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EXCLUSIVE: Love Life Season 2 is shifting its focus from Anna Kendrick’s Darby Carter to William Jackson Harper’s Marcus Watkins, and Deadline can exclusively reveal the moment their lives intertwine. And that moment requires the show to welcome back one of Darby’s least favorite exes: Magnus Lund (Nick Thune). In an…

EXCLUSIVE: Trolls alums Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Kenan Thompson and Rachel Bloom are among the A-list voice cast who will reunite for Trolls Holiday In Harmony, a new half-hour animated musical special from the DreamWorks Animation franchise set on NBC. Fellow Trolls alums Ron Funches, Kunal Nayyar, Anderson…

Many a metaphor was floated on Tuesday morning as Tom Hanks, Anna Kendrick and others gathered to celebrate the long-awaited September 30 opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. To architect Renzo Piano, the museum is not the “Death Star” of Star Wars lore, but a “soap bubble” or “a dirigible”—”a flying…

HBO Max will debut the first three episodes of season 2 of Love Life on Thurs. Oct. 28 with the focus shifting to a new singleton, Marcus Watkins (Emmy Award nominee, William Jackson Harper), who has just exited a years-long relationship with the woman he thought was going to be his person. After the rug is pulled out…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick is reteaming with Lionsgate for the psychological thriller Alice, Darling, which is now in production in Canada. Kendrick previously starred for Lionsgate in the Paul Feig dark comedy hit A Simple Favor which grossed close to $100M WW. The pic reps the feature directorial debut…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired a package built around Ian MacAllister McDonald’s Black List script Rodney & Sheryl. Anna Kendrick comes attached to star and Chloe Okuno to direct a drama based on the true story of the time that a serial killer competed on and won a date on the popular TV game show The Dating Game…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

Director Joe Penna apparently likes barren open spaces. The Brazilian filmmaker made a fine first film, Arctic, taking place on that frigid corner of the earth, and now he has switched to outer space as three team crew members, and unknowingly a fourth, head out on a mission to a colony on Mars but find big trouble…

For some, finding out that the person you’re dating has a sex doll might be a deal-breaker. Not for Dummy creator and executive producer Cody Heller, who turned that experience into the Quibi comedy series. Star and executive producer Anna Kendrick plays a fictionalized version of Cody, who strikes an unlikely…

HBO Max has handed out its first renewal, ordering a second season of Love Life, its popular romantic comedy anthology series, starring and executive produced by Anna Kendrick, from Lionsgate Television. Season two will remain set in New York City but will focus on a new character's journey – one which explores what…

HBO Max is accelerating the release of the remaining episodes of Anna Kendrick’s Love Life romantic comedy anthology series, from Lionsgate TV and Paul Feig's Feigco Entertainment. Episodes 4, 5 and 6 will be available next Thursday, June 4 on the WarnerMedia streaming service. The final episodes will be added on…

Perhaps more than recent past Memorial Day weekends, this year will be a more solemn occasion as a gradually reopening America continues to faces the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. In what has traditionally been the kickoff to summer as well honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country, this…