American Idol moved Hollywood Week from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tennessee and it has seemingly paid off. The move helped ABC’s talent competition land its best ratings night since its premiere and was up more than a quarter over last season’s equivalent episode. It also rated higher than NBC’s The Voice, which will...
“A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey” reached 8.35 million worldwide on all platforms. Some 5.13 million people in the United States interacted with content from the exclusive interview, while the remaining 3.22 million were international. On CNN, the interview — which aired on...
Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” was the big winner on the final night of the 57th NAACP Image Awards virtual ceremonies. The blockbuster movie — which led the Image Award nominations with a dominant 18 nods, including outstanding motion picture — won three categories: stunt ensemble, cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner posthumously won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Guest Performance for Fox’s drama series Murder in Small Town, among the highlights of Night 3 of the awards’ pre-ceremony livestream specials. Warner, who died of an accidental drowning in July at age 54, played Richard Bannister in the...
Ann Godoff, an editor and publisher for Penguin Press, died on Feb. 24 in Albany, N.Y. She was 76. Godoff died from complications of bone cancer in a hospital, her partner, Annik LaFarge confirmed to the New York Times. Godoff spent more than three decades as the head of Random House, nurturing the careers of […]
Production for The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has paused following the death of Mary M. Cosby’s son, Robert Jr. Filming for RHOSLC Season 7 was supposed to commence this week, but after news of Robert Jr.’s tragic death, it has been postponed until further notice. The entire cast from Season 6 was expected […]
SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains the songs by episode in Shrinking Season 3. Apple TV’s comedy series from co-creators Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein and Jason Segel is back with its third season and an hour-long first episode. Season 3’s theme of moving forward comes to light in Episode 301, titled “My Bad,” as...
Most moviegoers are now used to buying specific seats when they go to a premium theater. Starting later this year, however, at AMC theaters the best seats in the house will be reserved for those who pay a subscription fee and, in some cases, that fee will come on top of the regular ticket price. […]
Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche will be heading to the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival next month to screen her directorial debut, the nonfiction feature In-I In Motion. That’s one of the highlights to emerge from a news conference Wednesday at which TiDF leadership unveiled the full lineup for...
EXCLUSIVE: Casey Mills has been cast as a recurring guest star in Season 2 of The Hunting Wives, Deadline hears. We understand he’ll appear as ‘Nico’ in at least five episodes of the Netflix series. Details on his character were not immediately available. Reps for Netflix and Lionsgate declined to comment. The Hunting...
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s push into live unscripted programming hasn’t fared that well, so far, and it’s having an impact on its executive ranks. Deadline understands that Sahara Bushue, who was director of unscripted series at Netflix, overseeing its slate of live unscripted and performance series, is exiting the company....
With exhibitors, guilds and filmmakers like James Cameron scared that a Netflix and Warner Bros merger “will be disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business,” along comes No. 1 theater circuit boss AMC’s Adam Aron yesterday during an earnings call, waving a flag for the streamer and its future on the big...
Democrats’ counterprogramming to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address didn’t get nearly the attention as the big event, but the president himself took note. Trump was irate on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as “lunatics” who should be...
TKO Group President and COO Mark Shapiro was asked Wednesday during the company’s quarterly earnings call whether he is rooting for Paramount or Netflix to win the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery. “I’m not going to get pulled into that trap,” he said. “We’re just an observer just like everybody else.” After that...
AMC Theatres is offering a new perk to its loyalty program members: Customers who pay a monthly fee for A-List or Stubs Premiere will get priority access to the best seats in the house. The program is expected to launch in 2026, the company’s chairman Adam Aron on Tuesday’s earnings call. This change comes three […]
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address drew around 28 million viewers across eight major news networks, according to preliminary data from Nielsen. The final numbers will be available on Thursday. Last year, when the president delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress, the final data showed that he drew...
The U.S. men’s national hockey team made headlines over the weekend when it defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal final at the Winter Olympics, and now, Nike has dropped a new line of merch to commemorate the occasion. The U.S. men’s win marked the first Olympic gold medal for an American hockey team since […]
Hilary Duff appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast amid her press tour for her new album, “Luck… or something,” and confirmed a long-standing rumor that she crashed the August 2003 premiere of “Freaky Friday” amid a rivalry with fellow Disney star Lindsay Lohan. The duo’s alleged love triangle with Aaron Carter in...
Paramount Skydance leaders steered clear of any discussion of the company’s latest bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery as it unveiled fourth-quarter 2025 earnings report on Wednesday that reflected declines in the company’s core linear TV business but momentum for Paramount+ and other streaming platforms. CEO David...
Comedian Nate Bargatze’s new game show, titled “The Greatest Average American,” premieres tonight. The show, which celebrates the power of “being perfectly average,” arrives on ABC on Feb. 25 at 9 p.m. ET. Cable-cutting viewers can stream the new season on Sling TV using their Sling Blue plan, with prices starting at...
Donald Trump lashed out at Robert De Niro in a Truth Social rant amid their ongoing public feud. The president slammed the Oscar-winning actor as “a sick and demented person” after De Niro fought back tears in a recent interview on “The Best People With Nicole Wallace” podcast while urging Americans to resist Trump....
Viewers of “Today” are going to see a little more of Hoda Kotb. Kotb is expected to continue to fill in at the NBC morning franchise opposite Craig Melvin while regular co-anchor Savannah Guthrie continues to monitor the search for her mother, Nancy, in Arizona, according to a person familiar with the matter. Kotb has...
The podcasts in the streamer’s debut crop, including “The Pete Davidson Show,” have revived metaphysical questions about the definition of the medium.
Christophe Leribault, who runs the Palace of Versailles, will replace Laurence des Cars, who resigned months after an audacious jewel heist.
This month offers a tribute to the prolific filmmaker who died last week at 96 and has a plausible claim to being the greatest documentarian who ever lived.
Kelly Akashi, an artist, was one of thousands who lost their houses in last winter’s Eaton wildfire in Los Angeles. Her new sculpture for the Whitney Biennial marks one year of slow recovery.
The corridors of a former sanitarium are both terrifying and rewarding, while Raccoon City is bland and filled with chores.
In a career of standout performances and dispiriting lows, Lindo, 73, has held firm to his goal: “I want to be respected for my work.”
Jeff Buckley, Lauryn Hill, New Edition and INXS are also included on the ballot for the first time.
The director Joachim Trier narrates a theatrical sequence from his film, nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best picture.
Interest has surged in what stars are served at shows like the Golden Globes. Does it matter what the rich eat, or do we just want to eat the rich?
Lauren Yee’s boisterous play “Mother Russia,” about the origins of the contemporary oligarchy, has its roots in her San Francisco childhood.
Indigenous peoples, interspecies friendships, space travel and a history-making young paleontologist are on the bill for this annual event.
With women now controlling more than one-third of global wealth, they are spending more on art than men do, data shows, and influencing what museums acquire.
As the conductor prepares to leave the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the New York Philharmonic, he says, “I am in two waters.”
Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.
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