The latest: Hollywood’s Asian community on the hateful byproduct of coronavirus misinformation, and the need for allies; an industry AA regular on staying sober in the age of isolation; Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowitz on how the movie industry must be “fair to each other” right now; James Corden on mounting his primetime CBS coronavirus special in his garage
ESPN tennis announcer Patrick McEnroe said on social media today that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
He tweeted a video from his basement saying he “got some minor symptoms about 10 or 11 days ago” and he just got his test results back this morning after going to a drive-through testing center in New York…
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…
Former STX Entertainment executive Evan Shames has joined Fox Entertainment’s SideCar Content Accelerator as Vice President, Development. The move, which is effective immediately, comes as SideCar ramps up development and continues to expand its content output. Based in Los Angeles, Shames will report to Hend…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Zachary Quinto and Ari Graynor will present an April 6 livestream reading of the late Terrence McNally's acclaimed 1991 play Lips Together, Teeth Apart to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund.
The livestream on Broadway.com and its…
Nielsen offered more confirmation that streaming is a big beneficiary as much of the nation shelters-at-home during the coronavirus pandemic. The ratings agency said minutes spent on streaming content in the U.S. was up 50% for the week of March 16 from the year earlier.
Streaming minutes – 156 billion – were up about…
AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron sat down for an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Alley today, telling the show’s hosts that the chain’s possible re-opening between May to mid-June is still “more of the right timing, but nobody knows.”
Aron shut down the biggest exhibition chain out of coronavirus safety on March 17, and believes…
EXCLUSIVE: A beloved TV character is coming back. NBC has given a 13-episode series order to a new Dick Wolf crime drama series starring Christopher Meloni reprising his Law & Order: SVU role as Elliot Stabler. The SVU spinoff drama, which marks the actor’s return to Wolf World, revolves around the NYPD organized…
The NFL’s owners have voted to expand the playoffs to include 14 teams and will add postseason games on Nickelodeon and NBCUniversal’s new streamer Peacock.
The changes — which had been agreed to in the league’s latest collective-bargaining pact with players — will take effect for the coming 2020 season, NFL Network…
The 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off Broadway will be presented virtually as an online event on May 3 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with shows that opened after February 16 given the option to be considered as part of either the 2020 or 2021 season.
The revisions were announced…
As a way to keep audiences enlightened and entertained during social distancing and quarantine, Ava DuVernay’s Array will launch #ArrayMatinee on April 1. The new weekly digital film series will include independent films from Array Releasing’s roster of global features.
Every subsequent Wednesday after April 1, Array…
Mark Ruffalo's drama I Know This Much Is True has got a new premiere date after HBO pushed the limited series by two weeks.
Deadline understands that the shift comes after news that The Undoing will move from May 10 to the fall. The premium network revealed last week that The Undoing, which is based on Jean Hanff…
The American Film Institute is looking somewhere over the rainbow to put a little hope in our new daily routines in this age of the coronavirus.
On Tuesday, AFI unveiled the launch of AFI Movie Club, designed to be “a daily virtual gathering to leverage our collective love of film on behalf of optimism in this time of…
