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UPDATED, July 31, 1:18 p.m.: Authorities have confirmed that Tik-Tok star Anthony Barajas has died due to injuries after being shot in a theater in Corona, California. The influencer passed Saturday morning after he had been on life support since being shot by Anthony Jimenez on Monday. Barajas was 19. His death comes…

Patrons of a Newport Beach cinema showing the Joel Edgerton directed thriller The Gift got a bigger scare than they expected when two or three screaming idiots with a leaf blower entered the theater during a late-night screening Saturday. Frightened by the loud, unexpected noise and the sight of the men, the crowd in…

The Trainwreck star is using some family connections to push for greater background checks on people purchasing guns. With a "Enough Is Enough" sign at their side, Amy Schumer and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appeared today at a press conference in NYC to announce a three-part legislative gun control plan. “Preventing…

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for making existing gun laws “stronger” and “more enforceable” in the wake of last week’s bloody shooting at a Lafayette, LA, multiplex screening of Trainwreck. Speaking from New Orleans on NBC’s Meet The Press, Sanders told moderator Chuck Todd that “guns used to kill…

UPDATED WRITETHRU 1:10 PM SATURDAY: The Louisiana theater where a gunman shot and killed 2 moviegoers and wounded 9 others before taking his own life remained closed Saturday, a rep from the Lafayette Police Department said this afternoon. He also said police did not know when the theater might reopen as the…

Former Time Warner chairman Jerry Levin occasionally lends his point of view to Deadline on issues that move him. Those have ranged from questioning the wisdom of Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to take over Time Warner, to revealing in the wake of Robin Williams’ death that Levin too had Parkinson’s disease, and what role…

This report is usually about dollars and cents as we head into the weekend box office with studios opening several new films as others try to hang in. But a tragic factor has entered the mix with last night’s shooting at the Grand Theatre in Lafayette, LA. While it’s clearly of nominal importance compared to a…

Trainwreck director Judd Apatow issued a statement this morning about the mass shooting at a screening of his film Thursday night in Lafayette, LA. “One of the reasons we make these movies is because the world can be so horrifying and we all need to laugh just to deal with it,” he said. “So to have this happen in a…

Universal Pictures, which is distributing the Amy Schumer-starring comedy Trainwreck , just released a statement about the theater shooting in Lafayette, LA last night at the beginning of a screening of the movie. Two were killed, nine others were injured and the gunman took his own life. "All of us at Universal…

Louisiana police have identified the individual behind last night’s tragic shootings at the screening of Trainwreck as John Russel Houser. The news was confirmed by Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft, who described Houser as “a kind of drifter’ who was from Alabama and had been in Lafayette since early July, staying in…