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Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the New York Times journalist who obtained the Pentagon Papers, has died. His wife, Susan Sheehan, told The New York Times that he died Thursday due to complications of Parkinson’s disease at his Washington home. He was 84. Born on Oct. 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachussetts…

Will there ever be another great journalism film? Given the chaos in both movies and the news media—audiences polarized, anonymous sourcing resurgent, Twitter rampant, prevailing narratives debunked (or not)—the temptation is to say, no, probably not. But common sense says the next great media movie is bound to…

Look closely at Carousel's dancing millworkers and you might see the patches. Maybe you’ll wonder whether the pipe-dreaming barflies of The Iceman Cometh scrub the collars of their threadbare shirts with lye if given the chance, or would they just leave the filthy duds rumpled where they land? Ann Roth ponders such…

Next Oscar season already has one noteworthy date on the books. The National Board of Review has reserved January 8, 2019, for its annual film awards gala in New York. As it has for more than a decade, the event will be held at Cipriani 42nd Street. Willie Geist, host of NBC’s Sunday Today and co-host of MSNBC’s Mornin…

Even while promoting his futuristic, high-tech new movie, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg is revealing his traditionalist streak., questioning the level playing field between theatrical features and films launched on Netflix and other streaming services. During his five-decade directing career, as innovations from…

The Humanitas Prize winners were unveiled tonight, awarded annually to encourage, stimulate and sustain the nation's screenwriters. The 43rd annual honors for the first time separated feature film categories by genre, with Netflix’s Mudbound and Fox’s The Post tying for drama, A24’s Lady Bird winning for comedy and…

With the final voting about to begin for the Best Picture Oscar, Deadline looks at the challenges and the hard road for each of the nine finalists. First up was Awardsline cover film Get Out. Here are the rest of the films contending for Oscar’s top prize. Call Me by Your Name The exhilaration of each year's crop of…

Three weeks and a day before the Oscar ceremony, those supposedly vibrant, film-hungry viewers of the seasonal contenders are still curled up in a ball. By now, they should be pouring into theaters to sample Best Picture nominees that have been primed, promoted, and prepped for the big night—March 4—with an armload of…

“Throughout the years, there have been many classic movies set in newsrooms at newspapers,” Late Night host Seth Meyers told viewers “and this year is no different.” However, there is one movie out there about an intrepid group of reporters that really stands out from the pack, Meyers said, introducing one of his NBC…

By the time March 4 arrives when Oscars are handed out, those lauded pics still in play at the box office are projected to amass close to $150M, that is from the time since nominations were announced last Tuesday. Of that figure, 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight combined with five titles —The Shape of Water (13…

EXCLUSIVE: Franco-Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri had a rough road to get to a Foreign Language Oscar nomination today with his drama, The Insult — including being arrested just after it premiered in Venice. Still, there’s comfort in the first-ever nomination for Lebanon since it began submitting films in 1978…

On the way to some Thursday appointments, I thought I'd catch up with The Greatest Showman at the Landmark Theaters here; but it was not to be found at the Westside's showcase cinema. Never mind that Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum musical, released by Fox on December 20, was No. 3 at the Wednesday box office, going strong…