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Troy Kotsur was being honored by his hometown of Mesa, Arizona. But he almost lost his biggest honor of all. Kotsur reported on his Twitter account that a car thief hopped into his Jeep and took off. The CODA actor was to be honored Thursday for his achievement in becoming the first primarily deaf actor to win an…

When Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht left Sony Pictures Television in 2017 to steer Apple's film and TV fortunes, few doubted they would give the tech giant's upstart content company a beachhead on the small screen. During their 12 years at Sony, they hatched hits like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Rescue…

Siân Heder, who directed and won an Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Best Picture winner CODA, will receive the American Film Institute’s 2022 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, AFI said today. She will receive the honor June 9 during the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Julie Andrews, which will air June 16…

Troy Kotsur, who is coming off his historic Oscar-winning performance in CODA, has signed with Verve for representation. He most recently made history as the first deaf man in history to win an Oscar for his beautiful, funny and poignant acting performance in a supporting role in Siân Heder’s Best Picture winner…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Durant, who starred alongside Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Eugenio Derbez in Apple’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar winner CODA, has signed with Buchwald for representation. The dramedy from writer-director Sian Heder, based on the French film La Famille Bélier, tells the story of Ruby Rossi…

Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver Gallaudet University’s commencement address at the Washington DC campus on May 13. Cook responded in the affirmative to a Twitter invitation by Molly Feanny, the undergraduate student speaker at the university’s 2022 commencement. Noting that Gallaudet is an Apple campus, she expressed…

The heroine of Goran Stolevski's You Won't Be Alone is a witch, with echoes of vampire and zombie, yes, but mostly with a haunting desire for human connection in 19th century rural Macedonia. The film’s Sundance premiere got great reviews (see Deadline's here). It’s 94% Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh with critics as…

Apple sources are saying that CODA following its historic Best Picture win for both a streamer, and a predominantly Deaf cast feature saw viewership go up by 300% over the prior week week to become the No. 1 most watched program on AppleTV+, and also drawing 25% new viewers to the OTT service. The movie dropped on the…

Three-time Oscar winner CODA is returning to theaters this Friday for a limited run in over 600 locations. The film will be available with open captions to be accessible to the Deaf and hard of hearing. How The ‘CODA’ Family Delivered The Year’s Most Meaningful Best Picture Contender Apple Original Films made history…

AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron said there's room for both cinemas and streamers in the current marketplace and the latter would benefit from wider theatrical release of films. He made the comments to CNBC after Apple made history last night with Coda's Best Picture Oscar win. "I've been saying for years that the…

France’s president Emmanuel Macron has celebrated the win of CODA at the Oscars last night by tweeting his congratulations to the filmmakers involved. Sian Heder’s Apple TV+ movie is a remake of the French film La Famille Bélier, which was box office hit back in 2014. French producer Philippe Rousselet, one of the…

“It makes me nostalgic for the year of La La Land and Moonlight,” one executive lamented about the infamous Will Smith-Chris Rock debacle that is all anyone is talking about after the 94th Oscar show. Another top marketing exec with a Best Picture nominee this year actually told me at the Governors Ball that he thinks…