Editor’s Note:Rashad Robinson is president of racial-justice organization Color of Change. Founded in 2005, it has more than 7 million members. Last year, it collaborated with actor and producer Michael B. Jordan to create #ChangeHollywood, an initiative that aims to offer tangible ways to invest in anti-racist…
EXCLUSIVE: In this time of global pandemic, the 78th annual Golden Globes intend to spotlight the foreign in Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the bicoastal ceremony Sunday hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Yet, there's still going to be a lot of old-skool shenanigans and glamour onstage at New York City’s…
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Two months later than usual, thanks to Covid, the Golden Globes are finally being handed out Sunday night in a ceremony that is likely to look different than any GG party in the previous 77 years. The Hollywood…
EXCLUSIVE:Sacha Baron Cohen had no plans to make another Borat movie after the success of 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, which broke the satire mold (and the bank) and made Baron Cohen’s intrepid journalist Borat Sagdiyev far too popular to pull off a…
The Golden Globes ritual this Sunday may prompt the usual groans in some circles, but it will also trigger some elegant paydays.
Hollywood always seems at once apologetic and celebratory about the Globes, but the 87 journalists who annually cast their votes are smiling, not apologizing. That's because they're…
It is always entertaining and informative when I get the chance to talk with Lee Daniels, as I did for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens. He is unapologetically honest and authentic in talking about this business, his career, his influences and why he is so happy to be back behind the…
Of the many types of documentary films, Oscar-nominated director Gianfranco Rosi has identified one genre he describes as "complaining and explaining."
"There’s someone complaining," Rosi observes, "and then there’s someone explaining to you why they’re complaining."
That's not his school. When Rosi settles on a theme…
The Producers Guild of America on Friday revealed its nominees for the PGA Awards’ Sports, Children's and Short Form categories. The winners will be revealed as part of a new virtual event, “A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees,” which is set for March 20.
Making the cut on this year’s list revealed today are are titles…
With News of the World, composer James Newton Howard returned to the Western genre for the first time in many years. In concert with director Paul Greengrass, he'd craft a more somber, inward-looking score than is often heard in the genre—"broken" music for a broken nation.
The Universal Pictures title centers on…
Horror is woven into political drama in La Llorona, the riveting Golden Globe Foreign Language Film nominee and shortlisted International Feature Oscar contender from Guatemala's Jayro Bustamante. An elderly wealthy man hears ghostly noises in the night. He is revealed to be former army general Enrique Monteverde…
While directing The Croods: A New Age, Joel Crawford often found himself chasing that 'Wow' factor, which all great films (and sequels) have in common.
His follow-up to 2013's The Croods would expand the scope of a universe established by writer/directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, at the same time preserving…
Norwegian director Maria Sodhal made her first feature, Limbo, a decade ago and her second makes the reason for the long time gap dramatically clear: She developed lung cancer, which then metastasized and spread to her brain, a virtual death sentence. But she fought back and lived to make a film about it, the closely…
