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New York Governor Kathy Hochul said today she will leave embattled and indicted NYC Mayor Eric Adams in his job but with guardrails including a new Inspector General for the city, and giving independently elected city officials power to litigate against the federal government. “To move this city forward, I am undertaking the implementation of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/4Apa0fR

Imax CEO cautioned Wall Street that he does not expect a stream of deals to follow on the heels of a high profile agreement with Netflix for a global two-week Imax exclusive run of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia starting on Thanksgiving of 2026. “I’ve talked to Netflix about this and I think in general they are […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/Gg8QXFw

EXCLUSIVE: Former Disney/Pixar veteran Michael Agulnek has joined Sony Pictures as EVP Global Publicity, where he will report to Danielle Misher, Co-Head of Theatrical Marketing. In addition, Rose Phillips has been promoted to EVP Global Digital Marketing and Social Media. Reporting to Elias Plishner in the Global Marketing department, Phillips will continue to work across […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/csdSZby

NBC’s 3 hour+ SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday night logged 14.8 million viewers and a 2.53 rating in the 18-49 demo across both the broadcast network and Peacock in time zone-adjusted Live + Same Day ratings. The telecast, which aired from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center live across the country starting at 8 PM […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/xfgCtIE

Amazon MGM Studios has signed a wide-ranging deal with Dallas Jenkins’ 5&2 Studios, giving the studio exclusive US streaming rights to the first five seasons and future of faith-based series The Chosen and new unscripted series The Chosen in The Wild With Bear Grylls for Prime Video. The pact also includes theatrical distribution and streaming rights to new releases, […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/Ggs3M1C

Valentine’s Day and President’s Day weekend marks the official celebration of Saturday Night Live’s landmark 50th season with an anniversary concert taking place Friday evening and a three-hour special episode airing Sunday, Feb 16. Find more details on how to watch the SNL anniversary concert and how to watch the SNL 50th anniversary show below: […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/kPgoHUA

Maya Hawke shed some light on some of the difficulty surrounding filmmaking, what she calls a “confusing” state in the industry nowadays in which some producers rely on social media follower counts to cast their movies. The Stranger Things actress discussed the topic on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast recently, when she made the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ei8SEyU

As Vince Gilligan reunites with Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn on his upcoming Apple TV+ sci-fi series, the pair recently teased some details. Before presenting Gilligan with the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement on Saturday, the 3x Emmy-nominated actress raved to Deadline about his “pretty twisted sense of humor” […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/KpEcy7d

Thanks to A24 and writer-director Mark Anthony Green, John Malkovich is officially in his pop girly era. In the newly-released single from the Opus soundtrack, ‘Dina, Simone’, the 2x Oscar nominee channels his inner pop icon as Moretti for a song produced by Nile Rodgers and The Dream, which is reminiscent of George Michaels, Depeche […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/JCGZYlN

Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Desi Lydic, Ramy Youssef, and Hannah Berner are some of the comedians who have signed up to perform at Comic Relief’s Stand-Up for LA benefit. The fundraiser, which will take place at The Town Hall in NYC on March 3, will help support children and families working to rebuild and recover following the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/lhcmfan

Amazon MGM Studios in development on Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter, a scripted series starring and executive produced by Twilight alum Lautner, sources confirmed to Deadline. The series is created by Daisy Gardner (Single Drunk Female), who also serves as showrunner. Per the official logline: “After wrapping the final Twilight film, Taylor Lautner vanished from the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/ceSFYRo

If Justin Baldoni thought his version of what went on during the making of It Ends With Us and the messy fallout from the film was going to go unchallenged, today Blake Lively gave her former co-star a lesson in hardcore lawyering. Sending out a series of subpoenas to cell carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/tiXHEDh

UPDATED with latest forecast: the National Weather Service today increased total rainfall projections for what’s likely to be the L.A.’s biggest storm of the season, thusfar. While initially the projection for the Wednesday-Friday deluge in the Palisades Fire area was about 2.5 inches, the NWS has bumped that up to 3.35 inches. Likewise in the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/blrg03u

IFC Films’ Memoir of a Snail, nominated in what’s shaped up to be among the most competitive categories of this Academy Awards, is back in more than 500 theaters nationwide Tuesday night. The one night of screenings of the Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee will include a prerecorded Q&A with the filmmaker Adam Elliot and […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/PjCpDrY

