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Bo Burnham’s Inside and its song “All Eyes on Me,” H.E.R.’s Oscar-winning song from Judas and the Black Messiah, the Oscar-winning score from Soul and the scores from Warner Bros’ Dune and Netflix’s Bridgerton were among the film and TV works  nominated for Grammy Awards on Tuesday. The pair of noms mark the latest…

Comedy Central has inked a deal with Comedy Dynamics to license and distribute hundreds of iconic albums from the network’s library including Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer and Bo Burnham. The agreement is through Comedy Central Records, a NY label owned by parent ViacomCBS that specializes in stand-up comedy albums. It’s…

Bo Burnham will have a comedy special, Inside, bowing on Netflix later this year. Fresh off his role in the Academy Award-winning film Promising Young Woman, where he played the love interest to star Carey Mulligan, Burnham shot the special alone over the course of the past year.  A teaser clip was issued today. "hi…

Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade) has been tapped to play Boston Celtics icon Larry Bird in Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, Deadline has learned. HBO declined comment. Written by Max Borenstein, the…

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…