The lifelong Angeleno has watched this drama unfold like the rest of us. He shares his thoughts on what’s unfolded and taps his own frustrations and experiences to advise how to turn the industry’s receptiveness to get involved in anti-racist causes into a tipping point that might mean not only an increase in inclusive film and TV projects but more decision-making executives of color.
UPDATED, 5:15 PM: While the NHL and its players continue to negotiate a deal to resume the paused 2019-20 season, the league has unveiled plans to transition to Phase 2 of its plan to resume.
Starting on Monday, its 31 teams will be allowed to reopen training facilities in their home city to allow players to…
Pay for television writers is not keeping up with industry profits, the WGA told its members Thursday in the guild's latest update on its proposals for a new film and TV contract. The talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers got underway May 18 after the guild's current contract, which had been…
The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the Harry Potter films, Star Wars, Avengers: Endgame – Abbey Road Studios has been a part of them all, staying at the center of the world’s culture since it first opened on Nov. 12, 1931 as one of the first buildings devoted to sound recordings.
But…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was booed and heckled by an irate crowd at a memorial for George Floyd in Brooklyn Thursday after declining to call out police violence in the city the night before.
An event organizer, Rev. Kevin McCall, introduced the increasingly unpopular pol, asking the crowd for "respect" as…
Steve Priest, the bass player who co-founded the UK group Sweet that had hits including “Ballroom Blitz,” “Fox on the Run” and “Love Is Like Oxygen,” died today, his bandmates said without providing details. He was 72.
Priest had been living in the Los Angeles area for several years, and his band played often at local…
UPDATED with more details: Crescent Drive Media, an investment company run by Paradigm boss Sam Gores’ billionaire brother Tom Gores, has taken an “ownership interest” in the agency, shoring up finances at the company hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. No terms of the deal were disclosed Thursday, but the new…
The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theater community to do likewise. “Our stages are dark but the resources we have can be utilized on the world’s stage now,” reads part of…
It seems like a distant memory — taking refuge in the welcoming comfort of a movie theater. And now it may become even more distant. Key players at the studios are worried that summer openings may simply not happen; further, that scores of movie theaters may not survive the year. Equally alarming: Ticket buyers are…
Let’s just get real. In another era, Becky, the new blood-soaked home-invasion thriller, would likely land on the bottom half of a double bill, a “B” movie throwback updated with extreme violence for hard-core fans who like to see faces flattened and eyes pop out. On its own terms it is perversely entertaining if this…
UPDATED with closing stock price. Three Wall Street analysts offered positive sentiments Thursday about the prospects for Cinemark, the No. 3 U.S. exhibitor, after it outlined plans to reopen movie theaters in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Executives’ comments during a conference call with analysts Wednesday…
Helter Skelter: An American Myth, a six-part docuseries about Charles Manson exec produced by Greg Berlanti, has been pushed back by Epix.
The series was previously planned to debut on June 14 and the MGM-owned network has not yet set a replacement date.
Deadline understands the network didn't feel it was an…
Despite a detailed complaint from Gabrielle Union over alleged misconduct on and off the set of America's Got Talent, a parsing NBC said Thursday that NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy never directly threatened the former judge on the Simon Cowell-created series.
"The allegation that anyone involved in this…
