The panels featuring conversations and clips from Deadline’s two-day extravaganza, which featured 49 films from 16 distributors, studios and streamers, are now live — click on the photo above to access the link. This weekend’s lineup includes appearances by Gal Gadot, George Clooney, the Russo Brothers, Viola Davis, Sacha Baron Cohen, Pete Davidson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jodie Foster, Gary Oldman and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, among many more. The streaming site now joins those for Deadline’s previous 2021 panel events, Contenders International and Contenders Documentary, marking the official kickoff to awards season.
Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin is staying in business with HBO.
The writer and producer has extended his overall deal with the WarnerMedia-owned premium cable network and its streaming sibling HBO Max for an additional three years.
It comes as he prepares for his latest series, an adaptation of Sony Playstation video…
Song Yoo-jung, a South Korean actress best known for TV series Golden Rainbow and web series Dear My Name, died in Seoul Saturday, Jan. 23. She was 26, and although no cause has been disclosed Song’s passing follows a series youthful deaths by suicide that have shaken the industry there.
Song’s death was confirmed by…
And Tomorrow The Entire World, the engaged latest film from writer-director Julia von Heinz, is something close to transfixing, as it zeroes in on the vital distinction between being a weekend radical and a truly committed game-changer. Germany's Best International Feature Film Oscar entry made an impression at last…
Gold Open has partnered with the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment CAPE to launch the inaugural Gold List which honors the most outstanding Asian and Pacific Islander (API) achievements in film each year. Gold Open is part of Gold House, which bolsters multicultural movies to box office success — most…
The 2021 Billboard Music Awards is set to air live on Sunday, May 23 at 8pm ET/5pm PT on NBC. Additional details regarding production of the show will be announced at a later date.
The 2020 ceremony was hosted by three-time host Kelly Clarkson aired on October 14 from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The event…
Throughout their careers in animation, directors Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon have maintained a strong collaborative relationship with children's book author Julia Donaldson. After bringing four of her works to the screen—two of which garnered Oscar nominations—they return to the awards conversation this year with The S…
EXCLUSIVE: Gerard McMurray, who directed Burning Sands, one of Netflix’s first original features for the streamer, has made his return to the studio as he is set to direct The Formula with John Boyega and Robert De Niro attached to star. McMurray will write, direct, and produce the film via his recently formed…
The Casting Society of America will host a virtual town hall on February 1 and a three-day online open call for for Black actors from Feb. 19-21. Both events are part of CSA's Black Actors Initiative, which is designed to effect real change in how actors in historically underrepresented communities are afforded access…
EXCLUSIVE:Ted Levine (On Becoming A God In Central Florida, The Alienist) has joined the cast of David E. Kelley’s hit freshman ABC drama series Big Sky as a new series regular. Additionally, Kyle Schmid has been tapped for a recurring role. Both will make their debut on the show later this season.
The crime thriller…
Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Film, featuring all panels from the ambitious two-day virtual awards-season event that took place over the weekend. The annual kickoff highlighting movies in the conversation for kudos put the spotlight on 49 films from 16 distributors, streamers and…
EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios is temporarily taking their Mark Wahlberg drama Joe Bell off the calendar in plans for a theatrical release later this year.
The decision, I hear, comes due to the continued depressed state of the domestic box office during the pandemic; this despite this morning’s great news that No. 1…
