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Dominic Patten
Executive Editor, Legal, Labor & Politics
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Dominic covers litigious Hollywood’s major lawsuits and weighs in on the current Golden Age of television with his video reviews and more. Before joining Deadline in 2012, he wrote for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, and the Toronto Globe and Mail. A frequent guest on NPR, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and CBS, he also has been a documentary director, TV producer, national news correspondent and a newspaper editor.
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D4vd Ordered To Stand Trial For Murdering, Dismembering 14-Year-Old Girl
UPDATED: A Los Angeles judge has ordered singer D4vd (real name David Anthony Burke) to stand trial on murder charges in the killing and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
Burke has been charged with one count each of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age…
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Ava DuVernay & Netflix Reteam For Constitutional Documentary ‘14th’: “This Film Asks What Kind Of Country Is Being Written Beneath Our Feet Now”
EXCLUSIVE: A decade after Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 13th debuted on Netflix, the filmmaker and the streamer are back together in the Constitutional business.
Spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how…
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Paramount-WBD Merger Is Competition Killer, State Attorneys General Allege In Proposed Blockbuster Antitrust Action
From Sacramento to Albany and several state capitals in between, regional attorneys general are steeled to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery in an antitrust lawsuit that could hit the courts Monday. (Update 8:59 am: The lawsuit has been filed. Read <a data-id="https://deadline.com/2026/07/state-antitrust-lawsuit-paramount-warner-bros-1236980723/" data-type="link" href="https://deadline.com/2026/07/state-antitrust-lawsuit-paramount-warner-bros-1236980723/"…
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Sam Neill Dies: ‘Jurassic Park’ Actor Was 78
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in the Jurassic Park franchise, Peaky Blinders and a plethora of independent films has died in Australia, it was announced tonight. The multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominee was 78.
“It is with immense sadness that the whānau…
Zucked Up! Meta Disables AI Image Generator After CAA & SAG-AFTRA Trashed It: “Missed The Mark”
Just days after Meta introduced its Muse Image AI generator, the Mark Zuckerberg-run company has done a complete U-turn.
Under pressure from a now-victory-lap-taking CAA and SAG-AFTRA, the tech behemoth announced Friday that the feature is “no longer available” on Instagram, admitting they…
CAA Calls BS On Meta’s AI Image Generator; Zuckerberg Pushes Back On Muse Privacy Worries
CAA is getting pretty meta about the implications and intentions of Meta’s new Muse Image.
Essentially, the Zoe Saldaña, Tom Cruise, Charlize Theron and Dhar Mann-representing uber agency want the Mark Zuckerberg-founded tech giant to hit the reset button ASAP on its newly introduced AI image…
Nexstar Rails Against $6.2B Tegna Merger Injunction, Calls Out DirecTV & State AGs’ “Cynical Attempt To Advance Their Own Commercial & Political Interests”
Ever since a federal judge hit the pause button in April on Nexstar’s big bucks merger with Tegna, the Texas-based local TV giant vowed to fight back on antitrust allegations and claims it played political footies with the Trump administration.
Corporate walls had to suddenly be put in place…
Mark Zuckerberg And Meta Deride “Headline-Seeking” Damages Sought By State AGs In Social Media Safety Suit: “Untethered From Reality”
Mark Zuckerberg might think those Kylie Jenner-branded Meta smart glasses are cool, but you know what is really cool? Not having to pay California and three other states virtually the entire valuation of your company.
The Social Network script paraphrasing aside, that’s the position Meta’s…
Emmys Snub Taylor Sheridan Shows, ‘Half Man’, ‘Hot Ones’ — Riz Ahmed & YouTube’s ‘Subway Takes’ Surprise With Nominations
Amid a summer where the biggest show on the small screen right now is 22 men kicking around a polyurethane-covered ball, nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards were unveiled Wednesday morning.
We’ll know who wins the World Cup months before the winners at September’s Mariska Hargitay-host…
Big Money! Jobs! Newsom Boasts Big Bucks Film/TV Tax Credits “Delivering Results”; Eddie Murphy’s ‘Donkey,’ Disney & Ben Affleck Flicks Get Incentives
Gavin Newsom is taking a victory lap today on the first anniversary of California’s film and TV tax credits program being jacked up to $750 million, and the potential presidential contender has Disney, a Shrek prequel, and Ben Affleck along for the ride.
Along with an untitled Pixar project, the…
Belgium Claps Back On Red Card Fiasco After Big World Cup Win Over U.S.
The victorious Belgium team mainly let their skills do the talking at the World Cup after a day of red card suspension controversy, a failed appeal, and the unsurprising intervention of Donald Trump. For some, the 4-1 win Monday over Christian Pulisic and Team USA in Seattle, WA would have said it…
Bubba Bites Back: Bill Clinton Rips Trump In America 250 Message; “Their New Deal Is Socialism For The Super-Rich”
Donald Trump may “like Bill Clinton a lot,” but the 42nd President of the United States showed his deep dislike this Independence Day of where the 45th/47th POTUS is taking the world and the nation on America’s 250 birthday.
“Today, we celebrate this milestone amid another period of deep…
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