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Hulu has set a stellar recurring cast for The Dropout, its upcoming limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. William H. Macy, Laurie Metcalf, Elizabeth Marvel, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kate Burton, Stephen Fry, Michel Gill, Michael Ironside, Bill Irwin and Josh Pais join Amanda Sey…

In a weird way, Netflix’s new thriller of the week, Things Heard & Seen wants to be a genre supernatural haunted-house story, a drama of a marriage in crisis and a psycho thriller all in one. It is like Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage meets The Conjuring meets Sleeping with the Enemy. Fortunately…

EXCLUSIVE:  Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired global rights to Maven Screen Media's A Mouthful of Air based on Amy Koppelman’s novel of the same name. Koppelman also wrote and directed the movie, which Deadline first reported, starring Mank Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried, American Horror Story‘s Finn…

Animal welfare organization Best Friends Animal Society will host a three-hour benefit concert streaming on May 6, 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.   Artists Emmylou Harris and Pryor & Lee are among the music performers, with celebrities Amanda Seyfried, Alison Pill, Brittany Snow, Holly Taylor, Kat Dennings, Tricia Helfer…

Anyone preparing to work with David Fincher knows the legendarily fastidious director doesn't do anything by halves, and those who signed up for his 10-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood homage Mank were not disappointed by his attention to detail. Filmed in luminous black and white and starring Gary Oldman, the film…

As I began my conversation with Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, she was a bit taken aback and told me this was the first time anyone had ever introduced her as an Oscar-nominated actress. But that is indeed what she is…

A sterling final lineup of talent, filmmakers and stars will be participating in Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees virtual event on Saturday. Among nominated actors appearing are Leslie Odom Jr., Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Carey Mulligan, Andra Day, Amanda Seyfried, BAFTA nominee…

Lost alum Naveen Andrews is set as a lead opposite Amanda Seyfried in Hulu's limited drama series The Dropout, based on ABC News/ABC Radio's podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. Andrews will play Sunny Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes’ business partner and secret boyfriend throughout…

Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried is set to star as Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout. She replaces Kate McKinnon who in February exited the limited drama series based on ABC News/ABC Radio's podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. Seyfried will also serve as a producer on the…

UPDATED with latest: Oscar-nominated directors Chloé Zhao, David Fincher, Lee Isaac Chung and Thomas Vinterberg are the recipients of this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Director of the Year Award. They will be honored during a ceremony April 6 at the festival, which this year runs March 31-April 10. Earlier this…

Mank‘s Amanda Seyfried had three words to describe receiving her first Golden Globe Nomination on Wednesday: “so f*cking awesome.” The Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables actress will compete alongside fellow nominees Glenn Close, Olivia Colman, Jodie Foster and Helena Zengel for the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama…

With Mank, director David Fincher realized a long-held dream to shoot a screenplay by his father Jack Fincher, who died in 2003. It’s story set in the Hollywood's Golden Age and against the making of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, a movie many consider still the greatest ever made. But as members of the…