Thursday, March 31, 2016
Underscoring just how high the stakes are in the competition for advertising dollars in the cable market, Comedy Central threw a monster party Thursday evening following a most-hands-on-de…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:51PMDiscovery Communications set out a lavish breakfast for reporters this morning, pitching the content across its 14 channels in an improving advertising climate, which chief executive officer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:10PMWednesday, March 30, 2016
It’s been 21 years since Hugh Grant’s indiscretion with a Sunset Boulevard streetwalker. In Powerhouse: The Untold History Of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency, James And…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:12PMComedy Central will expand its Discover channel on Snapchat with an extensive development slate of original series created exclusively for the platform, Kent Alterman, President, Original P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Unveiled at Cannes last spring, By Sidney Lumet shows the director, who died in 2011, telling his own story in a never-before-seen interview shot in 2008 and produced by Daniel An…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Oliver Stone, who co-wrote and directed the upcoming Snowden, will receive the 2016 Screenwriters Tribute Award at the 21st Nantucket Film Festival on June 25. The fest’s top prize, it…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:56PMEXCLUSIVE: Alison Bechdel, the artist whose graphic memoir is the basis of last year’s Tony best musical Fun Home, has worked with Broadway ad agency SpotCo to create an unusual hybrid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PMBroadway’s original odd couple, Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns and his recalcitrant ace reporter Hildy Johnson are returning to heap abuse on one another, producer Scott Rudin …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:51PMPatty Duke, seared in popular memory as Helen Keller opposite the Annie Sullivan of Anne Bancroft in both the 1959 Broadway premiere of The Miracle Worker and in Arthur Penn’s 1962 fil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMMonday, March 28, 2016
The vernal equinox brought sunshine, good cheer and the tonic ringing of cash registers (if cash registers still existed and still rang) on Broadway during week 44 of the 2015-2016 season. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PMEXCLUSIVE: Barbara Cook Then and Now, a show that unites the acclaimed Broadway star with two equally legendary Broadway creatives — author-director James Lapine and director-choreog…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway performances added to off nights to raise money for The Actors Fund are a Broadway tradition. This week, however, the previewing musical Shuffle Along or The Making of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMFriday, March 25, 2016
Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro today took direct responsibility for the fest’s world-premiere screening of Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe, a documentary about a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26PMDeadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred.
GERARD: I have two t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on two wonderful banjo-and-whimsy fueled albums (the first, Love Has Come For You, won a Grammy in 2013 for best American roots song). Fans of Ma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:48PMEXCLUSIVE: A star of Showtime’s Billions and lauded Broadway actress (Romeo and Juliet, The Trip To Bountiful, Stick Fly, as well as Ruined off-Broadway) Condola Rashad will play the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:15PMEXCLUSIVE: Sophie McShera, co-winner of three Ensemble SAG awards for her portrayal of Daisy on Downton Abbey and UK favorite from Waterloo Road,has signed on for a West End revival of John…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:54AMWednesday, March 23, 2016
Joe Garagiola, the catcher-turned-Hall of Fame announcer and sometime substitute host for Johnny Carson, has died in Arizona. He was 90. His death was announced by the Arizona Diamondbacks, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:44PMSinger John Legend, who’s turning up the heat as a backer of socially relevant material across various media, announced today that Scandal star and Tony Award nominee Joe Morton will p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:27PMHere’s the first teaser trailer from Lionsgate for Deepwater Horizon, coming in September. Based on the events of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon recounts the world's largest man-mad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:17PMOh what joy for every girl and boy: Song of the Sea Paris-based co-producer Superprod has linked with Simon & Schuster, Universal Music Publishing and Startling Music for the TV adaptati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AM37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Atria Publishing Group, will publish From the Hart, which promises to be “an anecdote-filled, inspirational memoir” by Kevi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:41AMTuesday, March 22, 2016
If the phrase “leveraged buyout” makes you immediately think “so 1980s,” Sarah Burgess’ Dry Powder might not be the play for you. On the other hand, if you th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Tommy Tune, the tall Texan who owns 10 Tony Awards and belongs to that rarest breed of Broadway fauna, the director-choreographer, is looking for work. A chorus dancer-turned-sta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:21PMJames Douglas, a ruggedly handsome, intense actor who starred in ABC’s racy primetime drama Peyton Place and CBS’ soap opera As The World Turns, has died. He was 86. His family …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMThe Tony Award-winning production of the National Theatre's The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time will close on September 4. The production opened October 5, 2014 and will have…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AMMonday, March 21, 2016
A pervasive and apparently persuasive promotional campaign looks to be paying off for Broadway’s newest entry, Shuffle Along Or the Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PMTerry Curtin, a highly regarded and long-serving Hollywood publicist has been named Head of Theatrical Publicity at DreamWorks Animation, the company announced this morning. Curtin begins in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:42PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway producer Debbie Bisno, whose credits include the current Forest Whitaker-led revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, will add the title of Resident Producer at th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMFriday, March 18, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: You might call it the New Orleans version of Jesus Christ Superstar. On Palm Sunday from 8-10 PM, Fox will present The Passion, a live extravaganza depicting the last hours of Jes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03PMA movie about the work of a book editor seems on paper as promising as a movie about the drudgery of investigative reporting — until a Spotlight or an All The President’s Men co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM 
