On-demand movies and TV shows are the big draws to Peacock, but did you know the service also supplements that content with live TV? Juggling all the different streaming apps is quite a chore these days. Between Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and countless other options, the streaming landscape is more crowded than ever. This means each
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Coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics wraps up Sunday with the Closing Ceremony, which will air live from Beijing National Stadium on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app beginning at 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT. NBC and Peacock will rebroadcast the finale gala in an “enhanced primetime presentation” beginning Sunday night at 8 p.m.
SATURDAY AM: See, streamers, people do like to go to the movies: Sony’s Uncharted is overperforming past its mid $30M projections over 4-days with a $45M take. Even though the movie stars Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s Tom Holland, this videogame adaptation was never expected to be a Marvel movie. Rather, what Sony has here is a nice
The ninth annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards are being applied Saturday night in-person at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is updating the winners list live. Actress and comic Melissa Peterman of Young Sheldon is hosting the ceremony, which honors outstanding achievements of both makeup artists and hairstylists in motion pictures, television, commercials
Aging in Hollywood can be a gift and a sort of a curse for many A-listers. While roles become more substantive, it gets harder to maintain one’s physique. No one knows that better than Uncharted’s Mark Wahlberg. After gaining 30 pounds for his upcoming movie, Father Stu, Wahlberg got candid about how tricky weight gain
Bill Maher delivered a devastating blow to celebrities, companies and woke American culture for turning a blind eye to the horrendous abuses in China … mostly to make a buck. Maher lasered in on freestyle skier Eileen Gu, an American who chose to join Team China for the Beijing games. As he puts it, “She
EXCLUSIVE: NBC has picked the hosts for its coverage of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics — and two of them have been in the news this week. Figure skating announcers Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be joined by Terry Gannon to call the expected extravaganza from Chinese capital, we’ve learned. The trio
OG Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson is keeping his fingers crossed he will get the chance to reprise his role of Winston Zeddemore for Ghostbusters 4. The only member of the original Ghostbusters team without prior experience in parapsychology and an advanced degree, Winston was initially written to serve as an audience surrogate through which they could
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment tweeted a Black History Month tribute today “spotlighting some of our favorite DC characters” including Will Smith’s Deadshot, Jurnee Smollett’s Black Canary and Idris Elba’s Bloodsport. Fans began responding with photos of Ray Fisher as Cyborg in Warner Bros. Justice League and sent #IStandWithRayFisher trending on Twitter. It wasn’t long before
As Oscar nominees circulate in theaters, exhibitors are studying where and when to play Best Picture contenders during the long run-up from nominations February 8 through the awards March 27, juggling holdovers and new releases. (See this weekend’s specialty box office offerings below). In an interview with Deadline, Zach Nix, senior film buyer at Alamo
Warning: The following interview contains spoilers from The Peacemaker season one finale “It’s Cow or Never”, now available to watch on HBO Max. So, Peacemaker wins and the world is safe from alien butterflies. For a moment there, it seemed that the possessed Detective Sophie (Annie Chang) made a persuasive argument to Christopher Smith to
Unlike David Lynch did with 1984’s Dune, Denis Villeneuve only adapted the first half of the Frank Herbert-penned sci-fi novel for his film adaptation. So, in the months leading up to the new Dune movie’s release last year, there was concern over whether the second half would get to be chronicled. Fortunately for Villeneuve, Warner
The BBC has struck a six-year deal for the MasterChef franchise and is moving production from London to Birmingham. MasterChef, MasterChef: The Professionals, Celebrity MasterChef and newly-announced BBC Three series Young MasterChef will air until 2028 and move to the UK’s second city’s Digbeth Loc in 2024. Produced by Banijay label Shine TV, the titles have established themselves as high-rating
Timothée Chalamet is certainly showing off his sweet tooth — dressed fully as Willy Wonka — while filming for the upcoming film across the pond. The actor was spotted at Oxford University Tuesday in full “Wonka” gear and shooting scenes for the movie, it’s not the first time we’ve seen him in the garb, but
The Oscars finally has a Covid policy. Presenters and performers at next month’s Academy Awards will not be required to show proof of vaccination, but nominees and guests will. People in the latter group also must have two negative PCR tests, Deadline has confirmed. In a story posted tonight, The New York Times quoted an Academy of
