John Travolta got a major Cannes surprise ahead of the world premiere of his directorial debut “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” when the festival surprised him with an honorary Palme d’Or, which is the Cannes equivalent of a lifetime achievement prize. Travolta was shocked and overwhelmed by the surprise honor, saying: “This is beyond the Oscar.”…
EXCLUSIVE: “Who said you can’t go home again?,” says former NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, who is returning to NBCUniversal as a producer after eight years. He has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop and produce TV projects through his production company, The Green Room. Jon…
Dennis Rush, former child star best known for his roles as a young Creighton Chaney opposite James Cagney in Man Of A Thousand Faces, and as Howie, Opie’s (Ron Howard) pal on The Andy Griffith Show, has died. He was 74. His longtime friend, actor Keith Thibodeaux, announced Rush’s death on Facebook, along with a…
Tech has transformed the world of VFX but there will never replace the human touch, Walt Disney Animation Studios SVP of Production & Technology Nick Cannon told delegates at Web Summit Vancouver. “Visual effects and animation have been through huge transformative changes. The way we work today, in some ways, is very different from 10…
EXCLUSIVE: John Patrick Jordan (The Accountant 2) has joined the cast of AMC’s Dark Winds for Season 5 in a key recurring role. Production on the new season is currently underway in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Based on the Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman, Dark Winds is set in 1971 on a remote outpost…
A group of the producers, executives and stars including Andy Cohen, Kristen Kish, Jay Pharaoh and Joel McHale spent last Friday discussing the future of reality television at Deadline’s Reality TV Summit. That crew also revealed who they want to work with and the main things that people still don’t understand about the genre in…