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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…

Just a day after the Oscar snub for her Golden Globe winning performance in Lulu Wang’s critically acclaimed film The Farewell, Awkwafina couldn’t escape the topic even though she was at TCA to discuss the new Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. Awkwafina said that after the Academy Award nominations…

Similar to last year, the 92nd Academy Awards will be going hostless on February 9, but this morning's Oscar nominations certainly had their share of unexpected disclosure for Hollywood's biggest night. Revealed by Issa Rae and John Cho in the pre-dawn hours out here on the West Coast, the contenders for the Golden…

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returns from its holiday hiatus tonight, and the host is wasting no time catching up. “We’re happy to be back — really excited to be here,” Colbert said in opening his first monologue of the 2020s. “Now there have recently been momentous, world-shaking events, and let’s get right to…

Awkwafina, Kaitlyn Dever, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Micheal Ward and Jack Lowden have been nominated for the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star award. Awkwafina, a Golden Globe winner on Sunday night, was nominated for The Farewell; Dever for Booksmart (the U.S. actress was also Golden Globe-nominated for Netflix series Unbelievable);…

The surprises started early at the 77th Golden Globes when Ramy Youssef from his Hulu series Ramy was the upset winner of night’s first award, best television actor in a comedy/musical, but most of the shocks were saved for the show’s third hour, when Taron Egerton and Awkwafina won top acting awards in categories…

When Lulu Wang's The Farewell debuted at Sundance, it immediately became the talk of Hollywood. The dramedy based on Wang's own story about her family keeping her grandmother's cancer diagnosis a secret goes beyond family issues. It's also an immigration story that explores cultural identity through Awkwafina's…