Attorney General Merrick Garland said today that the Justice Department will conduct a civil investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department. Broadcast and cable news, with correspondents fanned across the city, continued to cover the reaction — a mixture of a sense of relief but also continued trepidation over the fate of further reforms.
UK documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 4-13) will open with the European premiere of Questlove's acclaimed Summer Of Soul, which scooped the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance this year. The doc chronicles the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and will be released by Searchlight Pictures and Hulu…
On a combined basis, HBO and HBO Max added 2.7 subscribers in the first quarter, WarnerMedia parent AT&T reported.
The solid returns on streaming helped the telco and media giant beat Wall Street expectations in the quarter. Adjusted earnings of 86 cents a share rose 2% and beat analysts’ consensus forecast of 86…
Sony Pictures Television-owned Stellify Media has optioned the U.S. and UK rights to My Ranking, a genre-bending singing game show from The Masked Singer creator Won-Woo Park.
My Ranking is billed as a studio game show mixed with a celebrity singing contest, where contestants are challenged to guess how a live…
EXCLUSIVE: Hell’s Kitchen studio Tinopolis may be hit with a class-action-style lawsuit and other backlash after an incandescent group of former producers were left out of pocket to the tune of £50 million ($70 million) as a result of a controversial financial restructuring.
Tinopolis is one of Britain’s largest…
The 36th annual Film IndependentSpirit Awards are set for Thursday live at 10 p.m. ET/PT exclusively on IFC and AMC+, with Saturday Night Live‘s Melissa Villaseñor as host of the two-hour ceremony, which will be virtual this year because of the pandemic.
In another twist from the norm, the Spirits this year moved off…
Los Angeles Lakers star and entertainment actor/producer LeBron James has posted about his reasons for taking down what some saw as an inflammatory tweet regarding the police shooting and death of a 16-year-old Black girl in Columbus, Ohio.
Earlier today, James posted a tweet that showed a photo of the white policeman…
Some 70 women representing a record total of 76 overall nominations have been nominated for Oscars this year, a very encouraging statistic for the Academy and the industry.
In honor of this, Academy Museum trustee Diane von Furstenberg and the Academy Museum have released a video (click the link above to watch)…
Jeremy Renner apparently feels his Hawkeye team has scored a bull’s-eye.
The Avengers star posted an Instragram shot applauding his cast and crew members in celebration of the completion of filming.
The Marvel and Disney+ series is expected to arrive later this year. It is the latest superhero action installment on…
A new short from Pixar Animation Studios will revisit the skeptical new soul 22 long before she ever met Joe Gardner. Debuting on Disney+ on April 30, the animated 22 vs. Earth returns Tina Fey back to “The Great Before” as the voice of quick-witted and sarcastic soul 22.
Set before the events of Soul, the original…
The basement of a hotel, an Al Malaikah temple and the annex to an outdoor shopping mall are just some of the locations where the Academy Awards have been held during its 93-year history.
But with the pandemic comes great change in the entertainment industry, and what better time than to switch up Oscar venues — in…
EXCLUSIVE: Below Deck, the hit Bravo reality franchise, is set to take to the seas with more spinoffs in the works as the franchise continues to make headway.
Deadline understands that NBCUniversal is in the early stages of developing two more spinoffs – a show set around Australia and one set around Iceland.
The…
