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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 than…

Joe Biden announcing today that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race has given Damon Lindelof "genuine excitement for the election." The first significant Hollywood donor to go public with a call for supporters to withhold their cash after Biden's disastrous June 27 debate performance and…

Robert De Niro ranted. Bette Midler blared about “autocracy.” Lea DeLaria declared war. But Donald Trump, though convicted in New York and shot in Pennsylvania, is still marching toward Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention begins tomorrow. Meanwhile, George Clooney called for a new…

Editor's note: Running until the final general election results come in & no matter who is at the top of either ticket, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline's political editor Ted…

Jeffrey Katzenberg hasn’t said anything yet, but more big Democratic donors are speaking out for Joe Biden to step aside after last week’s debate debacle. Outspoken Disney heiress and documentary filmmaker Abigail Disney has weighed in on Biden post-debate, telling CNBC she plans to pause all…

Joe Biden says he’s not going anywhere despite his self-admitted bad performance at the debate with Donald Trump last week. “Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running,” the increasingly besieged POTUS told his staff on a conference call…

Editor's note: Damon Lindelof has been a significant contributor to Democrats up and down the ballot for years, including to the campaigns of President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden. However, after Biden’s stumbling debate performance last week, the Emmy-winning…

Lanterns is moving from Max to HBO and has received an official series order. The redeveloped adaptation of the Green Lantern comic comes from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King. It is part of a new strategy to move expensive scripted series from the streaming service to the linear network…

DC Studios co-head James Gunn is sharing an update on Lanterns, the DCU series in development at Max. Gunn took to social media to confirm the writing team behind the series, which includes Damon Lindelof, Chris Mundy, and Tom King. “Yes, it's true. The Lanterns DCU series is putting together a…

The Peabody Awards are teaming with the Center for Media & Social Impact to launch We Disrupt This Broadcast, a podcast featuring interviews with TV creatives who are “shaping the future of entertainment with disruptive new narratives and creative approaches.” Damon Lindelof and Quinta Brunson are…

Damon Lindelof will mentor one up-and-coming TV writer as part of ScreenCraft's latest TV pilot writing competition. The Lost and Mrs. Davis exec producer will meet with the winner of the competition, which usually receives several thousand submissions. He will serve as the grand juror of the…

After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via social media by sharing more of his experience on the ABC drama. Grillo-Marxuach, who is described in Maureen Ryan’s Hollywood book as “the only person from…