Patrick joined Deadline in 2011 and works closely with the editorial team running the site's day-to-day news operations. He came from The Hollywood Reporter, where he spent seven years as a Copy Editor, Copy Chief and finally Assistant Managing Editor. Before THR, he worked on the news and sports desks at the Orange County Register. He started his career as a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Daily News and at his hometown paper The Oregonian.
UPDATED with more details: IDW Media Holdings, the company that includes a prominent comics division and an entertainment division behind such series as Syfy’s Wynonna Earp, BBC America/Netflix’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Netflix’s Locke & Key, said Thursday it is undergoing cost-cutting…
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has signed with WME for representation, Deadline has confirmed. The deal includes repping the content division of Archewell, the company she founded with her husband Prince Harry in 2020.
The agency will focus on spearheading her business and creative ventures…
Ahead of its CinemaCon presentation for exhibitors Thursday in Las Vegas, Paramount has Optimus-Primed the pump by releasing the trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the latest installment of the film franchise.
The pic, directed by Steven Caple Jr (Creed II), hits theaters June 9.
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As the news that both Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon were out at their respective networks hit the front pages this morning, a slew of boldfaced names began to react, chiefly to Carlson’s departure.
Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy used it as an opportunity to plug his own network.
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Longtime Young & the Restless star Eric Braeden said Friday afternoon in a video to his fans that he was recently diagnosed with cancer, but that he has been able to continue working on the CBS soap on which he’s starred since 1980.
Braeden posted the video on Facebook revealing the health scare…
Twitter has removed labels denoting “Government-Funded Media” for news outlets NPR, PBS, the BBC and others after criticisms from the organizations that the label is not and accurate representations of their editorial independence.
NPR and PBS both ceased posting after the labels appeared last…
The Peabody Awards said Thursday that Lily Tomlin has won the Peabody Career Achievement Award, and Issa Rae the Peabody Trailblazer Award. The honors will be bestowed during a ceremony for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards on June 11 in Los Angeles.
Jessica Williams, who currently stars in the Apple…
UPDATED: The full list of nominations for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards were revealed Thursday, with a list that includes ABC’s Emmy-nominated Abbott Elementary, Disney+’s Andor, AMC’s Better Call Saul, Apple TV+’s Pachinko, FX’s Reservation Dogs and Nat Geo’s Oscar-nominated Fire of Love.
The…
NBC’s Today, the morning news show that launched more than 70 years ago, has received this year’s Peabody Institutional Award, the group said Wednesday.
The honor, voted on by the Peabody Board of Jurors, recognizes “institutions and organizations, as well as series and programs, for their enduring…
The trailer for Hypnotic, the thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Ben Affleck, dropped Monday ahead of its May 12 release. The pic is coming off a work-in-progress screening last month at SXSW.
Ketchup Entertainment acquired U.S. rights to the big-budget pic earlier this year; the…
Imagine Entertainment co-founders, Oscar winners and USC School of Cinematic Arts alums Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will deliver the school’s commencement address in May, the university said Thursday.
Grazer, who also serves on the School of Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors, received a BA in…