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Chicago Fire is a firefighter down as Rome Flynn, who portrayed Derrick Gibson in the NBC drama, is leaving after six episodes. “Curtain call chicago fire,” Flynn shared on Instagram. Deadline reported Friday that the March 27th episode was Flynn’s final episode in the procedural. In the most recent episode, Flynn’s Gibson has a breakdown […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/CKshpdQ

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Season 1 finale. “There was always something about the connection of these two characters,” Danai Gurira says of The Walking Dead’s Michonne and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the reunion of the lovers over near insurmountable odds and legions of Walkers […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/WaI4ny2

Dev Patel made his feature film directorial debut with Monkey Man, leaving him with some lasting memories, including his breaking his hand. The Slumdog Millionaire made an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, where he recalled that the incident with his hand happened in the first action scene they filmed. “Everything could have […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/AZpBN4y

Bette Midler is “in the mood to talk some sh**t” and wants to join The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The star took to social media to express her desire to become one of the stars of the Bravo reality series. “Is it too late for me to become a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills? […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/QfNZBGr

Denise Richards is not shutting down a possible return to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In a new interview, the former Bravo star said she would consider returning to the reality series. “I always say, ‘Never say never,'” Richards told People. Richards joined RHOBH in Season 9 and left after only two seasons on […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/CBh9ueQ

It appears Ezra Miller was quietly recast as mad scientist D.A. Sinclair in Season 2 of Prime Video’s Invincible. Miller voiced the character in one episode in the first season of the adult animated series, but when Sinclair appeared in the March 28th episode, the character was voiced by Eric Bauza (X-Men ’97, Coyote vs. […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/bEclIwB

Connor Smith, who was a contestant on the MTV dating show Are You The One? in 2015, was arrested Thursday in Clearwater, Florida after a year on the lam. Smith fled from police in Illinois last year after allegedly making plans to meet up with a minor for sex. Unbeknownst to him, Smith had been […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/h8KlN2c

Certainly one definition of great music might include an ability to meet the present – and the future – head-on and come out unbruised, even triumphant. By that standard and many more, The Who’s Tommy, opening tonight on Broadway, is thrilling proof that the premiere concept album of 1969 is great music indeed. Gloriously directed […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/NIWn9xt

EXCLUSIVE: Some 20 years after it was took root in the imagination of Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis screened this morning for the very first time. Held at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater, the epic film screened for buyers, and had every distributor in attendance. Also in tow were family friends and filmmakers, a list included […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/r8fLsv5

Florence Pugh is suited up once again and returning to the MCU filming Thunderbolts in Atlanta. The star shared a video on Instagram as she filmed the Marvel film where she is set to reprise her role of Yelena Belova, which she originated in 2021’s Black Widow. “Hey guys, how are you doing? I know […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/nSQNsFe

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a lot of movement from agents that used to work at A3 Artists Agency. A pair of agents – Marienor Madrilejo and Emma Clarke – who joined Gersh from A3 after the former acquired the latter in a deal in January are now leaving the Phil Gersh-founded agency. Madrilejo was VP, Digital and […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/C1knlFN

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 28 finale of The Bachelor. The time has come! Joey Graziadei is an engaged man. Monday night’s finale has all the answers we’ve been waiting for this season. Who does Joey propose to? And why was he crying on the beach during (before? after?) his engagement? […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/dJB0Hf7

The Sudanese drama Goodbye Julia is continuing its impressive awards run, earning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature over the weekend at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California. Mohamed Kordofani directed the story set in the context of the secessionist movement that led to the establishment of the independent nation of South […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2hreqSN

American teenager Ilia Malinin made history, landing six quads to win the World Figure Skating Championship. The 19-year-old athlete is known as the “quad God” and had been in third place after the short program on Thursday. However, during his free skate performance on Saturday, he impressed judges and scored 227.79 points, the highest score […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/zq5oSOD

Shohei Ohtani plans to speak to the media Monday on the illegal gambling and theft allegations involving his former interpreter, who stands accused of “massive theft” by Ohtani’s attorneys. Ohtani has a lot at stake in the conversation. Although neither he nor his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, have been charged with a crime, they are under […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/fBAFOVn

