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UPDATED with closing prices: Shares of Twitter fell more than 10% in early trading after the social media platform banned President Donald Trump permanently Friday for risk of inciting violence, but had regained some ground by late morning as heat around Internet regulation ratcheted up. The stock closed at $48.97…

UPDATED with Sony CEO comments. John Stankey, CEO of AT&T and an industry figure who had a high-profile tangle with the administration of President Donald Trump, issued a statement decrying the “appalling insurrection” in Washington. While the statement doesn’t name Trump, it does congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala…

Hollywood campaigned hard for President Donald Trump's ouster, but most have been holding back the spirit of celebration until he's finally shown the door on January 20. Spike Lee is popping the cork early. It's been a good year for director, who took the number one slot for Netflix streamers with his acclaimed summer…

President Donald Trump’s advice today – “Don’t be afraid of Covid” – didn’t go down well with some in the Hollywood community, including actor Zach Braff, whose friend, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, died last July of complications from the coronavirus. “You don't have covid for the weekend,” Braff tweeted today. “He…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said casinos statewide and NYC malls can open Sept. 9 but stayed mum on movie theaters in a press briefing Thursday dedicated mainly to ripping President Donald Trump in an escalating war of words between the two pols. The omission is a blow to theater owners as Tenet, the first major…

President Donald Trump loves to watch the ratings. This morning, he tweaked the lion’s tail against MSNBC’s low-rated Morning Joe, targeting the show’s ratings and in particular cohost Mika Brzezinski, calling her a “ditzy airhead.” “Very poor morning TV ratings for MSDNC's Morning Joe, headed by a complete Psycho…

President Donald Trump’s recent mispronunciation of Yosemite – in which he referred to the national park as “Yo-semites” – is causing some merriment on social media. And one of the biggest revelations is that a beloved cartoon character bearing the park’s name may actually be a Semite. The Atlantic editor Yoni…

In between writing bestselling novels — and writing the occasional column for Deadline — author Don Winslow has taken on a new vocation. He has been making very barbed viral videos that assail everything from President Donald Trump’s policies on combating the coronavirus pandemic to the president’s place in history…

Showtime has just set a late November premiere date over two nights for its limited series The Comey Rule, the $40 million budget adaptation of A Higher Loyalty, the book by former FBI head James Comey that is about his battles with President Donald Trump. The network released the first images of Gleeson playing…

Large-scale protests again broke out in Minneapolis and (newly) New York’s Union Square on Thursday in response to he death of George Floyd, a black man who was seen on video pinned at the neck by a white police officer screaming “I can’t breathe!” Floyd later died. Local officials sought to calm the unrest at a…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that targeted social media companies. The order came in reaction to a blue “fact check” link placed by Twitter on two of the president’s more politically-minded posts, tacitly questioning their veracity. There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will…

On the same day that President Trump ripped into Twitter for tagging his post with a “fact check” link, calling it a violation of his freedom of speech, comedian Kathy Griffin also decided to test her protections under the First Amendment. CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted a quote from Trump at a White House diabetes event on…