One night, writer-director Celine Song found herself in an East Village bar in New York. On one side of her sat her husband, on the other her childhood sweetheart from Korea. As she translated the words between the two, she realized she was translating between two versions of her own life: what she had chosen […]
Robert Downey Jr., fresh off his Golden Globe win as supporting actor in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, says some of his work was for the Marvel universe but that the performances have gone “a little bit unnoticed” because of the films’ comics genre. On an episode of Rob Lowe’s Literally! podcast yesterday, Downey was speaking about […]
EXCLUSIVE: Seth Brodie, Chief Financial Officer at Anonymous Content, is leaving the company. Deadline understands that Brodie’s departure is amicable. No word on his next move. The departure comes as Anonymous Content has been searching for nearly a year for a new CEO following the surprising resignation of Dawn Olmstead and COO Heather McCauley from […]
EXCLUSIVE: After making all five episodes available on Tuesday, Marvel Studios’ Echo has premiered at No. 1 on both the Disney+ and Hulu platforms. The series marked several firsts for a Marvel show, as it was the first TV-MA series developed at the studio, the first time every episode was available to subscribers at once […]
Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes. New York Supreme Court judge Robert R. Reed ordered the former president to pay $392,638.69 to the Times and […]
Some of the original Grey’s Anatomy cast are getting the band back together at the 75th Emmy Awards. Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson will present during the ceremony. And they’re not the only ones. Some of the actors from Sopranos, Ally McBeal, Martin and more will take the stage on Monday night. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Dunham has announced his 11th special, I’m with Cupid, which is set to launch just ahead of Valentine’s Day, premiering on Saturday, February 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Bushwhacking their way through the topics of love, relationships, and all-things-Valentines in the special are Dunham and his beloved dummy cohorts Walter, Bubba J, Peanut, […]
Welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. As schedules go, they could not record together, so we’re having another double episode today, but this time with Origin director Ava DuVernay and the film’s star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Origin is based on Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 […]
For better or worse, Jake Johnson knows who he is. As a “45-year-old white dude,” he says, he knows that opportunities to direct for the big screen aren’t going to come along often. “In terms of directing, I’m not breaking at this point,” Johnson tells Deadline. “I’ve been on TV for too long. I’m not […]
Canadian director Vincent René-Lortie’s film Invincible tells the story of the last 48-hours of a 14-year old boy’s life as he grapples with self-destructive impulses while still yearning for his freedom from mental health struggles. Shortlisted for the Oscars in the Live Action Short Film category, the film is inspired by true events involving René-Lortie’s […]
Casting Society has made its 2024 callbacks. The group today revealed the film nominees for its 39th Artios Awards, which honor the contribution of casting professionals. Vying in the Feature Big Budget – Drama category are The Color Purple, Maestro, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer and Saltburn. The Feature Big Budget – Comedy race will be […]
Usher’s performance next month during halftime of Super Bowl LVIII on CBS is getting an extra promo push from Apple – with a retro flourish. The tech giant, which took over from Pepsi last year as the lead sponsor of the halftime show, has released a one-minute trailer (watch it above) titled “30 Years in […]
Ahead of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, the Television Academy has compiled a list of the 75 Most Impactful TV Moments. In collaboration with a group of academic professionals, the Television Academy scoured eight decades on television in search of the moments that have made the most impact on viewers, the industry and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening is joining Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein lore feature at Warner Bros; the studio making it official that this is a go-project. Cameras roll in Q1. This package with its attachments has been out there since it was at Netflix, and the deals have finally closed with everyone. There’s already been word out there […]
The sisterhood between Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks began on Broadway. That is, the sisterhood of the order of The Color Purple. Both women starred on stage in the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer-prize winning novel. Barrino spent 10 months in 2007 playing Celie, the poor country girl who survives an abusive step-father […]
The Producers Guild has set the motion picture and television nominees for its 35th annual PGA Awards, with 10 awards-season favorites vying in the marquee movie category. The 2023 juggernaut duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer will face off against American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, […]
CBS is hoping that viewers tuning in to the next couple of weeks of big NFL games will help its returning series. The network is launching a series of sneak-peeks and messages from its talent across this weekend’s coverage of the NFL Wild Card game and the upcoming Divisional playoff round. The hope is that […]
Investigation Discovery is touting the success of The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace. Natalia Speaks debuted on January 2, with new episodes released over the first week of the year. Since then, the two-season series has reached more than 10M viewers across linear and streaming, the Warner Bros. Discovery group said. Natalia Speaks was also […]
Tisa Farrow, a former actor born, like sister Mia Farrow, to show business parents Maureen O’Sullivan and John Farrow, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning. She was 72. Her death was announced on social media by Mia Farrow, who said that Tisa apparently died in her sleep. “If there is a Heaven, undoubtedly my beautiful sister Tisa […]
You might hear the title, Driving Madeleine (French title: Une Belle Course), and then read the logline about a driver taxiing a 92-year old woman around Paris and instantly think “Aha! It is a French Driving Miss Daisy!” Well, having absolutely nothing to do with that 1989 Best Picture Oscar winner that so memorably starred […]
That tentpole blood bath that was to occur over Memorial Day weekend between 20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Furiosa is no longer: The former Apes reboot is now shifting two weeks earlier to May 10. On its new date, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes […]
UBA should have broken this news. The Morning Show director and producer and two-time ER Emmy winner Mimi Leder will receive the Art Directors Guild’s 2024 Cinematic Imagery Award. The career honor, which is given to those whose body of work in the film and TV industry has enhanced the visual aspects of the viewer’s […]
Spare a moment for the degree of difficulty encountered by Jamie Bell as he grappled with the character director Andrew Haigh had written for him on the pages of All of Us Strangers. How does a 37-year-old actor, best known to audiences for his role as a preteen ballet prodigy, wrap his head around playing […]
Young Sheldon is coming to an end this season but the franchise will live on at CBS. The network is closing in on a straight-to-series order to a multi-camera spinoff of Young Sheldon from the series’ executive producers Steve Holland, Steven Molaro and Chuck Lorre and studio Warner Bros Television, sources tell Deadline. The new […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute has named the participants and projects set for its 2024 Screenwriters Lab and Intensive, programs providing emerging artists with a creative and nurturing space to develop their first and second indie features. The 16 fellows whose projects were selected for the Lab, from over 3,400 submissions, will head to the Sundance […]