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.
Brittany Runs a Marathon — one of the big hits at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which got a top price from Amazon Studios for its distribution — proves to be a real crowd pleaser as well as a certain star-making performance for Jillian Bell in the title role.
Paul Downs Colaizzo makes his feature…
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Final voting for this year’s Emmy Awards — which start with Creative Emmy ceremonies on September 14 and 15, followed by Fox’s Primetime Emmy broadcast on September 22 — has been going in earnest since Thursday and will continue until 10 p.m. PT…
Fox Searchlight, home to smart adult specialty films and Best Picture Oscar winners, takes a complete left turn into genre with the often very funny, often very bloody new horror film Ready Or Not. I am not sure if Searchlight’s regular art house audience will be ready or not, but fans of this kind of thing are in for…
Monday night at the Zanuck Theatre on the Fox lot, Fosse/Verdon stars Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams shared stories of the making of their brilliant eight-part limited series which has been nominated for a whopping 17 Emmy Awards – and deservedly so – including Lead Actor for Rockwell and Lead Actress for Williams…
Take a major 2012 best seller, add in a top director, and then get a two-time Oscar-winning actress to star. Sound like the recipe for a surefire awards contender, or at the very least a must-see movie? You bet, but Where’d You Go, Bernadette doesn’t quite measure up to those expectations, despite a game performance…
I have to confess I was not a fan of 2016’s The Angry Birds Movie. Not that I expected to be, since I clearly wasn’t the audience and had no clue of the popularity of the original game that spawned the craze in the first place. The movie just seemed too disconnected and frenetic, with little attention to anything…
“Will I be seeing you in Telluride?” I asked new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president David Rubin as he celebrates his first full week on the job today, after presiding over the graduation of the third class of Academy Gold Star interns as his first official duty over the weekend. At Telluride, the…
Good Boys may be about a trio of 12-year-olds, but with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on board as two of the producers, you can bet this movie isn’t exactly for 12 year olds. In fact the filthy language coming out of their young mouths is more Goodfellas than what we hear from “good” boys and easily earns it a…
Writer-directors Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson were visiting a camp for disabled actors when they came upon Zack Gottsagen, a unique young man with Down syndrome who was determined to be an actor no matter what life has thrown in his way. Schwartz and Nilson left with the idea that they would write a movie in…
If you are going to remake an Oscar-nominated film from a world-class, Oscar-winning director like Susanne Bier, you might as go all in and really remake it. That is what writer-director Bart Freundlich has done with After the Wedding, pulling off a compelling gender switch from the Danish original and casting two…
David Rubin, a veteran casting director and Academy board governor, has been elected the next president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after a vote Tuesday evening. He will take over for current president John Bailey, who is terming out after two years in the top position.
AMPAS presidents can be…
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