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If 2020 began with promise, all that changed as every industry tradition we took for granted was stripped away without warning. The pandemic has seen nearly 20 million positive cases in the U.S. alone, and soon 350,000 will be dead. Every facet of entertainment was impacted: live theaters and movie theaters closed…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some of the best new TV series of last year.  "The one charm of the past is that it is the past," Oscar Wilde once said. Few have had the linguistic dexterity of the Dorian Gray scribe, but even the divinely witty Wilde may be hard pressed to find anything charming about…

A word for stocks in 2020: epic — as in monumental, as a bona fide crash in the spring alternated thereafter with convulsions of angst and optimism reflecting a world turned upside down by the first global pandemic in a century. Major indexes from the Dow Jones to the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Russell 3000 ended the year at…

If 2020 began with promise, all that changed as every industry tradition we took for granted was stripped away without warning. The pandemic has seen nearly 20 million positive cases in the U.S. alone, and soon 350,000 will be dead. Every facet of entertainment was impacted: live theaters and movie theaters closed…

As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo gallery above. Among those who passed during 2020 were big-screen Hollywood legends from Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland to Sean Conn…

If someone had told me a year ago that I would never set foot in a movie theater or screening room in 2020 after the first week of March (the impressive The Outpost and lousy The Hunt were the last films I saw on big screens) but that I would remain healthy and somehow seeing new films, I couldn't have guessed what…

And then there were five. It is time on this eve of a new year (thank God) to reveal the rest of my 10 Best Movies of 2020 list with No. 5 on up, including my choice for this most unusual year’s top film — though as always it’s an arbitrary choice, when you get down to it, like picking apples or oranges. On Tuesday I…

It was supposed to be a year when the playing field became even. After losing to Disney for four years in a row, with the Burbank studio setting an industry record in 2019 of $13.2 billion global box office, a new major studio was set to become the domestic king. “I think 2020 is going to be more of a horse race,” I…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some very good TV series that aired in 2020. There is no other way to say it: 2020 has been a horrible year full of great television. As you can see in the video above, the first part of Deadline's Top 10 New TV Shows of the year has a different tone from the past. Going…

This has been a trying year for movies, with the closing of cinemas in the pandemic, and a pivot by many filmmakers and stars to streaming service projects. As we wait for the boom times to return once a Covid vaccine establish herd immunity and movie theaters fill again, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what a…

The end of a year that has seen television reach a new summit of influence and importance, with the arrival of 2021 on the horizon, provides a moment to look back at the shows that define the medium in the 21st century so far. To that end, as so many of us have spent months of the coronavirus pandemic locked down in…

On Sunday, February 9, 2020, history was made at the 92nd annual Academy Awards when, for the first time, a foreign-language film took the coveted Best Picture prize — along with three others including Best Director, Original Screenplay and the newly named Best International Feature. That movie of course was Bong…