Veteran TV and film actor Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, known for his work on Street Fighter, Necessary Roughness and The Fast and the Furious among many others, died Monday, his son Manoah Peter Tuiasosopo announced on Facebook. He was 61. “With a heavy heart, my family and I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/KR9EYCP

More than 50% of British directors say their residuals have fallen over the past five years, according to a new survey from Directors UK (DUK). The survey of nearly 600 directors comes just a few months after the trade body wrote to six American media giants seeking greater royalties for its plus-8,000 member base, and […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/yCt9B1a

"I can't think of a worse group of people trying to work together." Marvel has revealed another brand new full-length official trailer for Thunderbolts* during the Super Bowl. This kooky anti-hero MCU movie will kick off the summer 2025 movie season opening on May 2nd, 2025 . A ragtag group of bad guys is sent on covert missions for the American government. This still seems like Marvel's own version of Suicide Squad, bringing together a group of offbeat superheroes / supervillains to join up as the "Thunderbolts" and do the fed's dirty work. The amusing ensemble cast includes David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Sebastian Stan as Bucky, Lewis Pullman as Bob aka "Sentry", Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, and Florence Pugh as Black Widow Yelena Belova, plus Geraldine Viswanathan as Mel, and finally Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the handler Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. They even ge...

While Tom Cruise took care of the Olympics handoff solo, he had some company today pumping up America before the Super Bowl. “The long winding road here has all led to this,” intoned Cruise in a pre-game hype video broadcast today on Fox just a few minutes before kickoff. Cruise’s video mixed Mission: Impossible-adjacent encomiums […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/OsXcHVF

EXCLUSIVE: The UK actors union has threatened to go to the “courts if necessary” if members’ rights continue to be breached in the training of AI models. In an open letter to bosses at the BBC, Disney, ITV and producer trade body Pact, Equity pulled no punches in delineating what it expects from both past […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/4F7Pp91

During an interview with Deadline about her song and score Oscar nominations, just ahead of a Critics Choice win, Emilia Pérez songwriter Camille expressed relief in being able to talk about the recent controversy surrounding the film. “It actually feels like a relief to be able to talk about it, and it’s important to talk about these […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/GmM7JZE

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star in rom-com Good Sex, written and to be directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Girls). CAA Media Finance represents domestic rights while Film Nation Entertainment is handling international and will introduce the buzzy project at next week’s EFM.  After Babygirl and Bridget Jones: Mad About […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/kwSegWq

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has opted not to renew The Pradeeps Of Pittsburgh for a second season. The news comes more than three months after the eight-episode first season of the immigrant comedy, starring Naveen Andrews, Sindhu Vee, and Megan Hilty, was released on Amazon Freevee. It is not entirely surprising because The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/8OaRpFj

The View dedicated their “Hot Topics” to chatter around the Super Bowl LIX, where the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the Philadelphia Eagles at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. One of the topics the panel discussed was Travis Kelce’s response about Donald Trump attending the big game on Sunday. Kelce is in […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/RQPJ7nH

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent is partnering with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Focus Features on a Conclave live read, to take place on Monday, February 10. The cast assembled includes The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri and Lionel Boyce, Cooper Koch (Monsters), Josh Gad (Book of Mormon), Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth), Patton Oswalt (Young […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/nO4zmf3

EXCLUSIVE: Halle Stanford, The Jim Henson Company’s longtime President of Television, is relaunching her company, 7 Crow Stories, as she embarks on a new chapter in her career as an independent producer and writer. As part of this new venture, the Emmy winner has signed a first-look producing deal with The Jim Henson Company, where […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/TSWY8XB

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 401 of Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias. After waiting a year and a half for new episodes of Sweet Magnolias, fans tuning in for the Season 4 premiere may be forgiven if they felt like they’d missed a season. The small-town drama about lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/3qw0Jcu

"These guys took the girl I love - I won't stop 'till I get her back." Paramount has launched their 30-second Super Bowl spot for the action comedy Novocaine - arriving in theaters everywhere in March. This does look like it will be crazy fun to watch , hopefully, with some bonkers action. Meet Nathan Caine. He feels no pain. When the girl of his dreams (played by Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back. Jack Quaid stars as Nate Caine (a similar name to "novocaine" obviously) along with Amber Midthunder , Ray Nicholson , Betty Gabriel , Matt Walsh , Lou Beatty Jr. , Van Hengst , Conrad Kemp , Jacob Batalon . Still reminds me of those Crank movies - this does look amusing enough to go watch in theaters. There better be some badass fights in here. //  Continue Reading › from FirstShowing.net https://ift.tt/1B35bik

