A prolonged FCC review against a backdrop of President Donald Trump's lawsuit is fueling speculation that a Paramount-Skydance marriage might be heading for the rocks.    In a note Wednesday, analyst Rich Greenfield of LightShed Partners voiced what others have started to wonder, saying he's…

Though the new year has almost passed its first full fiscal quarter, media layoffs across the entertainment industry have continued to bleed over from last year’s avalanche of job cuts. The unfortunate trend can still be felt following the COVID-19 pandemic, dual Hollywood strikes and — the…

Paramount Pictures has won the rights to Rebecca Ross' fantacy romance novel Divine Rivals in a highly competitive, multi-studio bidding war, we can confirm. Sofia Alvarez, scribe behind the first two To All The Boys I've Loved Before films, based on the books by Jenny Han, will write the film…

Paramount Global has set its annual shareholder meeting for July 2, offering the latest signal that the long-gestating merger with Skydance Media is unlikely to close on schedule. In multiple recent regulatory filings and statements, Paramount has maintained its guidance to investors that the $8…

Lesley Stahl is certain Paramount will pay off Donald Trump to end POTUS' $20 billion 60 Minutes lawsuit, and Scott Pelley exclaims journalism is under attack. However, if Shari Redstone thinks a big check and an apology for a piece last year from the CBS newsmagazine series he didn't like is enough…

Studios celebrate their box office hits — unless it’s Paramount, where even success becomes opaque. Tom Cruise's $400 million Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was produced by Skydance Films for Paramount, but Skydance also wants to acquire…

Three weeks after Skydance paused new spending on a series starring and executive produced by Jeremy Strong and written and executive produced by Tobias Lindholm and Frank Pugliese, the high-profile drama has been put on hold, sources tell Deadline. The move comes as the regulatory approval…

EXCLUSIVE: Is it just two mates sitting around watching the UEFA Champions League final on a summer Saturday, or is it Tom Cruise and David Beckham opening the gates of Paramount cross-promotion heaven? We may never truly know the answer to that grand puzzle, but we do know that after Cruise’s…

Pierce Brosnan may be Irish by blood, but his MobLand accent has been met with a chorus of disapproval following the premiere of the Paramount+ series. The Irish Times pilloried his “mangled” vocal work as a “horror for the ages,” while other critics have bemoaned the performance as a…

No, the rest of the world doesn’t celebrate Memorial Day weekend, but with big blockbusters like Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, they should. After an insufferable Memorial Day weekend last year in which Mad Max spinoff Furiosa didn’t create any…

EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle's next film looks to have its sights sets on some serious star power as Deadline is hearing Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in negotiations to star in the new, currently untitled pic from the Oscar-winning director. Chazelle will direct and has written the script and…

Right now, hundreds of TV program buyers are in the air flying to Los Angeles for the annual LA Screenings. It might not be the all-singing, all-dancing party week of yesteryear, but buying sources we’ve spoken to for this report ahead of the studio get-togethers have been stressing its importance as…