Dominic covers litigious Hollywood’s major lawsuits and weighs in on the current Golden Age of television with his video reviews and more. Before joining Deadline in 2012, he wrote for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, and the Toronto Globe and Mail. A frequent guest on NPR, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and CBS, he also has been a documentary director, TV producer, national news correspondent and a newspaper editor.
Already set for an arraignment on August 26 on a new indictment in his criminal case, Harvey Weinstein has hit a hard wall with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on his desire to take his upcoming rape trial out of the NYC media spotlight.
Long story short, Cyrus Vance Jr’s crew says…
"It's a hugely proud piece of my life," says Julia Louis-Dreyfus of the seven seasons of the now concluded and much acclaimed Veep. "It's the highlight of my career," added the eleven-time Emmy winner this week at a packed Deadline Screening Series panel.
"Accolades aside, which are wonderful and everything, I…
EXCLUSIVE: Seems Hollywood's top legal mandarin has hit a raw nerve with the re-election seeking head of the WGA West and the latter wants the former to stay in his lane.
"Ken Ziffren is an experienced lawyer, which means there are some things he should know and some things he fully understands that he can’t know,"…
It’s back to school for the kids and for the small screen this week, with some big lessons, big ambitions and big exits on the programming curriculum. To continue the metaphor, the first test will be to figure out what show you have to watch this week. The only way to score that A is to watch my review above to…
"Seeing the handwriting on the wall, two days ago the WGA dismissed without prejudice its state court case against the four agencies and simultaneously filed a counterclaim to the suit that was brought against three of the agencies for antitrust violations on the part of the guild," Ken Ziffren said Wednesday as he…
In April 1989, the lives of five young men of color were irrevocably and horrifically changed. Wrongly accused of raping a white female jogger, they were first arbitrarily rounded up by police simply for being in the area, then pushed into false confessions that would ultimately land them a collective name that…
File this under … just plain old weird. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office can't or won’t say why, but the criminal case against the man who allegedly stole Frances McDormand's Best Actress Oscar in 2018 is over, at least for now.
Terry Bryant was up against a felony grand theft charge for lifting the Th…
A recent addition to Harvey Weinstein's rape indictment by the Manhattan D.A. could see the disgraced producer's trial pushed back, and now Weinstein wants the whole thing moved out of Gotham.
“It is safe to say that New York City is the least likely place on earth where Mr. Weinstein could receive a fair trial, where…
HBO received a blessing of sorts from the TV Gods this past weekend with the premiere of megachurch comedy The Righteous Gemstones and the second episode of the second season of Succession.
Coming in almost the same as the series high of the August 11 Season 2 debut, the Brian Cox-led global media moguls drama snared…
EXCLUSIVE: Heading towards a $20 billion showdown with Comcast at the U.S. Supreme Court this fall in his long running racial discrimination lawsuit against the media giant, Byron Allen today tore into the Brian Roberts-run behemoth and an 11th hour intervention by the Department of Justice
"This is historic," the Ente…
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Hollywood’s biggest lenders are about to call off the dogs on Annapurna, Megan Ellison’s taste-maker production/distribution company. Sources said that Ellison’s father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, has submitted a “last and final offer” to pay Annapura’s key lenders, offering between 80…
(UPDATED with Jackson estate statement) With five nominations going into next month's Emmy Awards,Leaving Neverland is hoping to score a final win in court too.
Under legal fire from the extremely litigious estate of Michael Jackson, the HBO documentary examining allegations that the Thriller star sexually abused…
