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“The bankers are trying to crunch me. They'll fail.” Rupert Murdoch looked frazzled but defiant. We were having what was supposed to be a friendly coffee, but this was 2006 and he was under siege from bankers who were trying to cope with his financial…

For me the big story of the night at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday was the completely unexpected win by Hacks for Best Comedy Series over The Bear, which was coming off a record 10 Emmy wins in January for its first season. Season 2 of The Bear…

"I directed the best political movie never released." Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set during Chicago's riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. His movie opened (sort of) exactly 55 years ago this…

Deadline's TV Talk podcast is almost over for another season, taking listeners all the way to the 76th Emmy Awards ceremony September 15. Today's episode is the last one for this year, but, like we and Arnold say, we'll be back. For this extended edition of TV Talk, Deadline TV Critic Dominic…

A column covering conversations and events on the awards circuit. If it seems like we have been in an Emmy cycle with no end, you wouldn’t be far from wrong. But we are just about at the finish line as ballots are now in the hands (or laptops) of some…

Editor's Note: T.J. Newman is the New York Times bestselling author of Falling, and Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421. Both were named Best Books of the Year by Amazon and each is moving forward as a movie at Universal and Warner Bros, respectively. Her new novel Worst Case Scenario is on sale now. Perha…

The Dog Days of summer—vaguely from mid-July through mid-August, depending on who does the counting—may not seem like much of an Oscar crucible. You'd think most Academy voters would be sipping Margaritas in Malibu, or Limoncello Martinis somewhere on the Mediterranean. But as often as not in the…

Jenna Ortega has opened up about what happened with Scream 7. During an interview with Vanity Fair, Ortega was asked about her support of Palestine amid the Gaza conflict. Her Scream co-star Melissa Barrera was fired for sharing comments on the subject, and Ortega later exited the film, citing…

On the 10th anniversary of Robin Williams death, friends and colleagues of the late star spoke to Vanity Fair about how he would try to make anyone laugh. However, there was another side of Williams, whose incredible empathy helped his Mrs. Doubtfire costar Sally Field when she experienced tragedy…

Taylor Swift once wrote that her biggest fear was a terrorist attack at one of her shows. Swift has canceled her Vienna shows in Austria after learning there was a terrorist plot that would have targeted the Eras Tour. Swift was set to perform at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion on Thursday, Friday, and…

The truth is out there. On social media, that is. In 1997, Gillian Anderson won an Emmy for her role in The X-Files. She immediately celebrated by leaning in for a kiss with David Duchovny as her boyfriend looked on. Only after did she lean to her side to kiss her boyfriend, Rodney Rowland…

Lo, the enduring miracle of the film awards year. Just when things begin to look hopeless—and it was looking pretty bleak a month ago—intriguing, maybe even watchable, prospects suddenly sprout. The movies are like Osiris, that old Egyptian resurrection god: You just can't keep 'em down. As August…