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. The streaming site joins those for Deadline’s Contenders International and Contenders Documentary, with the trio marking the official kickoff to awards season.
Sekou Smith, who covered pro basketball for more than 20 including the past decade-plus at NBA TV, died today of Covid-19. He was 48.
Sekou was a popular presence on the Turner Sports-managed NBA TV, serving as a television analyst and writer. He also host of the podcast NBA Hang Time, which has run three times a week…
When it came to mounting the NBC half hour series Young Rock, getting it real, and getting it right, warts and all, was key for Dwayne Johnson and the actors portraying the younger version of the wrestler-action star and his family.Young Rock focuses on different chapters of Johnson's life. From growing up in a…
The Netflix documentary Disclosure is chock full of the history of cinema from a very specific point of view, and that is in how we view the whole trans community and all the images we've ingested from decades and decades of movies and television that may have influenced the way we think, or don't think. As times are…
Tyler Perry received both doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and hopes to help reluctant skeptics form their own opinion about the vaccination.
The multi-hyphenate spoke with CBS This Morning on Tuesday and shared the details for his upcoming BET special, Covid-19 Vaccine and the Black Community A Tyler Perry Special…
EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, director Baz Luhrmann has tapped up-and-comer Alton Mason to play legendary musician Little Richard in Warner Bros’ Elvis.Â
Sources tell Deadline that even as the film got back into production following suspension due to Covid-19, Luhrmann wanted to make sure he took his time in…
Mixed-ish Star Mykal-Michelle Harris has signed with Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.
Harris appears in the ABC sitcom as Santamonica Johnson opposite Tika Sumpter, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Arica Himmel. The actress’ additional credits include Big Little Lies and The Affair. She also appeared in Mariah Carey’s Magic…
EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man franchise’s Tony Revolori is in negotiations for a lead role opposite Ellie Bamber, Cailee Spaeny 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. The new…
Kenan Thompson will be racking up the air miles as he travels between his new NBC sitcom Kenan and Saturday Night Live.
The comedian and co-star Chris Redd will be going back and forth from Los Angeles and New York to film both shows.
During a virtual press conference, he told Deadline that he's only down in once for…
Tian Richards (Dumplin’) has been tapped for the role of Tom Swift in an upcoming episode of the CW dramaNancy Drew, which will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff series, now in development at the network.
If Tom Swift goes to series, Richards will continue in the title role.
In the planted-spinoff…
On Tuesday, Johns Hopkins University revealed that Covid-19 had infected more than 100 million people globally. That milestone comes a little over one year since the first case was confirmed in the United States. The U.S. now accounts for over one-quarter of those 100 million cases, even though it has only 4% of the…
Jen Landon (Yellowstone, Animal Kingdom) is set for a recurring role opposite Yaya Gosselin on the second season of CBS’ drama seriesFBI: Most Wanted.
Landon will play Sarah Allen, Tali’s (Gosselin) riding instructor.
The FBI spinoff, from Universal Television and Wolf Entertainment, stars Julian McMahon, Kellan…
