ACM Awards 2025: See Every Celebrity Arrive

ACM Awards 2025: See Every Celebrity Arrive

Grab your cowboy boots—because the ACM Awards are finally here. Indeed, the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards are bringing some of the genre’s biggest names to the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, May 8 for the 2025 ceremony. With 14-time ACM award winner Reba McEntire hosting country’s biggest night for the…

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Disney Developing MLB Catcher Dynasty ‘Molina’ Movie With Lin-Manuel Miranda & Rideback

Disney Developing MLB Catcher Dynasty ‘Molina’ Movie With Lin-Manuel Miranda & Rideback

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is shepherding the feature project Molina based on the New York Times best-selling autobiographical book Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty by Bengie Molina. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera (Motorcycle Diaries, 100 Years of Solitude), who also hails from Puerto Rico, is writing the script. Viajes Miranda’s Lin-Manuel Miranda…

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Concord Theatricals Acquires Major Competitor Broadway Licensing Global

Concord Theatricals Acquires Major Competitor Broadway Licensing Global

Concord, considered to be the world’s leading independent music company, has acquired Broadway Licensing Global and its imprints Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stage Rights. All of the imprints will now become part of Concord Theatricals. The acquisition does not include Stageworks or the Broadway On Demand streaming service. Concord Theatricals was formed…

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Trump Attempts Sean Connery Impression, Says ‘007’ Franchise “Has Nothing To Worry About” With Film Tariffs

Trump Attempts Sean Connery Impression, Says ‘007’ Franchise “Has Nothing To Worry About” With Film Tariffs

As the Trump administration’s tariffs wreak havoc on Hollywood and other industries, at least one blockbuster franchise is off the hook. While discussing a new U.K. trade deal on Thursday in the Oval Office, President Trump attempted a Sean Connery impression and assured that “James Bond has nothing to worry about” with his planned 100%…

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How advisers can augment the board

How advisers can augment the board

ONE of the expected roles of the board of a company is to provide strategic guidance by drawing upon the diverse experience and expertise of its directors. Indeed, much of the discussions around the need for board diversity is precisely in response to this. There are however, limitations in developing cognitive diversity through just the…

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Comcast’s Versant Unveils Programming Team; NBCU Execs Michael Sluchan & Susie Kricena Join Cori Abraham

Comcast’s Versant Unveils Programming Team; NBCU Execs Michael Sluchan & Susie Kricena Join Cori Abraham

Versant, the Comcast-owned company formerly known as SpinCo, has a new programming team. The company has named six executives, all formerly of NBCUniversal, across its entertainment portfolio, including Cori Abraham, who Deadline revealed was leading content efforts under President of Entertainment Val Boreland. The most significant move from a programming perspective is the addition to…

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How ‘Severance’ Composer Teddy Shapiro Evolved “Using Piano As The Source” In Season 2, And What He Plans For Season 3 – Sound & Screen TV

How ‘Severance’ Composer Teddy Shapiro Evolved “Using Piano As The Source” In Season 2, And What He Plans For Season 3 – Sound & Screen TV

Severance composer Theodore “Teddy” Shapiro said during a sit-down conversation at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television awards-season event how the music evolved from the first to the second season of the Apple TV+ series. “I said my first thought was that we could do something that contrasted one world for the innies and one world…

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