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"The best antidote for a bad election is a good movie," Richard M. Nixon once proclaimed, and for many filmgoers this week Conclave helped blot out the political noise. A papal thriller with a shock ending, Conclave's impact (it's a film, not a streaming…

Editor’s note: There has been no feature film this year more controversial than the Ali Abbasi-directed pic The Apprentice, which deconstructs the carefully designed character that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has created over decades. Threatened with legal action by the Trump campaign…

David O. Selznick was a demanding producer who often interrupted pitches and then bullied filmmakers once their movies started shooting. I wonder how impresarios of his era — Selznick, Sam Goldwyn or Darryl F. Zanuck — would have coped with the unruly…

"What is the show?" That's what a nervous NBC kept asking about its newly conceived Saturday Night Live 50 years ago. Its young producer, Lorne Michaels, never answered. Nor is he likely to now: Saturday Night, a movie about his show, opens wide this week and Michaels says he hasn't found time to see…

“The bankers are trying to crunch me. They'll fail.” Rupert Murdoch looked frazzled but defiant. We were having what was supposed to be a friendly coffee, but this was 2006 and he was under siege from bankers who were trying to cope with his financial…

For me the big story of the night at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday was the completely unexpected win by Hacks for Best Comedy Series over The Bear, which was coming off a record 10 Emmy wins in January for its first season. Season 2 of The Bear…

"I directed the best political movie never released." Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set during Chicago's riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. His movie opened (sort of) exactly 55 years ago this…

Deadline's TV Talk podcast is almost over for another season, taking listeners all the way to the 76th Emmy Awards ceremony September 15. Today's episode is the last one for this year, but, like we and Arnold say, we'll be back. For this extended edition of TV Talk, Deadline TV Critic Dominic…

A column covering conversations and events on the awards circuit. If it seems like we have been in an Emmy cycle with no end, you wouldn’t be far from wrong. But we are just about at the finish line as ballots are now in the hands (or laptops) of some…

Editor's Note: T.J. Newman is the New York Times bestselling author of Falling, and Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421. Both were named Best Books of the Year by Amazon and each is moving forward as a movie at Universal and Warner Bros, respectively. Her new novel Worst Case Scenario is on sale now. Perha…

The Dog Days of summer—vaguely from mid-July through mid-August, depending on who does the counting—may not seem like much of an Oscar crucible. You'd think most Academy voters would be sipping Margaritas in Malibu, or Limoncello Martinis somewhere on the Mediterranean. But as often as not in the…

Jenna Ortega has opened up about what happened with Scream 7. During an interview with Vanity Fair, Ortega was asked about her support of Palestine amid the Gaza conflict. Her Scream co-star Melissa Barrera was fired for sharing comments on the subject, and Ortega later exited the film, citing…