Although history-based stories were once considered too stodgy for TV audiences, the period drama is all over broadcast, cable and streaming services these days. Just five years ago, the 1960s-set AMC series Mad Men was the only series among the five Emmy drama nominees that wasn't set in the modern era. Compare that…

“If anyone believes in synchronicity, this was a case of it,” exclaims The Wannabe star and producer Vincent Piazza. The actor who many HBO auds know as soft guy-gone-fierce mobster Charlie Luciano on Boardwalk Empire, told Deadline at our Tribeca Film Festival studio how many of the creatives courted to be involved…

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Wild took the top film honors tonight in the second annual Location Managers Guild Awards which were presented at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. The black-tie event honored the most outstanding and creative contributions of location pros in seven…

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Studios has set its sights on Jack Huston to play the lead character in the Corin Hardy-directed remake of The Crow. Talks are in the early stage. This is the second coveted job Huston has been chased to do since his standout portrayal as the masked, war-scarred assassin Richard Harrow on HBO's Bo…

Emmanuel Lubezki, the cinematographer behind Birdman, won the top film honor tonight at the 29th Annual ASC Awards in Century City. He beat out the cinematographers behind The Imitation Game, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Unbroken and Mr. Turner. The film continues its awards-season momentum that includes wins at the DGA…

Like a fine bottle of Scotch, all good things come to an end and that’s what Boardwalk Empire did last night after five seasons – with a bit of a lift. An estimated 2.3 million people watched the 9 PM final sign-off of HBO’s prohibition period drama. That’s up 7% from the 2.18 million who tuned in for the Season 4…

SPOILER ALERT! The following piece has spoilers pertaining to the series finale of Boardwalk Empire. Unlike HBO's Sopranos finale when 12.3 million fans thought their TV sets went out, there probably weren't any fists banging on TV sets at the end of Boardwalk Empire's series finale, "Eldorado," tonight. In an ending…

During a loose, hour-long session at the PGA’s Produced By NY conference, TV’s top showrunners, sardonically prodded by moderator Mark Gordon, held onto spoilers and indicated, that, alas, the only way to learn how to be a show runner is to become a show runner.  Unlike this morning’s Produced By panel “The Ms. Factor&#8221…

The end is nigh on HBO for the 18th Amendment and the Emmy-winning Prohibition Era drama that revolves around it. Boardwalk Empire launched its fifth and final season Sunday at 9 PM with 2.4 million viewers. That's a match with the 2.4 million who watched the Season 4 premiere at 9 PM on September 8, 2013. Like last…

The period surrounding World War I, Prohibition and the Great Depression has been skillfully and realistically reflected in such shows as PBS' Downton Abbey, HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Lifetime's Bonnie & Clyde. While each program's storyline illustrates how world events shaped the lives of their characters, the…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Michael Kenneth Williams, better known as Chalky White if you have HBO and are as addicted to Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire as I am. Williams, who first made his mark on HBO’s The Wire playing Omar, the elusive man who robbed crack dealers, is currently starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in…

The upcoming fifth season of HBO‘s gangster drama Boardwalk Empire will be its last, the network announced at TCA. The decision comes three months after HBO gave Boardwalk Empire a fifth-season renewal two weeks into its fourth season run. “It has been an incredible honor to bring this powerful and groundbreaking…