Pete, widely considered to be one of the preeminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past seven years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering what is seemingly now the year-round Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline's Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the year-round KCET Cinema Series, where he screens a selection of films prior to their theatrical release and interviews filmmakers. He previously held producing positions at Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Access Hollywood, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Martin Short Show and AMC Network and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing.
At one point in the powerful and fascinating new documentary This Changes Everything, executive producer and Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis explains the film’s title. She notes how every strong and hugely successful female oriented project, such as her own Thelma & Louise and the Penny Marshall-directed A League of…
It is a banner time for movies about musicians, both narrative such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman and documentaries like the latest about two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby. But David Crosby: Remember My Name isn’t content just to be your standard music docu. This is a searing, raw, no-holds-barred…
When I walked into the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre for this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, the first thing I saw on the wall were the words “Netflix Lobby.” Those naming rights for the prolific streamer take on double meaning on a day like this because they not only won the lobby, they also got a…
At this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma and 2019 Emmy show producers Don Mischer and Ian Stewart told me no decision has been made about whether to have a host this year. In fact, Mischer tells Deadline they have not even made any offers.
This year’s Oscar show…
The Avengers rule the day as Marvel and Disney’s box office juggernaut Avengers: Endgame picked up 14 Saturn Award nominations, along with another couple for Avengers: Infinity War. Â
Read the full list of nominees here.
It was by far the biggest individual total for a film, followed by Disney’s Aladdin with nine…
In the new movie Stuber, Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) works as an Uber driver in addition to his day job in a sporting goods store. His main mission in life seems to be a quest to get a five-star rating from his passengers, but it doesn’t always work out that way. If the goal of the filmmakers behind this movie are also to…
On top of the 1994 animated masterpiece and then a Tony-winning 1997 musical that’s still running (the third-longest in Broadway history, with no end in sight), the new reinvention of The Lion King as a “live action” movie has a lot to live up to. That’s an understatement, but as a completely faithful remake, Disney…
Crazy Rich Asians proved last summer that there could be a huge international audience for a romantic comedy with an all-Asian cast. Now, with one of that film’s supporting cast members in the lead, writer-director Lulu Wang proves there are rich and universal emotional truths along with knowing laughs to be had from…
We had just one movie grabbing attention over the holiday weekend, Spider-Man: Far From Home. which had Spidey and his high school friends taking on a European summer excursion that turns pretty lethal at points. But there was another opening that I just caught up with a couple of days ago that also is about some…
As we launch into the second half of the 2019 movie calendar today with Spider-Man: Far From Home and upscale horror entry Midsommar, we now inch closer to actually coming up with some legitimate Oscar contenders in this year’s Best Picture race. Not that either one of those movies has a prayer for that, or pretty…
After the success of CNN’s continuing miniseries chronicling the decades — beginning with The Sixties in 2014 — all the way up to The 2000s last year, it seemed natural to do a follow-up on the movies of those years. And thus we have the new six-part limited series, The Movies. Each weekly installment is two hours and…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 842 new members in their annual effort to bring in new blood to the organization that hands out the Oscars. This is down from the 928 members invited last year, but 50% of this year’s number are women, inching closer to the goal of creating an even playing…