Actor Beau Bridges is being honored in a place of special significance to his family. The star of The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Descendants, Norma Rae, and more than 200 other films and television series received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival on Friday. His late father, actor Lloyd Bridges, traced […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/9a587Cc

Ricky Martin is the star of Apple TV+’s Palm Royale and has come a long way in the acting field, not forgetting his beginnings in Mexico. While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asked Martin if General Hospital is where he cut his teeth acting. “I did a lot of theater […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/LGsCtUu

Normani Kordei is finally releasing her debut solo album after teasing fans for many years following the Fifth Harmony split. The singer shared a snippet of the first single, titled “1:59,” from her new album Dopamine. “Soo basically my first single ‘1:59’ will be coming out 4/26,” Kordei captioned a post on Instagram. In the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/otO4Gqj

EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to the crime drama Mob Cops, we’ve learned. A release date will be set in the future. The pic directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and written by Kosta Kondilopoulos, is based on true events in mobster crime lore: When the two dirtiest cops in NYPD history pop […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/kmZYBph

EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) has been set to lead a new, untitled Universal feature project from director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and producer Pharrell Williams (Hidden Figures), according to multiple sources, who also tell us that 2024 Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) is in talks. Universal declined […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ABxRtGf

Drake Bell has received an apology from former Nickelodeon star Devon Werkheiser after he and his co-stars from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide seemingly mocked the allegations raised in the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. Werkheiser and his Ned’s Declassified co-stars, Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis, received backlash after going […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/rwbhZ3l

The Constituent, the latest stage play from Olivier Award-winning writer Joe Penhall (Mindhunter, King of Thieves), is heading to The Old Vic in London with James Corden and Anna Maxwell (Motherland, Line of Duty) signed on to lead.  Described as a “volatile new play,” The Constituent stars Martin as a hard-working opposition backbencher whose ideals of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/y0LPcTz

Whether or not the climate activists who interrupted a critics preview of Broadway’s An Enemy of the People last week persuasively made their “water’s coming for us all” message isn’t for me to say, but I will note that the disruption spoke very well for this production. The first, there’s Amy Herzog’s smart, sharp and […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/vHf8yJY

History repeats itself in this ingenious but surprisingly heartfelt sci-fi, which takes the premise of Groundhog Day and fashions from it a poignant statement about life and mortality. Refreshingly for the genre, it focuses on a middle-aged woman — a scientist-slash-physicist, even — whose 55th birthday and final breath will occur within the same week. […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/13V6NeZ

ABC is creating synergy between their primetime shows, with 9-1-1 and The Bachelor coming together for a crossover episode. Oliver Stark, who plays Buck on 9-1-1, had recently teased that two shows on the network were about to cross paths. “It’s not a direct crossover, but there’s a feel of it,” Stark told People in […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ASKGMYq

John Oliver dinged Kate Middleton for her Photoshop fail and got a cameo from Jersey Shore’s Snooki on Last Week Tonight. At the top of the show, Oliver took a swipe at the drama in England over Kensington Palace’s release of a statement in which the Princess of Wales admitted to editing a photo of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/0YsSrMG

Jon Bon Jovi is not sure if he’ll tour again after he underwent vocal cord surgery. The singer is set to release an album titled Forever later this year and had hoped to tour, but after critical surgery, he’s unsure if he’ll be able to make that happen. “It is my desire to do a […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/34MFp2v

The Step by Step cast reunited at 90s Con on Sunday and remembered the late Suzanna Somers. Patrick Duffy, Staci Keanan, Angela Watson, Christine Lakin, Christopher Castile, Jason Marsden and Sasha Mitchell honored their late co-star, who died in October following a breast cancer diagnosis. “Suzanne gave the most beautiful, thoughtful gifts and she was […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/u8t3q5r

Sanya Richards-Ross is leaving The Real Housewives of Atlanta after two seasons on the Bravo reality series. Andy Cohen confirmed Richards-Ross’s exit on his SiriusXM show that aired on March 14. The track and field Olympic champion joined the show in Season 14 and held a peach through Season 15. Her exit comes amid a […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ax69E0Q

