UPDATE: 5:44 PM: Iranian state TV has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead. The news comes hours after Donald Trump proclaimed the harsh 37-year rule of the cleric had ended with the US and Israeli attack on Iran. With dozens of other members of the Iranian leadership also dead…

A lifelong Angeleno, Kristen Stewart is advocating for her neighbors as ICE hits the streets of Los Angeles and other cities across the country. When asked “what would break your heart if it disappeared from LA,” the Oscar nominee praised “immigrants” as just as detrimental to the city’s…

With Netflix employees still absorbing the news that the streamer won’t be buying Warner Bros. per the two companies’ December 5 agreement, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters held a brief town hall Friday morning. The 15-20-minute affair was moderated by Netflix Chief Communications Officer…

The clock is ticking on the Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery mega-merger, literally, and things could get sticky and expensive if California’s Attorney General has his way. Tweeting the not-so quiet thing out loud today, Rob Bonta revealed he is in talks with other state (read Blue State)…

It should come as no surprise that the Writers Guild of America is not pleased about the latest development in the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition saga. After the news broke Thursday that Paramount had outbid Netflix for the legacy studio, the WGA East and West weighed in via a joint…

Ahead of a March 16 start date for negotiations with the major studios, the Writers Guild of America has peeled back the curtain on the state of the union’s health and pension funds. As Deadline has previously reported, things aren’t looking good. In a joint memo to members on Friday, the WGA…

EXCLUSIVE: Pantheon Media Group, the umbrella company behind series including Netflix's Sean Combs: The Reckoning docuseries and the upcoming BTS: The Comeback Live special, is on the lookout for some new investment. Deadline understands that the company, which was founded by Steve Michaels and r…

Exhibitors weren’t in favor of a Netflix and Warner Bros marriage, and a Paramount-Warner Bros union isn’t going to change their minds. Theater owners trade org Cinema United President and CEO Michael O’Leary emphasized again Friday following this week’s Paramount-WB news that “We have been…

It's official. For real this time. Warner Bros. Discovery is selling itself to Paramount for $31 a share in cash in a deal worth $110 billion. The companies unveiled their formal agreement on Friday. Paramount will hold a conference call and webcast on Monday at 8:30am ET to discuss the…

The logline seems awfully familiar. A hero named David rides to the rescue of Warner Bros, a treasured but troubled Hollywood studio. The hero’s much smaller company manages to swallow the much larger one that owns the studio. It has become a takeover target due to declining linear TV networks…

UPDATED: The FCC on Friday announced that it has given the green light to Charter Communications’ $34.5 billion merger with Cox Enterprises. The merger will combine the cable, commercial fiber and cloud businesses of the companies. When the deal was announced last year, the companies said that…

Things in media M&A land continue to move fast with Netflix revealing Friday afternoon that it is $2.8 billion richer after receiving the fresh cash from Paramount. The David Ellison company's “superior proposal” for Warner Bros Discovery, which was accepted by the WBD board, included paying out the…