Jason Mott, Tiya Miles win National Book Awards

EXCLUSIVE: Sobini Films has tapped Bobby Smith Jr. (Jason’s Lyric) to write Voluptuous, a one-hour series based on the books Bare Essentials and Bound by Desire by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Brenda Jackson.

NEW YORK -- Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary “Get Back” runs for nearly eight hours and the only real criticism you can make is that it doesn't last longer. For dabblers and other newcomers, it's a prime introduction.

Stillwater director/co-writer Tom McCarthy and Matt Damon joined Deadline’s Contenders New York event today to discuss the film and what they were looking for in the Bill Baker character.

It turns out Janet Jackson REALLY doesn’t want any part of that new New York Times documentary covering the infamous 2004 Super Bowl halftime show wardrobe malfunction.

When New York City became the epicenter of the country’s Covid outbreak in 2020, many residents—those of means, anyway—fled to second homes or other points far from the city. But not New York-based filmmaker Matthew Heineman. He suited up in PPE on the frontlines of the Covid battle.

Janet Jackson is reportedly not trying to be part of the New York Times documentary about her 2004 Super Bowl halftime show performance.

NEW YORK -- For 50 years, the fixed narrative had the Beatles' “Let it Be” recording session as a miserable experience with a band where members were sick of each other, sick of their work and in the process of breaking up.The nearly 8-hour, Peter Jackson-produced documentary culled from film and recording outtakes of those sessions instead reveal a self-aware band with a rare connection and work ethic that still knew how to have fun — yet was also in the process of breaking up.The “Get Back”

NEW YORK -- As Erin Morley sang on the big stage of the Metropolitan Opera, Matthew Aucoin sat in the first row of the orchestra, his score in front of him, taking notes.Unlike most of her performances, Morley could use rehearsals to suggest adjusting notes to fit her soprano.Known primarily for Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Strauss, the Met is presenting three company premieres of 21st century works this season.

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's infamous Super Bowl Halftime Show scandal that took place in 2004 has been reexamined once again in a new docuseries that proves there are still many questions brewing about what went wrong.

The 44-year-old has been notoriously private since packing up and leaving Australia in 2012. It was there that he met his now-wife, whose father was the former New York Attorney-General, Eric Schneiderman.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticEarlier this year, The New York Times’ documentary unit had its greatest achievement yet in clarity and impact. “Framing Britney Spears,” the Times’ doc on the pop singer’s figurative captivity within her image and her literal one within her family and legal conservatorship, brought a complex and granular awareness of the issues at play in the story to a mass audience.

The 2004 Super Bowl halftime show has become infamous for the moment that Justin Timberlake ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson’s costume to expose her bare breast for a fraction of a second, an incident that coined the term “wardrobe malfunction” and set back Jackson’s career for years.

Matthew McConaughey, 52, made his stance on the COVID-19 vaccine clear in a Wednesday November 10 Instagram post, where he said that he had been taken out of context in many news stories when he said that he didn’t have immediate plans to vaccinate his kids during a New York Times interview. The actor said that he wanted to “clarify” his answer and noted that he was specifically speaking about vaccine mandates for children between the ages 5 and 11.

For the past few months, Matthew McConaughey has publicly flirted with the idea of launching a run for governor of Texas, yet has said little during that time that could be considered a platform.

EXCLUSIVE:  Production and management company The Cartel has entered into an agreement with New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson and writer-producer Bobby Smith Jr to option and acquire over 25 of the author’s novels. Jackson’s canon will be adapted for film and TV.

In light of Matthew McConaughey, 52, saying that he might not have his children get vaccinated against COVID-19, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, 44, reiterated how children can still be vulnerable to the virus in an interview with CNN on Tuesday November 9. The Dallas Buyers Club actor had expressed some hesitance about vaccinating his kids in a discussion with Andrew Ross Sorkin for The New York Times’ “Dealbook Online Summit.”

For the past few months, Matthew McCounaughey has publicly flirted with the idea of launching a run for governor of Texas, yet has said little during that time that could be considered a platform.