In 2021, Jimmy Kimmel called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a “moist, gelatinous tubeworm whose elastic-band pants are filled with an inky discharge every time he speaks.” Imagine then that Cruz’s comments, particularly his riff on Goodfellas, earlier Friday concerning Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel could help pave the way for Disney to bring the…
In the 24 hours after ABC announced it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air, FCC chairman Brendan Carr has made a wave of media appearances, on CNBC, Fox News and a podcast, and he’s made more threats. On Thursday, asked by Scott Jennings what other ABC programming could come under the agency’s scrutiny,…
EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Crowe and Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic Barack Obama ‘OBEY’ posters, will be guests on First Timers, a docuseries from multimedia artist, writer, director and producer Yi Zhou. Billed as an exploration of what it means to take a first step in high pressure creative and professional worlds, the series can be…
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 and Disney are among the television giants declining to pay annual fees to the UK industry’s new independent bullying and harassment complaints body, Deadline can reveal. As executives gather in Scotland for the Edinburgh TV Festival, sources said there is growing uncertainty over whether the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (now commonly…
(Updated with full statement from Gina Carano) Ahead of a September trial date, Disney and Gina Carano have put down their lightsabers over the former MMA fighter’s more-than-yearlong discrimination lawsuit over her 2021 firing from The Mandalorian over political postings. In a joint filing today in federal court (read it here), the ex-Star Wars series star…
SUNDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Marvel/Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps has come in with an estimated $218M global opening. While this is lower than where we saw it yesterday, it remains above the pre-weekend projection, both worldwide and in terms of international box office. The latter landed at $100M, the top end of our…