This week’s subject on Deadline’s video series about the creative ambitions, influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists is Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar and Emmy winner whose latest film “The Trial of the Chicago 7” just landed on Netflix. How did he learn to pull all the words out of himself to pen the likes of “A Few Good Men,” “The Social Network,” “The West Wing,” “The Newsroom” and the stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Let him explain.
The Push Me/Pull You of Washington politics over a new round of economic stimulus appears close to an agreement. But the timing of when money will arrive to your home remains in flux.
"I think we are about there," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday after meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according t…
The World Series continues to struggle in the ratings demo wars, as Game 3 of the Los Angeles Dodgers-Tampa Bay Rays match trailed Friday’s standard programming fare, continuing its trend of record-lows.
The early ratings saw the Series come in with a network average of 1.3 over its three-hour time slot.
Benefiting…
William Blinn, the screenwriter for Prince’s Purple Rain and creator of Starsky & Hutch, has died at age 83. He passed Thursday of natural causes at an assisted living community in Burbank, according to his daughter, Anneliese Johnson.
“If you were an aspiring writer in the 70's & 80's, like I was, Bill’s work defined…
What a great time not to be a movie marketer. Theaters half-closed, with COVID-19 again rising. Pipeline dried up. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences asking, in a survey that was due last week, how the pandemic is affecting your craft. Or what's left of it.
But movie promoters on the whole are an optimistic…
Rudy Giuliani apparently wasn’t the only Borat prank target in the current administration. According to President Donald Trump, he was also once visited by the Kazakhstan journalist.
Speaking to reporters late on Friday, President Donald Trump was asked whether he had seen the footage involving his adviser Giuliani in…
When the Wisconsin Democratic Party announced a cast reunion of Happy Days for this Sunday, all to raise money for the final sprint until election day, one member was noticeably absent: Scott Baio.
The Donald Trump supporter wrote on Twitter that the show was being used as a “political pawn.”
The result, though, was…
Bill Maher Friday compared Democrats trying to vote to an obstacle course competition show "where a contestant has to get across a terrain of giant bouncy balls and slippery balance beams and swing on frigging ropes like Tarzan.”
"It occurred to me while watching this, watching Ricardo lose his grip on a foam roller…
Singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie has announced on Facebook that he is retiring after a 50-year career of performing and acting.
Guthrie said ill health caused by a series of strokes led him to acknowledge that he was no longer up for the road. The pandemic and its cancellations also played a part in his decision to hang…
Keith Raniere, the leader of the alleged sex cult NXIVM, has given an interview which aired on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight and will also be featured on the network’s Dateline.
In the interview, Raniere denies his convictions for sex trafficking, racketeering and possession of child pornography. Raniere…
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Arnold Schwazenegger, it’s that he’ll be back. The former governor, action hero, and reality TV host just had another heart operation, but he is doing well and already walking about.
The surprise revelation of a new surgery came after the 73-year-old Schwarzenegger posted a…
Next Tuesday, October 27, NBC’s This Is Us launches its fifth season with a two-hour premiere. That is a big deal — This Is Us is the first returning NBC scripted series and the first broadcast drama to debut new episodes this fall as the coronavirus pandemic delayed start of production on all shows and continues to…
Donald Trump was decidedly less combative in the final debate of the 2020 presidential campaign. He even held back from threats to contest the election results should he lose.
Joe Biden, for his part, actually managed to get in a few words edgewise, including a convoluted bit about curtailing domestic oil production…
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