In a sign that the Eurovision Song Contest is becoming ever more political as we head towards the competition in May, a London cinema has announced that it will not be screening the Grand Final unless Israel is banned from taking part. The Rio Cinema in East London, which has screened the Contest on previous […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/gGJ69Uz

A select group of Disney California Adventure Park guests were treated to a special appearance from actor Patrick Warburton as they were ready to board the Soarin’ Over California attraction. Warburton has been part of the attraction since it first opened in 2001, providing “important safety tips” for passengers in the queue before taking their […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/SPTdDMJ

Queen Latifah got a message from Vice President Kamala Harris at the start of the 2024 NAACP Image Awards, reminding the show’s host to ask people to vote this year. As part of her opening comments, the rapper talked about the struggles that Americans are facing, like inflation, which prompted Taraji P. Henson to say […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/BS58t0C

The 2025 Oscars ceremony is months away, but we already know some things about the show, the potential nominees and who may host it. Read on below for answers to your questions about the 2025 Academy Awards. When Are The 2025 Oscars? No date has been set, but the Oscar ceremony typically takes place in […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/XDJZylz

HBO in November 2022 announced a third season for The White Lotus, which will bring a new installment of the Mike White-created anthology series to screens. The first installment, which premiered July 2021 and was set in Hawaii, was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards and won a leading 10, including for Outstanding Limited or Anthology […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/GVDQxl5

EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Le Bon (Falcon Lake) has joined Season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus in a role that is being recast. She is replacing Francesca Corney, who had been originally tapped for the part, sources close to production tell Deadline. HBO would not comment but we hear that the producers felt they needed someone […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/bMX1K06

Bill Maher is leaving his agency. Maher has reportedly fired CAA after not being invited to an Oscar party at Bryan Lourd’s house over last weekend. The move comes days after HBO renewed Real Time with Bill Maher for a further two seasons, running through 2026. THR reported that Maher was “furious” that he was […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/G3su9CT

EXCLUSIVE: Kelli Giddish’s Amanda Rollins will be back on Law & Order: SVU. After making a guest appearance in the Season 25 premiere, Giddish will reprise her fan-favorite role in the upcoming Episode 11, Deadline has learned. In the Season 25 opener, which aired in January, Amanda returned to celebrate the christening of her and […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/NrKtZjb

EXCLUSIVE: Following a brief stint working on her own, Amalea Chininis has joined Artists First as a Manager, working out of the company’s Los Angeles office. She brings with her clients including Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll, The Acolyte), Corbin Reid (Run the World), Yuriy Sardarov (Chicago Fire), Frankie J. Alvarez (Looking), Rico Paris (The Corps), […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/TVbPsZ5

UPDATED with Night 3 winners: The Color Purple reigned on the third night of the NAACP Image Awards, taking the Ensemble Cast prize along with Breakthrough Creative for director Blitz Bazawule. Other honorees on the film side Wednesday included A Thousand and One for Cinematography, Invisible Beauty (Documentary) and Brother (Independent Motion Picture). Among the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/k4VHPSX

Long before he started working as a game show host for NBC, Joe Manganiello played the beloved werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO’s True Blood. It was the best of times for the actor — that is, until it came time to end his five-season run in 2014. In a conversation with Andy Cohen on his […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/TFgzlpi

Sydney Sweeney is opening up about Madame Web after the Sony and Marvel film opened to disappointing box office results and reviews. The Euphoria star is seemingly unfazed by the negativity around the film and is only along for the ride. “I was just hired as an actress in it, so I was just along […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/9inK4gx

“I’m not paying his legal bills in any way, shape or form,” a somewhat irritated-seeming Elon Musk told Don Lemon of his meeting with Donald Trump. The clip was one of a handful Lemon shared with his former-coworker Erin Burnett on CNN this afternoon. In it, Musk denies giving Trump money and says their recently-reported […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2MiSjeA

Leah Smith, who documented her four-year battle with a rare form of cancer on TikTok, died today, according to posts by her mother and boyfriend on the site. She was 22. “I’m sad to say that she passed away today around half-eleven this morning,” her boyfriend Andrew Moore said in a video posted to Smith’s […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/iHMwIPh