Following the debut of Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler, the victims from the documentary respond to the news of the Hollywood ambitions of alleged scammer Shimon Yehuda Hayut, also known as Simon Leviev. Directed by Felicity Morris, the true-crime documentary follows the story of three women who were victims: Cecilie Fjellhoy, Pernilla Sjoholm, and Ayleen Charlotte. Recently, the
FX Chief John Landgraf provided an update at the network’s TCA winter tour panel today on Noah Hawley’s Alien series. “There are some big surprises in store for the audience,” exclaimed the network boss. But when asked by Deadline, he said Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley won’t be starring. FX Networks @ TCA: Deadline’s Complete Coverage “Alien takes
Sony’s Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg-starrer Uncharted has been dated for a March 14 release in China. The studio’s Weibo account shared the news today with a video message from Holland and Wahlberg and a subtitled trailer, as well as a new poster (see it in full below). This comes at the same time as China has
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a strong first English-language trailer for director Rama Burshtein’s (Fill The Void) anticipated TV debut Fire Dance, which has just been announced for Series Mania’s main competition. The story of impossible love set in a tight-knit ultra-Orthodox religious community heralds from Shtisel, Fauda and Your Honor outfit Yes Studios. Launch is lined up
Blake Lively is known for her many acting credits, but recently she showed off her directing chops for the first time when she helmed Taylor Swift’s music video “I Bet You Think About Me.” The video that starred Miles Teller and Taylor Swift went viral and was recently nominated for Video of the Year by
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Steven Caple Jr, the Creed II director who is currently in post-production on the upcoming Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, which Paramount Pictures releases June 9, 2023. Caple Jr had been repped by WME. He took over the reins of the Creed franchise from director Ryan Coogler, with Michael B. Jordan,
It’s over between Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley — the power couple has called off their engagement after less than 2 years together. The 38-year-old NFL MVP and actress, 30, have reportedly ended things for good … months after they were rumored to have split The couple started seeing each other shortly after the quarterback’s
Ahead of Peacemaker‘s Season 1 finale, HBO and HBO Max’s Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys hinted that a second season of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad spinoff series is in the offing. (UPDATE: HBO Max confirmed the renewal today.) “I’m feeling good so stay tuned. The show has been doing great,” Bloys told Deadline during an
Fortnite has announced that its upcoming Uncharted crossover will include alternate styles for the movie and game likenesses of each character, including Tom Holland’s portrayal of Nathan Drake, making it the actor’s second Fortnite skin. Tom Holland first appeared at the start of Chapter 3 Season 1 as Spider-Man in Fortnite, alongside Zendaya’s MJ, as part of
Alokesh Lahiri aka Bappi Lahiri, the popular Indian singer, composer and record producer, has died at the age of 69. He passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Tuesday after a prolonged illness, according to numerous local reports and a statement released by his family. Lahiri was known for working on multiple box office successes
Sony will release it’s first movie of 2022, and second Tom Holland title after Spider-Man: No Way Home over the 4-day Presidents Day weekend, Uncharted, in what is expected to be a $70M+ haul worldwide. Broken down that’s another $40M overseas from 47 markets starting Wednesday with France and Korea, then traveling to Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico,
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced that its 70th anniversary edition in August will include the debut of the annual MIFF Film Competition. Already the Southern Hemisphere’s largest and longest-running film festival, MIFF will now also offer one of the world’s most substantial festival prize pools. Initially comprising three awards, the MIFF Film Competition‘s flagship
Mission: Impossible 7 had to have been a difficult movie to make. That’s not because of whatever insane stunts Tom Cruise ended up doing, though certainly that happened. The movie was a massive production that took place entirely during a global pandemic, and so just making the film became much more complex than it otherwise
Marvel debuted the latest trailer for its upcoming Disney+ series, Moon Knight, during the Super Bowl today. The series follows Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, as he is plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As
Tyrese Gibson sure knows how to sweeten a deal, and it’s paying off for him … to the tune of nearly $3 million. The actor/singer has accepted an offer on his Woodland Hills, CA mansion — and while it has 7 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and 5,225 sq ft. of luxury ready-made for entertaining … the