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Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Bill Bellamy says flying during a pandemic is inevitable … he just wishes there was more accountability all around to help prevent what sadly went down on United Flight 591. We got Bill out at LAX on Monday afternoon and talked to him about the man who died on a

The Recording Academy knows when to hold ’em, where it’s fun to stay and that there’s a choice we’re making. Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” and USA for Africa’s benefit single “We Are the World” are among the 29 songs and albums added to the Grammy Hall of Fame today. Also making the

Lionsgate’s Indian chief Rohit Jain has been promoted to oversee all of South Asia for the film and TV company’s platform business. Jain, who was previously head of its Mumbai office, has been promoted to Managing Director, South Asia and Network Platforms – Emerging Markets Asia. He is now responsible for all of Lionsgate’s South

EXCLUSIVE: Dominique Delport, Vice Media’s president of international and global chief revenue officer, has stepped down after nearly three years. Deadline hears that Delport has not completely left the business and will continue to advise Vice on a part-time basis through his new consultancy company Arduina Partners. Outside of Vice, Arduina has four other clients

EXCLUSIVE: Avalon wrapped production on the second season of FX and Sky’s Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard comedy Breeders last Friday, as the UK faced further coronavirus disruption amid the outbreak of fast-spreading mutation of the virus. Created by Freeman, Chris Addison, and Simon Blackwell, the parental comedy was one of the first Sky shows

EXCLUSIVE: Chilean prison drama The Prince has been effectively banned from Amazon Prime UK after distributor Peccadillo Pictures was informed the movie contained “offensive content” that clashed with the streamer’s guidelines. The film is an unflinching look at life in a men’s prison set amidst the political upheaval of Chile in the 1970s. It contains

Lux Vide, the Italian producer behind Sky series Devils and the upcoming Leonardo, is rebooting the pirate story Sandokan and is launching a podcast unit. The Luca Bernabei-led company plans to reimagine Emilio Salgari’s novels, on which a 1976 Sandokan TV series was based, for a modern audience. The story chronicles the adventures of a

British broadcaster ITV has dropped a regular Coronation Street director after he wrote a series of Facebook posts undermining concerns about systemic diversity problems in the UK television industry. Steve Finn’s Facebook missives were spotted by HuffPost UK and were posted during the week of the Edinburgh TV Festival in August, when diversity was at

The Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) has unveiled the line-up for its 50th edition, with the Mads Mikkelsen-starring Riders Of Justice set to open the fest. You can see the full line-up below. The event has had to change its traditional format for 2021 due to ongoing pandemic disruption. It will now run as a

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures has beefed up the role of executive producer Michael Casey and handed him a board seat following the departure of Suzanne Mackie in October. Casey has been producing for Left Bank for more than a decade, becoming a member of staff in 2016. He was a late arrival

Tiger Woods’ life has come full circle. That seems to be one of the themes of Tiger, a two-part documentary from HBO Sports and Jigsaw Productions that is billed as a chronicle of the golf legend’s “rise, fall, and epic comeback.” That arc was hard ignore as Woods and his 11-year-old son, Charlie, played together

In the first sign today on Disney Investor Day that the studio might be going the way of WarnerMedia-HBO Max in their simultaneous theatrical-streaming strategy, the studio will release their upcoming animated feature Raya And the Last Dragon both in theaters and on Disney+ premiere access (ala Mulan over Labor Day weekend) in March. The pic

Pixar announced today Disney Investor Day that Lightyear, an origins story about Toy Story‘s Buzz Lightyear is in the works with Chris Evans. Lightyear will follow how the test pilot became the space hero that he is. Angus MacLane, the co-director of Finding Dory will be taking the reigns on Lightyear.  Also Bao filmmaker Domee Shi has Turning Red about a little girl Mae in

Pixar announced today Disney Investor Day that Lightyear, an origins story about Toy Story‘s Buzz Lightyear is in the works with Chris Evans. Lightyear will follow how the test pilot became the space hero that he is. Angus MacLane, the co-director of Finding Dory will be taking the reigns on Lightyear.  Also Bao filmmaker Domee Shi has Turning Red about a little girl Mae in

Less than a month before its Disney+ debut, Marvel’s WandaVision dropped a new trailer at Disney Investor Day presentation – and it really shakes things up. Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Avengers vets Wanda Maximoff and Vision, the latest look at the January 15 premiering series had a lot of genres and a

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently in a unique place, as the interim period between phases has been extended thanks to the delay of Black Widow and Eternals. There are a variety of exciting projects in the works, including Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Benedict Cumberbatch’s title character will also have

Comcast-owned Sky News has taken arguably its top presenter, Kay Burley, off-air for six months after she breached the UK’s coronavirus rules over the weekend. In a statement, Sky said: “Sky News has completed an internal review into the conduct of a small number of team members who attended a social event on the evening

The house featured in “A Christmas Story” is normally a tourist hot spot during the holidays, but this year business is hurting as much as getting your tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole. Folks running A Christmas Story House & Museum — the Cleveland residence used for exterior shots of Ralphie’s home in the 1983

Rumours have been swirling in Europe this week that the Berlin Film Festival will be postponed amid continuing high coronavirus numbers in Germany and across the continent. Organizers for the event, which is due to run February 11-21 as a hybrid physical festival and online and physical market, told us yesterday: “The Berlinale has been

Nintendo‘s infamous Joy-Con drift problem has reached a much more consequential and challenging stage for the Japanese company, as consumer protection organizations across Europe have initiated investigations into Nintendo’s handling of the issue. As might be obvious to many Nintendo Switch owners, “Joy-Con drift” constitutes a fundamental defect in Joy-Con controllers, causing them to register

The CW has unveiled the first full-length look at Tyler Hoechlin in full, caped super-regalia for the upcoming series Superman & Lois, and the latest incarnation of the Man of Steel carries what the designers call a “classic, timeless vibe” updated for the “modern arena.” With “streamlined muscle structure,” no less. See the photo below.

Can cinemas play day-and-date releases from Warner Bros after continually refusing to show Netflix films? The big circuits have to be feeling really stupid now: If they had only made a deal with Netflix last year on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman at a 45-day window instead of emphatically rejecting one, perhaps this looming apocalypse brought on

Nicole Kassell, the Emmy-winning Watchmen director, has inked a deal to become the lead director on HBO and Sky’s dark horror comedy The Baby, which is housed at Chernobyl producer Sister. Kassell will also serve as an executive producer on the series, which marks a debut for screenwriter Siân Robins-Grace, who is the co-executive producer

While recently promoting his new movie Archenemy, Joe Manganiello informed Yahoo that the now-scrapped Ben Affleck-led The Batman would have have had a “strong David Fincher vibe,” with Affleck (who also would have directed) specifically being influenced by Fincher’s 1997 film The Game. The movie would have seen Deathstroke, whose real name is Slade Wilson,

Johnny Depp may have lost the battle, but he still thinks he can win the war. Depp is heading to the UK Court Of Appeal in a bid to overturn a High Court verdict last month that The Sun did not libel the Pirates of the Caribbean actor by describing him as a “wife beater.”

Natalie Desselle-Reid — a prolific actor known for roles in “Eve,” a ‘Madea’ film and ‘B*A*P*S’ — has died after a battle with cancer … one she’d kept private. The veteran comedic actor passed away Monday morning. A family member tells TMZ she died of colon cancer after having been diagnosed earlier this year. We’re