Erik has been a full-time journalist in Los Angeles for more than 30 years, the past 23 covering Hollywood. Before joining Deadline in 2013, he spent nearly 17 years at The Hollywood Reporter, rising to managing editor. He also wrote about music for THR; did hundreds of concert and TV reviews; covered such events as the Cannes Film Festival, NATPE and MIFED; and worked closely with the web team. Before that he was a cities editor at The Orange County Register after serving as managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily Commerce.
UPDATED:Simon & Schuster can move forward with plans to publish a tell-all book by President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump, as an appellate judge overturned a lower court ruling that had temporarily halted publication.
Her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, is…
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The legendary NBA announcer who famously cries “Yes!” when a basket is made won’t be doing any play-by-play when the league’s restarts its paused season. Marv Alberttold the New York Post today that he has opted out of calling the games for TNT when they start at Walt Disney World in Orlando next month.
Albert…
Fans won’t be buying any peanuts or Cracker Jack at minor league ballparks this year. And they won’t be buying any tickets, either. Minor League Baseball said today that it has canceled its 2020 season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
This will be the first season without minor league ball since MiLB the precursor…
With so many people working from home these days, it’s time for a new season of comedy about working at the office — social distancing be damned. Comedy Central has set the Season 3 premiere of Corporatefor 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22. Watch a promo for the show’s final season above.
Created by Pat Bishop, Matt…
The world’s largest contemporary circus producer is folding up its tents — for now. Cirque du Soleil said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection, saying, “We have no choice but to take a pause for a little while.”
The Montreal-based organization’s U.S. shows have been dark since March 15, when the widening…
HBO has acquired and set a premiere date for The Weight of Gold, a feature documentary on the mental health challenges that Olympic athletes often face. All-time medal champ Michael Phelps is among the subjects, along with Shaun White, Bode Miller and others.
The film also features Jeremy Bloom, Lolo Jones, Gracie…
Kelly Asbury, an animation writer-director and voice actor whose credits include Shrek 2, Smurfs: The Lost Village and Beauty and the Beast, died today after battling cancer for several years. He was 60. His rep Nancy Newhouse Porter of Newhouse Porter Hubbard confirmed the news to Deadline.
“He was one of the most…
Syfy has set a premiere date and released a trailer for Season 4 of Wynonna Earp, its popular drama about a female descendant of the legendary lawman. Watch the first S4 footage above.
Because of the coronavirus-related production break, the new season’s first six episodes will culminate in a midseason finale airing…
Central Park star and co-creator Josh Gad said on NBC’s Today this morning that replacing Kristen Bell as the voice of a mixed-race character on the Apple TV+ series was “frankly an easy decision to make.” Watch the clip above.
The move to have a TBA black actor voice the Molly character was announced Wednesday. It…
The filmed death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer galvanized a generation, and a nation. And a planet. Now comes a powerful short film titled after that man’s last words.
I Can’t Breathe is a forbidding and foreboding five-minute spoken-word film featuring David Bianchi’s poetry set…
“The life of a child was not my life,” the late Diana Serra Cary, aka Baby Peggy, says in the first trailer for HBO documentary Showbiz Kids.
That sentiment is echoed by a number of former “child stars” profiled in the pic that premieres next month. Recalls Evan Rachel Wood, “Any industry that has that much power and…
Call them the Artists Former Formerly Known as Dixie Chicks. The veteran multiplatinum country act said today that the band has dropped the Confederate-era part of their name and henceforth will be known as The Chicks.
The group also released a new protest song today called “March March” — watch the video…
