Barbra Streisand paid tribute to her A Star Is Born costar Kris Kristofferson, news of whose death broke today, remembering him as a “special” and “charming” performer. “The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something special,” she wrote on Instagram…

Kris Kristofferson, a country singer-songwriter who revolutionized the genre and Golden Globe-winning actor who starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976 A Star Is Born, has died at 88, surrounded by family in his home in Maui, Hawaii. No cause of death was given. “It is with a heavy heart…

Bradley Cooper repaid his debt to Eddie Vedder on Friday, taking the stage for a duet on his hit song from his 2018 movie, A Star Is Born. The actor joined Vedder at the BottleRock musical festival in Napa Valley for the song Maybe It’s Time from A Star Is Born with Pearl Jam’s Vedder. The two…

Bradley Cooper has been open about being sober and is opening up once again on his nearly 20-year sobriety journey. The actor even said that having coped with addiction made it “easier” for him on the set of A Star Is Born. “I was lucky,” Cooper said in a recent episode of Running Wild with Bear Gryll…

Something is missing from the year's Best Picture nominees. Well, yes, The Woman King, Till and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We know the black-themed films didn't register. But something even more elemental than race was shut out of the nominations for Hollywood's top award, the Best…

Did you know Lady Gaga set out to be an actor before she ever made it as a singer? That is just one of the revelations that came out my conversation with the superstar for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side in a wide-ranging interview on the occasion of her much acclaimed performance as…

Joan Didion, who died today at age 87, and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, sustained a uniquely frosty but profitable relationship with Hollywood over the years. As novelists and screenwriters, they earned top-dollar for their screenplays, and often accepted rewrites, yet also critiqued the foibles of the studio…

Joan Didion, the author of five novels including the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking who also excelled in essays and has screenwriting credits including the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, died Thursday of complications of Parkinson’s disease in Manhattan. She was 87. Her publisher at Knopf…

Barbra Streisand recently reiterated critical comments surrounding Bradley Cooper’s 2018 remake of A Star Is Born, saying that his take on the story was the “wrong” one. “I thought it was the wrong idea,” the 79-year-old icon said in a Sunday appearance on Australian talk show, The Sunday Project. “Look, it was a big…

Since 2010 when Turner Classic Movies first had the idea to go live with their own Hollywood film festival celebrating the classics that make the basic cable channel that a true outpost of sanity for film lovers of all stripes, I have religiously attended each and every year. I was certainly looking forward to the…

UPDATED with complete list of winners: Billie Eilish swept the marquee Record, Album, Song and New Artist categories Sunday at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, with the 18-year old dominating the ceremony dubbed music’s biggest night. The live ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles was hosted by Alicia Keys the same…

Lionsgate and AV Squad’s trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum won the marquee Best of Show category on Wednesday night at the 20th annual Golden Trailer Awards. The event, which recognizes the best of the best in worldwide film and TV marketing, bestowed trophies in 107 categories in a ceremony hosted by…