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.
With just two feature films to his credit as a director, Robert Eggers proves himself to be a master of mood, atmosphere and psychological horror. First came 2015’s acclaimed 17th century-set gothic tale The Witch, and now get ready for The Lighthouse, yet another brooding period thriller unlike anything anyone else…
Angelina Jolie and her cheekbones steal the day in Disney’s inevitable sequel to its 2014 monster hit, Maleficent.
This one basically picks up where the first one left off. You might recall that Maleficent (Jolie), the evil, winged sorceress who acts as faerie godmother to Aurora (Elle Fanning), aka Sleeping Beauty…
Twenty studios and distributors presenting a record 38 films from their 2019 awards slate will gather for Deadline’s daylong The Contenders Los Angeles event on Saturday, November 2 at the newly refurbished DGA Theater. Invitations to the must-stop on the awards circuit went out today. Members of the Academy of Motion…
Charlie Chaplin did it in The Great Dictator. Mel Brooks and Jack Benny did in their respective versions of To Be or Not to Be. Brooks also wrote and directed the most hilarious send-up of all with his “Springtime for Hitler” production number in The Producers. And Hogan’s Heroes even did it for six seasons in the…
Bombshell lives up to its title, and then some, and the explosive story of the scandal in which a group of women brought down Fox News founder and ruler Roger Ailes entered the Oscar race in a big way Sunday.
Stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph…
Farm animals, the historic moon landing and World War I veterans back to vivid life top the nominations for the fourth annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.
The Biggest Little Farmleads this year with seven nominations, including Best Documentary Feature, John Chester for Best Director and noms for Best…
If it seems The Addams Family always has been a part of our family, it is because they have for more than 80 years, since Charles Addams introduced the gothicly amusing clan in a series of New Yorker cartoons beginning in 1938. They’ve never gone far from the pop culture, whether as a hit 1960s ABC sitcom, a couple of…
There is a reason Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite became the first Korean film to win the top prize, the Palme d’Or, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It not only is simply great and inspired, it also happens to be socially conscious filmmaking of the highest order.
It doesn’t really come as a surprise, though, since South…
Renee Zellweger, winning high critical and audience praise for her role as Judy Garland in the final months of the singer’s life in Judy, has been selected to receive the American Riviera Award from the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which takes place in January. The award tribute will take place at the Arlington…
With a record $96 million at the domestic boxoffice and $248 million worldwide, Warner Bros. Joker clearly triumphed in theaters this weekend, but how did it do with Oscar voters? In the kind of early-October release slot the studio has used successfully to launch such boxoffice and awards magnets as A Star Is Born, A…
It is old Will Smith vs. young Will Smith in Gemini Man, a globe-trotting action thriller that uses technological razzle dazzle to hide the fact that it is really just a routine clone of the Jason Bourne movies and all their imitators.
That makes sense since it has been in development for two decades, with a number of…
Let’s call Noah Hawley’s feature directorial debut, Lucy in the Sky, something of a space oddity, even if it supposedly is inspired by true events. That is because it is partially based on NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, but the names have been changed and there is no diaper reference to be found.
Nowak was arrested in…
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