President Donald Trump called ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott “the most obnoxious reporter” for asking a question about his previous assertion that he had “no problem” releasing footage of the Sept. 2 strike off the coast of Venezuela — which killed the two survivors of an alleged drug trafficking boat — and the prominent […]

Leonardo DiCaprio is joining the chorus of Hollywood A-Listers who have voiced their concerns and hopes for the artificial intelligence age. On the day of his appointment as Time‘s Entertainer of the Year and Golden Globe nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the Academy Award-winning actor acknowledged to the magazine how AI […]

Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries) and are setting sail for Season 2. The television adaptation of Rick Riordan’s series has already been renewed for a third season, with production underway. That’s more than the film franchise got, stopping after The Sea of Monsters movie. Read on for the details about the […]

Until his recent Golden Globe nomination, most people in America simply knew Lee Byung Hun as the enigmatic Front Man from the hit Netflix show Squid Game. In Asia, however, it’s always been a different story. Now 55, the actor first caused a splash in Park Chan-wook’s political thriller JSA, set in the no man’s […]

Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow enters Oscar shortlist voting with incredible momentum. On Sunday, the film was named Best Documentary/Nonfiction film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, just days after it won Best Documentary Film at the Gotham Awards and Best Non-Fiction Film at the New […]

One veteran of the Washington regulatory trenches sees no major roadblocks ahead for Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. “I think the deal gets done,” said Andrew Lipman, a regulatory policy expert and partner at Washington, D.C. law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Contrary to Paramount’s assertions in its hostile bid for WBD, he added, “I don’t […]

As 2025 comes to a close, it seems fairly safe to say that Season 3 of The White Lotus will be getting a lot of ink in end-of-year roundups. The kind of edgy, water-cooler stuff you were beginning to think they were never going to make any more, Mike White’s series played out like a […]

It’s always a fine line for any actor to play twins on screen, and Michael B. Jordan pulled it off landing his first Golden Globe nomination of his career in the Motion Picture Lead Actor Drama category for his turn as both Smoke and Stack in Warner Bros’ surprise $367M-plus grossing blockbuster Sinners. Jordan tells […]

Break out the cheap wine and the non-traceable visa gift cards. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You star Rose Byrne, was anywhere but hovering near a digital screen when the 2026 Golden Globe nominations rolled in on Monday morning. In fact, similarly to her onscreen character, she was having some personal time with her […]

On Sunday at the Sun Valley Film Festival, Train Dreams director and co-writer Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar received Deadline’s Disruptors in Film Award. The filmmaking duo, who were Oscar-nominated in 2025 for Best Adapted Screenplay for their film Sing Sing, directed by Kwedar, have long been noted by Deadline for their work as […]

As Paramount made a hostile offer for Warner Bros. Discovery in an effort to overcome Netflix’s deal for the media giant, Donald Trump is in the middle. On Monday, he commented again on the prospects for a major media merger, this time not favoring either suitor. Both companies have tried to win his favor, as […]

“Certainly, a lot has happened since Cannes,” Norwegian director Joachim Trier told Deadline with a smile. Indeed, this morning his film made history at the Golden Globes by breaking out of the foreign-language category big-time. As well as the expected non-English nomination, Trier’s film garnered Best Film (Drama), Best Director and Best Screenplay (with longtime […]

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said he still fully expects the local TV giant’s pending deal to acquire rival Tegna will get approved despite some surprisingly adversarial comments recently by President Trump. The exec appeared Monday at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference for a panel focused largely on the $6.2 billion merger proposed earlier […]

On the heels of the first trailer drop for the hotly anticipated fifth and final season of The Boys at CCXP over the weekend, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and Brazilian game studio Arvore have announced the first official The Boys VR game experience, developed with the series’ creators, to launch in 2026. Fans of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Teton Ridge Entertainment, the TWG Global-owned film and TV studio, has pacted with John Wayne Enterprises for the exclusive life rights of the Oscar-winning Hollywood star across film and TV, scripted and unscripted. The deal gives the studio, which has a focus on American West content, access to John Wayne Enterprises’ extensive archives including letters, journals, […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Age of Disclosure, Dan Farah’s explosive documentary that makes a potent case for the existence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and the U.S. government’s alleged efforts to conceal that knowledge, is off to a tremendous start on VOD, boosting the film’s underdog bid for Oscar recognition. Within 48 hours of the film’s release on […]

Given how excited audiences have been for Zootopia 2, it’s not a surprise that the film garnered two Golden Globe nominations this morning – one for Best Motion Picture – Animated, and the other for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. Writer-director Jared Bush gives credit to the more than 700 people who worked on the […]

Saudi creative studio Telfaz11 and music platform MDLBEAST unveiled a strategic partnership on the fringes of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah on Monday. The agreement unites two of the hippest entertainment brands to have emerged out of Saudi Arabia in the wake of its lifting in 2017 of a 35-year-ban on cinema and […]

After Smashing Machine‘s 15 1/2-minute standing ovation at Venice, which brought Dwayne Johnson to tears, the wrestler-turned movie star finally earned his first Golden Globe nomination this morning for his turn as tormented MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the A24 movie. Johnson’s nom was in the Lead Male Actor Motion Picture Drama category. That Golden […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has weighed in against Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, days after issuing a blistering attack on Netflix’s agreement with WB to buy the studio and streaming assets. In a statement, Warren said, “A Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger would be a five-alarm antitrust fire and exactly what our anti-monopoly laws are […]

In the wake of freaking out the industry and theater owners with its winning bid for Warner Bros on Thursday, followed by Paramount’s hostile takeover proposal this morning, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters jumped on a Wall Street call again Monday to pour cold water on the fire, specifically as it relates to […]

Paramount is targeting up to $6 billion in cost savings if it acquires Warner Bros Discovery by eliminating “duplicative operations across all aspects of the business,” said chief strategy and chief operating officer Andy Gordon. He was queried about that sizable stat on a call with Wall Street after Par unveiled a hostile takeover offer […]

Channing Dungey may have only been at Netflix for a couple of years but she was instrumental in series such as Bridgerton, Emily in Paris and Inventing Anna as well as helping to bring over Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Dungey, who is now Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Television Group, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jonas Barnes, an alum of Neil Moritz’s Original Film, is launching Pixie USA, a digital-first banner for vertical micro-dramas with brands embedded in the storytelling. Based out of Atlanta, Georgia, Barnes says the company is built “specifically for brand-integrated narratives, creating series where products and partners function as character-driven story elements, not traditional sponsors.” […]

Season 3 of My Life With the Walter Boys is adding some new faces to the cast. Erin Karpluk (Being Erica, Smoke) will portray George’s (Marc Blucas) nomadic sister Hannah, mother of Isaac (Isaac Arellanes) and Lee Garcia (Myles Perez) who left her two sons to live with the Walters and took off for unknown […]