It’s a threepeat! Conan O’Brien will return as host of the Oscars for a third consecutive year. Also back in their fourth straight year as executive producers are Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan. The 99th Academy Awards will air live on ABC and Hulu on March 14, 2027. ABC was not believed to have an […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/conan-obrien-return-oscars-host-2027-1236899641/

Paul Anthony Kelly, coming off his breakout role as JFK Jr. in Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, is reuniting with Murphy in the upcoming 13th installment of FX’s American Horror Story. Kelly’s casting was announced Tuesday during Disney’s upfront presentation in New York. AHS cast members Sarah Paulson, Evan […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/paul-anthony-kelly-american-horror-story-jfk-jr-love-story-1236899495/

Ahsoka Season 2 is finally on its way. New episodes of the Rosario Dawson-led series will arrive on Disney+ in early 2027, the actress announced during Disney’s upfront presentation on Tuesday. “This season, the battles are bigger and the stakes are higher,” she said. Disney also revealed a sneak peek at the upcoming season featuring […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/ahsoka-season-2-premiere-window-disney-plus-1236899905/

A re-configured multimillion-dollar settlement of sorts between Village Roadshow and Warner Bros over 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections seems prophetic and very much of the matrix in its own special way. With the once-big-league film co-financier paying out $57 million to the likely soon-to-be David Ellison-owned studio, the words of Matrix Resurrections‘ Smith to Neo of […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/matrix-resurrections-lawsuit-settlement-1236888767/

Well-reviewed limited releases including psycho-sexual drama Blue Film, Ildikó Enyed’s Silent Friend and documentaries about Linda Perry (timed to her first solo album in over 25 years), python hunting in the Everglades and gun control are new at the indie film box office this weekend as studio giants The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mortal […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/indie-films-opening-linda-perry-let-it-die-here-blue-film-1236888638/

The first weekend of Millennium Docs Against Gravity – the prestigious international film festival in Poland – is underway after opening with Closure, the new film directed by Warsaw native Michał Marczak. The wrenching documentary about a father’s desperate search for his missing teenage son won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/millennium-docs-against-gravity-closure-screening-1236888893/

The latest edition of Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television event is underway Wednesday evening, bringing into focus one of the most vital and yet often unseen elements of storytelling: music. From sweeping, orchestral themes to more intimate, character-driven pieces, a project’s score and songs are integral parts of the puzzle when it comes to shaping […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/2026-sound-and-screen-television-lineup-panelists-1236874927/

As The Boys heads into its final two episodes, Eric Kripke is stressing the importance of concluding every character’s story. The creator of the Prime Video series recently responded to social media complaints about “filler episodes” in the fifth and final season of the comic book adaptation, which releases its penultimate episode next Wednesday on […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/eric-kripke-the-boys-filler-episodes-1236883933/

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has passed on its YA drama pilot Foster Dade, from Greg Berlanti, Bash Doran, Warner Bros. Television and studio-based Berlanti Productions. The project already is being shopped to other platforms by the studio, which remains high on the pilot, sources said. Based on Nash Jenkins’ debut novel Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos, Foster […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/foster-dade-pilot-dead-hulu-1236883781/

Hope Valley: 1874 will be back for another go-round. Touting the series’ debut as “the most successful launch of a Hallmark+ series to date,” the streamer has renewed the popular When Calls The Heart prequel for a second season. The eight-episode Season 2 will premiere in 2027. The renewal news comes just ahead of the […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/when-calls-the-heart-prequel-hope-valley-renewed-season-2-1236883515/

With MCU’s own Doomsday clock counting down to the next Avengers, Joe Russo wants fans to know that a spoiler is not the end of the world. The director, who helmed Avengers: Doomsday with brother Anthony Russo, premiering Dec. 18 in theaters, admitted the current social media climate of avoiding spoilers can be a “tricky […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/joe-russo-thinks-spoilers-over-policed-online-1236883531/

UPDATE, with Rupert Murdoch statement: The death of Ted Turner today has left David Zaslav reflecting on the power of media and who owns what. “He believed deeply in the power of ideas, in doing things differently and in building platforms that could inform, inspire and connect people around the world,” the Warner Bros Discovery […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/ted-turner-death-david-zaslav-cnn-1236882939/

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Academy Award-winning filmmaker Aaron Schneider for representation in all areas, with an eye toward expanding his imprint in large-scale filmmaking. Schneider and producer Andrew J. Sacks won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for Two Soldiers, an adaptation of the short story by William Faulkner. The filmmaker is best […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/wme-signs-aaron-schneider-1236883247/

UPDATED, May 6, 10:34 a.m.: HBO has unveiled a premiere date, trailer and logline for Symphony, its first comedy special from Emmy nominee Josh Johnson, which we announced in March. Symphony will premiere on HBO at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on Friday, May 22 and will also be available to stream on HBO Max. The special […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/josh-johnson-sets-hbo-special-symphony-this-spring-1236760394/

After Blondie’s Debbie Harry introduced Olivia Rodrigo’s first Saturday Night Live performance of the night, Connor Storrie also appeared in a surprise cameo to intro the artist’s second track — an unreleased one — during her double duty stint. Rodrigo seemed to perform a new song off of her upcoming album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, which […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/connor-storrie-snl-olivia-rodrigo-musical-performance-1236879255/

SUNDAY AM: Refresh for more and chart…20th Century Studios’ Devil Wears Prada 2 came in at $77M U.S., still above tracking’s $73M. Disney always saw it at this level throughout the weekend, however, rivals overestimated. Around the world, the Anne Hathaway-Meryl Streep-Emily Blunt-Stanley Tucci was truly the thing, racking up massive $233.6M WW, which is […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/box-office-devil-wears-prada-2-michael-1236877817/

Months after announcing his lung cancer diagnosis, Barry Manilow is getting his health back to performance-ready. On Friday, the Grammy winner announced that he’s “making great progress” with his cancer treatment, and although he has to cancel his Hits Come Home residency dates in May at Westgate Resort in Las Vegas, Manilow plans to return […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/barry-manilow-resume-tour-great-progress-cancer-treatment-1236879323/

Bravo’s investigation into the audio leak from Summer House‘s Season 10 reunion has concluded. On Sunday, the network announced that “action has been taken” against a member of production on the reunion, which airs May 26 at 8pm ET on Bravo before it’s available to stream the next day on Peacock. “An investigation into the […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/04/bravo-action-taken-summer-house-reunion-leaked-audio-1236872852/

The Boys isn’t new to aligning with and even predicting certain headlines in the news, as creator and showrunner Eric Kripke shared a specific example of Homelander (Anthony Starr) aligning with and preceding Donald Trump’s famous AI Jesus photo. Kripke, supervising stunt coordinator and director John Koyama and actors Jessie T. Usher and Karen Fukuhara […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/04/the-boys-eric-kripke-interview-season-5-1236872704/

The Audacity creator Jonathan Glatzer and star Billy Magnussen, who plays wealthy tech CEO Duncan Park, took the stage at Deadline Contenders TV to talk about taking the tech monster lurking in the shadows and those responsible for its existence, and turning it into a comedy. “The bubble of Silicon Valley and the products that […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/04/billy-magnessen-the-audacity-interview-series-creator-1236872795/