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UPDATED with more reactions: A lot of Hollywood power players may have be voting for Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to be Kamala Harris’ running mate, but now that Harris has chosen Tim Walz to be her VP, one of the Democrats’ biggest donor bases has a lot of good things to say about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Higher Ground, the media company started by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, has extended its creative partnership with Netflix. As part of the deal, Higher Ground will have a multiyear first-look deal with Netflix for all of its film and TV projects. The relationship has been a…

CAA on Thursday announced the speakers and attendees set for its seventh annual CAA Amplify Summit, the invitation-only convening of artists, thought-leaders, and executives of color from leading organizations in entertainment, sports, media, brands, and technology, and beyond. Confirmed speakers and…

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is drawing a lot of media attention for a comment she made on Jay Shetty’s podcast, in which she says that she is “terrified” over what could happen in the next election. “What keeps me up are the things that I know, the war in …too many regions, what AI is going to…

There are times when one's world unexpectedly shifts off its axis, and everyone involved must scramble and find a new center of gravity. November 10, 2021 was such a day for Jon Batiste and his life partner, Suleika Jaouad. That morning, the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and bandleader for The Late Show…

Michelle Obama is giving a boost to American Symphony, the Oscar-contending documentary about musician Jon Batiste and his wife, musician Suleika Jaouad. The former first lady introduced the Matthew Heineman film at a special screening Thursday night in New Orleans, a place of special significance…

Colman Domingo plays civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, in the Netflix film Rustin. Domingo said he felt a responsibility to introduce Rustin to modern audiences. "It was a great calling honestly," Domingo said at Deadline's Contenders Film: Los Angeles…

Former President Barack Obama made mention of the end of Hollywood’s labor strife at a special screening on Friday of Rustin, the Netflix biopic of civil rights Bayard Rustin made by he and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Prioductions. Introducing the movie at the HBCU First Look…

Peyton Manning, LeBron James and Michelle and Barack Obama are looking to team up with Netflix for an NBA docuseries modeled after Quarterback. Manning’s Omaha Productions and James’s SpringHill Company are in talks to partner up with the Obamas’ Higher Ground Production and the NBA for the series…

EXCLUSIVE: The Republican contenders for his old job were debating up at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley last night, but today Barack Obama was in town seeking more higher ground. The 44th President of the United States was on the westside of LA Thursday for a sit-down at CAA with the agents for…

Maybe the best reaction to 19-year-old Coco Gauff winning her first Grand Slam tournament at the U.S. Open today came from the champ herself. “Honestly, thank you to the people who didn’t believe in me. A month ago, I won a 500 title and people said I would stop at that,” she said in a TV interview…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker George C. Wolfe was not interested in doing what he termed "icon crap" in his movie Rustin, about the multi-layered life of Bayard Rustin, regarded as one of the most influential organizers of the Civil Rights Movement and the architect of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom…