Dino-Ray joined Deadline in 2017 and writes about inclusion and diversity issues in the industry, genre film & TV, as well as pop culture and media. Based in Los Angeles, he also covers events and awards shows such as the Oscars, Emmys, Comic-Con and the TCA press tour. Additionally, he co-hosts the New Hollywood Podcast with Deadline's Amanda N'Duka, which champions people of color, women, members of the LGBTQ community and other underrepresented voices in film and television. A Texas native, Dino-Ray worked as film and TV reporter for the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle before moving to Los Angeles. Prior to Deadline, he was chief film critic at the Tracking Board and has written for Vogue, Entertainment Tonight, Bustle, Paste Magazine, Queerty and NBC Asian America.
It goes without saying that when performer lands the role of a cultural icon, there is a certain amount of pressure. Oscar-nominated actress Andra Day immediately felt it, when she found out she was going to play the legendary Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday. "It was all fear for…
Based on Jiu Yuexi's book In His Youth, In Her Beauty, the Oscar-nominated Better Days follows Nian (Zhou Dongyu), who is faced with constant bullying from her peers at school. She eventually crosses paths with small-time criminal Bei (Jackson Yee), but before they can retreat into a world of their own they are thrown…
EXCLUSIVE: From Quantico to Wu Assassins, actress Li Jun Li has played a variety of roles — but she’s just getting started. Li has joined the forthcoming season of the Sky Italia series Devils in a series regular role. This is in addition to her role in Damien Chazelle’s Babylonat Paramount where she will star…
On Thursday night, actress, musician and advocate Demi Lovato introduced a heartwarming tribute to the late, great Gleeactress Naya Rivera. Lovato was a friend to Rivera’s Santana and also played her girlfriend on the Fox musical series.
The tribute honored the 10-year anniversary of Santana's coming out as lesbian…
GLAAD ruled Thursday night with a virtual ceremony for the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards which honors media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues. The ceremony premiered on YouTube on Thursday night, but if you missed out, it will be available to stream on Hulu starting at 10pm ET…
Crazy Rich Asians queen Gemma Chan, A-Major and M88 are partnering with podcast media studio QCODE for a table-read of Hold Still, Vincent which is based on the tragic, true events of Vincent Chin's murder.
Written by Johnny Ngo, directed by twin brothers Aaron and Winston Tao and produced by Bash Naran, the team is…
The CW’s reboot of Kung Fudelivered a strong debut on April 7, scoring The CW's highest total viewership number for a Wednesday debut in 7 years since The 100 debuted on March 19, 2014.
The reboot debuted to the tune of 1.4 million total viewers and a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographic.
In addition, Kung Fu delivered The…
EXCLUSIVE: Remember when people saw podcasts as “novel”? Now, they have grown into a form of entertainment that is on the level of film and TV. That said, there are feature-length podcasts and Lee Shorten (The Terror, The Man in the High Castle) is starring in one. He has joined the cast of Shipworm, the first…
EXCLUSIVE: Minariactress and Independent Spirit Award nominee Yeri Han has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment for U.S. representation.
Han is a Korean actress, singer, and dancer who made her stateside film debut as Monica in the aforementioned Lee Isaac Chung-directed Minari which is up for six Oscars. In addition…
Easterseals Southern California has teamed once again with IMDbPro for the latest phase of their ongoing work to support and create visibility and opportunities for entertainment professionals in the disability community.
This marks the second consecutive year IMDbPro is sponsoring the Easterseals Disability Film…
Writer Mike Gauyo (Ginny & Georgia, Insecure) is moving the needle when it comes to inclusivity in the writers room. Under his Black Boy Writes banner, Gauyo has launched a new mentorship initiative that focuses on providing support and resources to preWGA Black writers.
The initiative was launched in partnership with…
EXCLUSIVE: The inclusive coalition of industry professionals known as ReFrame has selected former director of Canada's Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Andria Wilson Mirza as its new Director.
In addition, the organization has created the new ReFrame Council, which includes the initiative's founding members, WIF…
