The former business partner of the incarcerated “midwestern, millennial Madoff” who ripped off investors and pals to the tune of $650 million with promises of lucrative licensing rights to HBO and Netflix flicks is plenty peeved at Amazon Studios, Vice Studios and director Rebecca Chaikin. “As a result of Defendants’ desire to sensationalize the Series and […]

EXCLUSIVE: “I have been in this business a long time, and I have never seen anything this bad,” a CBS News insider told Deadline on Wednesday amid the fallout of recent firings at 60 Minutes and accusations of political interference at the Bari Weiss-ruled division. After a verbal dust-up this week between 60 Minutes correspondent […]

Leading in the polls to be the next governor or California, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra is holding to the physician oath of “do no harm,” at least when it comes to his plans to preserve and grow production in the home of Hollywood. “I will defend what has been […]

With calls of American “resilience and unity” ahead of the country’s 250th birthday and chants of “USA, USA” from the the crowd of nearly 20,000 in a packed Madison Square Garden for Monday’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals, President Donald Trump learned how Knicks fans really felt about him. The erstwhile New York resident […]

Donald Trump has unsurprisingly promised to chime in later on long time foe Stephen Colbert’s late night departure tonight, but two of the ex-Apprentice host’s political rivals Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton have already had their say on the Late Show finale. There aren’t many who can make people think and laugh at the same […]

“The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable,” Scott Pelley said late Tuesday just hours after being fired from CBS News after almost 40 years at the network. “The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well,” the former CBS Evening News anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent added in […]

In what is shaping up to become a very heated rivalry, the Motion Picture Association didn’t quite use the word socialism today over a Canadian regulatory move, but they got damn close. The studios and streamers’ trade association did warn that “new rules” and financial contributions determined today by Canada’s Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission […]

With a blistering lawsuit filed Monday, the state of Florida may succeed where Elon Musk failed in bringing OpenAI and Sam Altman to heel. “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said this morning after filing an 83-page complaint in the Sunshine State’s […]

Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant was sentenced today to almost three and a half years behind bars for injecting the Friends star with the three ketamine doses that killed him on October 28, 2023. Also hit with a $10,000 fine Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, Ken Iwamasa is the fifth and final […]

A week before the primary that could decide who the next mayor of Los Angeles is, incumbent Karen Bass and poll-rising challenger Spencer Pratt got legal and personal today in their war of campaign words. The white gloves have been off for a while as The Hills alum tries to use the loss of his […]

UPDATE, 7 a.m. Wednesday: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will be on the ballot in November, a result that was not surprising based on recent polls, but comfort nonetheless given voter discontent in the city. The Associated Press declared that Bass would make the general election. Reality star Spencer Pratt was still in second place, […]

(Updated with Karen Bass & Spencer Pratt statements) Donald Trump’s election conspiracy temper tantrum on NBC’s Meet The Press aside, the roller coaster drama in the Los Angeles Mayoral remains unmatched almost a week after polls closed in the City of Angels. In a true Hollywood reversal of fortune that could end up in a […]