Johnny Depp is finally sounding off about the possibility of returning as Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean 6.” Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on his “Ebenezer” press tour, the Oscar nominee stopped short of confirming he will put the pirate costume on once more. Instead, Depp said he would never turn down a request […]
Fresh off a buzzy NYC pop-up, Parke is giving fans another chance to shop its New York-inspired collection without waiting in line
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The 'Pardon the Interruption' host says he'll be off the air indefinitely.
The studio is partnering to bring its latest franchise pic in 3D to Mark Zuckerberg's lightweight VR product after a theatrical release kicking off Nov. 20.
Randy Newman had previously written the original songs for the franchise.
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped on satirical horror comedy Get Off Your Phone, the feature directorial debut of Chelsea Frei (The Paper). Frei wrote the screenplay and stars alongside Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and Jon Rudnitsky (Saturday Night Live). The film “follows Daniela (Frei), a canceled influencer who retreats to rural Wisconsin with […]
Bryan interprets "Kentucky Hurricane," off Ian Noe's Canyon Falls Trailer Band album, in a new video he uploaded to YouTube
Actor and comedian Bill Murray apparently had had enough of the grinning mug of Kevin Hassett, Trump’s top economic adviser, in a weird impromptu exchange on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program. Murray unexpectedly inserted himself into a CNBC interview Monday between “Squawk Box” hosts Joe Kernan and Becky Quick and Hassett, who serves as National Economic […]
Dominic West (“The Crown”), John Cleese (“A Fish Called Wanda”) and Portia de Rossi (“Arrested Development”) have joined Jeff Daniels in “The Reception,” Trudie Styler’s ensemble comedy. Beta Cinema is launching international sales on the project at the American Film Market, which kicks off Nov. 10. CAA is representing domestic rights. The cast also includes […]
‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to Peru, we threw in a T rex!’ I joined Core Design in the summer of 1994 and met Toby Gard, who showed me his concept sketches for Tomb Raider. He’d already come up with the title and drawn a mock-up box cover with a woman holding two pistols. Continue reading...
Ahead of her Australian tour, the Grammy winner talks about her marriage to Nelly, fans rushing the stage and her secret skill Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Your debut album Ashanti turns 25 next year and you’re in the process of re-recording it. How do you feel about that album now? We are rerecording it so I will own my masters. Sonically, it will be a lot clearer. It was 25 years ago so it’ll sound a little more new, obviously, but with the same classic vibe. I’m very excited. What I’ve learned is that I’m just really grateful to have written records that stand the test of time. Foolish is turning 25! That I can still go to an arena and hold the mic in the air and hear everyone sing those lyrics is a beautiful feeling. And a blessing. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Sunday morning Continue reading...
Fox Corp. revenue jumped 22% last quarter to $4.57 billion, ahead of expectations, driven by a 47% surge in ad sales due to the current year broadcast of the FIFA Men’s World Cup, higher political advertising revenue, and continued digital growth led by Tubi. Distribution revenue increased 9%, driven by 10% growth at the Cable […]
Fox's revenue in the quarter was $4.57 billion, up 22 percent from a year ago.
Fox Corporation said profit in its fiscal first quarter was bolstered by advertising revenue tied to its multi-week telecast of the FIFA World Cup as well as increases in political ads and in the number of subscribers to its TV networks — dynamics that many traditional media corporations are hard-pressed to duplicate in the streaming […]
The seismic changes at Netflix are rippling across the pond, with up to 3% of the streamer’s London HQ set to be laid off. The aftershocks have also claimed production VP Anna Mallett, who is exiting amid the shake-up. Mallett, who was vice president of physical production for the U.K. and local language production across […]
Netflix layoffs have trickled down to the UK. Deadline is told that around 2% to 3% of the London office of several hundred staff have been laid off, including Anna Mallett, who was VP Production in the UK and EMEA. Others to have left work in areas like PR and marketing, we are told. Mallett […]
EXCLUSIVE: Current affairs producer-directors Gesbeen Mohammad and Robin Barnwell, who between them have scooped Emmys, Peabodys and BAFTAs, are launching an indie dedicated to “taking on the stories of the year.” Sisu Pictures kicks off with two docs airing on the same night in the shape of the BBC’s Iran: The People’s Story and Channel […]
EXCLUSIVE: The first-ever spin-off from an international version of Saturday Night Live is landing in Korea. With SNL on something of a roll internationally, SNL Korea digital short The Smile Clinic is to become a 10 x 30-minute sitcom. Emerging from SNL Korea Season 8, the skit takes aim at Korea’s cosmetic dermatology business and […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from HBO’s The Gilded Age’s Season 4 premiere. Surprise! The Gilded Age kicked off its fourth season with multiple surprises, including the quiet appearances of Matt Damon and David Letterman. At about 8:33, two gentlemen are crossing the street together, played by Damon and Letterman. Damon is […]
Dave Bautista is once again showing off his muscle gains ahead of stepping into the role of Kratos for the highly anticipated “God of War” series. The “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor last gave fans a glimpse into his transformation two months ago, saying he’d begun weight training again but still had time “to get […]
The viral blanket brand's famous fans include Selena Gomez, Simone Biles, Oprah Winfrey and Tate McRae, to name a few.
