Netflix explored complex relationships and gave a nod to the 1970s at Deadline’s Contenders New York on Saturday with a look at The Two Popes, Marriage Story and Dolomite is My Name. Actor Jonathan Pryce said he so resembles Pope Francis, "That the day he was named Pope, the Internet was full of images of Pope…

Warner Bros. brought the unjustly accused, wrongly convicted and left-behind to Deadline’s Contenders New York on Saturday with close-up looks at Joker, Richard Jewell and Just Mercy. Todd Phillips, Joker co-writer, director and producer, said star Joaquin Phoenix lost an astonishing 52 pounds in three months for the…

Lionsgate brought the disturbing and the funny to Deadline’s Contenders today with a look at Bombshell and Knives Out. Producer Margaret Riley said the Bombshell script blew her away. "As a woman who has come up in Hollywood, I realized there had never been a movie about sexual harassment." "We have all had to deal…

Amazon Studios brought three striking iterations of true grit to Deadline’s Contenders New York with a look at The Aeronauts, The Report and Honey Boy that kicked off Saturday’s event. Tom Harper, director and producer of The Aeronauts, said the set was kept below freezing and actors plunged their hands in ice water…

TV shows from the U.K., Brazil, India, the Netherlands, Turkey and Colombia scored International Emmy Awards at a gala Monday that was sort of like the Primetime Emmys but not televised and with a really nice cheese course. The Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton was packed as host, Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show…

In the ongoing standoff between the WGA and talent agencies, writers are being sourced for projects through other writers and online, according to producers speaking at the Produced By: New York conference Saturday in New York. They said it's slower this way, but it's going. If we have a project, "We ask other writers…

Emmy Award-winning Pose actor Billy Porter said when he tried to break into Hollywood in the 1980s, the industry was only looking for three types of African American actors — "James Earl Jones, the patriarch. Denzel Washington, the sex symbol, or genius clown, Eddie Murphy." Porter was none of the above, he told the…

Billy Porter has confirmed he’ll be joining Sony's upcoming adaptation of Cinderella. In a Q&A Saturday evening at the New Yorker Festival, Porter told attendees he’ll play the Fairy Godmother opposite Camila Cabello, who’s set to star as the glass slipper-wearing lead character. As Deadline reported earlier this…

Francis Ford Coppola wished his old frenemy Robert Evans could have made the trip to a screening of The Cotton Club Encore, the new version of the 1984 film that Coppola spent half a million dollars of his own money to re-edit, expand and re-release. Coppola directed and Evans produced the original film about the…

Ninja zombies? Exec producers of The Walking Dead released one detail, one word only, about the highly anticipated  movie spin-offs of the long-running franchise — it’s "ninjas.” At a raucous panel with an estimated 5,000 fans at New York Comic Con, one devotee asked Scott Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking D…

There will be an 11th season of The Walking Dead, showrunner Angela Kang confirmed at New York Comic Con on Saturday morning. Lauren Cohan also made a surprise appearance to announce that her character, Maggie Greene, is returning to the show. After lengthy negotiations, Cohan has signed on to rejoin TWD as a series…

Ronan Farrow took a swipe at the controversial last season of HBO's Game of Thrones as he hosted the Peabody Awards, an annual celebration of electronic media's deep dives into weighty topics from race and gender inequality, to mental illness, plastic pollution and ISIS. "Why did Daenerys go so crazy?" Farrow griped…