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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…

There are few producers in live television with the kind of career Don Mischer has had in television, a career spanning six decades and just about every major event from the Oscars to the Olympics to Obama and all in between. Just a sampling of his credits…

As he’s done in the past, former President Barack Obama has taken on the task of touting his favorite media. Obama posted his favorite books today on Twitter and Instagram. The list follows his earlier recommendations for summer reading, which included nonfiction, novels, and thrillers. Some of his…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Noah Centineo’s Arkhum Productions has acquired rights to Rale Sidebottom’s book Ridiculous and Ill-Advised for development as a feature, Deadline can reveal. Sidebottom will adapt the script, with Centineo to produce via Arkhum. The team is eyeing a 2025 production…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has tapped Taylor Chukwu (The Mysterious Benedict Society) to script The Truth About Mrs. Claus, a new film based on the same-name book by Meena Harris that is currently in development. The story takes place at the North Pole, where every elf dreams of being part of…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is in development on Things We Never Got Over, a series adaptation of the bestselling romance novel by Lucy Score. Set to adapt the book, exec produce and showrun is Echo’s Amy Rardin. The first book in Score’s NYT bestselling Knockemout series, which has sold over five…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive auction, Legendary Television has snapped up rights to the hugely popular ‘romantasy’ novel Assistant to the Villain for development as a series. Published by Red Tower Books, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, on August 29th, Assistant to the Villain is the…

When Barbra Streisand delivered her 992-page memoir to her editor at Viking earlier this year, did anyone urge her to cut? Even gently? Not that it would have done any good, for Streisand has a lot to say and her opus was termed "exhausting, ecstatic…

The creator behind the Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon has given his verdict on the first two episodes of season two. Writing on his Not a Blog website, George R.R. Martin related how he visited the set of what he termed “Hot D” for three days while it was being shot. “All I…

MBC Studios is developing a series adaptation of popular Saudi writer Osamah Almuslim's best-selling debut horror novel Khawf (Fear). It is the second work by Almuslim to be adapted by the high-end production arm of Riyadh-based media giant MBC Group, after his fantasy Rise Of The Witches about two…

EXCLUSIVE: Radar Pictures and Bandits Roost Entertainment have tapped Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) to direct Weslandia, a feature adaptation of the international bestselling children's book by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman. Shawn DeLoache (The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy) is…

Myles Goodwyn, the founding frontman and guitarist for platinum Canadian rock band April Wine who wrote and sang such hits as “Sign of the Gypsy Queen,” “Roller” and “I Like to Rock,” died December 4. He was 75. No further details on cause of death, location or funeral details will be disclosed…