In a highly unusual move, the Smashing Pumpkins are soliciting a new guitarist with a general call-out.
The group announced Friday that they’re seeking to add a third guitarist to founding vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain. The group has big…
Joseph Lelyveld, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, and was a former executive editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, died on Friday at his Manhattan home.
He was 86 and succumbed to complications of…
Less than a year after signing a reported $85 million deal spread over five years to join ESPN, host Pat McAfee is not happy with at least one network executive.,
McAfee accused ESPN executive Norby Williamson by name in a Friday segment. Speaking to his cohost, A.J. Hawk, saying he was part of a…
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off state ballots.
The justices have set Feb. 8 for oral arguments in Trump’s challenge of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that found him ineligible for the state primary ballot.
The Colorado judges…
AMC Entertainment stock fell 2% today and dropped 15% this week to establish a new all-time, split-adjusted low of $5.17.
It is a notable turnaround after the unlikely boost delivered in 2020 by meme-happy individual investors who built positions even as movie theaters were shuttered by…
Joe Biden, in his first reelection speech of 2024, sought to focus the coming year’s theme on the threat that Donald Trump poses to American democracy.
Tied to Saturday’s third anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, the speech also was intended to be a reminder of what happened that day, amid…
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off success with the acclaimed docs Sly and Willie Nelson & Family, respectively chronicling the lives and careers of Sylvester Stallone and the iconic same-name country artist, Thom Zimny has signed with Artists First. The production and management company will look for opportunities to…
A group of Florida state legislators voted on Friday to move forward with a bill that would reverse Governor Ron DeSantis’ successful effort last year to strip the Walt Disney Co. of control of a special district that oversees the company’s theme park properties.
But the bill has long odds in…
David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate the network’s pre-New Hampshire primary Republican debate on Jan. 18.
The event, co-sponsored by WMUR-TV, has traditionally been one of the more influential debates of the cycle. But CNN also has scheduled its own New Hampshire debate on Jan. 21, two days…
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Discovery plans to launch the paid version of its B/R Sports Add-On several months from now, a shift from the company’s initial guidance.
When the sports tier carrying the Bleacher Report branding was announced last September and then went live in October, it carried no extra…
Nathaniel Brown is departing Warner Bros Discovery as its Corp Comms Chief, Deadline has learned. It is an amicable departure, we hear. Brown will segue out of the post during the next month.
“I realize there is never a perfect or easy time to make such a transition, but the start of the new year…
After launching the Strike Talk podcast with producer Todd Garner to give WGA strikers comfort in the early days of 2023’s labor unrest, Billy Ray is signing off. When you are an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and a director and producer to boot, you’ve got to go back to work at some point. No one expected…