‘Marvel Rivals’ is a new superhero team-based shooter from NetEase

EXCLUSIVE: We understand that Marvel underwent a handful of layoffs Monday, with 15 employees impacted across Marvel Entertainment in New York and Marvel Studios in Burbank.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Marvel laid off 15 staffers on Monday, including lower-level production and development employees in Marvel Studios in Burbank as well as employees in the Marvel Entertainment division in New York. The layoffs were predicated by the overall reduction in Marvel’s slate of film and TV titles after the challenges of the 2023 releases led the company to reassess the rapid increase in productions to feed the launch of Disney+.

Lempicka is officially open on Broadway and there was a Wicked reunion on opening night!

Maya Hawke says making “Wildcat” with her dad, Ethan Hawke, felt effortless.“We’ve spent our whole lives making things together, talking about art, seeing plays, going to art museums,” she told The Post at a recent Cinema Society screening of their movie, “Wildcat.”“Working on plays in the living room, helping me with audition tapes and it felt like an extremely natural extension of the way that we’ve always communicated.”The movie, co-written and directed by Ethan, is a biographical drama about Southern novelist Flannery O’Connor and her struggle to publish her first novel. Maya, 25, stars as O’Connor and it also features Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Cooper Hoffman and Liam Neeson.The “Training Day” star, 53, explained that the movie was Maya’s idea.“A movie that she wanted to see primarily about a young woman’s relationship to herself and her work,” he shared.

Refresh for latest… The elongated 2023-24 awards season wraps tonight as the WGA presents its strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards in simultaneous ceremonies on both coasts. Deadline is posting the winners live as they are revealed; see the running list below.

JoJo Siwa is speaking out amid claims that her new song “Karma” was stolen from another artist.

Lorraine Kelly has broken her silence following her noticeable absence from her popular ITV show Lorraine.

EXCLUSIVE: While Danny Boyle is set to return to direct 28 Years Later, the first film in a new trilogy based on the iconic horror films he helped launch, Sony Pictures is already lining up the helmer for the second installment. While a deal hasn’t closed, sources tell Deadline that Nia DaCosta is in talks to direct, with Boyle, original writer Alex Garland, Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice producing along with Bernie Bellew. 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy will exec produce.

Jordan Moreau New York City is calling all intrepid heroes. Dimension 20, the popular Dungeons & Dragons show streamed on Dropout, is heading to Madison Square Garden on Jan. 24, 2025, for a live tabletop show experience, titled “Dimension 20: Gauntlet at The Garden.” Hosted by comedian and dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20 consists of players Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson and Lou Wilson.

A police cordon has been in place in north Manchester throughout the day today (April 6) due to an ongoing incident.

With an eye to star, Ethan Hawke has boarded a series adaptation of Angie Kim‘s New York Times bestseller Happiness Falls as an executive producer.

Warner Bros. Discovery said today that directors Steven A. Miron and Steven O. Newhouse, both of have both notified the board that they have resigned after the U.S. Department of Justice informed them that it was investigating whether their service on the company’s board of directors violated Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act on overlapping boards.

Fans still love New Girl!

misogynistic fans panned the film before it was even released. Suffice to say, female superheroes have been subjected to intense scrutiny over the years — but the number of powerful women on screen has only increased with the expansion of the MCU and Hollywood’s efforts to showcase more stories from underrepresented communities.

Jazzys World TV.”Now she’s broken her biggest story: the first-ever interview with North West, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s 10-year-old daughter — thanks to North being a fan.Jazzy was with her father, Luis De Hoyos, at the Rolling Loud music festival in Los Angeles earlier this month, when she was spotted by North. “Kanye was performing and my dad and I were walking and we walked past North West and her friend and North West said, ‘Oh, there’s Jazzy!’” she told The Post.“I said, ‘Oh my gosh, North West just recognized me,’ I should ask her a question.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Sean “Diddy” Combs — rapper, producer and entrepreneur — has fired back against the government’s raids on two of his properties in Miami and Los Angeles on Monday. In a statement, his attorney Aaron Dyer characterized the searches by investigators with the Department of Homeland Security as an “unprecedented ambush” and a “witch hunt.” “Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Dyer wrote.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Nelson Peltz, the activist investor agitating to win two Disney board seats, criticized the company’s “woke” strategy — specifically questioning Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “The Marvels,” which featured Black and women leads, respectively. The 81-year-old Peltz, who has admitted he “never claimed” to have experience in the media business, made the comments about “The Marvels” and “Black Panther” in a recent interview with the Financial Times. “Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women?” Peltz asked rhetorically.

Sydney Sweeney is keeping Euphoria Season 3 details to herself!

Concern about the fact that Donald Trump must post a $450 million-plus bond by Monday — and where he might get that money — prompted a curious debate with the ex-president’s lawyer on Fox News on Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman‘s Revelations Entertainment is partnering with the podcast Ear Hustle — part of the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX — on a docuseries adaptation.