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Spencer Pratt Literally Running A Reality TV Bid For L.A. Mayor; ‘AKA Charlie Sheen’ Producer Behind New Show

You can take the villain out of the reality TV show, but looks like Spencer Pratt will always return to his The Hills roots one way or another. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Pratt has signed up for an unscripted series following his bid to be the 44th Mayor of Los Angeles. Deadline […]

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The Ups & Downs Of Upfronts 2026: Disney And Netflix Sizzle, NBCUniversal Fizzles In Blessedly Streamlined Edition

Another compressed upfronts “week” is in the books, a three-day bender in New York with media and tech companies pitching their wares to advertisers. As with the NFL Draft or a venture capitalist’s early-stage bets, winners and losers can’t be determined overnight. But there always are initial takeaways and impressions, along with the dawning awareness […]

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‘The Batman Part II’ Casts Brian Tyree Henry, Sebastian Koch; Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson Roles Confirmed

Gotham City is welcoming a few new faces as production on The Batman: Part II gets underway. After Deadline reported that Sebastian Stan was in talks to join the sequel as Harvey Dent (aka Two-Face) and Scarlett Johansson was also eyeing a role, writer and director Matt Reeves confirmed his casting on social media with […]

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‘The Book Of Mormon’ Expected To Resume Broadway Performances May 21 After “Tremendous Progress” In Fire Damage Repair

UDPATE: The Book of Mormon producers now expect performances at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre to resume on Thursday, May 21, assuming progress on the fire-damaged venue continues apace. In a statement today, the producers, along with venue owner ATG Entertainment, said the venue’s recently closed box office will reopen to the public tomorrow, May 15, […]

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Eric Kripke On How Samuel L. Jackson’s ‘The Boys’ Cameo Happened: “A Bucket List Moment”

SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Boys, Season 5 episode ‘The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk’ With two episodes of The Boys left, Eric Kripke managed to squeeze a celebrity cameo into the penultimate that had some fans doing a double take. The creator of the Prime Video series, which […]

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Peter Jackson On How Stephen Colbert Boarded ‘Lord Of The Rings: Shadow Of The Past’ As Scribe – Deadline Cannes Studio

Freshly lauded Cannes Palme d’Or honoree Peter Jackson tells us that Stephen Colbert’s attachment as writer on a new Lord of the Rings movie (getting released after 2027’s Hunt for Gollum) occurred when The Late Show host pitched himself for the gig. “He was re-reading Lord of the Rings over Christmas and thought this section […]

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Bobby Berk Says AI Will Make Reality TV & “Verifiably Human Content” More Valuable – Web Summit

Amid the tech titans, founders, policymakers and an endless array of AI-powered start-ups at Web Summit Vancouver, Bobby Berk made a case for why reality television will become more culturally valuable in an era shaped by social media and AI. “The thing that reality television has that no other genre does is time,” he said. […]

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Newsom Bulks Up California’s Antitrust War Chest As AG Contemplates Paramount WBD Merger Battle

New antitrust litigation funding in Gavin Newsom’s final budget as governor looks to provide a clue as to what California plans to do about the contentious Paramount & WBD merger. The just released revised budget may be unexpectedly tax revenue flush, but the likely 2028 White House candidate isn’t exiting Sacramento without firing off a […]

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Taraji P. Henson On Debbie Allen’s ‘Joe Turner’s Come & Gone’ Intermission Announcement: “Theater Is Not For Punks”

After making her Broadway debut last month, Taraji P. Henson is opening up about the challenges of performing for a live audience. The Golden Globe winner, who plays Bertha Holly in the current revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Barrymore Theatre, recently commented on director Debbie Allen’s pre-recorded intermission announcement […]

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Oscar Winner Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’ Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation In Cannes

Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s first feature in five years received a warm welcome in Cannes tonight as an enthusiastic audience gave Parallel Tales a seven-minute standing ovation. Farhadi shot the feature in Paris last year. The film is yet to receive an official synopsis but the cast features Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, […]

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Search For New James Bond Takes Next Steps As Nina Gold Closes Deal As Casting Director

The search for who will play 007 has taken an important step as sources have confirmed to Deadline that Nina Gold has closed a deal to become the casting director for the next James Bond film. Gold will work with director Denis Villeneuve as well as producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman in finding that […]

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‘Scary Movie’ & ‘Masters Of The Universe’ To Freak Each Other Out With $35M+ Openings – Box Office Early Look

As we mentioned in our summer curtain raiser, for the most part each weekend this summer is relying on one studio tentpole film, making the first weekend in June when one of a handful where there’s actually two studios duking it out with respective event films; we’re talking Paramount/Miramax’s reboot of the Wayans Brothers’ Scary […]

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‘Off Campus’ Star Jalen Thomas Brooks Talks “Glue Guy” Tucker, “Huge Payoff” Of ‘The Goal’ Romance And Mateo’s Future In ‘The Pitt’

