Новости за 29.08.2020

Byron Allen and Entertainment Studios announced Friday that its lawsuit against telecommunications giant Charter is set to move forward. Federal District Court Judge George H. Wu has ruled in favor for Allen’s $10 billion dollar lawsuit against Charter Communications for racial discrimination. The latest move comes after Wu initially appealed the decision in 2016 and […]

Reality TV ruled the Friday fare this week, as once again Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown took home the ratings demo crown, scoring an 0.6 to far outdistance the field on the last weekend of the dog days of August. The wrestling show’s drama this week centered on Roman Reigns revealing his alignment with Paul Heyman. […]

The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have agreed that the playoffs will resume today after a tumultuous couple of days that saw players almost cancel the season. The league and players union released a joint statement Friday announcing resumption of the games, and said that the league and its players will work together on […]

The first step toward a possible compromise on a second round of federal stimulus money is in the works. But there’s still a ways to go before the money starts flowing to the unemployed. A conversation Thursday between Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows produced no results, […]

The Colorectal Cancer Alliance has issued a plea for “open conversations” on the young-onset disease that claimed the life of Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman on Friday at age 43. “The Colorectal Cancer Alliance mourns with Chadwick Boseman’s fans, friends, and family over the loss of this bright star to colon cancer,” said a message […]

National Football League players are formulating plans on how they will protest the shooting of Wisconsin man Jacob Blake. Some indicate they may follow in the wake of the NBA, WNBA, MLS and MLB teams and sit out a game. Teams have already cancelled practices to discuss social issues. But with the league’s regular season […]

SATURDAY UPDATE: Now with four days of play under its belt during initial overseas rollout, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet could be looking at a Wednesday-Sunday opening of $40M+. Warner Bros continues to keep a tight lid on international box office numbers, but we have been able to glean insight from certain markets which pushes the start […]

TBS plans Saturday and Sunday airings of Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther as a tribute to the late star. Boseman played the title role in the film, which was as much a cultural touchstone as a super hero movie. He appeared in five films in the Black Panther role, including Avengers: End Game, the highest-grossing film of […]

Excepts have appeared from the new book Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, written by her former best friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. The tell-all comes out September 1 via Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint. Excerpts appeared in New York Magazine and Britain’s The Guardian newspaper. The book’s choice […]

While articles are already showing up speculating on what will happen to the Black Panther sequel, the Marvel Comics Universe filmmakers who worked most closely with Chadwick Boseman are simply trying to process the enormous grief of an unimaginable tragedy in a year full of them. Ryan Coogler, who directed the history-making blockbuster Black Panther […]

When Oliver Stone interviewed for a Deadline The Film That Lit My Fuse timed with the release of his memoir Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game, the three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker gave Deadline permission to provide our readers with a few passages from the book that […]

On screen, Chadwick Boseman was an invincible superhero. In real life, he courageously fought a four-year battle against cancer but lost. Boseman’s death at age 43 sent shockwaves through the world, with millions of fans mourning the loss of an icon. For his Black Panther family, Boseman, who played the title character in the groundbreaking […]

Actor Chadwick Boseman, the star of the the blockbuster Marvel film Black Panther, has died from colon cancer at the age of 43. He kept his battle with cancer quiet from the public. Boseman died at home in Los Angeles with his wife and family present, according to his publicist Friday night. Boseman notably played the […]

UPDATED with video: Bill Maher found his stride in his first episode since March to originate from the regular studio home of HBO’s Real Time, capping tonight’s show with a call-to-postal-action against — who else — President Donald Trump. “If Trump’s going to try to scuttle the Post Office, we need to fight back,” the […]

(We will continue to update this post) The death of Chadwick Boseman tonight has sent shockwaves through Hollywood at the loss of a man who was as full of grace as he was talent. The Black Panther star passed away Friday from colon cancer at the age of 43 years old. Boseman had been battling […]

Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers and team governor Steve Ballmer talked with Trevor Noah tonight on the Daily Social Distancing Show, revealing that the players and owners of the various teams will be working together to influence legislation and increase voter registration. Asked why the work strike occurred, Rivers said, “The players literally need […]

Chadwick Boseman, who was the star of the enormously successful Marvel film Black Panther, has died of colon cancer at age 43. He kept his diagnosis and four-year struggle against the disease quiet from the public. Boseman died Friday at home in Los Angeles with his wife and family present, according to his publicist. Boseman […]

Update: Focus Features’ Sundance acquisition of Annapurna/Plan B’s Kajillionaire will now open on Sept. 25, a week later than anticipated in select theaters. We also hear the Miranda July directed movie will hit PVOD around Oct. 16. Despite that, the pic’s marketing will be driven toward its theatrical release, and the movie will continue to be available to […]

Veteran Los Angeles news anchor Jeff Michael sued KCBS-TV on Friday, alleging the station breached his contract and discriminated against him based on health issues. Michael was co-anchor of KCBS-TV Channel 2’s newscasts at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. for more than three years. The Emmy Award-winning anchor joined KCBS in early 2017 after nearly two […]

Trustees of the DGA-Producer Pension and Health Plans have approved a third round of premium-free COBRA coverage – this time for participants whose earned active coverage terminated on June 30, 2020, extending the total period of premium-free COBRA coverage from three to six months, through December 31, 2020. The trustees approved similar rounds of premium-free […]

With the exhibition reopening of New York and Los Angeles still unclear, despite California Governor Gavin Newsom laying out a road map this afternoon, Paramount has opted to reschedule some of its fall releases, and date some new titles. After moving Top Gun: Maverick out of the Christmas corridor to July 2 next year, and the reported […]

There hardly has been a high-profile TV programming job over the past decade for which Warner Bros. Television veteran Susan Rovner has not been put on the list of viable candidates. There had been multiple overtures but she had stayed put at the independent studio where for years she has been topper Peter Roth’s designated […]

Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against the New York Times can move forward, a federal judge said on Friday. US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the Times bid to dismiss the suit, which arose over a 2017 editorial Palin claims wrongly linked her to the 2011 mass shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Palin was a 2008 […]