Deadline’s video series delves into the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists by having them answer five questions. This week, it’s the Oscar-winning “Forrest Gump” director’s turn. Click above to watch.
Antigone, Sophie Deraspe’s haunting French-language drama that set its adaptation of the Greek tragedy as a tale of a modern-day refugee family in Montreal, won Best Picture and tied François Girard’s The Song of Names with five wins overall Thursday at the Canadian Screen Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the…
CBSViacom’s layoffs this week also impacted CBS News and CBS-owned affiliates, the latest fallout to hit news media amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The layoffs were said to make up a single digit percentage of the news division — reportedly 5%, or around 75 employees. They follow recent staff cuts at outlets such as…
Dismiss it as a gimmick. Or a genius stunt. Or praise it as a metaphor for recovery.
In any case, if you ask Matt Shakman he'll tell you that he wanted to help deliver a wake-up call to audiences — a positive signal at a time when ticket buyers have fallen into a state of slumber. Hence the arrival of The Present, a…
With twists that you might expect from a M. Night Shyamalan project, the legal scare facing AppleTV+, the director and Servant creator Tony Basgallop may still keep haunting them.
Despite an order today from a federal judge tossing out a copyright suit over the Lauren Ambrose and Tony Kebbell starring series from the…
The third season of Netflix’s Somebody Feed Phil bows Friday on Netflix. The creator/writer/executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond takes viewers on a goodwill eating tour of the world, joined by friends and family. Together, they get a taste of the local cuisine and culture at each stop on his journey.
But…
Large-scale protests again broke out in Minneapolis and (newly) New York’s Union Square on Thursday in response to he death of George Floyd, a black man who was seen on video pinned at the neck by a white police officer screaming “I can’t breathe!” Floyd later died.
Local officials sought to calm the unrest at a…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has activated the state National Guard to help restore order in Minneapolis, where protesters have taken over the streets to vent their anger over the death of George Floyd.
Prosecutors have not yet said whether the four police officers involved in the incident that resulted in Floyd’s death…
For six seasons, HBO has taken us through the ups and downs of the Pied Piper crew in Silicon Valley which can at times be all too real to the tech industry. The Emmy-nominated show created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky did a creative deep dive into the Bay Area epicenter of tech and ended its run…
America may have to wait a few days or even more to see the first NASA astronauts to take off from the US in almost a decade finally head to the skies, but there are some pretty big launches on the small screen this weekend.
Out of our quartet of contenders, only one will plant the flag to be the show you have to…
Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy have set a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog in motion. Jeff Fowler will return to direct from a screenplay by original scribes Pat Casey and Josh Miller. Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, and Toru Nakahara will return to produce with Hajime Satomi, Haruki Satomi, and Tim Miller serving as…
His name is Andrew Patterson. Remember it. On the basis of his first feature film, you are going to be hearing a lot from him.
The movie in question is The Vast of Night, and on the surface of things it would seem to be influenced by everything from The Twilight Zone, Invaders from Mars\ to War of the Worlds and Close…
The British Academy Television Awards is to take place on July 31 with The IT Crowd'sRichard Ayoade set as host.
The BAFTA TV Awards were set to take place on May 17 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will be followed by the British Academy Television Craft Awards on July 17.
BAFTA TV will air…
