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The Irishman, released this week, represents Netflix's boldest entry into the feature business, but for cinephiles it also reflects a likely farewell to one of Hollywood's classic genres — the gangster film. Gangsters, like cowboys (or drama in general) have essentially been put out to pasture by superheroes, a…

The most unexpected beef of 2019 — Martin Scorsese vs the Marvel Universe — continued on Monday with The Irishman and Goodfellas auteur firing off another salvo this time via a New York Times Op-Ed piece. In the lengthy article, Scorsese frames the phenomenally successful Marvel brand as an economic enemy of cinema…

COMMENTARY: The grid is wobbly. The hills are on fire. Some homeless camps in the Valley have been almost as crowded as CityWalk. If ever we needed the annual migration of awards-season out-of-towners, it is now. The Descent of the Visitors—most of them from New York—is my favorite part of the Oscar cycle. Like…

President Donald Trump told the media that he would soon show evidence that Alexander Semyon Vindman, the US Army lieutenant colonel who serves as the Director for European Affairs for the National Security Council and has spoken to Adam Schiff’s closed-door impeachment session, is a Never Trumper. Speaking to media…

President Donald Trump poured gasoline on the California wildfires crisis this morning, calling out Gov. Gavin Newsom via his weekly tweetstorm for poor forest management. “I told him from the first day we met that he must “clean” his forest floors, regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him…

Court TV will air interviews with two of Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys and two of his accusers in a two-night event airing Monday and Tuesday. Seema Iyer’s iinterviews with Weinstein attorneys Donna Rotunno and Damon Cheronis air on Monday, Nov. 4 at & PM ET/PT, with conversations with alleged victims Kadian…

He’s been accused of not liking to read memos, but President Donald Trump knows a good book when he sees one. Today’s late breaking tweetstorm (perhaps owing to his Mississippi appearance last night and late arrive back at the White House) touts a campaign memoir from author Howie Carr. What Really Happened: How Donald…

Deadline’s ninth annual The Contender Los Angeles event is now underway at the newly refurbished DGA Theater in Hollywood. An overflow crowd of Motion Picture Academy members, key guild members and other voters will see a record 20 studios and 38 movies paraded in front of them in the ultimate For Your Consideration…

President Donald Trump was in Tupelo, Mississippi tonight for another Keep America Great Again rally. Under fire as the House of Representatives instituted procedures for an impeachment inquiry, the President came out swinging before a capacity crowd at BanCorpSouth Arena. "The media and the Democrats have been…

The girl who told world leaders “How dare you” over perceived climate change inaction is here in Los Angeles to address opinion leaders on the same issue. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist, has been on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and met with fellow eco-warrior Leonardo DiCaprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger…

The impeachment inquiry is here to stay, declared Late Show host Stephen Colbert. “The relationship is getting serious. It’s unpacked its bags, put its toothbrush in that little cup over the sink.” The House of Representatives is setting up its procedures for the impeachment inquiry on Thursday, Colbert said…

Former Fox News staffers are clamoring for the same release from non-disclosure agreements that NBCUniversal has granted its staffers regarding sexual harassment settlements. Coming in the wake of Rachel Maddow’s announcement Friday on her MSNBC show that parent corp. NBCUniversal would allow former staffers to get…