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The Berlin Film Festival on Monday unveiled the titles selected for its official competition as well as its sidebar Encounters competitive section. A total of 18 films have been selected for the international competition with highlights including Christian Petzold’s latest film Roter Himmel (Afire)…

The Oscars declined to give a platform to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year, but the Golden Globes made up for it Tuesday, offering him an opportunity to speak directly to an American and world audience. In taped remarks introduced by Sean Penn, the Ukrainian leader expressed optimism…

Sean Penn, who has two Academy Awards, gifted one of his Oscar trophies to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to the capital Kyiv. “It's just a symbolic silly thing, but if I know this is here then I'll feel better and strong enough for the fights,” Penn told Zelenskyy in a video…

The Television Academy said Tuesday that it will honor Sean Penn with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award and induct six new members into its Hall of Fame in November. The six Hall of Fame honorees are Debbie Allen, the six-time Emmy-winning director/choreographer; Ken Burns, the 16-time Emmy winner and…

Actor Eileen Ryan, the mother of actors Sean Penn and Christopher Penn and musician Michael Penn, died Sunday at her home in Malibu, just a week short of her 95th birthday. Ryan, born Eileen Annucci, met fellow actor Leo Penn in 1957 at rehearsals for The Iceman Cometh, a Circle in the Square…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner and Gaslit star Sean Penn and Lost‘s Matthew Fox are set as leads of an Australian satirical comedy series for streaming service Stan. The pair will star in C*A*U*G*H*T, a six-part series from Kick Gurry (Edge of Tomorrow) that takes aim at fame and stardom. Joining them are series…

Sean Penn and Ben Stiller today were among 25 “high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures” banned from Russia today by that country’s foreign ministry. Also on the list are Senators Rick Scott, Mark Kelley, Pat Toomey, Kevin Kramer and Krysten Sinema as…

Sean Penn’s recently launched production company Projected Picture Works has signed on to produce the political thriller Killers & Diplomats alongside Mill House Motion Pictures. The film from writers Michael Nourse and John Tyler McClain, whose screenplay was featured on the 2021 Black List, is based on an article by…

It’s been nine months since then-head of TriStar Television Kathryn Busby was named President Of Original Programming for Starz. In her first nine months on the job, Busby has embraced and expanded the network’s existing programming commitment to narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences as…

TV Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma said this morning that the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations would reflect only "a fraction" of the immense talent on the small screen this year. He was so on the nose about that, sadly. 2022 Emmy Nominations: Deadline's Complete Coverage Yet again, TV Academy voters…

Ben Stiller and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees partner to support those fleeing Ukraine while the war with Russia rages on. In a dual post with the UN Refugees Instagram page, a picture is shared of Stiller talking with UNHCR staff in Poland. The actor mentions in his caption how he's learning…

'The more you read about him, the more drawn in you are by the people who surrounded him, the more you can see how that kind of culture of complicity, culture war rhetoric and the movement of conservativism as a whole really has its Ground Zero with Nixon," says Gaslit creator Robbie Pickering of what compelled him to…