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“Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party,” President Donald Trump said in a statement earlier this week announcing the departure of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Turns out, he was right. Leavitt told reporters on Friday that she is returning to work for […]

Just hours after Mark Ruffalo responded to Paramount’s accusations of antisemitism, the CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a statement to Deadline on the subject. “Words matter, and so does the willingness to draw a line when legitimate debate gives way to antisemitic tropes,” wrote Jim Berk. “We commend Paramount for speaking clearly and […]

The location pros behind Best Picture Oscar winner One Battle After Another and nominee Marty Supreme won the film prizes at the 2026 LMGI Awards, with the Pluribus, Fallout and Black Rabbit teams taking TV honors. Location Managers Guild International held its 13th annual ceremony Saturday night, which was hosted by comic and TV personality […]

Bunny Levine, a librarian who took early retirement and then began acting on such shows as Gilmore Girls and Shameless as well as two Adam Sandler films, has died, according to multiple reports. She was 97. Levine graduated from college in 1951 and became a school librarian in New Jersey, where she worked before deciding […]

As Kid Cudi prepares to unveil his feature debut Doe, he’s hitting the ground running with his directing career. On Saturday, the 2x Grammy winner (whose real name is Scott Mescudi) not only teased Doe, but also details about his directorial followup, which he begins filming “in a few weeks.” “I shoot my next film […]

After nearly a decade, CIA officer Matt Graver is still waging his war against Mexican drug cartels in Taylor Sheridan’s Sicario cinematic universe. Josh Brolin, who starred as Matt Graver in Sicario (2015) and Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), recently revealed that a third installment in the Sheridan-penned action thriller franchise “is happening” in […]

By the end of the weekend, another documentary short will have punched its ticket to the Oscar race. The 22nd HollyShorts, the prestigious film festival in Los Angeles, will announce jury award winners Sunday in multiple categories, with four of them qualifying for the Academy Awards: Best Short Film Grand Prize, Best Short Animation, Best […]

As things continue to get ugly around the proposed merger, Mark Ruffalo has called out Paramount for calling him “antisemitic” over his criticism of the Warner Bros acquisition. On Saturday, the 4x Oscar nominee clarified his views “should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people,” following his comments about Paramount-WBD backer Oracle’s involvement in […]

More than 20 years after stealing the Declaration of Independence, National Treasure 3 is in the works. On Friday, National Treasure (2004) director Jon Turteltaub revealed that a third installment in the Nicolas Cage adventure franchise is in the works with a script that Disney has approved. “I was thinking about mentioning this tonight, I’ll […]

Although Rosie O’Donnell’s late-night hosting run has come to an end, she graced her biggest fan with a song in his honor. On Friday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the 12x Emmy-winning guest host let longtime foe Donald Trump have it in the opening monologue, which she ended with a song roasting the twice-impeached POTUS, who previously […]

The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival wrapped up on Friday, with Austria taking home the top prize. During the awards ceremony at National Theatre Sarajevo, the jury awarded Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s Everytime with the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Narrative Feature Film, which comes with a prize of 16,000 euros. “Moments of cinematic grace float […]

SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU after Friday afternoon update: Refresh for more and chart…This weekend belongs to Sony, or at least the top two spots at the box office do, with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s fourth frame of $36.5 million at 4,006 sites and Blumhouse/Atomic Monster/Stage 6’s Insidious: Out of the Further opening to $23.7M […]

The happiest place on earth just got more global. At the D23’s Saturday Parks Panel, host Neil Patrick Harris gave way to several Walt Disney Imagineers who shared the next steps in the mouse house’s billion-dollar expansion.​In the U.S., executives and creative designers showed off a sneak peek of upcoming West Coast attractions at Disney […]

The Hollywood Creative Alliance has named this year’s best in television with the 6th Astra TV Awards. On Saturday, host Lisa Ann Walter presided over the awards show at the InterContinental in Los Angeles, where HBO’s The Pitt was the big winner of the evening with seven trophies, followed by Netflix’s Beef with five, and […]

From 18th century Scotland to the fictional Kingdom of Corona, Disney’s live-action Tangled has found its Queen Arianna. While Outlander star Caitríona Balfe was not featured in the footage teased Friday at D23, Disney has announced the 5x Golden Globe nominee will play Rapunzel’s long-lost mother in the adaptation of the 2010 animated fantasy musical. […]

The morning after an intoxicating D23 Friday night, which included a dancing spirit squad, Adam Driver and Inde Navarrette X-Men surprises, Josh Gad crooning, Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway and confetti raining, it became really clear — Disney is going to have a killer 2028 at the box office. And they haven’t even filled out the […]

Condragulations are in order for RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars as MTV and Paramount+ have renewed the shows for additional seasons. MTV has picked up RuPaul’s Drag Race for Season 19 alongside its companion series RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked, while Paramount+ has ordered RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars for Season 12 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Saturday Night Live writer/performer John Higgins, member of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy group, has joined the cast of ABC’s Scrubs for a major recurring role in the upcoming second season of the revival, Deadline has learned. He will play Grant, the new Chief Resident, who is envisioned as a thorn in J.D.’s […]

Nearly a year after they first appeared onscreen together in Regretting You, Mason Thames and McKenna Grace are playing romantic opposites again. Following Colleen Hoover romance’s premiere last October, Thames recently revealed he had already worked with Grace on the Green Day-inspired movie Nimrods, which is now playing in theaters. “So we did Green Day […]

Rob Rausch, a handsome snake-wrangler from Alabama, was standing a few feet away from Maura Higgins, the former Love Islander, next to the Traitors’ roundtable. Showing little emotion, he finally revealed that he had double-crossed her to win more than $220,000. “I was so fooled by you, you absolute *sshole, you pinky promised,” Higgins says […]