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Apparently it is the season to celebrate the iconic marriage and professional relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed a penetrating, funny, revealing, and ultimately moving film, Being The Ricardos which covers a lot of ground in the Lucy/Desi world using dramatic license to place…

In addition to this morning’s SAG lead actor nominations for Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos and supporting actor nom for Ben Affleck in George Clooney’s The Tender Bar, Amazon was also over the moon about the viewership results for both films, claiming that they were the highest debuts of any…

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. I Love Lucy was just about the most famous show in the history of television, but the dramatic behind-the-scenes story stayed off screen, until now. Amazon Studios’ Being…

EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Suicide Squad) is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford. Two Butterflies follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Riz Ahmed was in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but his latest movie, Amazon Studios’ Encounter, isn't that kind of sci-fi movie. Encounter is about an alien invasion…

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has opted not to order a second season of I Know What You Did Last Summer, a modern take on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan and the 1997 film adaptation. The YA horror series, produced by Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures TV, debuted Oct. 15 to mixed reviews with the first four episodes, followed…

As he looked to refine Being the Ricardos‘ final moments, Aaron Sorkin received a note to which he was adamantly opposed, which turned out to be “incredibly important” for the film. The note imparted to the writer-director by editor Alan Baumgarten and producer Todd Black concerned a postscript detailing the…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) admits that after he agreed to adapt author J.R. Moehringer's memoir into the feature film The Tender Bar a…

Nicole Kidman, who is starring as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, feels Lucy and her husband Desi Arnaz were not only predestined to be together romantically and as a couple, but also to work together in perhaps the most famous sitcom of all time. In a conversation with her co-star Javier Bardem…

EXCLUSIVE: The feature adaptation of Melissa Hill’s novel Something From Tiffany’s, which is already shooting in New York City, has added four to the Amazon Original and Hello Sunshine movie: Kendrick Sampson, Ray Nicholson, Shay Mitchell, and Leah Jeffries. As Deadline first reported, Zoey Deutch is starring and…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian, actor and host Hasan Minhaj today announced the launch of his production company, 186K Films, as well as For the Culture, a new film he’s set to produce and star in for Amazon Studios, which he’s scripting with long-time collaborator Prashanth Venkataramanujam. Minhaj founded 186K Films with…

Pete Buttigieg's profile is rising within the Biden administration, thanks in part to passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.  As secretary of transportation, Buttigieg will play a key role overseeing how that money is spent. But that's not the only reason Buttigieg's being talked about lately. There's also…