EXCLUSIVE: AI firm Cartwheel has emerged from closed beta, promising to help make the 3D animation process smoother and accessible to a wider range of creative workers. The company was co-founded by Jonathan Jarvis and Andrew Carr. Jarvis, who is CEO, spent nearly seven years at Google and also…

The Katzenbergs are stepping up for film and TV workers who were impacted by the L.A. wildfires. Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg are donating $5 million to the Motion Picture and Television Fund, which has been supporting requests for aid with financial assistance for rent, house payments…

Media veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Linda Yaccarino offered starkly different reactions to Meta’s decision to stop fact-checking Facebook and Instagram in separate appearances at CES. Mark Zuckerberg’s move, announced earlier Tuesday, is widely seen as a bow to pressure from Donald Trump. The…

EXCLUSIVE: (UPDATED from original 3:54 PM post) Hollywood figures made a big showing this afternoon as Vice President Kamala Harris made her first appearance at a Los Angeles fundraiser since becoming the Democratic nominee. The downtown event raised more than $28 million, according to a…

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the longtime Democratic donor and fundraiser, has evoked an image of Joe Biden as a Hollywood movie hero after the president decided to stand aside in the 2024 election. In an op-ed in The New York Times, the media executive thanked Biden for his “selfless” act, comparing him…

EXCLUSIVE: After weeks of withholding money in the aftermath of Joe Biden's June 27 debate debacle, top Hollywood donors are already breaking out their checkbooks on the news Sunday that Biden has dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. "I'm more excited and motivated…

EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged among Hollywood donors as the top successor to head the Democratic ticket as calls for Joe Biden to step aside intensify, with a caveat. "Kamala Harris has put in the work, she's the obvious choice for sure," a longtime contributor to the party…

President Joe Biden heard some hard words Wednesday from Jeffrey Katzenberg about his reelection chances. The longtime Democratic donor and fundraiser spoke with Biden today in Las Vegas, Deadline can confirm, before the announcement came down that Biden had Covid again. Due to the…

A number of polls and pundits say Joe Biden should exit the race against Donald Trump after his debate debacle and ensuing fallout, but the President of the United States says he's truly in it to win it. "I have one job, and that's to beat Donald Trump," the 81-year-old incumbent told a…

Updated 12:29, with press conference information: Joe Biden will sit down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos for his first interview since the fallout from his dismal debate performance. Stephanopoulos will interview Biden on Friday, with the “extended” interview, as ABC News terms it, set to…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's reelection campaign has a problem with some of its top donors after last night’s debate fiasco, and they may have just made it worse. To mollify the agitation and quell a "cooling," as one insider put it, among some of the most generous entertainment industry donors on…

UPDATED: President Joe Biden’s star-filled fundraiser in Los Angeles — in which he took part in a conversation with former President Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel — is now expected to raise at least $30 million, according to a source close to the campaign. During the roughly 40-minute sit down…