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EXCLUSIVE: Leo Messi is getting the animated treatment. The Argentinean soccer captain has teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment to develop a new animated series after winning the World Cup in Qatar. The series will depict Messi as a child as he confronts obstacles while traveling throughout a videogame. It is aimed for children and

Is love really a scam? The easy answer is no, of course not. There are many different forms of love, and that pure emotion that comes from looking at your child or relishing in the warmth of a hug from a close friend can’t be described as anything but love. But an emotion as powerful

A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once won a pair of awards as did Rob Lowry for his music supervision on both Cha Cha Real Smooth and Do Revenge on Sunday at the 13th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. The ceremony, held at the Wiltern Theatre, celebrated outstanding achievement in the craft across film, TV,

Refresh for latest … The 73rd ACE Eddie Awards are being handed out today at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Westwood, and Deadline is posting the winners in all 14 categories as they are announced. Check the list below. Vying for the American Cinema Editors’ marquee prize of Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical) are the editors behind All

Kelsea Ballerini wasn’t distracted by her “SNL” performance Saturday night… because just hours before she was lovin’ it up with BF Chase Stokes. Kelsea and Chase were strolling through Manhattan Saturday afternoon, holding hands, stealing a smooch from time to time. We obviously knew they were together … they haven’t been able to keep their

SNL took aim at Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, the American-British reality dating show that’s hosted by a candy corn-shaped virtual assistant. Host Travis Kelce played a goofy bloke named Rodney who keeps breaking the house rules with Glenn, a hot-mess of a bachelorette played by Chloe Fineman. “There’s something about her,” Rodney says. “Listen

Few shows have been as relatable to our everyday experience as the American version of The Office when it debuted in 2005 on NBC. Over the years, characters were flanderized and toned down in keeping with network notes.  But not Jim. The prank-loving protagonist with a hole in his heart for the cute receptionist represented the ideal

Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick and took the marquee film prize at the Cinema Audio Society’s 59th annual CAS Awards, which were handed out Saturday night at the Intercontinental Downtown Los Angeles. The race for the CAS’ marquee Motion Picture: Live Action statuette saw the sound-mixing teams behind the two top-grossing films of 2022 — Top

The Film Independent Spirit Awards are underway on the beach in Santa Monica, with Saturday’s ceremony one of the last major awards stops ahead of March 12’s Academy Awards, whose voters still have ballots in hand. Follow our winners list below as winners are revealed. Among the 19 film and TV categories up for grabs this afternoon

Isaiah Washington says he’s calling it quits on his acting career and is heading for early retirement. The former Grey’s Anatomy star took to Twitter to make the announcement, explaining that past criticism of his character played a part in his decision. Washington said, “Those who have been Following/Witnessing my journey here on T—ter since

The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards kick off Saturday at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier. The ceremony, hosted by Hasan Minhaj, will be livestreamed on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and Twitter feed as well as on IMDb’s YouTube channel. You can also watch it on Deadline here.

Things aren’t always what they seem. Frank often reminds cops of that, but it was never more evident than in the conflict over Witten’s decision to file an IA report. Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 14 began with a confrontation between two white cops and a Black kid that looked like racial profiling. Still, it

Pent-up frustration by actors over the way audition process has evolved — or devolved — during the pandemic erupted this week when actors Ever Carradine, Merrin Dungey and Sprague Grayden slammed an ad by Betty Mae Casting offering paid self-taping services for non-Betty Mae projects. Their comments launched a heated discussion about the wide use

Paramount Global has agreed to pay $122.5 million to settle a 2019 lawsuit by Viacom shareholders over the company’s 2019 merger with CBS. The settlement was disclosed Friday in an SEC filing. In the filing (read it HERE), the company details the chronology of the case brought in Delaware Chancery Court. After disclosing the settlement

Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes are making public appearances as a couple now, and they’re all smiles about it … despite her messy divorce drama with Morgan Evans. KB and CS hit up the New York Rangers game Thursday night at Madison Square Garden … and during their time in the stands, Chase grabs her

