Patrick joined Deadline in 2011 and works closely with the editorial team running the site's day-to-day news operations. He came from The Hollywood Reporter, where he spent seven years as a Copy Editor, Copy Chief and finally Assistant Managing Editor. Before THR, he worked on the news and sports desks at the Orange County Register. He started his career as a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Daily News and at his hometown paper The Oregonian.
TPG, the private-equity firm that had a majority stake in CAA before selling it to Francois-Henri Pinault last year, said Friday that it has formed a new talent management company whose first investment will be in Hollywood management biggie Untitled Entertainment.
The new TPG company, which will…
IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said Thursday that they have reached a tentative agreement on all issues for the Area Standards Agreement, the companion contract to the Basic Agreement that got its own tentative deal Tuesday night.
The latest agreement between the…
Basketball star Caitlin Clark, whose stellar year included breaking an NCAA scoring record and becoming the first pick the WNBA draft, leads all athletes with three nominations for the 2024 Espy Awards that were unveiled Wednesday.
Clark is nommed in three categories: Record-Breaking Performance for…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday that it is extending invitations to 487 to join the membership ranks of the Oscar organizer. If all accept, it will bring the Academy’s total membership to 10,910, of which 9,934 would be voting members.
This year’s list across 19 branches…
EXCLUSIVE: Sabrina Carpenter, who is prepping for the release of her new album Short n’ Sweet in August and the launch of her North American tour after that, will headline Sabrina Carpenter: A VR Concert. The exclusive event will premiere Friday, July 19 at 5 p.m. PT exclusively in Meta Horizon Worlds…
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday that it has renewed the contract of CEO Bill Kramer through July 2028. His deal wasn’t scheduled to be up for renewal until 2025.
Kramer was the director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures when…
Two debates between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been solidified so far. The first is slated for June 27 on CNN, and the second will be hosted by ABC on Tuesday, September 10.
Both debates will take place before the already-scheduled general election debates, the schedule of which is…
Organizers of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games on Friday unveiled its first batch of updates to its venue plan for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The biggest moves including earmarking SoFi Stadium in Inglewood to become the largest-ever Olympics venue for swimming; setting Crypto.com Arena to…
The 34th annual Gotham Awards will take place December 2 and the second Gotham TV Awards will be held June 2, 2025, organizer the Gotham Film & Media Institute said Thursday.
The news comes after the inaugural Gotham TV Awards were held earlier this month; the small-screen categories originally were…
William Baldwin starred in three projects with Donald Sutherland, the Emmy- and honorary Oscar-winning actor who died Thursday at age 88 after a seven-decade Hollywood career.
Below, he shares his thoughts on Sutherland, his co-star in Ron Howard’s Backdraft, Universal’s Virus and the ABC series Dirty…
EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit film-funding organization Jewish Story Partners has unveiled its latest list of grantees, saying it has earmarked $500,000 to be distributed among 21 in-the-works feature documentary projects. The latest grants by the organization, launched in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and…
Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan conducted an extensive series of interviews with the living cast, writers and crew of the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 11, 1975 on NBC and has been going ever since. The result of their efforts is Sony Pictures’ upcoming SNL 1975, a movie retelling the…