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UPDATED with latest: The Santa Barbara Film Festival said today that On the Rocks star Bill Murray will receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at this year’s edition, which is set to run March 31-April 10. The honor, which recognizes the actor’s long-standing contributions to the film industry, will be bestowed in a…

“Chadwick Bosman was an amazing artist. We’ve all been thrilled, and excited, and overwhelmed by the depth of his work,” said Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe who presented the late actor Chadwick Bosman with Performance of the Year Award at Critics' Choice Association’s virtual annual celebration Of…

For Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event Netflix brought Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee and the cast that joined him in Vietnam and Thailand. The group had lost none of the rapport that distinguishes Da 5 Boods, about a group of vets returning for the first time since the Vietnam War. They are there…

Spike Lee’s 1995 thriller Clockers, based on the novel by Richard Price, drew some of the best reviews of Delroy Lindo's career, but astonishingly, it has taken 25 years for the duo to reunite, for the Netflix streaming hit Da 5 Bloods, and the results are just as incendiary. Cast against type, and almost over the…

EXCLUSIVE: Delroy Lindo plays a three-tour Vietnam veteran in Spike Lee’s adventure drama Da 5 Bloods, with the role building momentum for him as an Oscar Best Actor frontrunner. He already has won best actor prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Critics Choice…

Leading the list of honorees for the Critics Choice Association’s third annual Celebration of Black Cinema are Delroy Lindo receiving the Career Achievement Award, John Legend and Mike Jackson as Producers of the Year, Tessa Thompson winning the Actors Award, recent Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for the…

Although it wasn’t intended this way, the timing of the release of Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is right on. Lee has directed and co-written a film that speaks to this moment in extraordinary ways, even though its main focus is on events that happened a half-century ago but unfortunately still reverberate. The iconic…

The Good Fight co-star Delroy Lindo has closed a deal to play the lead in Harlem's Kitchen, ABC's Harlem family restaurant drama pilot from Zahir McGhee, Mandeville Television and ABC Studios. As Deadline revealed last month when Lindo started negotiations for the role, his interest in the ABC pilot led to his…

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Fight co-star Delroy Lindo is in negotiations to headline Harlem's Kitchen, ABC’s Harlem family restaurant drama pilot from writer Zahir McGhee, Mandeville Television and ABC Studios. As a result, he will be leaving the CBS All Access legal drama The Good Fight as a series regular after the…

Delroy Lindo has joined the cast of the upcoming followup The Good Wife series for CBS All Access, CBS' VOD and live streaming service. Lindo will play Robert Boseman, an attorney who starts poaching Diane Lockhart's (Christine Baranski) associates and clients when she gets into financial trouble, and threatens her…

Marvel's Most Wanted is assembling its team. Delroy Lindo has been cast opposite Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood in the ABC pilot, which originated as an Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff revolving around Palicki and Blood‘s respective characters Barbara "Bobbi" Morse, aka Mockingbird, and Lance Hunter. Lindo (Believe, Th…

The first trailer for the Point Break remake finally has dropped, bringing with it a combination of nostalgia and extreme sports sure to warm the hearts of people still pining for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed original starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. As in the original, Point Break centers on a novice FBI…