‘Ready Player One’s Zak Penn To Adapt ‘ROM’ For Paramount & Hasbro’s Allspark EXCLUSIVE: Hot off adapting the Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One for director Steven Spielberg, Zak Penn has signed on to adapt ROM for Hasbro’s Allspark Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Allspark Pictures develops a..

Stormy Daniels And Michael Cohen’s Attorneys Slug It Out On ‘GMA’ Morning After ’60 Minutes’ Interview The morning after 60 Minutes aired Stormy Daniels’ claims about an affair with Donald Trump, and being threatened with physical harm in 2011 if she told the story to a tabloid, her attorney sai..

GSN Renews ‘Snap Decision’, Greenlights Two New Strip Series, More — Upfront GSN has renewed freshman hit Snap Decision for a second season and greenlit two new strip series, America Says (working title) and Caroline & Friends, hosted by Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum Caroline Rhea, the network ..

Facebook Stock Drops As FTC Confirms It Is Investigating Privacy Practices Facebook’s stock dropped in early morning trading as the Federal Trade Commission issued a statement confirming that it is investigating the social network’s privacy practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scanda..

Stormy Daniels Bags Best ’60 Minutes’ Ratings Since Obamas Post-Election Sit-Down In ’08 Stormy Daniels’ 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper looks to be the newsmag’s best since Steve Kroft’s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama in November of 2008, shortly after he was elected preside..

‘Downton Abbey’ Producer Carnival Films Options AI Novel ‘I Still Dream’ EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films is developing a TV adaptation of genre novel I Still Dream after swooping in ahead of its recent publication. UK writer James Smythe, who penned the book, is set to adapt and..

Cannes: French Film Critics Decry “Harmful” Kibosh Of AM Press Screenings The French Film Critics’ Guild and journalists from France’s Club Média Ciné have reacted with dismay to changes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, calling them “harmful” for the quality of media coverage, and for the fe..

Beijing Film Festival Pulls ‘Call Me By Your Name’ From Lineup Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning romance Call Me By Your Name has been yanked from the Beijing International Film Festival’s lineup, a source close to the movie confirmed to Deadline. No official reason has been given for the move. Ho..

Barbara Stone Dies: Founder Of London’s Iconic Gate Cinema Was 83 U.S. industry veteran Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s iconic Gate Cinema, has died aged 83 in the UK capital. Stone and her late husband David worked in the film business most of their lives, both in t..