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Tom Tapp
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Tom has covered the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. He joined Deadline in 2020 after working on the homepage teams of both Yahoo and AT&T. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere magazine and on The Daily Beast. Tom founded the popular industry website and newsletter HollywoodWiretap.com, which he later sold. Before that, he spent seven years at Variety, where he was the Managing Editor of Features. While there, he created the trade’s award-winning lifestyle publication, V Life, and was its Executive Editor.
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2023-24 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More
UPDATED with latest: Hollywood’s strikes are over, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise.
Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation starts to pick up again.
The Primetime Emmys planned for September have been moved to January, and the…
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2024 Presidential Election Debate Schedule: Dates, Times, Who’ll Be There And Who Won’t
Media-wise, the 2024 Presidential election crosses the official starting line with debate season, and this cycle the contenders on the Republican side, including a multiple-indicted former POTUS, are looking to beat Democrat Joe Biden and take over the White House. But first they have to take on each…
Value Of X Has Fallen 72% Since Elon Musk Bought The Company, According To Analysis Of Investor’s Disclosure
Fidelity, which helped Elon Musk acquire the platform formerly known as Twitter in late 2022, announced that its stake in the company has fallen 72% in that time, according to an analysis by Bloomberg.
In November, Fidelity said its current stake in X was worth $5.6 million in November, a 72% drop…
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Mickey Mouse Horror Movie Trailer Drops: Film Uses ‘Steamboat Willie’ Version Of Character That’s Now In Public Domain
At 12:01 am this morning, the earliest iteration of one of the world’s most beloved children’s characters entered the public domain. Shortly thereafter, the trailer for a slasher film called Mickey’s Mouse Trap was posted online.
In it, clips from Walt Disney’s 1928 animated classic Steamboat Willie…
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‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ First Photo: Voice Actor Eric Bauza Shares Image From Film
What a dynamite idea!
While Paramount, Netflix and others consider buying Coyote Vs. Acme from Warner Bros., Wile E. Coyote himself (voice actor Eric Bauza) has shared the first image from the much-discussed film on social media with the caption, “See ya in 2024!!”
Whether that’s a promise or a…
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Scott Frank Discusses The Films He’s Worked On As A Script Doctor, Including ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ ‘Gravity’ And “A Lot Of The X-Men Movies”
In a recent New Yorker profile, Craig Mazin, who wrote The Last of Us and Chernobyl, calls Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank “one of the best screenwriters of all time.”
Long a known quantity for Get Shorty, Out of Sight, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Marley and Me, The Wolverine and Logan, Frank…
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Taylor Swift Passes Elvis For Most Weeks At No. 1 On Album Charts For A Solo Artist
On the final day of the year, Taylor Swift added one more accolade to her long list of accomplishments n 2023: She now holds the record for most weeks for a solo artist at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
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Fox News Apologizes For Mistaken Frank Thomas Obit
Fox News apparently thinks “ED” stands for early death.
Anyone who watches late night TV knows that 55-year-old Frank Thomas is alive and thriving. The former White Sox slugger and three-time MLB All-Star is nearly ubiquitous in male supplement commercials.
But during a segment on Fox’s The Faulk…
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Lewis “Lew” Rothman Dies: Strategy PR/Consulting Exec, Former TWC CTO Was 63
Longtime entertainment executive Lewis "Lew" Rothman, Head of Business Affairs and Operations for Strategy PR/Consulting, died suddenly and unexpectedly at his home in East Hampton on Friday. He was 63.
Among the vanguard at the intersection of the entertainment and tech businesses, Rothman had most…
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Barack Obama Releases Favorite Songs Of 2023 List
One day after former President Barack Obama revealed his yearly Favorite Movies list, he released a counterpart “Favorite Music of 2023” roster.
One notable inclusion here is "Road To Freedom" by Lenny Kravitz from the film Rustin, which Obama had on yesterday’s Favorite Movies list. Rustin was…
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Bishop Says He Has Retained Legal Counsel In AMC Theaters Matter, Says He Has Spoken With CEO: “The Apology Is The Beginning”
“Ain't gonna let nobody make me take my chair home. God made me. I belong here. I got a right to a seating's the place. The only time you can take my chair is when I die and go to heaven. Until then I'm fighting.”
That was Rev. Dr. William Barber at a press conference today speaking about the…
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AMC Apologizes For Removing Disabled Civil Rights Leader And His 90-Year-Old Mother From Theater Over Seating Issue
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has sat with presidents, he’s marched with Jesse Jackson and he’s been arrested in peaceful protests for voting rights and higher wages, but his recent experience at the AMC Fire Tower 12 was new to him.
The civil rights leader, at the Greenville, N.C. theater with his…
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