NCIS: Hawai’i cast members and creatives are slowly digesting the news the series will not return for a fourth season following news today of its cancellation. 'NCIS: Hawai'i' Canceled By CBS: Franchise's First Female-Led Series Ending After 3 Seasons Tori Anderson, who portrayed FBI agent Kate Whistler, posted on X: “Having a really hard time processing this one,” she wrote. “Thank you to our incredible crew who made every single day feel like I was living a dream. I want to say thank you to all the fans. My heart breaks for you as well.” NCIS: Hawai’i was the first...

Speaking to V Magazine, Anne Hathaway has dropped a hint that more Princess Diaries may be coming. “We’re in a good place,” is all she will divulge. Anne Hathaway Recalls Audition Where She Had To Make Out With 10 Guys: "It Sounded Gross" “That’s all I can say. There’s nothing to announce yet. But we’re in a good place,” she said. Hathaway played Mia Thermopolis in the first Princess Diaries movie in 2001, reprising the role for 2004’s The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. She starred alongside Julie Andrews, who played her grandmother Queen Clarisse Renaldi in the original movie and...

Sony has pushed their reboot of Karate Kid from Dec. 13 this year to May 30, 2025. This has created a bit of a backward domino effect but won’t rob the year of theatrical releases. Skydance Still In Pole Position For Paramount As Two Hash Out Terms; Sony & Apollo Waiting In The Wings Backfilling Karate Kid‘s spot is Sony/Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter which goes from Aug. 30, the Labor Day weekend frame, to Dec. 13. The Aaron Taylor-Johnson movie will have Imax and PLF screens. Kraven the Hunter will be the only R-rated movie during the holidays. Directed by...

Robert Downey Jr. has expressed interest in reprising his role as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which presents a problem, since he died at the end of Avengers: Endgame.Robert Downey Jr's Multiple Roles In 'The Sympathizer' Represent "America As A Whole," Director Park Chan-Wook Reveals Speaking with GamesRadar at the Sands: International Film Festival, the film’s directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, seemed baffled at the notion of a Downey return. “I don’t know how they would do it,” Anthony Russo told GamesRadar. “I don’t know what the road to that would be.” “I mean, we closed that book, so...

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation in 2023 were the streamers, such as Apple, who have also realized the necessity of theatrical to eventize their movies. The financial data pulled together here for Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament is culled by seasoned and trusted sources.‘PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie’: Kid...

Roku CEO Anthony Wood collected a total pay package of $20.2 million in 2023, according to the company’s latest proxy filing.Roku Q1 Results Show Benefits Of Streaming Price Hikes Charlie Collier, the veteran former TV exec who now leads Roku Media, got $6.8 million. The tally was far below the $53.3 million he took home in 2022, with the bulk of that payday coming in the form of stock options and a stock award vesting over four years. Collier left his previous role as CEO of Fox Entertainment to join Roku in September 2022. Among his duties at the streaming provider...

Luke Grimes isn’t mad at his Yellowstone costar Kevin Costner for exiting the hit show.John Mulaney's 'Field Of Dreams' Gag At Oscars A Big Hit With Kevin Costner Grimes plays the youngest son of Costner’s character, John Dutton III, and addressed Costner’s departure in a recent interview with The Independent. “Whatever happened there is unfortunate if it’s changed anything about how the show was going to unfold,” Grimes said. He added that he knew Costner had become “busy” with his “passion projects,” like his upcoming film, Horizon: An American Saga. “At a certain point, you gotta do what you gotta do, man,” Grimes...

In 2002, Training Day costars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke were Oscar-nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Washington won, Hawke did not, losing to Jim Broadbent for his role in Iris. New Rules For 2025 Oscars Affect Best Picture, Drive-Ins, Qualifying Metro Areas & More Hawke said Washington provided some sage advice after he lost. “You don’t want an award to improve your status. You want to improve the award’s status,” Hawke quoted Washington during his appearance on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on Max. “That’s the way he thinks, and that’s what I’m talking about playing...

A central scene in director Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers wasn’t in Justin Kuritzkes’ original script. Zendaya Achieves Red Carpet Grand Slam While Promoting ‘Challengers’ In the film, Zendaya plays Tashi Duncan, a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion, Art (West Side Story‘s Mike Faist), on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (The Crown‘s Josh O’Conner) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. Key to the film is the love triangle between the characters...

It came down to the wire, but NCIS: Hawai’i ultimately didn’t make the cut for next season at CBS. The news comes days before the network is set to announce its fall schedule on May 2 and before the Season 3 finale of Hawai’i is scheduled to air on May 6. According to sources, the episode was not meant to be a series finale and includes a tease for what was to come but fans won’t be left reeling by a major cliffhanger. CBS Renewal Status Report: ‘The Equalizer’, ‘NCIS: Hawai’i’, ‘Elsbeth’, ‘CSI: Vegas’ & ‘So Help Me Todd’ The cancellation...

