Joe oversees Deadline’s print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, as well as its special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival. He has been with Deadline since 2012 and serves as emcee for Deadline’s The Contenders events. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK, for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and serving as a unit publicist. He is a member of BAFTA and has sat on multiple juries for the BAFTA Film Awards.
The second season of Succession ends with a bang for Jeremy Strong's Kendall Roy, the troubled second son of a Murdoch-inspired media dynasty built by his imposing father, Logan, played by Brian Cox. Kendall has been selected by his father to become the family's sacrificial lamb, as a crisis threatens to engulf the…
When it first premiered in 2016, Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown was an instant smash. Aiming to tell the epic story of Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking spell as Britain's longest-serving monarch, starting with her marriage in 1947 and seeing her reign through to the earliest 20th Century, it caught the…
Gillian Anderson is taking lockdown in her stride. "I'm an isolator," she tells me over a Zoom video from her home in London. "So, it suits me just fine. I'm not quite ready to be released into the big, bad world."
It might seem an odd admission for an actress who has loomed so large in the public consciousness for…
While promoting his Oscar-nominated work on 2018's The Favourite, writer Tony McNamara expressed a dissatisfaction with period drama. Industry insiders were surprised, then, when his follow-up project turned out to be Hulu's The Great, a darkly comic satire charting the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the…
"One summer can change everything," teased the ad for Season 3 of Stranger Things, and it certainly did. The year was now 1985, the Hawkins, Indiana, crew were on the cusp of adulthood, and the newly opened Starcourt Mall was the talk of the town. But danger wasn't far away, and fears remained that the seal on the…
When stunt performer David Holmes, who had doubled for Daniel Radcliffe on all eight of the Harry Potter movies, was seriously injured rehearsing a flying scene for the final chapter in 2009, his career as a stuntman came to a sudden end. Holmes broke his neck performing a jerk back stunt and was paralyzed from the…
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences …
UPDATED, 11:06 AM: A veteran member of the International Olympic Committee told USA Today this morning that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed, likely to 2021. Dick Pound told the paper that the details to be worked out during the next month.
"On the basis of the information the IOC has…
The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), which represents European cinema owners in 38 countries, today called on the industry to to avoid “short-term financial gains at the expense of the sector as a whole,” as it urged studios to avoid releasing titles online after movie theaters were shut as the coronavirus…
Standard definition has become the streaming default for YouTube users in Europe, a day after Netflix announced that it too would be trimming bitrates. The moves are a response to EU Commissioner Thierry Breton’s request Thursday that streaming platforms be mindful of the additional bandwidth demands as Europe faces…
UPDATED with Netflix news: Netflix will limit the streaming quality of its content for the next 30 days for users in Europe to relax the strain on communications networks as increasing numbers rely on internet connections in coronavirus lockdown.
“We estimate that this will reduce Netflix traffic on European networks…
A day after London’s COVID-19-canceled BFI Flare festival dedicated to LGBTIQ+ cinema was due to begin, organizers have outlined a plan for a digital edition, dubbed BFI Flare at Home, to run through the British Film Institute’s BFI Player application. Festivalgoers will be invited to screen a number of BFI Flare’s…
