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President Donald Trump is in France this weekend, meeting with world leaders at the G7 Summit. He’s also closely monitoring what’s going on with his friends and foes in the media. Of biggest concern to the Commander-in-Tweet was his ability to screen those who respond to his Twitter posts  The Department of Justice…

President Donald Trump has few friends in the media, so it’s not surprising that he would take umbrage at the CNN hiring of disgraced former FBI agent Andrew McCabe. The Commander-in-Tweet has recently lamented the apparent downgrading of Fox News sympathies from Juan Williams and its hiring of Donna Brazile. Today…

From too many years in and around the movie business, I've consciously kept exactly one souvenir. It's a smallish chip of concrete, about 3" x 4", with some daubs of red and blue paint. Ray Stark gave it to me not quite thirty years ago. He was just back from the Berlin Film Festival, which in February of 1990 had…

"Mixed signals." Those are the two words that perhaps best define the Hollywood ecosystem at the moment. A case in point: When I screened a charming little movie this week titled The Peanut Butter Falcon, I noticed that the lead presentation credit belonged to Endeavor Content. In an earlier era, someone like Cecil B…

Greenland, a country few thought about before President Trump said he’d like to buy it, is dominating the news. That’s particularly true since the current owners – the country of Denmark – took great umbrage at the President’s ad-hoc offer, deeming it “absurd” in their official comment. That, of course, did not sit…

Editors Note: Byron Allen is founder, chairman and CEO of Entertainment Studios, one of the world’s largest privately held media companies. Allen, who is African American, contributed this to Deadline as his discrimination suit against Comcast, citing violations of the Civil Rights Act, heads toward a showdown in the U…

The former love affair between President Donald Trump and Fox News may be on the rocks. At least, for some of its hosts. Speaking to a gaggle of reporters today, President Trump took a question about a new Fox poll that showed him behind several Democrat contenders for the 2020 presidential election. That set him…

The National Football League may believe it has bought peace in our time by aligning with rap mogul Jay-Z and his Roc Nation for various social justice initiatives and entertainment. But the shadow of Colin Kaepernick still looms over the league, and some players are listening to his siren calls for continued…

Fresh off being barred from Israel and then turning down a humanitarian visit to the West Bank, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has now called for a boycott of HBO’s Bill Maher, who has termed her Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts a “bullshit purity test.” Tlaib tweeted that she was tired of folks like Maher "discrediting…

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has questioned the autopsy results released on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the medical examiner may have rushed through the results. Speaking on her Justice with Judge Jeanine show on Saturday, Pirro said the preliminary findings are “nothing more than an…

President Donald Trump lashed out this morning against his old nemesis, the “failing New York Times,” accusing it in his Sunday Twitter stream of planning a “Racism Witch Hunt” in its ongoing coverage. "The failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a…

Fresh off a major rally in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump started off his Saturday tweetstorm by focusing on a brewing confrontation in Portland, Oregon between his supporters and the masked radical Antifa agitators. Planned protests this weekend between left and right wing demonstrators could explode, as…