Mike joined Deadline in 2010 after working at Variety for 20 years as a reporter, writer and columnist. He was not only nationally recognized as Variety's premiere film reporter but also for his “Dish” and “The Buzz” columns. Mike is known for his industry relationships and his ability to break news wherever it happens, including on the ground at festivals like Sundance, Cannes and Toronto. He also is an author: Doubleday published his book about The Three Stooges, "From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons," which ABC turned into a telepic executive produced by Mel Gibson. One of Mike’s early jobs in journalism was editor of the well-known Media Industry Newsletter (MIN). He then joined New York Newsday as a columnist, reviewer and entertainment writer. During his career, he has written for numerous magazines including Playboy, Details, TV Guide and Esquire.
Netflix just released Season 2 of Unstable, the comedy that stars Rob Lowe as a tech genius in meltdown mode as he grieves the death of the wife who grounded him. Lowe co-created the show, executive produces and stars with his son, John Owen Lowe. That brings full circle a 40-year career’s worth of stage…
An occasional look at the surprising creative outlets of members of the Hollywood community.
Producer Denise Di Novi has been a fixture in Hollywood since she first arrived on the scene with Heathers, the pitch-black comedy that became one of the breakout hits at Sundance when that festival was…
EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Emmy winners Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah), Chris Messina (Argo), Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Danny Huston (The Cons…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has won an auction and is in final talks to turn the upcoming Caro Claire Burke novel Yesteryear into a film. Anne Hathaway is attached to star and produce. Sources in the publishing community said the film deal landed in the area of $450,000 against $2 million. The studio…
EXCLUSIVE: Our sister publication Variety last Friday published for clicks what it called an exclusive video of Francis Ford Coppola kissing Megalopolis extras, along with crew members who detailed what they called unprofessional behavior on set. The story did not get much traction, though it caused pain…
EXCLUSIVE: I Am Legend screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman teased yesterday there would be big news soon relating to the Warner Bros sequel with Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan, and what we hear is that the studio is taking an interest in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts filmmaker Steven Caple Jr…
After serving as Joaquin Phoenix’s sidekick in Gus Van Sant’s black comedy To Die For, Casey Affleck got in the car alongside brother Ben, Matt Damon and Yellowstone‘s Cole Hauser in Good Will Hunting. After getting Damon & Affleck’s script to Van Sant and essentially enabled the film to happen, Casey…
Already a beloved figure among the San Diego Comic-Con set for fixture for his work as the title character in Marvel’s The Punisher, Thomas Jane is back. This time, he's armed with news he is bringing his horror comic book series The Lycan to Comixology Originals. Jane is doing it through Renegade…
UPDATED: Amazon MGM has confirmed the Scott Stuber hire. Find their release below Deadline’s break on the story.
PREVIOUSLY, 7:55 AM PT: Former Netflix Chairman Film and Universal Vice Chairman Scott Stuber is near a deal to revive United Artists under the Amazon MGM umbrella, sources…
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has won a spirited auction to land The Corsair Code, an original feature film set to star Chris Hemsworth. The film is based on a short story by Jonathan Tropper, which he brought to Hemsworth and his producing partner Ben Grayson.
Hemsworth and Grayson will produce…
In front of the camera since he broke in as a child actor in the 1970s, Giovanni Ribisi made a detour and makes his debut as a cinematographer in the JT Mollner-directed Miramax film Strange Darling. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest to strong reviews, has a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and gets…
EXCLUSIVE: In the kind of brisk battle over a book we would often see yesteryear but not so often lately, a ferocious auction is underway this week that has names like Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Banks in the mix. This is for Yesteryear, a novel by Caro Claire Burke, who has had work published in The Atlan…