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Elle Kennedy’s Off Campus book series. For The Pitt breakout Jalen Thomas Brooks, the medical show provided a springboard to his latest big gig, the role of John Tucker in Prime Video’s Off Campus. Director Silver Tree, who helmed an episode of Season 1 of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama […]

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Keith Cox Leaving Paramount After 20 Years, Poised To Join Chris McCarthy & Co. At NBCUniversal

Another legacy Paramount TV executive is leaving in the wake of the Skydance merger. Company veteran Keith Cox, who has served as top programming executive for multiple brands, including TV Land, Paramount Network and Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, is departing after two decades. His last day is June 5. Cox’s future plans have not been revealed […]

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WBD Staffers Raise Upfront Glass As Yet Another Corporate Merger Looms

Warner Bros. Discovery’s lunch at the Food Network Kitchen after its upfront pitch to advertisers has become “an annual ritual,” in the words of Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer Bruce Campbell. This year’s edition, however, unfolded in the shadow of the pending $110 billion acquisition of WBD by David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance. The industry-altering deal, […]

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‘Michael’ & ‘Devil 2’ In Dance-Off For No. 1 At Mid-May Box Office; Michael Jackson Biopic Passes $600M WW – Preview

This weekend, it’s the holdovers which will do the heavy lifting at the May box office before Disney/Lucasfilm’s Mandalorian and Grogu arrives over Memorial Day weekend, hoping to make a difference. 20th Century Studios’ Devil Wears Prada 2 and Lionsgate’s Michael are respectively looking at third and fourth weekends that are north of $20M while […]

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‘Doctor Who’ Lands U.S. Streaming Home At AMC+

AMC+ will be the new, exclusive U.S. streaming partner to the BBC’s Doctor Who. Thirteen seasons and 176 episodes (including specials) of the award-winning series will be available in the U.S. beginning Thursday, June 11. Doctor Who, the longest-running British sci-fi television series, follows the stories of a regenerating Time Lord who travels on adventures […]

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It Starts On The Page: Read ‘The Diplomat’ Season 3 Script “Amagansett” With Foreword By Debora Cahn

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Drama) features standout drama series scripts in 2026 Emmy contention. With Netflix’s The Diplomat, creator and showrunner Debora Cahn is scratching an itch she’s had for most of her career, to pull back the layers of the Foreign Service to understand the people who dedicate their lives to global diplomacy. But, […]

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‘Parallel Lives’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama -Cannes Film Festival

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for the 5th time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two of his movies, 2011’s A Separation and 2016’s The Salesman both went on to win the Best […]

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‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama – Cannes Film Festival

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two of his movies, 2011’s A Separation and 2016’s The Salesman, both went on to win the Best […]

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‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama – Cannes Film Festival

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for the fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two of his movies, 2011’s A Separation and 2016’s The Salesman. both went on to win the Best […]

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Natalie Dormer Among Those Joining ‘The Big Fix’ At Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Dormer, Susan Lynch and Gabriel Leone are joining Mark Wahlberg and Riz Ahmed in in thriller The Big Fix, with Baltasar Kormákur on board to direct. Guy Bolton and Justin Haythe are penning the script, with Kormákur producing along with Peter Chernin and David Ready for Chernin. Inspired by a true story and based on the […]

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Tyler Perry’s ‘The Oval’ Sets Premiere Date & Drops Teaser Trailer For Seventh & Final Season

Tyler Perry’s The Oval will premiere its seventh and final season on Tuesday, May 20, at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on BET, with new episodes dropping weekly on the same night through September 30. Paramount+ will have new episodes available the same day, beginning at 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET. A teaser for the […]

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Claudine Longet Dies: Singer & Ex-Wife Of Andy Williams Who Fatally Shot Olympic Skier Spider Sabich Was 84

Claudine Longet, the French-American chanteuse whose first fame in music, on TV and as the wife of singing star Andy Williams was dwarfed by infamy after her fatal shooting of the Olympic skier Spider Sabich in 1976, has died. She was 84. Her death was announced today by nephew Bryan Longet in a message shared […]

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‘Shrinking’, ‘Pluribus’, ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’, ‘The Morning Show’ & ‘Stick’ Casting Directors Reveal Selection Secrets

A group of casting directors working across Apple TV’s scripted series have revealed their tricks of the trade when it comes to selecting the right stars to cast. Shrinking’s Debby Romano, Pluribus’ Russell Scott, Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ David Rubin, The Morning Show’s Vickie Thomas and Stick’s Rachel Tenner convened at the Apple TV + […]

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‘Virgin River’ Adds Mitchell Slaggert To Cast As Season 8 Starts Production

EXCLUSIVE: A new heartthrob is coming to Virgin River. Mitchell Slaggert (Landman, The Sex Lives of College Girls) is set for a major recurring role on the upcoming eighth season of the Netflix romantic drama, which recently started production in Vancover. Slaggert will play Eddie, a charismatic EMT who may surprise you by fixing your […]

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Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ Gets Six-Minute Standing Ovation In Cannes