Michael Mann was hospitalized after he accidentally shot himself in the leg on Saturday a Los Angeles gun range, according to the L.A. Police Department. The director was reportedly injured while trying to holster the firearm when the weapon accidentally went off, per TMZ, which first reported the news. The incident occurred around 4 p.m. […]
"I hadn’t been writing and had just been dying out on the road," says the Texas songwriter, who surprise-released a rejuvenating acoustic album this month
Despite the odd stumble, the Oscar-tipped young actor helps to pull together the best episode of the season so far A new, spooktacular episode of Saturday Night Live kicks off at a Halloween-themed amusement park, where visitors cross paths with confusing “Halloween guy” David S Pumpkins (Tom Hanks) and his skeleton pals (Mikey Day and Bobby Moynihan). This seems like a copy-and-paste version of the previous Pumpkins sketches until Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) jumps out to “[pause] SNL skit yet again.” He needles the live audience: “Aww, are you sad you don’t get to see your third David Pumpkin scene? I’ll save you three minutes; he keeps popping up and confusing people on the ride. The end!” Continue reading...
The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn There’s no humble way to say it: I get a lot of fan mail. Almost every day, multi-paragraph emails arrive from passionate and well-informed readers in Barcelona and Frankfurt, Chicago and Warsaw. They have appealing names like Bella Monroe, Thalina Rose and Tricia Claxton. Some of them are straightforward enthusiasts while others are more irreverent, like the one who signs off her messages “warm chaos”. Some love the “deadpan genius” of my novels while others admire my nonfiction’s “moral courage”. What they all have in common, though, is that they are entirely fake and trying to con me out of money. They promise to promote my work at their city-wide book clubs or spread the word among their reading communities, if only I transfer a few hundred dollars to cover costs. In the age of generative AI, scam emails have achieved a new level of personalisation. Most writers I know are receiving a steady stream of emails like this. The messages are often sophisticated enough to bypass a spam filter and reach our inboxes, leaving us no option but to read them and ask the painful question: would any real, living person feel this strongly about my work? Or, as one writer friend put it, the reason I know they’re fake is because they’ve actually read all my books. Continue reading...
From a revival of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” to a musical parody of the reality show “The Traitors,” New York stages are full of creativity this month.
As deadpan spoof documentarian Philomena Cunk returns with a new series on cinema, her creators discuss meeting J-Lo, their worst ever jobs – and why artificial intelligence is like mad cow disease She has tackled Britain, conquered the world and even grappled with life itself. Now Philomena Cunk is back on our screens – looking as miserable and confused as ever – to take on her biggest subject yet: cinema. Cinema, the iconically stupid presenter explains, is not just mankind’s greatest achievement but also a world where “men can be heroes, women can get off with heroes, and nobody ever goes to the toilet – unless you’re watching a specialist film from Japan”. So if you’ve ever wanted to know why “Citizen Ken” always has carrots in his pockets, where the word auteur comes from (“They felt they oughta get all the credit”) or how Benedict Cumberbatch reacts to the hardest-hitting questions of his career (such as “Who are you?”), this is quite literally the only place you’ll ever find the answers. Continue reading...
