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SATURDAY UPDATE: Reacting to the firestorm of criticism over her seeming disappointment  to the renewal by ABC of her “Fresh Off The Boat” series, Constance Wu tried yet again this morning to dispell the notion that her profane tweets were a negative reaction to the news. These words are my truth. I hope you hear…

Toggling between the Apple TV series Home Before Dark, a Netflix project on the trapped Thai boys real life drama of 2018, the In the Heights movie and more, Jon M. Chu has found a small screen home. The Crazy Rich Asians director has signed a four-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Joining recent…

Netflix is joining forces with SK Global Entertainment (Crazy Rich Asians), director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), and Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya (Bad Genius) to tell the story of the 2018 Thai soccer team cave rescue. Netflix and SK Global Entertainment have been granted the rights by the 13 Thumluang Company – the…

When Deadline runs its Most Valuable Blockbuster film profitability countdown each year, readers often ask about certain wildly profitable films that didn't crack our top list. So we've once again had five overachievers (pics with production budgets under $40 million) broken down by the experts. With the Disney-Fox…

The publicity teams and campaigns behind Warner Bros’ breakout and groundbreaking romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians and CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert led by CBS TV Studios’ Ryan Aguirre won the marquee Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship of the Year awards for film and TV at the ICG Publicists Guild…

With the success of Asian-led films such as Crazy Rich Asians, Searching and Aquaman, #GoldOpen has partnered with AMC Theatres to help continue their initiative of championing Asian films. The first-of-its-kind partnership with AMC is designed to streamline group movie-going, theatre buyouts and bulk regular-price…

The trophies for the 23rd Annual Art Directors Guild Awards were handed out on Saturday night at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown with two of the most game-changing inclusive films of the year Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians taking home awards for film and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Handmaid’s…

The Casting Society of America held its annual Artios Awards tonight and gave its top film prizes to awards-season regulars Green Book (Big Budget – Comedy), Vice (Big Budget – Drama), Crazy Rich Asians (Studio or Independent Comedy) and BlackKklansman (Studio or Indie Drama). Other film winners included Black Panther…

UPDATED, 9:05 AM: The 25th annual SAG Awards has revealed a second group of presenters for Sunday’s ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium: Awkafina, Alex Baldwin, Matt Bomer, Laverne Cox, Richard Madden, Ricky Martin, Tracy Morgan, Chris Pine and Keri Russell. PREVIOUSLY, January 23: The first group of presenters for…

Just hours after Crazy Rich Asians won the Best Comedy award at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night, Michelle Yeoh has scored another win with a Star Trek series of her own. As Deadline exclusively reported back in November, CBS All Access has put a Star Trek Discovery spinoff into development with the Crouching Tige…

Nominees for the 56th ICG Publicists Awards were revealed this morning in categories rewarding the year’s best guild campaigns in the film and TV industry. Winners bestowed by the publicists branch of IATSE’s International Cinematographers Guild (Local 600) will be announced February 22 at the annual luncheon at the…

Oxford law degree in hand, and a near professional-level violinist, Gemma Chan was poised to become a top-notch London lawyer, when instead, she did an about-face and threw herself into acting. One of the reasons she cites for that decision is a desire to move the diversity needle through storytelling, but at drama…