Marla Adams, best known for her 37 years in the role of Dina Abbott Mergeron on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 85 and the cause was not disclosed.Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries Born in Ocean City, New Jersey, on August 28, 1938, Adams’ love for the stage was ignited after winning the Miss Ocean City and Miss Cape May pageants. She also finished as a runner-up in the Miss New Jersey pageant and was the Miss Diamond Jubilee Queen during the 1954 celebration of...

Less than a week after Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was tossed by New York’s highest court, the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer is set to be in front of a judge.Harvey Weinstein “Cautiously Excited” After 2020 Rape Conviction Overturned, New Trial Ordered By NY Appeals Court; Accusers Call Ruling “Profoundly Unjust’ – Update Weinstein will appear in Manhattan Supreme Court on May 1, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said late Friday. The hearing in Judge Curtis Farber’s courtroom is set to start at 2:15 p.m. ET. In a 4-3 ruling on Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals said Weinstein’s conviction and...

EXCLUSIVE: Stu Goldstein is the newly minted head of Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel at Vice Media Group.Vice News Chief Subrata De Leaves Amid Layoffs The promotion of the longtime staff member to the newly created position comes as Vice Media has gone through rounds of layoffs recently. It also comes as the company is undergoing  “fundamental changes to our strategic vision,” as CEO Bruce Dixon put it in February. “Stu is a trusted advisor and has helped steer Vice through a period of intense change as we position the company for its next phase of growth,” Dixon told Deadline...

President Joe Biden wasn’t tossing out too many laugh lines Friday during his live appearance on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show, but maybe he was saving them for his comedian-in-chief role at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.White House Correspondents’ Dinner Preview: Networks Mix Celebrity And Politicos For Guest Lists Along with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost, Biden will be the headliner at the annual gathering of politicians, the journalists who cover them, titans of industry, and celebrities. The climax of a weekend of activities and parties from CNN, CAA, WME, UTA, Comcast/NBCUniversal News Group, ABC News, CBS, Politico and Deadline...

Top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment offered investors a preview of its first-quarter financial results late Friday, with key metrics coming in ahead of Wall Street expectations.Roku Q1 Results Show Benefits Of Streaming Price Hikes The company plans to report its final quarterly numbers on May 8. Occasionally, public companies release preliminary numbers, especially those under scrutiny as AMC is during its recovery from the dual strikes of 2023. Like its peers in exhibition, the company has been hurt by a slowdown in the overall production pipeline, with total box office slumping this year on top of the painful crawl out...

EXCLUSIVE: The new BET+ Original film The Deadly Getaway is set to premiere on May 9. The MegaMind Media-produced thriller stars Jason Weaver, Yandy Smith, Jeff Logan and Princess Love.2024 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming The Deadly Getaway tells the story of an upwardly mobile couple traveling to a glamorous campsite destination for a romantic weekend getaway that quickly turns nightmarish. Jacob (Weaver) plans to propose to his girlfriend of two years, Hope (Smith), but the arrival of her obsessive ex-boyfriend, Derrick (Logan), and his girlfriend, Jada (Tressa Azarel Smallwood) complicates things. Tensions and...

Five-plus years following the launch of his film financing and production company, Hammerstone Studios, producer Alex Lebovici finds himself at “a big turning point.” After working for years on “building block” projects that held little to no interest for him on the level of story, he’s been able of late to assemble an increasingly packed studio slate, devoting himself solely to making the “fun, commercial, star-driven films” he likes to watch.‘Boy Kills World’ Trailer Finds Orphaned Bill Skarsgård In Pursuit Of Vengeance Breaking out in September 2022 with the buzzy horror thriller Barbarian, underscoring the company’s commitment to fresh genre fare...

Editors note: This is one of those moments when the flow of news seems like an assault on the senses. The Donald trump trial, the student protests, Gaza, the election campaigning — will our trust in the media survive these traumas? Can our pop culture assimilate them? Peter Bart, based on the West Coast, and Ted Johnson, Deadline’s political and media editor in Washington DC, lend their perspectives to these questions.Donald Trump’s January 6th Case May Face Further Delay As Supreme Court Wrestles With Where To Draw The Line On Presidential Immunity TED JOHNSON: The Trump trial augurs badly for the...

There’s a nice trio of specialty films to highlight this weekend from Joanna Arnow, Uberto Pasolini and Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature directorial debut.Zendaya & Luca Guadagnino Movie ‘Challengers’ Topspinning To $15M Opening – Box Office Joanna Arnow’s micro-budget comedy The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed world premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. It follows a thirtysomething New York woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. Arnow writes, directs and stars. And that’s BDSM, as in bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism. The helmer is thrilled to see...

Board members at Paramount Global are reportedly considering the removal of CEO Bob Bakish as discussions continue with Skydance Media about a complex, multi-step merger.Skydance Still In Pole Position For Paramount As Two Hash Out Terms; Sony & Apollo Waiting In The Wings If exclusive talks with Skydance bear fruit, there likely would not be a role for Bakish in the combined company, with Skydance chief David Ellison slated to serve as the new entity’s CEO. Even alternatives to Skydance like Apollo Global Management’s bid, which could also involve Sony Pictures Entertainment, likely wouldn’t have room for Bakish. That has made...