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.
Waiting for the Barbarians is truth in advertising because this new film is so painfully paced it feels like an eternity while we are waiting for said Barbarians. Or actually anything to happen.
Fortunately, this movie has a very accomplished and watchable cast, particularly with the main lead, Oscar winner Mark…
The Television Academy lived up to its promise to spread the presentation of the (Virtual) Creative Arts Emmys over several nights in September, and today it announced just how it will be done.
The 2020 Creative Arts Emmys will be spread across the entire week beginning September 14 and continuing for five nights, all…
The new family dramedy Made In Italy seems made to order for stars Liam Neeson and his own real-life son Micheál Richardson. But in fact this feature debut from writer-director James D’Arcy has actually been in development for a decade and survived several different scenarios before finally landing the father-son…
In 2018, Rachel Brosnahan came roaring out of the gate to win the Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the show itself made some history of its own winning eight Emmys overall. Brosnahan was nominated again for the second season, and now finds herself in a strong position to…
Fish-out-of-water stories are usually a surefire thing for successful comedies, and in the case of An American Pickle, we have an extreme fish-out-of-water tale. Seth Rogen, in one of his most appealing — and cleanest — roles, takes on the task of starring opposite himself in this amusing, even at times poignant…
Following in the footsteps of Cannes, which was forced to cancel its famous film festival in May but still went on to reveal what its schedule would have been anyway, the Telluride Film Festival on Monday released its own lineup. The films would have been presented over Labor Day weekend September 3-7, but the fest…
The Academy has chosen its film scholars this year and is not letting the coronavirus pandemic get in the way of one of AMPAS’ most important programs, at least in terms of serious studies relating to the film industry. Fittingly, considering Oscar’s drive toward greater diversity, both projects involve issues…
On the surface, making a major motion picture entertainment out of a self-help book would seem not to be an easy task. Woody Allen did it with a sex manual in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, but then he’s Woody Allen.
Taking on author Rhonda Byrne’s 2006 book The Secret would…
The disastrous wildfire that virtually destroyed the picturesque Northern California town of Paradise in November 2018 is an ongoing tragedy beyond human imagination. With 85 dead, 50,000 people displaced and 95% of the town’s structures completely burned down, it became the worst U.S. fire in at least a hundred…
A letter sent Wednesday to newly minted Emmy nominees and/or their PR reps inadvertently provides some of the details for the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted and -produced Primetime Emmy Awards show that ABC will broadcast September 20. The opening line confirms, as the letter indicates, what we already knew: The Emmys are…
Casting director David Rubin has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s board of governors. This will be the second one-year term for Rubin, who earlier in the day was nominated for an Emmy for his casting work on Big Little Lies.
The board also elected to…
With nominations now out for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards, we give our take on what it all means as the race for TV gold enters its final phase in the most competitive and certainly challenging season ever.
Who are now the frontrunners to win? What are our opinions of the most surprising snubs and inclusions? Did the…
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