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If there was ever any doubt, and I assure you there wasn’t, Carey Mulligan’s tour-de-force turn in Promising Young Woman cements her as one of the true acting greats of her, or anyone else’s, generation. Navigating an enormously tricky landscape as a 30-year-old woman haunted by a tragic event in her teenage years and…

Spoiler alert: This article contains details of tonight's series finale of FX comedy Baskets.  After four seasons on FX, the Baskets family is moving on. Tonight, FX aired the final episode of the oddball comedy created by Jonathan Krisel, Zach Galifianakis and Louis C.K.—before the latter comedian's fall from grace…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Eighth Grade filmmaker and stand-up comedian Bo Burnham is contributing songs for Warner Bros/MGM’s upcoming Sesame Street movie, which hits theaters on January 15, 2021. In the movie directed by Jonathan Krisel, Big Bird and his Sesame Street friends are mysteriously expelled from…

Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham will star alongside Carey Mulligan in FilmNation Entertainment’s Promising Young Woman, a thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Rounding out the cast are Alison Brie (Glow), Connie Britton (Dirty John), Adam Brody (Shazam!), Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde), Laverne Cox (O…

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Macdonald and Jaboukie Young-White are negotiating to star in an untitled Paramount Players comedy written and produced by Bo Burnham and directed by Amy York Rubin. Burnham, who wrote and directed the acclaimed Eighth Grade, is producing with Chris Storer. The project made the rounds under the…

Comedian Bo Burhnam’s feature writing and directorial debut Eighth Grade has scored plenty of awards buzz for its depiction of the current social media-crazed pre-high schooler experience as embodied by newcomer Elsie Fisher, who stars and is a Spirit Award nominee (as is the film for best feature and Burnham for best…

The two A24 films presented today during The Contenders LA program were wildly different projects — Hereditary is a harrowing psychological tale that slides into supernatural horror while Eighth Grade is a coming-of-age tale that tugs at the heart ‚ but on closer inspection, the pair do share some common…

Elsie Fisher. Remember that name. She’s going to be a star. As I say in my video review above, that is just one of the many affirmative facts coming out of Bo Burnham’s superb writing-directing debut feature Eighth Grade, which explores 13-year-old Kayla Day’s awkward final days of middle school before embarking on…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy York Rubin will direct Paramount Pictures’ Gay Kid and Fat Chick, a title that would raise  eyebrows if it weren’t about two outsider teenagers who create costumed alter egos to get revenge on the students who have bullied them in school. The film was written and is being produced by Bo Burnham (The Big…

Doing stand-up for ten years and establishing himself as a singular, memorable comedic voice, Bo Burnham, at some point along the way, burned out on himself as a subject of exploration, and the art of stand-up in general. “I was so violently tired of my own face, and my own voice, and my own head,” Burnham…