Author T.J. Newman’s Open Letter To Dreamers Who Read Deadline – Guest Column

Taylor Swift is playing three shows just minutes away from New York City this weekend, but the stadium has a warning for fans.

Quentin Tarantino is back at the Cannes Film Festival this year for a special screening in the Directors’ Fortnight.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Revered Spanish auteur Victor Erice has penned an angry open letter in newspaper El Pais claiming the Cannes Film Festival behaved underhandedly during the selection process resulting in his new work “Close Your Eyes” being relegated to the relatively low-profile Cannes Premiere section. “Close Your Eyes,” which marks Erice’s return to feature film direction 30 years after his Cannes Jury Prize winner “Dream of Light,” premiered on Tuesday in Cannes with the director notably absent. The film turns on a famed actor who disappears while making a film. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he’s been the victim of an accident by the sea. Many years later, the mystery surrounding his disappearance is brought back into the spotlight when a TV program airs the beginning and the end of the movie directed by his close friend.

Spanish director Victor Erice, who was absent from the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his film Close Your Eyes, has posted an open letter criticizing festival Delegate General Thierry Frémaux over his handling of the selection of his film and explaining his decision not to attend.  

Editor’s Note: The co-creator & showrunner of Mrs. Davis, Tara Hernandez has put artificial intelligence at the core of her creativity in the just completed Peacock limited series. Today, in a guest column on the Writers Guild of American strike, the Young Sheldon writers’ room alumna takes a different POV on AI and the notion of the individual in a greater collective

Taylor Swift fans are demanding change!

Editor’s note: As a founding member of The Coup and the director of the acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley has always brought a social conscious and activism to his work. Today, the creator of Prime Video’s upcoming TV series I’m a Virgo, which previewed at SXSW and the SFFILM Festival earlier this year, puts a spotlight on the stakes of the current WGA strike and the threat to creative expression and the boon to corporate control that AI represents.

This year, the Cannes Film Festival actually broke its own record for the number of female filmmakers in the official competition. That’s great news for an event that has come under fire in recent years for having less diversity and inclusivity than other prestigious festivals.

Editors note: Anthony McCarten has been nominated for two adapted screenplay Oscars, for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes. Here he writes about AI, a big issue in the WGA talks with studios that broke down, leading to the current writers strike.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here's first-ever 'legend' campmate Myleene Klass has revealed how one of her daughters was left a little concerned when she found a 'love letter' from her co-star.

After three weeks of trials and elimination challenges, the first-ever I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here 'Legend' has been crowned. Viewers have been watching the action unfold every weeknight after the pre-recorded series hit screens last month.

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh is praying for a woman who was hit by a motorcycle that was part of her royal escort.

The 2023 NFL season schedule is set to be released tonight at 8pm ET.

Lesli Linka Glatter On Wednesday, the Directors Guild of America will begin negotiations with the major Hollywood Studios. We’re going to fight — no matter what it takes — for a strong contract that treats our members fairly and allows us to share in the success of an evolving entertainment industry. We know this will be a difficult challenge. But we will not yield from the premise that has sustained our industry for the last century: When artists succeed, everyone succeeds. That’s why this year’s negotiations are about more than reaching a fair agreement for the next three years — they’re about setting the course for the future of our industry.

I'm A Celebrity. . .

Joe Swash made his much anticipated return on I'm A Celebrity earlier this week as part of the all-star spin-off series filmed in South Africa, and last night (May 4) saw him open up about his relationship with wife Stacey Solomon.

The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will now be hostless as Drew Barrymore has dropped out in solidarity with the writers on strike.

Despite fan speculation, Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney is not going to appear in the season 11 finale. As Deadline previously reported exclusively, the fan favorite who plays Kelly Severide, has been on a leave of absence since January, dealing with a personal matter. Chicago Fire alum Jesse Spencer, who starred as Matt Casey alongside Kinney for 10 seasons, returned earlier this season and will guest star again in the season finale.

Gordon Lightfoot, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died today at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was 84.

official Facebook page and confirmed to media by his publicist, Victoria Lord. Lightfoot’s cause of death was not mentioned.