After one-off stints on cop shows from ‘Police Woman’ to ‘Hawaii Five-O,’ the actor began to create indelible characters in films that include ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘American Me (which he directed)’ and his Oscar-nominated turn in ‘Stand and Deliver.’ Here he talks about his early influences in the latest installment of Deadline’s video series.
Range Media Partners has made two new hires in motion picture literature and a promotion in business affairs and TV lit. Payne Cowley joins Range as a manager in the literary department under co-founder Rich Cook and Caroline Marques, has been named executive and producer in motion picture lit at the firm. Michael Kaga…
EXCLUSIVE: Small Engine Repair, the indie adaptation of John Pollono’s play, finally gets its big screen moment as it tries to find theatrical distribution the only way it is done in Los Angeles these days — at the drive-in. Written and directed by Pollono a decade after it became an underground stage hit in LA, the…
In January, AT&T announced that DirecTV’s Audience Network was shutting down, transforming itself into an HBO Max Preview Channel. While not surprising, the move threw in limbo three original series on the channel: comedyLoudermilk and dramas Condor and Mr. Mercedes.Â
While David E. Kelley’s Mr. Mercedes had just…
EXCLUSIVE: Jamie-Lynn Sigler is set as a series regular opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley and Michael Ealy in Triage,ABC's second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.
Created by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley…
EXCLUSIVE: As his superb Showtime documentary Belushi premieres next month and with Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry upcoming from Apple TV+, R.J. Cutler has launched the production company This Machine, with an investment from Industrial Media. Cutler sealed the deal with Industrial Media's CEO Eli Holzman…
UPDATED with Biden campaign statement:Donald Trump and Joe Biden are scheduled to meet again on Thursday for the second and presumably final presidential debate, and Trump’s campaign has again weighed in with complaints about the format.
Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, wrote in a letter to the Commission on Pr…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that new guidelines on theme parks and team sports events are coming tomorrow.
"We are going to break up the theme parks," the governor said in his COVID-19 and wildfires update this afternoon. "Not just one or two brands, it is many different parts of the theme park…
HBO Max has slotted Thursday, November 26 for the premiere of The Flight Attendant, starring and produced by Kaley Cuoco. The streaming service also unveiled the key art, featuring Cuoco, with the tagline “A Deadly Mystery With A Turbulent Descent”. You can see it below the story.
The Flight Attendant is among shows…
ICM Partners has tapped Julia Johnson as its new General Counsel and EVP, Head of Business and Legal Affairs. Johnson, who moves to ICM Partners from APA, replaces longtime ICM Partners General Counsel Rick Levy, who announced earlier this year he would be leaving the agency at the end of 2020. Johnson is expected to…
Ace Entertainment’s Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between has rounded out its cast adding Ayo Edebiri, Nico Hiraga, Jennifer Robertson, Patrick Sabongui, Eva Day, Julia Benson, Dalias Blake, Sarah Grey and Djouliet Amara to the ensemble. They join Jordan Fisher and Talia Ryder, who are set to star.
To All The Boys…
Two of the most engaging and beguiling talkers—and, oh yes, two of the better writers—of the last century share the spotlight in Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation. Good friends in real life—both were from the South and gay, had difficult upbringings, made it big with early works that were made into popular…
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins took to social media to share a hauntingly beautiful look at his upcoming Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad based on based on Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for fiction.
Jenkins posted the video on Twitter with the caption “We the People…” The…
