EXCLUSIVE: QC Entertainment, the producers behind Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, are branching into TV. They have closed a deal in heavy bidding for Wanderers, the upcoming novel by bestselling author Chuck Wendig. They aim to turn it into a socially relevant, provocative TV series that will be produced by QC's Sean…

EXCLUSIVE: With directing gigs on Big 4 shows like Whiskey Cavalier and The Red Line, Matthew A. Cherry has a pretty full dance card this year, but the BlacKkKlansman executive producer is heading into some new territory also.

Animation, to be precise.

Coming off a record breaking Kickstarter campaign two years ago to …

President Donald Trump was watching last night's Oscars, and used his early-morning tweeting time to take a swipe at Spike Lee.

The former Apprentice host tweeted, "Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for…

The backstage press corps here at the Oscars had questions for Spike Lee after his reaction to Green Book winning Best Picture on Sunday night.

Asked backstage at the Dolby Theatre if his Adapted Screenplay win for BlacKkKlansman makes up for Do the Right Thing loss at the 1990 Oscars and the Academy overlooking it…

UPDATED with details from backstage: While he didn’t take the stage like Kanye West did years ago on the MTV Video Music Awards when Taylor Swift won an award that he felt should have gone to Beyoncé, BlacKkKlansman director Spike Lee did the next best thing when the Best Picture Oscar was won by Green Book.

Our Pete H…

Spike Lee brought the Oscars audience to its feet after winning his first Academy Award for adapting BlacKkKlansman from Ron Stallworth’s memoir about a black police detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan.

Lee shares the award with co-writers Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Wilmott.

After accepting the…

Over the past year, beginning in February with Black Panther and ending in December with Vice, I did video reviews of all of what eventually became the eight nominees for Best Picture at the 91st annual Academy Awards.

Check them all out and see which one you think will take the Oscars’ big prize Sunday night.

Black Pa…

In what has been an ever-changing scenario since the race for the 91st annual Academy Awards began in earnest at the beginning of September with the fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, the hunt for Oscar has been as confounding and difficult to call as ever. The so-called precursor awards have been…

Final Oscar voting begins today, and Deadline is providing a last call to consider the films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. The hope is that these will remind voters how they felt when they saw these great films, and pull the focus away from the toxic narratives that have marred this long awards season. This sta…

There can only be one winner, but each of the Best Picture nominees overcame creative, financial and logistical hurdles to get this close to the finish line. Here are their war stories.

Black Panther

Fifty years ago, the phrase 'Black Panther' carried more political baggage than it does today, immediately summoning up…

A total of 84 Grammys were slated to be presented in Los Angeles Sunday, with 14 awards given out during the live broadcast.

BAFTA weekend is upon us as nominees and execs prep for London revelry throughout Sunday night's awards and into the wee small hours afterwards. Last year, we saw a contrast in the pre- and post-festivities as new hosts stepped up to take over from The Weinstein Company, which had fronted some of the hottest tickets…