The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kathleen Kennedy has paid fond tribute to Marjane Satrapi, the artist, animator and Persepolis filmmaker who died Thursday at 56. “We’ve lost a true original,” the longtime Lucasfilm president said in part. Read her full remembrance below. Kennedy worked with Satrapi on Persepolis, the filmmaker’s 2007 pic that earned an Oscar nomination for Best […]

When Anthony Norman, the unwitting star of Prime Video’s Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, took a temp job with a hot sauce company, he had no idea what he was getting into. He thought he would be assisting family-owned Rockin’ Grandma’s put on a weeklong company retreat in Southern California. “I thought… I just needed […]

Peabo Bryson, the two-time Grammy-winning R&B singer and songwriter, died June 2. He was 75. He reportedly had suffered a stroke days prior. The artist was known for singing soul ballads, including “A Whole New World” from Aladdin with Regina Belle and the title song from from Beauty and the Beast, a duet with Celine Dion. […]

Jeffrey Lane, an Emmy-winning writer and producer with TV credits spanning the sitcom Mad About You, dramas Cagney & Lacey and Lou Grant, soap opera Ryan’s Hope as well as Tony Awards broadcasts and the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, died May 20 in New York following a lengthy illness. He was 71. Over the […]

Clarence B. Jones, a key adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. who helped organize the March on Washington and assisted King in drafting the Civil Rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. His family says the attorney and academic “passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, in Cupertino, California” on May 22. He was […]

The third annual Gotham Television Awards spread the wealth Monday night as HBO Max’s DTF St. Louis was the only program to won multiple awards, for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and supporting actor David Harbour. Apple TV’s Pluribus from Vince Gilligan and starring Rhea Seehorn took the marquee Breakthrough Drama Series prize, and HBO […]

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing the original Star Wars and scored a nom for American Graffiti, both directed by her then-husband George Lucas, and worked with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, died May 27 of cancer in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 80. Her family’s attorney, Deidre Von Rock, confirmed the […]

David May, a two-time Grammy-winning producer who worked many of music’s biggest names and was a former longtime VP at Warner Records and Rhino Entertainment, has died. He was 68. Deadline confirmed that he died April 13 in Nashville of natural causes. Specializing in new audio formats and mastering, May worked on projects ranging from studio […]