Erik has been a full-time journalist in Los Angeles for more than 30 years, the past 23 covering Hollywood. Before joining Deadline in 2013, he spent nearly 17 years at The Hollywood Reporter, rising to managing editor. He also wrote about music for THR; did hundreds of concert and TV reviews; covered such events as the Cannes Film Festival, NATPE and MIFED; and worked closely with the web team. Before that he was a cities editor at The Orange County Register after serving as managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily Commerce.
“I know I don’t look it, but I got a Ph.D.,” Richard Montañez tells his new supervisor at the Frito-Lay plant. After a doubting “Hmm?” from the boss, he continues, “I’m poor, hungry and determined, sir.”
Replies the button-down manager, “OK, I can see you’re gonna be a weird one.”
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It’s been a first crazy three weeks of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and now the NHL is ready to drop the puck on its annual behind-the-scenes docuseries. Quest for the Stanley Cup will premiere this Friday, May 12, on ESPN+. Watch the trailer below.
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UPDATED with arrest, 5:24: The suspect in a mass shooting at the Northside Hospital Midtown medical office that killed one person and wounded four more has been apprehended, Atlanta police said tonight. Authorities had conducted a near eight-hour manhunt for the suspect who, per CNN, had previously sought…
Check back for updates… The Writers Guild strike no longer is looming but here, and guilds in Hollywood, entertainment and other fields are weighing in to show their support for the WGA in its labor action against the studios. Here is what we’re hearing so far.
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UPDATED with Canada Prime Minister statement: Gordon Lightfoot, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died today at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was 84.
His longtime…
The Tribeca Festival has its opening-night, closing-night and centerpiece films.
Organizers said today that the documentary Kiss the Future will kick off the event on June 7 and a 30th anniversary screening of fest co-founder Robert De Niro’s A Bronx Tale will bookend it on June 17. This year’s…
Whether you call it football or soccer, the Beautiful Game or grass hockey, Taika Waititi has a movie for you. And its first trailer is above.
The Jojo Rabbit Oscar winner and Thor: Love and Thunder helmer directed Next Goal Wins, a film that — as the trailer notes quite cheekily — is inspired by a…
Spring has sprung — which means it’s time to look ahead to winter. Organizers of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival said today that its 39th annual event will run February 7-17 in the coastal California town.
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