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Editor's note: In another special report for Deadline, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay is back in Kabul to cover the nation’s return to Taliban rule, almost 20 years after American forces ejected the fundamentalist group from…

Editor’s note: This article is derived from a conversation between Ramy Youssef and producer Maytha Alhassen and is one in a series of Deadline stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It's a fairly sunny fall afternoon, and we see Farouk Hassan, the father of an Egyptian-Muslim family based in Rutherford, NJ…

National Geographic has greenlighted a pair of specials to air in the coming months. Bin Laden’s Hard Drive, which spotlights newly declassified information on the notorious terrorist, premieres September 10, and Virus Hunters, about the experts working to prevent the next pandemic, bow November 1. In Bin Laden’s Hard…

Stephen Colbert probed President Donald Trump's obsession with presidential pardons, on the day Trump granted Kim Kardashian’s wish, commuting the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, while starting pardon paperwork on at least 30 other individuals. Colbert prepared his Presumed POTUS Pardon Paperwork List: -Mike…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM prevailed in an auction for the rights to We’re The Only Plane In The Sky, a lengthy Politico Magazine story by Garrett M. Graff that tells the real-time story of how the U.S. government handled the evacuation of President George W. Bush from a classroom of children in Sarasota, FL after learning that…

UPDATE, 9:50 AM: Approximately 3.370 million people watched Part 2 of Fox News Channel’s The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden last night, 586,000 viewers in the news demo, according to early stats.  The second night of the two-part special stands as FNC’s most-watched special in its history. PREVIOUS, Wednesday PM: Part…

Fox News Channel will debut The Man Who Killed Usama Bin Laden, on November 11 and 12, described as an exclusive interview with the Navy SEAL who fired the shots that killed the terrorist leader. In the special, the man’s identity will be revealed, and he will describe the events leading up to and during the raid that…

Here is an unexpected vote of support for Best Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty, a film that probably lost an Oscar nomination for director Kathryn Bigelow because of the cage rattling by three U.S. Senators over what they said was a false impression that the torture depicted in the film led somehow to 9/11 mastermind…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up as the first major deal made on the ground at the Cannes Film Festival, The Weinstein Company is in hot and heavy negotiations for U.S. rights to Code Name Geronimo, the John Stockwell-directed drama about the manhunt for 9/11 terror attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. The deal is in…

Members of the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad group stormed the set of Kathryn Bigelow’s hunt for Osama bin Laden film in the Indian city of Chandigarh today, protesting the portrayal of Muslim culture in India, according to reports. Bigelow's crew had been shooting there for four days although the director is…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Clarke is the first actor set for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden for Sony Pictures and Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures. An elite group of actors is being courted for the ensemble. I’m told that Clarke–who stars in the Ellison-produced The Wettest County in the…

No decision has been made yet. But studio sources say it “looks likely” that Sony Pictures, which had scheduled its hunt-for-bin Laden film for release October 12th, is moving it to later in 2012 or into 2013. That puts it after the 2012 election and ensures that the film won’t become a so-called “October surprise&#8221…