It Starts On The Page (Limited): Read ‘The Penguin’ Finale Script “A Great Or Little Thing” With Foreword By Lauren LeFranc

It Starts On The Page (Limited): Read ‘The Penguin’ Finale Script “A Great Or Little Thing” With Foreword By Lauren LeFranc

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Limited) features 10 standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention. The Penguin developer-showrunner Lauren LeFranc delivered two gut punches in the finale of the HBO limited series based on the DC Comics character Oz Cobb aka The Penguin. After establishing that Oz (Colin Farrell)…

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Was Barron Trump Rejected From Harvard? The White House Says…

Was Barron Trump Rejected From Harvard? The White House Says…

Ivana Trump was the first wife of President-elect Donald Trump. Born in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia—now Zlín of the Czech Republic—in 1949, she rose to fame as a competitive skier. And, thanks to her marriage to Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr in 1971, Ivana was able to travel often outside of Czechoslovakia. According to her book Raising…

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Brent Weinstein Joins Senior Leadership Team At CAA

Brent Weinstein Joins Senior Leadership Team At CAA

Veteran executive Brent Weinstein has joined the senior leadership team at CAA, where he’ll be responsible for overseeing business areas including Digital Media, Podcasts, Games, Talent Business Ventures, and Speakers. Weinstein joins from Candle Media, where he’s served as Chief Development Officer since 2022. At CAA, he will also be involved in the agency’s M&A…

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“Don’t Ever Say What You Said”: Donald Trump Fumes At Reporter For Asking About Wall Street’s Notion That He Always “Chickens Out” On Tariffs

“Don’t Ever Say What You Said”: Donald Trump Fumes At Reporter For Asking About Wall Street’s Notion That He Always “Chickens Out” On Tariffs

Donald Trump once again got testy with a reporter over a question, this time over a phrase being used on Wall Street over the president’s tendency to not follow through on tariff threats: the TACO trade, as in “Trump Always Chickens Out.” The reporter noted that analysts have coined the term, and it explains why…

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Garcelle Beauvais & Lifetime Expand Partnership With 2 New Movies

Garcelle Beauvais & Lifetime Expand Partnership With 2 New Movies

EXCLUSIVE: Garcelle Beauvais is staying booked and busy in her post-Housewives career, focusing now on producing and advocating for meaningful, representation-forward storytelling. Beauvais is expanding her partnership with Lifetime with two new original movies she will star in and executive produce. They include: Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie, an emotionally…

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Skydance’s ‘9/12’ Series Starring Jeremy Strong On Hold, Eyes 2026 Start Amid Uncertainty Over Paramount Merger Approval

Skydance’s ‘9/12’ Series Starring Jeremy Strong On Hold, Eyes 2026 Start Amid Uncertainty Over Paramount Merger Approval

Three weeks after Skydance paused new spending on a series starring and executive produced by Jeremy Strong and written and executive produced by Tobias Lindholm and Frank Pugliese, the high-profile drama has been put on hold, sources tell Deadline. The move comes as the regulatory approval process of Skydance‘s proposed $8 billion Paramount takeover continues…

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Netflix Co-Founder Reed Hastings Joins Board Of AI Firm Anthropic

Netflix Co-Founder Reed Hastings Joins Board Of AI Firm Anthropic

Reed Hastings, executive chairman and co-founder of Netflix, has joined the board of directors of fast-growing AI firm Anthropic. The company, which has been valued at north of $60 billion in recent fundraising, said its Long Term Benefit Trust selected Hastings because it valued his experience. The exec stepped down as Co-CEO of Netflix in…

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