Entertainment - Thursday, August 27, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: In a power pairing, Tracy Oliver and Issa Rae have teamed up for hourlong series project Open, Deadline has learned. Co-created by the duo, Open was recently taken out and has garnered seven offers, I hear. It is produced by Paramount Television Studios under Rae’s first-look there. In Open, when a married couple who […]

Deadline • 17 days ago

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Big Little Truths,” the follow-up novel to “Big Little Lies.” It all starts with a mysterious finger sent to the school principal. Liane Moriarty is back with “Big Little Truths,” a book set 10 years after the events of her novel “Big Little Lies,” which was adapted into […]

Variety • 17 days ago

He voiced the main protagonist of the “Transformers” franchise on television and in blockbuster films for more than four decades. He also had success as Eeyore in “Winnie the Pooh” cartoons.

NYT Arts • 17 days ago

Ellen Pompeo is looking to scrub up again — but this time, not as Dr. Meredith Grey. The “Grey’s Anatomy” star is attached to lead a drama series in development at Hulu from “Big Little Lies” and “Boston Legal” creator David E. Kelley. Titled “Not a Sound,” the project is based on Heather Gudenkauf’s novel […]

Variety • 17 days ago

Andrea Eastman, who broke boundaries as a casting director at Paramount in the 1970s and as an agent at ICM, has died, Deadline has confirmed. She was 86. Eastman’s output as a casting director is not extensive, but it is impressive. She had an uncanny penchant for identifying untested talent and placing them in breakout […]

Deadline • 17 days ago

After the court forced the removal of the president’s name from the building’s title, the center devised a plan to add an inscription honoring President Trump.

NYT Arts • 17 days ago

Following the death Tuesday of two-time Oscar nominee and 11-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton, AMC Theatres is planning a retrospective of the multihyphenate showing two of her movies, 1989’s Steel Magnolias and 1982’s The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The cinematic homage will be begin Friday and go through September 2. AMC will present the […]

Deadline • 17 days ago

Marc Jacobs is going cinematic this fall. For its Fall 2026 campaign, the fashion house enlisted Jemima Kirke and Rowan Blanchard to star in “The Swap,” a scripted micro-drama that turns an accidental handbag mix-up into a chase across New York City. Playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris also makes a cameo. The project is […]

Variety • 17 days ago

Two of Dolly Parton’s most beloved movies are heading back to the big screen following the country music icon’s death on Tuesday. Beginning on Friday, Aug. 28, AMC Theatres will offer special presentations of “Steel Magnolias” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” in approximately 200 locations across the U.S., including Parton’s home state of […]

Variety • 17 days ago

With a humorous stage name adapted from that of the New York financier, she made a 1950s Hit Parade splash and later was a flamboyant talk-show regular.

NYT Arts • 17 days ago

A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in the latest challenge to the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center’s effort to install the president’s name on the complex, this time twice on its façade and once to designate the grounds for him. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, however, stopped the center’s lawyer from bringing up the “dilapidated” condition of […]

Deadline • 17 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: In March 2005, one freshman ABC drama, David E. Kelley’s Boston Legal, wrapped its season in the Sunday 10 PM slot to make room for another rookie, Grey’s Anatomy starring Ellen Pompeo, which launched in the time period a week later. Twenty-one years after that handover, Pompeo and Kelley have come together for a […]

Deadline • 17 days ago