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For Brian Wallach, the symptoms began with a tremor in his left hand – an unexpected development for a man of only 36. By that age he already was a veteran of the Obama White House, a Georgetown Law graduate and a former track athlete at Yale, where he got his undergraduate degree. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired all North American rights to the feature documentary Refuge from levelFILM, Katie Couric Media and Artemis Rising Foundation. The multi-platform entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory plans to release the film in theaters and across all major…

Katie Couric, the former Today host and CBS Evening News anchor, announced today that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, underwent surgery in July and began radiation treatments earlier this month. In an Instagram post and a lengthier essay on her website, Couric writes candidly about her diagnosis to…

Katie Couric appeared on Today on Tuesday to promote her new memoir Going There, which has generated pre-publication buzz for her frank comments and her own revelations. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie asked Couric about Matt Lauer, who was abruptly fired in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations. Couric said that “it…

Kellyanne Conway denounced the storming of the Capitol and said she had insisted to President Trump for months that he'd lost the election, but otherwise found little common ground with Bill Maher over the legacy of the last four years. "How do you look back now … anything go wrong?" the host of HBO's Real Time With Bi…

On October 3rd, he asked me to go vote. Mean Girls Day, being exactly one month before Election Day, served a timely opportunity for the cast and crew of Mean Girls to remind fans of their civic duty. The 16th anniversary of Mean Girls Day saw the cast – Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tim…

Let’s get together! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Director Nancy Meyers took to Instagram to reveal that the cast of the 1998 reboot of Disney’s The Parent Trap will be reuniting to celebrate its 22nd anniversary on July 20 at 9 am ET on Katie Couric’s Instagram. Meyers teased days ago that she had news about The Parent Trap and…

With SXSW just weeks away, the annual confab has added more featured speakers and keynotes to the 34th edition of its conference which takes place March 13-22. Added to the lineup of keynotes are Chief Creative Officer of TBWA\Media Arts Lab Brent Anderson, and the "Are You Ready for the Future of Space Exploration?"…

AMC has unveiled a slew of developments including scripted projects from Katie Couric, The Report's Scott Z. Burns, Broad City's Ilana Glazer and Owen and Stephen King. The majority of the projects are being developed for its networks but there are also projects set up for AMC Studios to sell to third party…

Fresh off showing the Vanity Fair Summit what journalism actually looks like in her sit-down yesterday with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Katie Couric wasted no time Wednesday jumping in with Netflix's Ted Sarandos with the declaration that "the sharks are circling." "We've been competing since Day One," the streamer's…

The lineup for keynote and featured speakers continues to grow at SXSW with their final round up of guests. Call Her Ganda filmmaker PJ Raval and a conversation with Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff, Gimlet co-founder Matt Lieber and Anchor co-founder Michael Mignano have been added to keynote program while…

Deadline has learned that Michael Lewis’ latest book The Fifth Risk has been acquired by Barack and Michelle Obama under their Netflix production deal for a possible series aimed to help people better understand the inner workings of the government. We understand that the Obamas are exploring projects but nothing…