UPDATED: Using data from iSpotTV along with internal CW and LIV results, CW says LIV’s opening weekend at Camaleón Mayakoba Golf Course in Mexico averaged more than 3.2 million total viewers across all linear and digital platforms from February 24-26. Day one of the tourney streamed on the CW app. Days two and three aired on affiliates,

That was beyond rude of them to kill such an instantly lovable patient! The death of Tank by the end of Grey’s Anatomy Season 19 Episode 8 was tragic, and the impact it had on the doctors who treated him was upsetting as well. But we did get a new chief, a new love triangle,

Steven Spielberg shared a secret with Stephen Colbert tonight on “The Late Show” in what was billed as his first late-night interview: He doesn’t like to rewatch his own films. But there is one that, upon further review, he considers “pretty perfect.” Spielberg is making the rounds in support of his Oscar-nominated The Fabelmans, a look

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever made quite the entrance on Disney+, debuting on Nielsen‘s U.S. streaming lists with 2.3B viewing minutes for the week of January 30 to February 5. The film, which hit the streaming service on February 1 after its November theatrical release, was the No. 1 streaming program during that week and also

Matthew Lawerence and Chilli are hot and heavy, and they don’t care who knows it …as evidenced by their emphatic PDA at a Los Angeles airport. Matthew was spotted at LAX Tuesday and he was clearly on boyfriend duty, as he waited to pick up his TLC girlfriend and all her luggage … before greeting

Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle have been asked by the royal family to ditch their UK digs. A spokesperson for the duo told local media, “We can confirm The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage.” Deadline has reached out for comment. Word of the request

Richard Beck is a nasty piece of work. Most of Chicago PD Season 10 Episode 15 saw Ruzek going undercover with the Becks and getting close to Samantha, hoping to end the Becks’ meth operation. But by the end of the hour, it’s abundantly clear that Ruzek has gotten too close. It was an unusual

Prehistoric Planet will be back for a second season. Apple TV+ has renewed the award-winning natural history series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Planet Earth). Narrated by David Attenborough, the five-episode second season will premiere globally in a five-day week-long event beginning May 22 on Apple

It’s fitting that Prime Video’s new series Daisy Jones & the Six charts the rise and fall of a popular ’70s rock band, because the show actually feels like a double album from that era: overly long and often self-indulgent, but with scattered bits of greatness that make the whole thing worthwhile. Daisy Jones —

EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Bones-fronted social experiment Snake In The Grass won’t be returning to USA Network. The NBCUniversal cable network has cancelled the reality series after one season. It comes after the broadcaster renewed Blake Shelton and Carson Daly’s Barmageddon for a second season after it became its best series premiere in nearly three years. Snake

Play video content BACKGRID The Internet thinks Selena Gomez has been in a ‘Mean Girls’ tiff with Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner — causing her to temporarily shut down her social media … but it doesn’t seem to have affected her mood in real life … a really good one, it would appear. The actress/singer

The BBC is making a feature-length drama about the remarkable true story of one of the world’s first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra, which once again pairs It’s A Sin’s Russell T. Davies with Nicola Shindler. Shindler’s Quay Street and Welsh indie Boom are behind Men Up, starring the likes of Iwan

La Brea’s Season 2 finale left us with even more questions. Thankfully, the series has been renewed for Season 3, or viewers would be left hanging. On La Brea Season 2 Episode 13, the Harrises found another portal in 10,000 BC, but dangers awaited them. Eve and Izzy time-traveled on  La Brea Season 2 Episode

Rick Famuyiwa, director and executive producer of The Mandalorian, was at the Season 3 premiere of the Disney+ series and teased the upcoming season. One of the pressing questions was who Famuyiwa thought was a better wielder of the dark saber, Din Djarin or Bo Katan. “I think that’s part of the question of the

Endeavor sales dipped 16% to $1.26 billion last quarter from the year before due mostly to the absence of its divested Endeavor Content business as it posted an upbeat fourth quarter. A diversified biz and focus on sports and live events limit the ad hit faced by other media companies, and it has yet to