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On Monday, Liev Schreiber posted a photo from the set of his upcoming Ray Donovan film, teasing his reunion with four longtime co-stars. “I will miss this particular gaggle of actors very very much,” the actor wrote on his official Instagram account. “@raydonovan #comingsoon.” In the photo, Schreiber is seen huddling up with Kerris Dorsey, Dash

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jimmy Tatro and FX’s Dave star Travis Bennett will headline the feature film project California King for Jonathan Glickman’s Glickmania, Bombo Sports & Entertainment, and production company Vanishing Angle. The comedy caper, written and directed by Eli Stern, is billed as one about mattresses, friendship, and a kidnapping that goes terribly wrong. California King will

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health backtracked on its Covid guidelines Monday, “strongly” recommending masking in all indoor public places, due to the rapid spread of the Delta variant. The County is advising that all residents mask up indoors, regardless of Covid-19 vaccination status. Public Health’s “recommendation” is currently just that, rather than

The new documentary Julia Scotti: Funny That Way, begins with senior trans standup comedienne Julia Scotti reflecting on her 69 years and an arduous but ultimately fulfilling journey to embrace her female gender identity. “Just a baby born male who never felt quite right,” Scotti observes, adding modestly, “It isn’t much to speak of, but

The BET Awards 2021 air on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT across BET, BET Her, Logo, MTV, MTV2, TV Land and VH1. Taraji P. Henson is hosting the event live from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles after the ceremony went virtual in 2020. The annual awards celebrate the year in Black music, TV,

Mere days after federal prosecutors recommended that Allison Mack receive leniency for her involvement with the NXIVM cult, the former Smallville actress and her attorneys have directly requested no time behind bars. “It is now of paramount importance for me to say, from the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry,” said a letter

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 7 new deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, as well as 366 new positive cases. 229 County residents are currently hospitalized with Covid-19. 25% of them are in the ICU. While data showed that deaths from Covid remain low, new cases and hospitalizations are up slightly in

Universal’s F9 is off to a great start as expected having grossed $7.1M from 3,100 theaters that began showtimes at 7PM. The pic expands to 4,179 theaters today, the widest ever for a film being released during the pandemic. In more great news: F9 did more business last night than Hobbs & Shaw did in its Thursday previews which were $5.8M

EXCLUSIVE: A chorus of calls for mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations – and the possibility that the industry soon might make them a requirement – prompted SAG-AFTRA to adopt new guidelines for employers who want to require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. To date, vaccinations of casts and crews are not mandatory on film

EXCLUSIVE: Following her breakout role as Daphne in the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, Phoebe Dynevor looks to have found her next big film role as sources tell Deadline she is set to star in Sony Pictures’ I Heart Murder, with Ingrid Goes West helmer Matt Spicer directing. The screenplay is written by Tom O’Donnell and Spicer.

Nearly all new Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths since the end of 2020 in Los Angeles were among unvaccinated people, according the the county’s public health department. A statement from LADPH late Thursday revealed the following: From December 7, 2020, when vaccinations first became available, to June 7, 2021, 99.6% of the County’s nearly 437,000

The Gotham Film & Media Institute said the 31st annual Gotham Awards take place Monday, November 29. The event at Cipriani Wall Street returns the show to its longtime place at the start of awards season, though this year is apt to still show plenty of marks from Covid-19. In announcing the date and eligibility

For the first time since December 2020, California’s 7-day Covid test positivity rate is on the rise. The test positivity rate, which hit a pandemic-era low of 0.7% on June 5, has risen slowly but steadily over the past two-and-a-half weeks to 1.1% on Wednesday. It’s the first sustained rise in that key Covid-19 indicator

EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Ford hurt himself rehearsing a fight scene in Indiana Jones 5, sources tell Deadline.  The extent of his injury wasn’t immediately known, but it involves his shoulder. Director James Mangold will continue to shoot around him while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated. The filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in

Up until about the last third or so of stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger’s new Netflix comedy Good on Paper, this clever and engaging film about a disastrous true-life relationship experience of Shlesinger’s works quite well in the overdone rom-com genre. But then it falls prey to the worst instincts of what passes for film comedy these days

EXCLUSIVE: Vidyut Jammwal, the Indian film star, martial artist and stuntman whose credits include the Commando series and Junglee, has signed with U.S. management and production firm Wonder Street. Alongside his rising star in India off the back of a string of box office successes, Jammwal also recently made the move into producing with the

EXCLUSIVE: Though her upcoming breakout role as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s new retelling of West Side Story doesn’t bow till this winter, Rachel Zegler looks to have already found her next big role in Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of an animated classic. Sources tell Deadline Zegler is set to star as Snow White in Walt Disney

The Tribeca Festival wrapped Sunday night, its last event a retrospective screening of Raging Bull with a video (pre-recorded) of Leonardo DiCaprio interviewing Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro about the iconic 1980 film. The director called it, “the culmination of everything I had desired it to be.” “I didn’t care what happened to it,

Will Smith, who revealed the title and cover of his upcoming autobiography Will, thanked fans today for the love: The book, to be published Nov. 9 by Penguin Press, was listed today as Amazon’s #1 Best Seller among actor and entertainer biographies. “I see all y’all gettin’ your pre-orders in early for my book, THANK

On Saturday, Macy Gray published an op-ed, calling for a redesign of the American flag. She opened the piece, penned for Market Watch, by observing that the Confederate flag, which was created as “a symbol of opposition to the abolishment of slavery,” has recently proven “tired.” “We don’t see it much anymore,” she wrote. “However,