Posts by Nathan Pine
David Heyman Inks First-Look Film Deal With Amazon MGM Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has closed a first-look film deal with veteran producer David Heyman‘s Heyday Films. Heyman is already in business with the studio — along with Amy Pascal, he produces Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming Denis Villeneuve-directed James Bond film. The anticipated 007 franchise reset, which has been the object of a global media…
Read MoreFrank Beard Dead: ZZ Top’s Founding Drummer Was 77
Frank Beard, who co-founded ZZ Top and was its drummer for nearly six decades, playing on sach classics as “La Grange,” “Tush,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs,” died Monday. He was 77. The band’s longtime rep Bob Merlis confirmed to our sister publication Rolling Stone that Beard died at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, while…
Read MoreInside Hayden Panettiere’s Relationship With Ex Wladimir Klitschko Before Her Death
Even after their breakup, Hayden Panettiere and Wladimir Klitschko made a titanic effort to be on the same team for daughter Kaya. So when the Remember the Titans actress died Aug. 16, the Ukrainian boxer expressed their family’s “profound shock and grief.” Deeply saddened by her tragic death, “She left this world far too soon,” Klitschko wrote on Instagram Aug. 18 alongside…
Read More‘The young ones are the best ones’: Meta on trial for alleged effort to hook kids
California launched a salacious opening to its hotly anticipated multistate lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday morning, detailing the tech titan’s focus on its preteen users in language that could have been lifted from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” “You’re going hear how Meta desperately tried to hold on to those kids, how it wanted them so badly,…
Read MoreHow Whitney Way Thore Found Her Happily Ever After With Fiancé Jake Beaudoin
Or, rather, the dating apps. While she was aiming for one date per month, she lamented to E! in 2024, “In Greensboro, the pickings are so slim, it’s tragic.” So, after years of swiping left on brother Hunter Thore (“I always see him!” she joked to E! in 2023), pairing with a fellow local was,…
Read MoreBox Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Fastest To Cross $800M U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: And the records just keep on comin’. Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to be rare air at the domestic box office, crossing the $800M mark later today, and becoming the fastest movie ever to that number. The Destin Daniel Cretton directed movie pulls off this feat in a record 19 days, which…
Read MoreAlex Gibney, Raney Aronson-Rath And More To be Honored At DOC NYC
EXCLUSIVE: DOC NYC has announced a distinguished group of honorees for its upcoming 13th edition, set to unspool in New York this November. The annual Visionaries Tribute, to be held on the festival’s opening day at Gotham Hall in Manhattan, will see Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and filmmaker-sound recordist JT Takagi honored with Lifetime Achievement…
Read More‘Seasons’: Jack Reynor Joins Amazon Horror Film
After starring in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Jack Reynor has found his next horror vehicle in Seasons, Drew Hancock’s film for Amazon MGM Studios, where he’ll star opposite Lily James, Deadline can confirm. Fka My Wife and I Bought a Ranch, Seasons is based on a viral horror short story by Matt & Harrison Query, which first appeared on Reddit…
Read MoreMotion Picture Academy Sets 2026-2027 Committee And Affinity Group Chairs
The Oscar voters are getting busy and proving there is more to being an Academy member than just casting a ballot. Among those serving will be four-time Oscar winner Sean Baker heading up the newly formed Academy Marquee Theater Committee along with co-chair (and his wife) Samantha Quan who is also an Oscar winner. This…
Read MoreEmmy Host Mariska Hargitay Shares Scoops On Her Primetime Gig
Pretty soon TV viewers will see Mariska Hargitay in a role she’s never played before, and it’s one-night-only – host of the Primetime Emmy Awards. You might not immediately think of her as a comedian, but then neither does she, she tells Deadline. This fall, Hargitay returns for an astounding 28th season as Det. (now…
Read MoreESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen Dies At 93
Bill Rasmussen, a visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of the effects of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida. Rasmussen revealed in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a degenerative disease, in 2014. Shrugging off skeptics,…
Read MoreElevation Pictures: Laurie May Exits As Co-President
Laurie May is stepping down as co-President of Canadian indie distribution company, Elevation Pictures. Founded in 2013 during the Toronto International Film Festival by Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman, Elevation Pictures has handled the Canadian release of such movies as Oscar winning The Imitation Game, Room, Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the recent A24…
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