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Three months ago, I supposed the next great movie newsroom drama would look more like Absence of Malice than All The President's Men. Who knew that Clint Eastwood, filmdom's Great Disruptor, would so soon be on his way to making sense of that supposition? Just last week, Warner Bros. confirmed that Eastwood was poised…

This list will be updated on a regular basis this week with more events to be announced. Please send any event or party details to anthony@deadline.com. Most events are by invite-only except for the Oscar Week panels; tickets sold for those at Oscars.org. Tuesday, Feb. 19 5:30PM: 21st Costume Designers Guild…

BBC terror thriller Bodyguard comfortably beat ITV's remake of Vanity Fair on Sunday night in the overnight ratings. The Richard Madden-fronted thriller scored 6.6M overnight numbers with a 33% share and a 7M peak on BBC One. The third episode of the series was in line with last Sunday night's opener but its peak was…

ITV and Amazon have unveiled a first-look at the forthcoming adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 1848 novel Vanity Fair. The partners have debuted a short trailer that features Ready Player One star Olivia Cooke with her foot all over a globe, as the seven-part drama is set against the backdrop of the…

Elizabeth Chambers has sued a Beverly Hills woman who allegedly impersonated the actress to get a ticket to Vanity Fair’s exclusive Oscar after-party. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Chambers accused Diana Roque Ellis, or someone else acting in concert with her, of engaging in an elaborate…

This list will be updated on a regular basis with more events to be announced. Please send any event or party details to anthony@deadline.com. Mostly all of the events are by invite-only except for the Oscar Week panels; tickets sold for those at Oscars.org. Tuesday, Feb. 27 7 PM: Oscar Week: Shorts Location: Samuel…

UPDATED 9:06 AM With statement from Harvey Weinstein. In the final frantic days before the New Yorker and The New York Times exposed his sexual misconduct, Harvey Weinstein allegedly spent his time searching for and deleting sensitive documents, scouring ex-employees’ online communications and hunting for the person…

Donald Trump mocked Vanity Fair Thursday morning, after the Conde Nast publication said it “regrets” a video telling Hillary Clinton to take up knitting and drop politics. In the video, six Vanity Fair Hive editors suggested New Year's resolutions for Clinton.  While sipping champagne, they suggested the former…

Vanity Fair has apologized for a video in which six of its Hive editors attempted to make arch New Year’s resolutions for Hillary Clinton, while sipping champagne. "It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark," the publication said in a master stroke of understatement. The suggested resolutions…

UPDATE Wednesday: A spokesperson for Harvey Weinstein today provided this response to earlier stories in Deadline and Vanity Fair: "Mr. Weinstein has dedicated his life to helping raise funding to find a cure for AIDS…Over the years he has raised over $50 million  personally in donations and in his own contributions…

UPDATED with confirmation: Vanity Fair has made it official, with the magazine’s parent company Condé Nast confirming today that former Time and current editorial director of The New York Times books department Radhika Jones has been named the fifth editor-in-chief in the magazine’s history. She will begin December 11…

Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, Reese Witherspoon, Kate McKinnon and Chance the Rapper are among the entertainment and media figures joining Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list. The 2017 roster was released today, with Jeff Bezos…