Turns out, John Dutton has a sense of humor. After comedian John Mulaney had some fun with the plot of Field of Dreams as he introduced the award for Best Sound at the Oscars on Sunday, Costner took to the social media account of his band, Kevin Costner & Modern West, retweeted a video of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/IrX4ibM

Arcadian, director Benjamin Brewer, along with writer Mike Nilon, attempt to navigate the tumultuous waters of a post-apocalyptic narrative, showcasing a world decimated by an unspecified catastrophic event. Starring Nicolas Cage along with Jaeden Martell and Maxwell Jenkins the film plunges into the life of a family striving to survive in a desolate landscape fraught […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/fJqNti5

EXCLUSIVE: Change is afoot at Funny or Die, Deadline has learned, with Kathy Goodman now to serve as CEO of the esteemed comedy studio. Serving as Senior Advisor to owner Henry R. Muñoz III ever since his acquisition of the company several years back, Goodman steps into the role of Mike Farah, who will soon […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/3qhOJfj

Jerry Foley, the former Late Show with David Letterman director who helmed close to 4,000 hours of late-night television and was nominated for two dozen Emmys, has died. He was 68. He’s understood to have died last week as a result of ski accident. He worked with Letterman for more than 25 years, having started […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/EBns8rP

Following her whirlwind award season where she won every award she was up for, Da’Vine Joy Randolph completed the sweep as she took home Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Holdovers. The historic night was capped off by her being presented the Oscar by past winners Mary Steenburgen, Lupita Nyong’o, Jamie Lee […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/BVn7zZU

EXCLUSIVE: Planned protests to disrupt the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday could find themselves thwarted by Oscar organizers’ contingency plans. “We are well aware of the protesters, we have a number of back-up scenarios we can activate quickly if needed,” a senior security official working for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/bwGFMiV

President Joe Biden, in his first sit down interview since his State of the Union address, addressed one moment of the speech when he was responding to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked Biden about his use of the term “illegal” when he was talking about the suspect who allegedly killed Laken […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/aSPsE7R

Stormy Daniels skipped the red carpet but took the stage briefly after a screening of documentary Stormy, which had its SXSW premiere. She was emotional, often wiping away tears, as she embraced director Sarah Gibson and talked about how important the film is to her. But she displayed her trademark defiance too, closing with a […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/iCydJqM

UPDATE, 5:34 PM: Over two years after Rockmond Dunbar filed a lawsuit against 20th Television and Disney over his pink slipping from 9-1-1 out of his insistence on a religious exemption to Covid vaccine mandates on the show, a federal judge today has said the legal battle can go to trial. Kind of. “The Court […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/tonWv3q

EXCLUSIVE: After declaring in a Deadline guest column that he would boycott the SXSW Opening Night debut of Road House, director Doug Liman has changed his mind, and is in the Paramount Theatre right at this moment. I’m told that Liman won’t take the stage to introduce the movie, he’ll just be in the crowd […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/yrqGl05

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Tiago Roberts has signed with GM Management for representation. Roberts most recently can be seen portraying Gabriel Ibarra in the Paramount + series Fatal Attraction, opposite Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan. He also recently played a supporting role opposite Eddie Murphy in holiday movie Candy Cane Lane on Prime Video, as well as […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/b3VfwP2

My Dad Wrote a Porno host Alice Levine and The News Agents producer Dino Sofos are launching a British podcast festival. The Crossed Wires festival will take place in Sheffield from May 31 to June 2, featuring the likes of Katherine Ryan, Jon Ronson, comedian Adam Buxton and Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing. It is being organized […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ul3HNEz

David Libert, a founding member of the ’60s pop group The Happenings as well a tour manager for Alice Cooper and Prince, manager for George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins, the Runaways, Living Colour and many more, died February 20, according to a post on his official Instagram page. He was 81. The title of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ujWhoVB

Nika King, star of Euphoria, says she has not paid her rent in six months as production for Season 3 of the HBO series continues to be delayed. King, who plays Leslie Bennett in the Sam Levinson-created series, shared a clip of her stand-up comedy set where she talked about the show. “Please stop asking […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/jRubwWp

A New Mexico jury has found Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on October 21, 2021. The jury decided the defendant was not guilty of evidence tampering The panel of seven women and five men returned their verdict in the criminal case after just a couple […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/qOvTerC

