The party at a restaurant on the ninth floor of Beverly Hills Maybourne Hotel was quite lively the minute the Hamnet group made their triumphant entrance after winning the final award of the night at the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture Drama. They…

When Tony Dokoupil finished his first official broadcast from New York as anchor of the CBS Evening News on Monday, he signed off with, “And that’s another day in America.” Then, he added, “I can’t believe they let me keep that line.” The casual aside was a bit of irreverence for the…

When I first heard rumblings that YouTube was among the suitors for the Oscar telecast, the first thing I thought was, “Well, that's a waste of time. It doesn't stand a chance.” Guess that was wrong. Now that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…

UPDATED: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told investors on Friday that he was “highly confident in the regulatory process” and will win approval of the streaming giant’s proposed purchase of Warner Bros., but there are plenty of hurdles ahead. First and foremost, given all the publicity surrounding…

Uncertainty over ITV’s future has been one of the dominant themes of 2025. Famed for launching Downton Abbey, the network has been courting sale interest for well over a year, but for all the industry chatter and press speculation, ITV’s silence has been stony. That all changed on Friday, when the UK…

Donald Trump told Republican senators Wednesday morning that the government shutdown, now setting a record for length, was a “big factor” in the pummeling that the party took in the off-year elections the night before. Almost everywhere elections were held Tuesday, voters moved toward Democrats…

EXCLUSIVE: There’s more bleeding red neon than imagined coming out of Disney’s Tron: Ares. Deadline has learned from sources that the third chapter in the 43-year-old video game matrix protagonist story actually cost $220 million net, not the reported $170 million-$180 million that was floated out…

Many industry executives look back at the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Paramount (then Viacom) against YouTube in 2007 as a signpost of an era when linear broadcasters and online video platforms just couldn't play nice, let alone share the same space. Paramount had…

The most vexing obstacle for David Ellison and Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery looks to be David Zaslav – though probably not for long. As of now, Zaslav is moving ahead with a somewhat-still-fuzzy plan unveiled this past summer to split WBD in half by next spring to…

From Oscar-envelope SNAFUs, to L.A. wildfire evacuations, to real-time tweet attacks from Donald Trump and advocating for children's healthcare, Jimmy Kimmel has more than met the moment many times over the years. Still, with the ABC late-night host’s return tonight after a weeklong benching…

News that Paramount is exploring a bid for all of Warner Bros. Discovery, just weeks after closing its merger with Skydance, has bent a few brains from Wall Street to Hollywood despite recent speculation that something was in motion. As the industry and investors take stock of the entertainment…

Whenever a movie with a notable star gets a lower-end wide release in just over 1,000 theaters, and said title doesn’t post a big result, it’s easy to write that it’s a bomb. Read, we once declared that Neon’s Matthew McConaughey Beach Bum was the star’s lowest opening for a wide release at…