time of year again, as Deadline's globe-trotting The Contenders series kicks off next month in London; invitations went out today. Our third annual The Contenders London returns Deadline to the Ham Yard Hotel for an all-day series of panels with the movers and shakers lining up to dominate the awards-season…

First we hear, “That kid is something special.” Later it’s, “Something is happening with Dion,” and then, “We should figure out how to get it under control.” All of the above are entirely true in Raising Dion, as a young boy struggles with his newfound powers and his single mom fights the odds to keep her son…