When AFI revealed its Top 10 Films of the Year last month, five of them were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts. To Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond, 2021 looked like it could be a landmark year. Then came the crazy BAFTA nominations, along with the Producers and Directors guilds’ lists. Now what?
EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock) has landed the female co-lead opposite Ellie Bamber and Erin Kellyman in Willow, Disney+ and Lucasfilm's upcoming TV series follow-up to the 1988 fantasy movie, with the film's star Warwick Davis reprising his title role, I have learned. She replaced Cailee Spaeny, who had been origin…
Harry Potter actress Katie Leung has offered fresh perspective on the racism she experienced as part of the landmark franchise, emphasizing the way in which she was silenced while doing press for the films.
In a recent episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast, Leung recalled the backlash and online vitriol among…
FX has ordered a limited series based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s New York Times bestselling debut novel Fleishman Is in Trouble. Deadline first told you that the limited series was in the works back in September 2019 with ABC Signature Studios producing, with the series being set-up at FX. ABC Signature won rights to…
The Pentagon’s top spokesman and some military leaders are pushing back on comments that Tucker Carlson made about pregnant women serving in the military.
On his show on Wednesday, Carlson said in a segment that “we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a…
Sony Pictures Classics has taken world rights – excluding UK, France and Germany – to The Lost Leonardo, the feature documentary directed by Andreas Koefoed about the remarkable story behind the most expensive painting ever sold.
The Salvator Mundi, a painting believed to be a rare work by Leonardo da Vinci, was sold…
HBO Max has enlisted group viewing platform Scener to host an exclusive, live watch party of Zack Snyder’s Justice League on the evening of its March 18 debut.
The event, which is open to all HBO Max subscribers watching on a Chrome web browser, is set to kick off on the Scener website at 4PM PT/7PM ET. Snyder will…
EXCLUSIVE: AGC International has closed a raft of pre-sales on in-demand thriller Panopticon out of the virtual EFM.
Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Anthony Mackie (Avengers), and Jacob Latimore (The Chi) are set to star in the Ridley Scott-execed feature, which is slated to shoot in New Mexico from July. Andrés…
BFI London Film Festival Dates
The BFI London Film Festival has confirmed the dates for the festival's 65th edition, which will take place from October 6-17, 2021. Last year’s hybrid edition combined in-cinema experiences at partner venues UK-wide and an online edition for audiences at home via BFI Player. According…
EXCLUSIVE: It took a village to rescue those 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded Thailand cave in 2018. MGM and Thirteen Lives director Ron Howard have firmed a big international cast to play the heroic rescuers who took part in a dangerous operation that cost one rescue diver — Thai Navy SEAL Saman Gunan…
EXCLUSIVE: “You belong among the wildflowers,” the late Tom Petty sang in the title track of his classic second solo album. Now a new documentary captures the years surrounding that remarkable record’s creation and release, and you can watch a clip from Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free above.
Deep-diving into a…
Veteran communications executives, Eric Green and Sunny Jenkins, powered by head creative, Wally Hasselbring, launch The Right Now. Jenkins is set to lead the Brand division with Green heading Entertainment and Hasselbring overeeing the Creative and Digital teams.
Their leadership team also includes Jessel Taank and…
EXCLUSIVE: The Nacelle Company is boldly going where no man has gone before. Today it unveiled The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, an eight-episode limited docuseries that it will produce for History Channel.
Created and directed by Nacelle founder and CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss, The Center Seat is described as the…
