Month: March 2021

Deadline has learned that longtime CAA lit agent Jay Baker parted with the agency abruptly today. CAA was not commenting. The clients that Baker was part of the rep teams, are impressive. It included Oscar-nominated Minari writer/director Lee Isaac Chung, Oliver Stone, Duncan Jones, J Blakeson, Rupert Sanders, Nimrod Antal, Wong Kar-Wai, Yann Demange, Pablo
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I told Emerald Fennell that her feature film debut as writer and director, Promising Young Woman, is simply burning a hole through this awards season, and deservedly so. Just hours before we talked for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens she had won the Best Original Screenplay award from the
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News Amaarae Announces Fall 2021 Tour The Crazy Wurld Tour includes 10 stops in Europe and the United Kingdom in November By Matthew Strauss March 26, 2021 Facebook Twitter Amaarae, photo by Yussif Al Jabaar Facebook Twitter Amaarae is planning to go on tour in November. The Ghanian-American artist has 10 November concerts lined up
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Larry McMurtry, the novelist who put the American West on the literary map through his works, best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Lonesome Dove, has died at the age of 84. The death was confirmed by Amanda Lundberg, a spokeswoman for the family. No cause was specified. Spanning a career of over five decades,
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In this article 700-HK BIDU 9999-HK JD 9988-HK Alibaba founder Jack Ma attends the 5th World Zhejiang Entrepreneurs Convention at Hangzhou International Expo Centre on November 13, 2019 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. VCG | Getty Images China’s dual-listed tech giants — Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com, and Netease — have collectively lost billions in market
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“Our only constraint is manufactured supply,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday. “With the expectation that more supply will be made available,” he continued, “that expectation has set up a framework where today we are announcing that we are modifying, in a stair-stepped manner, our eligibility for doses here in the state.” Newsom revealed
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Outside of Canada, it feels like current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and, by extension, his government, have a reputation for being cool and progressive. Trudeau’s Liberal government often talk the talk about equity and inclusion. Sadly and frustratingly, they keep making decisions that are far from walking the walk, like a recent funding cut
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Introducing a brand new collaboration for 2021, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley adds yet another mega name to her already beaming CV with Italian shoe brand, Gia Couture and its founder, Barbara Borghini. The-33-year-old supermodel and actress is no stranger to the catwalk and – if you’re anything like us (and her 12 million Instagram followers!) – she
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EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning country music star, actress and longtime Sugarland vocalist Jennifer Nettles has made no secret of her passion for Broadway – she once said her dream gig would be playing Elphaba in Wicked – and now she’s opening up about her next step in that direction: Nettles tells Deadline that she’s spent the year
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