UTA Vice Chairman Jay Sures, who is also a UC Regent and outspoken supporter of Israel, saw his Brentwood home vandalized by protesters who massed in front of his house early this morning. Among other indignities, the protesters left bloody handprints on the door of his garage, and had to be dispersed by police. Per […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/J7IuH6R

Almost a year after Rooster Teeth, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment, announced it was ceasing operations after 21 years, the digital content brand is staging a comeback. Rooster Teeth co-founder Burnie Burns announced Wednesday that he has acquired “the Rooster Teeth brand and much of its remaining assets” through […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/jlz1TqA

“To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter.” In the heat of the 2020 movement against racism, Netflix felt compelled to write these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd. Five days after Karla Sofía Gascón’s racially insensitive social media history was excavated, Netflix has yet […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/cL684YT

Super Bowl LIX, pitting defending NFL champions the Kansas City Chiefs against the 2018 champs Philadelphia Eagles, is set for Sunday, Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. It’s the eighth time the venue has hosted the big game. The championship, scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT, will be […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/7q31DQ8

Ana Navarro is a champion of Latinos in media and praised Shakira for her acceptance speech at the 2025 Grammy Awards. On The View, the political commentator highlighted the Latinos that won at the Grammys, like Sheila E. and Gloria Estefan. Navarro particularly commended the Colombian singer for talking about the Latino community. “She took […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/gYCxdUc

Time for beautiful quick journey to a whole other world. This animated short film titled The Lost Tower is a 2-min creation from Montreal-based animation filmmaker Florent Lebrun . It started as a small project and turned into this magnificent animated short. The film follows a pilot in a yellow bi-plane. "Flying over uncharted waters, a pilot searches for one of the Lost Towers." It reminds me of Porco Rosso of course, very similar vibes (also with Castle in the Sky ), but still feels like something unique. I would love to watch more - it's this is just the intro. For anyone concerned that it's created with A.I., Lebrun puts those rumors and concerns to rest right away. He explains on his IG post : "Got some people wondering if it was AI... Sorry just good old Blender / Photoshop / compositing process." Amazing work! This is so evocative and immersive, allowing anyone to feel like they're ready to join this pilot on his mission to discover even more ...

"The last time Sean and I shared any meaningful scenes together was 40 years ago on The Goonies." Yep! Universal has debuted an amusing 30-sec featurette for Love Hurts , an action comedy arriving in theaters in February coming up this week. "No matter how hard you try, you can't break up with your past." Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan stars as an unlikely hero, a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a dark secret he is desperate to leave behind. Marvin is pulled back into that life when his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with a message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, Marvin must confront his past and the history he never fully buried. The cast includes Ariana DeBose , Daniel Wu , Sean Astin , Mustafa Shakir , Lio Tipton , Rhys Darby , Marshawn Lynch , & André Eriksen . This promo video shows Ke Huy Quan reuniting with actor Sean Astin on the set of Love Hurts (aka With Love ). Ke played Data, Sean played Mikey, and Jeff Cohen played Chu...

Babyface got snubbed at the 2025 Grammy Awards in favor of Chappell Roan, and the moment went viral. Midway through an interview with the AP, the Grammy winner was cut off to interview the “Good Luck, Babe” singer. As Babyface was talking to reporters, one of the reporters noticed Chappell Roan was behind them, waiting […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/LUG1ogT

Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset says she feels “unsympathetic” towards women who complained of harassment during the advent of the #MeToo movement, saying she feels women are partially to blame for their treatment. In an interview with Page Six, the British actress who has made her home in the US for more than 50 years, said: […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/KGcuOei

Although Patti LuPone is officially part of the MCU, and there’s nothing they can do to take that away from us, don’t expect a Thanos snap to bring her back anytime soon. The 3x Tony-winning actress explained why her Disney+ series Agatha All Along will not proceed with a second season, noting that she is […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/Dvz17nu

Hollywood can’t get enough of the ever escalating war of accusations, media bites and court filing in Blake Lively’s sexual harassment and retaliation claims over what went down with Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us and leading up to the Sony distributed film’s premiere last summer. Now, with just a couple […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/k8pPAZy