George Clooney’s seventh film as a director, The Midnight Sky, landed on my Top 10 list for 2020, actually in the Top 5 for that matter, and there is a reason for that. It not only is an enormously challenging film to shoot — half taking place in an outer-space setting, and the other half in the worst weather…
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Russo and Anthony Russo helped me launch the new season of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens, as we give you the first-ever look at their new epic movie, Cherry and cover the waterfront on a number of different topics including the very future of movies themselves.
Coming off a spectacular run…
The celebrated director Mimi Leder, veteran of so many television and movie successes joins me today for this episode of my Deadline video series Behind The Lens. We really cover the waterfront of her remarkable career starting with her personal revelation that George Clooney was a “goddamn movie star” when she looked…
Two years ago, Nicole Kidman appeared on my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side. Among other things we talked about her limited series, Big Little Lies. It was primarily about acting, that conversation, but what I also discovered was that Kidman has become just as prolific a producer with her company, Blossom…
It’s not often you get Vince Gilligan to sit down for an extensive interview, so in his conversation with me for my Deadline video series Behind the Lens I didn’t want to waste a moment. In addition to an edited version as is customary here, we are also presenting the full uncut talk as the man behind Breaking…
At the end of an interview for my Deadline video series Behind the Lens, I told CBS’ Late Late Show host James Corden that he is now doing what a lot of people did when they were kids: putting on a show in their garage. And due to the coronavirus pandemic that is literally what he is doing — no audience, no band, no…
The Duffer Brothers, Matt and Ross, creators and showrunners of one of Netflix’s hottest shows Stranger Things don’t sit down for a whole lot of in depth interviews but this week they joined me for my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens. We talk about so much we are presenting two versions of our conversation with…
Mrs. America showrunner, writer and executive producer Dahvi Waller has worked in the past on shows that presented women of all stripes including AMC’s Mad Men and Halt and Catch Fire, as well as ABC’s Desperate Housewives. But with this acclaimed new FX limited series, she really runs the gamut in a story that…
You can find Liz Tigelaar’s name on a what’s what of popular television series since the turn of the century, when she got her first major writing credit for an episode of Dawson’s Creek in 2000. Her various credits since then have added a variety of producing, showrunning and creator titles and her work includes…
As a best-selling author, a leading advocate in the transgender community, a much honored person not only in the LGBTQ world but also for people of color and now as a trailblazer in movies and television, Janet Mock is making history. As writer, producer and director on the FX series Pose, she became the first trans…
Leslie Iwerks has Disney in her DNA, so it should not be a surprise that the documentarian and Disney+ would find themselves joined at the hip for the remarkable six-hour, six-part docuseries The Imagineering Story, which chronicles the building and history of Disneyland and all that has come since in the world of…
Mark Bomback is a screenwriter who has been one of the go-to people in town, with credit or without, on some of the best-known franchises in recent years. His work includes scripts for both Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War of the Planet of the Apes, as well as uncredited work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Li…
