When Genndy Tartakovsky was wrapping up the final season of his Emmy-winning series Samarai Jack, he pitched an idea he'd long been playing with to his former boss at Cartoon Network, Mike Lazzo—the man who'd green-lit the Moscow-born, Chicago-based animator's career-setting Dexter's Laboratory, more than 20 years…

It has been a busy time for Alfre Woodard, beginning in January, when Chinonye Chukwu's Clemency debuted at Sundance to critical acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Prize. Although the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning Woodard has had a number of noteworthy performances this year—from a dramatic rendering of the Mueller…

Director John Crowley is no stranger to taking a book from the page to the screen, as he did for his BAFTA-winning film Brooklyn in 2015. But Donna Tartt's 800-page 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner The Goldfinch presented him with a new opportunity. "It's such a brilliantly original study of grief," he told Deadline. "The…

Jessica Lange hasn't been a regular on American Horror Story in four years, but all it took for her to snag her ninth Emmy nomination was just a few minutes on screen over two episodes in Season 8, Apocalypse. For this short but brilliant turn reprising her Season 1 role as Constance Langdon, Lange could potentially…