Nearly 40 years later, St. Elmo’s Fire is continuing to burn bright for its stars. After first teasing a sequel in July, Rob Lowe recently gave an update that the followup to the 1985 coming-of-age film is “moving along” as he and co-star Demi Moore are in contact about the film. “We’re very…

Tributes have flooded in for iconic UK actress Maggie Smith following her death on Friday in London at age of 89-years-old. U.S. actor Rob Lowe, who appeared alongside Smith in Suddenly, Last Summer (1989), was one of the first to take to social media in her memory, recalling the actress as a…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s official: the upcoming fifth season of Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star will be its last. The first responders drama’s final 12-episode run kicks off Sept. 23, with the series finale slated for early 2025. This marks a milestone for Fox as Lone Star is the last drama series on the network…

“Dispatch, we have a problem.” That’s putting it mildly. We’re getting the first look at Season 5 of 9-1-1: Lone Star and it promises to be devastating for Austin’s 126, led by Rob Lowe’s Captain Owen Strand. Fox released the first trailer Monday for the fifth season which premieres September 23 on…

Netflix just released Season 2 of Unstable, the comedy that stars Rob Lowe as a tech genius in meltdown mode as he grieves the death of the wife who grounded him. Lowe co-created the show, executive produces and stars with his son, John Owen Lowe. That brings full circle a 40-year career’s worth of stage…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Wyatt in the upcoming season of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Jackson Pace, who has recurred as the character since Season 3, has been promoted to series regular for Season 5. Pace has appeared in nine episodes of the series through its most recent Season 4 and will appear in…

Rob Lowe says that talks about a potential St. Elmo’s Fire sequel are very real. The actor shared in a recent interview that a follow-up to the 1985 film co-written and directed by Joel Schumacher is happening, but don’t get your hopes up just yet. “We’ve met with the studio and I have been…

My guest on 20 Questions this week is Anthony Michael Hall. In his latest film, Trigger Warning, which is streaming on Netflix, Hall stars as a gang-boss villain opposite Jessica Alba’s Special Forces commander character as she sets out to investigate her father’s untimely…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew McCarthy’s Hulu documentary Brats has brought back memories of the coming-of-age film where the term “Brat Pack” was coined. Deadline can reveal that Sony is exploring the possibility of making a new version of St. Elmo’s Fire. This version would hinge on reuniting original cast members…

Editor’s Note: Journalist David Blum might have forever coined The Brat Pack era, but it was Carl Kurlander who provided the reason the infamous New York magazine article got written. St. Elmo’s Fire was a script Kurlander wrote with director Joel Schumacher, inspired by events in his life. Now an academic…

Andrew McCarthy's documentary Brats, based on his book Brats: An ’80s Story, offers an intimate exploration of the Brat Pack — a group of young actors who became cultural icons in the 1980s. Through candid interviews and nostalgic reflections, McCarthy…

EXCLUSIVE: Production is currently underway on the 12-episode fifth season of 9-1-1: Lone Star amid rampant speculation that this is the show’s final chapter and without one of the series regulars, Sierra McClain, who quietly left following some cast renegotiation drama, Deadline has learned. “So…