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Mediation is reportedly set to start today, Day 101 of Donald Trump’s second term, between Trump’s legal team and that of Paramount Global, parent company of CBS, to try to resolve the president’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network over the way that a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was…

On a night saluting the independence and go-for-broke cinematic life of Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino perhaps best summed up why the legendary filmmaker has opted out of accepting many honors over the decades by quoting Coppola himself, who once said…

Editor’s Note: About 15 years ago, celebrated documentarian Louis Theroux headed to the occupied West Bank territory for a tell-all documentary. This week, he returns for the BBC’s Louis Theroux: The Settlers, which launches in a few days’ time. Writing exclusively for Deadline, Theroux details how he…

In addition to his extensive feature career, Canadian-Bulgarian filmmaker Ted Kotcheff worked on NBC’s venerable crime drama Law & Order’ SVU for its first 13 seasons as a producing director. He started as a co-executive producer, earning a quick promotion to executive producer at the start of Season…

The two shows represent a blast of contrast: Adolescence is gritty and minimalist. The Studio is noisily over the top. Yet both are dominating the conversation among critics and cinephiles and are impacting viewers worldwide. Adolescence is topping…

These aren't fun times for billionaires, even though their number keeps proliferating along with their numbers — there are now at least 17 documented "super billionaires" with assets of more than $100 billion. Still, Elon Musk's Tesla dealerships are being torched, Jeff Bezos' newspaper is under…

Will filmgoers rally behind space travelers who “hate dying” but keep courting death? The director who gave us Parasite, a cool, curmudgeonly social comedy, is challenging filmgoers with a big-budget, genre-bending epic titled Mickey 17 that will…

EXCLUSIVE: Miles Madison is Mikey Madison's twin brother, and the way he describes it they were "born at the same time.” Family lore, says Miles, is that they had a cesarean birth "and we were plucked out" simultaneously to prevent arguments about who's older. And does that work? Miles…

Whether it was Zoe Saldaña calling out her husband’s beautiful hair during her acceptance speech or June Squibb claiming that she’s really Bill Skarsgård in drag, the 97th Oscars on Sunday were chock-full of good, bag and fugly moments (and we mean that in the nicest way, Sand Worm. Well, maybe not…

Will Amazon's 007 franchise ever take center stage again? Thinking about this, I flashed back to a conversation with an actor friend telling me, "I've just been offered a big payday as the next James Bond but I can't get over the feeling that his…

Well, it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. Not sure who said that, or just who will be singing after this long and winding road to Oscar is over, but we will have to wait another week after a later-than-ever SAG Awards ceremony just said “Not so…

Editor’s note: John Ridley is the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave writer, writer-director of Five Days at Memorial, and the Eisner-nominated writer of the DC graphic novel series GCPD: The Blue Wall. He also hosts with Matt Carey the Deadline podcast Doc Talk, and occasionally contributes guest…