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I suppose it’s not fair to compare CGI animated movies about a boy — or girl — and their dragon, but if I must, let me just say this right off the top: I really prefer DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon and both of its sequels to the latest entry from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Raya and the Last Dragon. It had…

FINAL UPDATE, 10:35 AM: The HFPA, dick clark productions and NBC have revealed their final group of presenters for tonight’s 78th annual Golden Globes Awards: Ava DuVernay, Colin Farrell, Gal Gadot, Tracy Morgan, Sandra Oh, Sarah Paulson, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux. Watch a new promo below. They…

OK, here is the breaking good news about Breaking News in Yuba County: With star Allison Janney as a kind of female “Mr. Cellophane” looking for her 15 minutes of fame, this superb actor is at the top of her game, creating a thoroughly three-dimensional tragicomic figure out of thin material. Now, here is the breaking…

Golden Globe winner Awkwafina has joined the cast of Swan Song, an upcoming Apple Original film starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG nominee Naomie Harris. Benjamin Cleary, also an Oscar winner for his short film Stutterer, wrote the screenplay and is directing the pic…

Awkwafina and Sandra Oh are teaming for a yet-to-be-titled sister comedy feature film for Netflix. The script is by Jen D'Angelo, the screenwriter behind the forthcoming Hocus Pocus sequel for Disney+. The film centers on a lonely recluse whose life is upended when her train wreck of a sister vows to mend their…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired Shelly, an action-comedy package that has Jumanji: The Next Level's Awkwafina and Karen Gillan attached to reteam, and Jude Weng to direct. The action comedy script is by Michael Doneger and Liz Storm and the film will be produced by Ian Bryce Productions. Deadline wrote about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Even though production hasn’t started back up, packages are being gobbled up quickly, and here’s one that ought to sell fast. Jumanji: The Next Level‘s Awkwafina and Karen Gillan are attached to reteam in Shelly, an action-comedy script by Michael Doneger and Liz Storm that is out to the town today through…

Dwayne Johnson, Awkwafina, director Bong Joon Ho, Hadestown actress Eva Noblezada, and Deadline associate editor Dino-Ray Ramos are on this year’s list 100 most esteemed and impactful Asians in entertainment and media, fashion and lifestyle, technology, business, and social activism, as chosen by The Asian American and…

SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details from tonight’s season finale of Awkwafina is Nora From Queens.  In the penultimate episode of season one for Nora From Queens we saw Nora (Awkwafina, whose real name is Nora Lum) and her eye-rolling Silicon Valley cousin Edmund (Bowen Yang) released their new app Scrubr…

Awkwafina is set to star in SK Global upcoming feature The Baccarat Machine (working title) inspired by the true story of the most successful female gambler in modern history, Cheung Yin "Kelly" Sun, and her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey. This is Awkwafina’s second project with SK Global…

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, which already has landed an early second season renewal, has scored for Comedy Central. The premiere episode drew a .31 rating among Adults 18-49 and 489,000 total viewers for its January 22 debut, the network’s highest-rated season one premiere since 2017. Among Women 18-49, the…

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens can easily be a spiritual sequel or a spinoff of Comedy Central’s wildly popular series Broad City. Although the show from the newly minted Golden Globe winner lives in the same universe as Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s trend-setting BFF comedy of female empowerment, Nora From Queens…