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Jimmy Fallon has been kicking off each recent episode of The Tonight Show with a shout-out to the Red Cross charity initiative backed by State Farm. On Friday, he was interrupted by his daughter Franny bursting through the door of his garage, kicking off her boots after discovering her dad talking to the…
President Donald Trump spent the Q&A portion of his daily coronavirus press briefing on Monday by attacking reporters not for their recent stories but for the way that they are asking their questions.
“It’s such a positive event and you ask it in such a negative way,” he complained to McClatchy’s Francesca Chambers…
James King, whose story was told in a 2017 episode of the TLC docuseries My 600-lb. Life, has died. He was 49. King died April 3 at Saint Thomas Midtown in Nashville. No cause of death was revealed, but King had numerous health issues.
King was profiled in a Season 5 episode of My 600-lb. Life, that aired in March…
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday emailed Deadline that this month’s planned Board of Governors meeting, originally set for April 14, has now been delayed two weeks to Tuesday, April 28. Normally the April meeting is one that discusses the past Oscar show and analyzes it in detail with the…
In the six previous years of our tournament to name the year’s most profitable film, Deadline has always launched the contest around the NCAA basketball tournament. But this year is drastically different. Tonight was supposed to be the national championship game, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, but of course the e…
The year was 1918. As World War I was ending, the Spanish Flu began ravaging the world. Within a year, it killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide — 10 million more than those who perished in the war.
There are several parallels between the response to the Spanish Flu and COVID-19 in the U.S. In both cases…
Saturday Night Live‘s Michael Che has revealed in a lengthy Instagram post that his grandmother has died from coronavirus.
“Hi. I’m Michael Che, from TV. Last night my grandmother passed away from the coronavirus,” Che wrote. “I’m doing OK, considering. I’m obviously very hurt and angry that she had to go through all…
EXCLUSIVE: Daredevil and The Defenders alumna Élodie Yung has been tapped as the lead of Fox’s drama pilot The Cleaning Lady in a recasting.
In the pilot, written by Miranda Kwok and to be directed by Michael Offer, she replaces Shannyn Sossamon, who originally was cast in the title role, Reyna Salonga. She exited afte…
"The situation is that it's a f***ing disaster everywhere," one distribution exec exclaimed recently regarding the impact from the coronavirus pandemic on the global and international box office.
The hit 2020 is going to take in terms of worldwide ticket sales is incalculable at this point, but some sources estimate…
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spoke in a phone call on Monday about the coronavirus crisis.
Their conversation was a rare moment of detente in the midst of a presidential campaign.
Biden “had suggestions. It doesn’t mean I agree with his suggestions,” Trump told reporters. He said that the…
Universal has picked up the film rights to New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff’s upcoming YA vampire novel Crave.Crave, billed as a paranormal fantasy with a feminist perspective, follows a human girl who finds herself in the midst of a conflict between warring factions when she falls for a vampire prince…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that schools and non-essential businesses are to be remained closed through April 29.
“Public health is our first concern,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo issued the New York State on PAUSE executive order last month, and it was effective on March 22. Large sectors of the economy…
