Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company Hires JPMorgan Chase’s Darian Singer As CFO

EXCLUSIVE: The long-awaited sequel to the classic comedy franchise is a go as sources tell Deadline that Taylour Paige and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have joined series star Eddie Murphy in Netflix’s newly titled Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley. Production on the sequel is under way with Mark Molloy directing. Murphy is back as Axel Foley and will produce along with Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer films. Will Beall penned the script.

J.K. Rowling says she made the decision not to participate in the HBO Max reunion special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which aired on New Year's Day. The 57-year-old author opened up about the decision over the weekend in an interview for with Graham Norton. «I wasn't actually [excluded],» Rowling told Norton, who assumed she had not been asked to join the special.

radio show with Graham Norton released Saturday, noting that she thought it was about the films, more than the books.

It was her call. J.K. Rowling said she was not intentionally excluded from HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Sasha Roiz (Grimm, Caprica) and Lilah Richcreek Estrada (The Wonder Years, Grace and Frankie) have joined the cast of NBC’s Chicago Med as recurring guest stars, Deadline has learned. Season 8 premieres on September 21 at 8 p.m. followed by Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire.

A24 is teaming up with filmmakers Max Eggers (The Lighthouse) and Sam Eggers (Olympia) — otherwise known as The Eggers Brothers —  on their feature directorial debut, The Front Room, a psychological horror pic that will star Brandy Norwood (Queens), Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap (Snow White) and Neal Huff (Waves).

We're not entirely sure where the time's gone but, somehow, today marks the 10-year anniversary of Rita Ora's debut album ORA.

EXCLUSIVE: J. Alphonse Nicholson (P-Valley) has signed on to star alongside Neal McDonough and Casey Cott in the sports drama Black Spartans from writer-director Ben Cory Jones (Insecure), which is set to shoot in Atlanta this fall.

Casey Affleck is sending his love to brother Ben Affleck‘s wife Jennifer Lopez!

Disney+ has recently announced the cast for its upcoming legal K-drama, May It Please The Court.May It Please The Court follows two lawyers who are forced to work together after they uncover a series of conspiracies that will derail their cases. According to a press release, the streaming service’s courtroom drama is set to star Diary of a Prosecutor’s Jung Ryeo-won as lawyer Noh Chak-hee and Voice’s Lee Kyu-hyung as Jwa Si-baek.Jung Jin-young (Bulgasal: Immortal Souls) is also joining the cast as Jang Gido, the CEO of big-time law firm Jangsan.

WLS-TV.The victims killed in the attack have been identified as 25-year-old South Holland native Donald Huey, who was planning to move back to the area from Los Angeles, 27-year-old Chicago resident Devonta Vivetter, and 23-year-old Jaylen Ausley, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan. All three were transported to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead.The other victim was hospitalized in serious condition.

Naman Ramachandran Sam Crane will play Harry Potter in the new company that commences performances on “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at London’s Palace Theatre from Oct. 13.Crane’s credits include “The Crown,” “DNA” at the National Theatre, “Othello” at Shakespeare’s Globe and “Farinelli and the King” on Broadway.

alums Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan are sparking reconciliation rumors.Since it's been a while, let's recap: During season of The Bachelor, was cut during week six. Weber ended up proposing to at the end of his season, then called off the engagement and dated runner-up for a minute. It wasn't until the 2020 Super Bowl that Weber and Flanagan reconnected and .

Kaley Cuoco admits she went through a "dark time" when she split with Karl Cook in 2021. In an interview with Variety, Cuoco, 36, said she "didn’t know how to deal" with her depression.  "Going through my divorce, it was really a super dark time," she told the outlet.  "I just didn’t know how to deal with it. I was throwing myself into work to deny my depression and how upset I was.

EXCLUSIVE: Camilla Belle (Carter, The Ballad of Jack and Rose) and Gus Halper (Fear the Walking Dead, Love Life) have joined the cast of NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime for its upcoming third season. Belle and Halper will portray New York City power couple Pearl Serrano and Teddy Silas, respectively.

Chase Rice's country music career was a dream that became reality for him.  The singer's journey to stardom began with a college football lifestyle and ended with him making music. Rice credited his work ethic for creating the opportunities that came his way throughout his life in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Kaley Cuoco knows just how difficult a breakup can be.

Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan are sparking reconciliation rumors. A source tells ET that the Bachelor Nation alums «having been spending some time together again» more than a year after their split.«They were at the Chicago Cubs game together on Wednesday, Aug. 10, with one of Kelley's good friends,» the source says of the exes.Weber and Flanagan dated on his season of , which aired in 2020. Though Weber broke up with Flanagan during the season, the pair reconnected when things didn't work out with his initial pick, Hannah Ann Sluss, or his runner-up, Madison Prewett.

The publication of Heat 2 this week marks writer/director Michael Mann’s debut as a novelist, expands the mythology of perhaps his most beloved film, and becomes the first major release of the publishing imprint he set at William Morrow six years ago.