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Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant will receive an early placement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, according to news reports. The official announcement is expected Saturday.
The Basketball Hall of Fame normally has a three-year waiting period from the end of a player’s career for induction…
The White House coronavirus briefing was shorter than any all week — just over an hour — but it also left lingering questions of whether hospitals will get the ventilators, masks, gowns and other badly needed medical equipment as coronavirus cases escalate.
And as usual, President Donald Trump had a few tiffs over…
Comedy Central is turning out the lights for David Spade's late night talk show.
The ViacomCBS network will not bring Lights Out With David Spade back to the channel after production of its regular show was upended by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Joe Dirt star Spade has been keeping busy during the lockdown with a number…
Rebecca Ramsey, whose dozens of visual effects credits include Watchmen, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has died. She was 54. Ramsey passed on March 7 from complications related to a fall in her home, according to her longtime friend Jenny McShane.
Ramsey was a producer and EP of VFX…
Actors’ Equity, whose membership has been jobless since the COVID-19 shutdown of live theaters across the country, is offering dues relief to those members who need it. The union's $87 spring basic dues payment, customarily billed in May, has been extended to July 31, and late fees for basic dues and initiation fees…
Gersh has become the latest Hollywood talent agency to impose salary reductions in an effort to mitigate the devastating impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the entertainment business as the death toll worldwide continues to rise.
Like other companies that have resorted to pay cuts, Gersh Agency’s biggest…
Brian Cox is on a roll. As Logan Roy, the patriarch leader of a dysfunctional global family business in HBO’s Succession, he won the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Drama Series in January and has generated huge Emmy buzz. Now the veteran actor has perhaps the richest lead film role he’s ever had as a rugged…
Jeff Loveness, who has written for shows including Rick and Morty, Miracle Workers and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has signed on to write the screenplay for the third installment of the Ant-Man franchise, which has Peyton Reed returning to direct.
Franchise stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Evangeline Lilly as Hope…
Logan Williams, who played a young Barry Allen on the CW’s hit The Flashand also appeared in Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart, died Thursday at age 16. No cause of death has been revealed.
Canada’s Tri-City Newsquoted Williams’s mother, Marlyse Williams, saying she is “absolutely devastated” from his death.
Th…
Six more residents at the MPTF's skilled nursing facility have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total there to seven. The Motion Picture & Television Fund reported the first case on Tuesday. Some 250 entertainment industry retirees live on the MPTF's Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills.
"The good news…
President Donald Trump said that the Centers for Disease Control is now recommending that Americans wear non-medical basic cloth or fabric masks in public to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.
Trump said at his Friday briefing that he was “choosing not to” wear one, but that others may want to. He also…
Driving around Los Angeles the past few weeks has felt haunting. The normal bustling of traffic has been missing, restaurants are empty, shopping malls are closed and movie theaters deserted.
This week, Deadline’s video producers Andrew Merrill and David Janove along with Social Media Director Scott Shilstone took…