UPDATED, 4:14 p.m.: Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment on Tuesday announced the honorees set for the second edition of its Radiance Gala, celebrating the achievements of Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Non-Binary artists, artisans and leaders in entertainment. View the list and more information on the event below. Honorees include: Luminary Award Sandra […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/04IKlms

"Ever wondered what goes into drawing your favorite animated characters?" Now that voting has finished for the 96th Academy Awards , The Academy is getting back into promoting and featuring certain movies nominated for an Academy Award. Their latest video is " Drawn To The Moment " - it's a 4 minute short film featuring various artists from a few of the Best Animated Movie nominees for a session where they draw their character(s) winning an Oscar. They probably asked Hayao Miyazaki to do this too, but I'm sure he said no. They ended up with: Jared Mathews , an animator on the Best Animated Short nominee Ninety-Five Senses ; Joaquim Dos Santos & Justin K. Thompson two of the co-directors on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , and Pablo Berger , direct of the delightful movie Robot Dreams . They all talk about what makes their characters so unique while envisioning them winning an Oscar. I wish they got all of the filmmakers to do this. So much fun se

Andy Cohen is spilling the tea on The Traitors Season 2 reunion, which was filmed last week. The Watch What Happens Live host took to his SiriusXM show to share details about what fans of the Peacock competition series could expect when the cast reunites to talk game. Cohen said on his radio show that […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/XH9LR4e

Kristin Chenoweth feels nostalgic on the 12th anniversary of the premiere of GCB. The singer and actress took to social media to share that she missed the ABC comedy and posted a series of photos from the short-lived series. “GCB premiered 12 years ago today and it was just THE. MOST. FUN,” Chenoweth shared on […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/GU7ayNR

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has assembled the cast for its new medical drama series Doc around the previously cast lead Molly Parker. Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon Ecker and Anya Banerjee are set as series regulars, and Scott Wolf and Patrick Walker will recur in the show from writer, executive producer and showrunner Barbie Kligman, executive producers […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/daPLOUg

Nikki Haley is very much a long shot to win the Republican nomination, but at least her bid against Donald Trump will include a primary victory. Haley won the Washington, D.C. primary this evening with about 62% of the vote, compared to about 33% for Trump. In the heavily Democratic city, the Republican primary drew […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ZWXI4ao

Idina Menzel is commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the viral John Travolta at the Oscars. Travolta had the honor of presenting Menzel onto the stage but had a hard time reading the teleprompter and instead introduced Adele Dazeem to the stage. Menzel took to TikTok to celebrate the birth of Dazeem after ten years since […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/u19InSk

Israel’s public broadcaster has reversed its previous stance and will request an alteration of lyrics to a song under consideration for this year’s Eurovision competition. Eurovision barred the song last week for breaking rules on political neutrality in song lyrics. Artist Eden Golan’s Israel entry, October Rain, contains references to the Hamas October 7 attack […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/MJm3Ihn

The 60th Cinema Audio Society Awards are underway Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton, with the group honoring the year’s best in feature film and TV sound mixing. Tom Papa is hosting the ceremony that will crown winners in seven competitive categories, while along the way honoring JJ Abrams with the society’s Filmmaker of the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/9yGpjPv

Andy Cohen is facing several allegations from former The Real Housewives stars like Brandi Glanville and Leach McSweeney. Amid the cases, current stars of the Bravo franchise are highlighting Cohen’s good qualities as a person and an executive producer. The Real Housewives of Miami star, Marysol Patton, who has had a working relationship with Cohen […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/VaJxEmF

UPDATE: After an online backlash from many in the theater community, particularly among people of color and fans of pioneering actor-dancer Hinton Battle, the Broadway League announced today that marquee lights at all 41 Broadway venues, rather than just the select nine originally announced, will be dimmed for the late star of The Wiz. “After […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/iHnXTpK

Lifetime’s two-night documentary special Where is Wendy Williams? has set a new ratings record for the network. The documentary averaged 1.2 million total viewers over the two nights in Nielsen Live+3, and 6.2 million total viewers across linear and digital platforms to date. The network says Where is Wendy Williams? is Lifetime’s best new non-fiction performance in […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/W5qYo46