The maximalist, heart over head adaptation of the romantic tragedy made stars of its leads and became an English teacher’s most trusted weapon for Bard-averse students Romeo + Juliet is not the most renowned or beloved of Shakespeare’s plays, but it is perhaps the most foundational. The 16th-century tragedy, a story of love-addled teenagers and white-hot resentment, is often an English student’s first introduction to the bard’s oeuvre – more accessible and relatable to teens, with its plaintive lust and histrionic mood swings, than the more austere machinations in, say, Macbeth, Hamlet or Othello. And if Romeo + Juliet is the young person’s entry to Elizabethan English, perhaps no version of it is more worthy of the term “gateway drug” than Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film version, which reimagined Verona’s family feud as a tropical gang war and launched an army of teenage crushes with the faces of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. The maximalist interpretation of Shakespeare’s most lovelorn work, released 30 years ago this week (!), retains Elizabethan verse but announces its divergence from rigid classicism from the jump. Our scene is set in fair Verona beach by a news anchor via TV set, relaying the woe of two star-cross’d lovers before clips of civil strife. Fresh off his breakout success in 1992’s Strictly Ballroom, the Australian director boldly mapped the medieval story on to 90s tabloid fixations – grainy footage of violence in the streets, magazine headlines of capos and criminals, helicopter views of car chases and riots that recalled the media circus around the OJ Simpson chase two years prior. It is a movie that could have only been made in the 90s; Luhrmann’s vision of two warring families as rival gangs, replete with their own economic operations and marked territory, tapped into the era’s preoccupation with gangland as a source of transportive art, from movies to hip-hop, and as a conservative fixation for ideas on intrinsic criminality. Continue reading...
With less than two months left on the Avengers: Doomsday clock, Robert Downey Jr. and Pedro Pascal swapped sides for Halloween. The pair traded off their MCU roles in a paired costume, with Downey dressing as Pascal’s character Mr. Fantastic and Pascal as Downey’s Dr. Doom, ahead of the movie’s Dec. 18 premiere in theaters. […]
Coming off their World Series victory, the Milwaukee Brewers showed off their trophy on “Weekend Update” with a Saturday Night Live alum. The team’s manager Pat Murphy, designated hitter Christian Yelich and second baseman Brice Turang made a surprise appearance on the segment with Bobby Moynihan, who reprised his Drunk Uncle character. “Hey, I know […]
Following her “scream queen” debut in Obsession, Inde Navarrette flexed her comedy muscle with her Saturday Night Live hosting debut. On this weekend’s episode of the sketch comedy show, the actress teased her upcoming MCU role as Rogue in X-Men, noting that she has to get into Marvel shape while making a joke about Shane […]
The "American Idol" runner-up to Carrie Underwood revealed a dramatic makeover after a two-year music hiatus, and Bo Bice's fans have thoughts.
A one-off Netflix broadcast called “Beat Luke Littler” offered a prize of 501,000 pounds (around $670,000) to anyone deemed a darts amateur who could defeat the 19-year-old prodigy over a single leg
A24’s “You Can See Everything” narrowly beat Warner Bros. and DC’s “Clayface” at the Friday box office, cementing its status as the must-watch documentary — or film, for that matter — of the moment. The buzzy Elizabeth Holmes doc generated $3.56 million on its third Friday from an expanded 3,243 North American theaters and should […]
The president slammed the TV host in a Sunday post, writing that he is a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER."
This was the third consecutive nomination for the 'Off Script' roundtable series, which has received a total of six nods over the past nine years.
Three years after the death of Paul Cattermole, S Club is reuniting once again for a tour across the U.K. and Ireland. On Thursday, the remaining lineup of the 90s British pop group announced the dates of their 12-city Ain’t No Party Like an S Club Party Tour, which kicks off Oct. 8, 2027 at […]
HBO has been feverishly working to align the schedules of the main stars of Big Little Lies to start full production on season three of the thriller series. But before that, the show shot one day of production, featuring Merrin Dungey, in order to keep its California tax credit. Deadline has confirmed that Dungey, who […]
Hello Sunshine, which was recently re-acquired by co-founder Reese Witherspoon alongside France-based Mediawan, is laying off half of its staff. The company produces film and TV titles along with maintaining a Witherspoon-branded book club. It is letting go of about 30 workers, a source familiar with the cutbacks told Deadline, was not unexpected and is […]
Some fans take the week off to read the latest instalment of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
