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.
The list of candidates for the 2020 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors election is now out, with the winner in each branch being chosen directly from these entries rather than whittling it down to four finalists in each, as has been done previously.
Also new this year in the streamlined…
NBC News unveiled a Meet the Press branded, five-part streaming series on Friday, called Meet the Press: College Roundtable featuring college journalism students in a virtual panel discussion.
Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd kicked off the first episode with a panel of college journalists talking about the…
The WGA, in its ongoing negotiations with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract, is calling for the elimination of new-writer discounts and training program rates that have existed for years to encourage companies to hire female and minority directors.
"These discounted minimums, currently found in the Minimum…
EXCLUSIVE: Two days after the latest round of ViacomCBS post-merger layoffs, which was focused primarily on the entities within the CBS Entertainment Group, more details about the scope of the cuts are emerging.
One of the most impacted divisions was CBS Marketing which had 30-40 layoffs, I hear. That was almost 10%…
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned that Verve has inked TV series creator, writer and producer Patrick Walsh.
The St. Louis, Mo. native began his career as a scribe on FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He continued on at CBS’ 2 Broke Girls as Co-Executive Producer and then to HBO’s 2017 Pete Holmes series Crashing as a…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said New York City can start reopening on June 8 as one of the most dramatic global hubs of the COVID-19 pandemic nears the parameters the state established for entering Phase I.
The city has been on lockdown since March as the virus spread rapidly and the hospital and health care…
EXCLUSIVE:Sarah Dugdale (In The Shadow Of The Moon) is set as a series regular opposite Alexandra Breckenridge in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Virgin River romance drama series. Additionally, Grayson Gurnsey, who recurred in the first season, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the series…
In its first season, HBO’s Euphoria reshaped how we see the typical teen drama. The series follows Rue (Zendaya), a 17-year-old addict who struggles with recovery until she meets Jules (Hunter Schafer), the new girl in town who changes things in her life. Created by Sam Levinson and based on his own experiences, the…
End of Sentence is the kind of small but emotionally effective and beautifully acted movie that likely would have gotten lost in the shuffle with a theatrical release. But on digital platforms and VOD, where it becomes available today, the pic is perfectly poised to be discovered and admired, especially for fans of…
As a best-selling author, a leading advocate in the transgender community, a much honored person not only in the LGBTQ world but also for people of color and now as a trailblazer in movies and television, Janet Mock is making history. As writer, producer and director on the FX series Pose, she became the first trans…
Ryan Gosling is sinking his teeth into Universal’s growing monster universe titles. The two-time Oscar nominee is attached to star in a Wolfman remake which was written by Orange Is The New Black scribes Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo.
The last werewolf pic at Universal, 2010’s The Wolfman, had Benicio del…
UPDATE, 2:23 PM PT: President Donald Trump told reporters that he talked with the family of George Floyd on Friday and said that he asked the Justice Department to expedite the investigation into his death.
“It’s a terrible thing. We all saw what we saw and it’s very hard to even conceive of anything other than what…
