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(Updated 3:33 pm PT with WBD statement on lawsuit) No magic wand is going to make the latest legal fight Warner Bros Discovery and David Zaslav find themselves in go away, even if Harry Potter is a part of the corporate skirmish. Up against the NBA and Amazon over basketball rights, and losing…

Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad) and Stephan James (Homecoming) have emerged as top choices to star alongside Kyle Chandler in Lanterns, HBO's high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic, Deadline has learned. The duo are in conversations to play John Stewart opposite Chandler’s Hal…

The first look at Season 2 of The Last of Us is finally here. HBO released a teaser for the highly anticipated second installment Thursday, which is narrated by Catherine O’Hara, who guest stars. Her role has been kept under wraps, though she appears to be playing some sort of therapist for…

Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, but there’s no usual Premiere…

Jared Harris, son of Richard Harris, who originated the role of Dumbledore in the Warner Bros. Harry Potter franchise, doesn’t see the need for HBO’s television reboot. In a recent interview with The Independent, Jared Harris — who followed in his late father’s footsteps with credits in Mad Men and Ch…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Kyle Chandler is in negotiations to star in Lanterns, HBO’s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic, sources tell Deadline. No one is commenting, but I hear Chandler is poised to play Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern character that was played by Ryan Reynolds in…

J Smith-Cameron played one of the great modern roles for a woman in her 60s in Succession, and she’s backing more breakout parts to emerge in the entertainment industry. Quizzed on whether there are more roles for older women in theater than on screen during an interview with the Guardian, she…

Industry's third season sees the tumultuous master-pupil relationship between Harper and her former mentor Eric still at the heart of the series, despite the two actors barely sharing any screen time together. Harper actress Myha'la (she dropped her last name Herrold last year), told the UK's Guardian…

Bill Maher is looking to a good old-fashioned American pastime to help heal the nation. On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian used the country music genre’s ever-evolving inclusion as an example of progress as he urged Americans to “duplicate this on a grander…

The Kamala Harris-fueled Veep resurgence has sparked a cast reunion leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently announced a virtual table read with her co-stars from the HBO political satire series and host Stephen Colbert, which will stream live at 7 p.m. CT on…

Running until the final general election results come in, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features…

Following her stay at the White Lotus, Meghann Fahy feels bad for kicking Jennifer Coolidge while she was down. The Emmy Award nominee recently recalled filming the Season 2 finale of Mike White‘s hit HBO series and accidentally kicking her co-star in the scene where Fahy’s Daphne discovered the dead…