Pawel Pawlikowski’s third go-round at Cannes, the in-competition Fatherland, received a six minute standing ovation today in its world premiere at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. That marks two big standing ovations for theatrical distributor Mubi, following last night’s Un Certain Regard premiere Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma which landed an unexpected nine-minute standing […]

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Versant Eyes Expanded Sports Portfolio As Larger Rivals Focus On NFL — “There’s A Variety Of Content Coming” Says CEO Mark Lazarus

As big media companies work through the next costly and competitive contract cycle with the NFL, it leaves room for newly independent Versant to nab rights to other leagues as they come up, said CEO Mark Lazarus on a Versant earnings call Thursday. “I do believe that that will put pressure on those companies that […]

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‘A Capitol Fourth’ Moves A Day Earlier To Kickoff America’s 250th Weekend; Trace Adkins To Debut New Song

The annual concert event A Capitol Fourth will move to a day earlier, on July 3, as part of a kickoff of weekend celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the United States. The event on the west lawn of the Capitol, to air on public television stations, also will feature Trace Adkins who will debut […]

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Mishka Sets Cast For Debut Feature ‘My Boyfriend Is A Demon’

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director mishka has commenced production on her debut feature, My Boyfriend Is A Demon. The ensemble cast includes Mattias Ferrell (A Very Jonas Christmas Movie), Bailey Sloan (Ragamuffin), Jack Champion (Avatar), Ever Anderson (Peter Pan & Wendy), Vinnie Hacker (Euphoria), Josephine Reitman, David Arquette (Scream), Rosanna Arquette (The Moment), Coco Arquette (Cougar Town), Savannah Lee Smith […]

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Spencer Pratt Literally Running A Reality TV Bid For L.A. Mayor; ‘AKA Charlie Sheen’ Producer Behind New Show

The Ups & Downs Of Upfronts 2026: Disney And Netflix Sizzle, NBCUniversal Fizzles In Blessedly Streamlined Edition

‘The Batman Part II’ Casts Brian Tyree Henry, Sebastian Koch; Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson Roles Confirmed

‘The Book Of Mormon’ Expected To Resume Broadway Performances May 21 After “Tremendous Progress” In Fire Damage Repair

Eric Kripke On How Samuel L. Jackson’s ‘The Boys’ Cameo Happened: “A Bucket List Moment”

Peter Jackson On How Stephen Colbert Boarded ‘Lord Of The Rings: Shadow Of The Past’ As Scribe – Deadline Cannes Studio

Bobby Berk Says AI Will Make Reality TV & “Verifiably Human Content” More Valuable – Web Summit

Newsom Bulks Up California’s Antitrust War Chest As AG Contemplates Paramount WBD Merger Battle

Taraji P. Henson On Debbie Allen’s ‘Joe Turner’s Come & Gone’ Intermission Announcement: “Theater Is Not For Punks”

Oscar Winner Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’ Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation In Cannes

Search For New James Bond Takes Next Steps As Nina Gold Closes Deal As Casting Director

‘Scary Movie’ & ‘Masters Of The Universe’ To Freak Each Other Out With $35M+ Openings – Box Office Early Look

‘Off Campus’ Star Jalen Thomas Brooks Talks “Glue Guy” Tucker, “Huge Payoff” Of ‘The Goal’ Romance And Mateo’s Future In ‘The Pitt’

Keith Cox Leaving Paramount After 20 Years, Poised To Join Chris McCarthy & Co. At NBCUniversal

WBD Staffers Raise Upfront Glass As Yet Another Corporate Merger Looms

‘Michael’ & ‘Devil 2’ In Dance-Off For No. 1 At Mid-May Box Office; Michael Jackson Biopic Passes $600M WW – Preview

‘Doctor Who’ Lands U.S. Streaming Home At AMC+

It Starts On The Page: Read ‘The Diplomat’ Season 3 Script “Amagansett” With Foreword By Debora Cahn

‘Parallel Lives’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama -Cannes Film Festival

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama – Cannes Film Festival

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama – Cannes Film Festival

Natalie Dormer Among Those Joining ‘The Big Fix’ At Netflix

Tyler Perry’s ‘The Oval’ Sets Premiere Date & Drops Teaser Trailer For Seventh & Final Season

Claudine Longet Dies: Singer & Ex-Wife Of Andy Williams Who Fatally Shot Olympic Skier Spider Sabich Was 84

‘Shrinking’, ‘Pluribus’, ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’, ‘The Morning Show’ & ‘Stick’ Casting Directors Reveal Selection Secrets

‘Virgin River’ Adds Mitchell Slaggert To Cast As Season 8 Starts Production

Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ Gets Six-Minute Standing Ovation In Cannes

Versant Eyes Expanded Sports Portfolio As Larger Rivals Focus On NFL — “There’s A Variety Of Content Coming” Says CEO Mark Lazarus

‘A Capitol Fourth’ Moves A Day Earlier To Kickoff America’s 250th Weekend; Trace Adkins To Debut New Song

Mishka Sets Cast For Debut Feature ‘My Boyfriend Is A Demon’

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