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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) will lead cast alongside Being The Ricardos and Arrested Development star Alia Shawkat in Anthony Chen’s (Ilo Ilo) English-language debut Drift. The film reunites Call Me By Your Name producers Emilie Georges and Peter Spears and exec producer Naima Abed. Spears won the…

Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani’s development and production company Hillman Grad Productions has announced the return of its mentorship lab which offers support and opportunities to marginalized creatives. The Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab is an 8-month, tuition-free program that offers mentees the opportunity to enhance…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) is to star in and produce sci-fi feature Blink Speed for Netflix. The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Molly’s Game producer Matt Jackson will also produce. Erivo will play a young woman plagued by a rare and mysterious savant ability after a near-death experience…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has your first look at Grandpa Was An Emperor, a documentary directed by Constance Marks (Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey), which is premiering at DOC NYC on Sunday, November 14th at 7pm ET. The film follows Yeshi Kassa, great-granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, as she embarks on…

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo just announced on their Instagram handles that they landed parts in Universal’s Jon M. Chu-directed feature adaptation of the Broadway musical smash Wicked.  Erivo will play Elphaba, while Grande will portray Glinda. The two teamed on announcing their attachments on their Instagrams…

Deadline won a SoCal Journalism Award for page design for its Awardsline 2019 Emmy-season cover story on Netflix’s Dead to Me, featuring an interview with the series’ stars Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. The honor for the article, a Q&A titled “Friends In Law” and penned by Deadline Television Editor Peter…

Two-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Genius: Aretha) and Emmy nominee Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes) will join Golden Globe nominee Idris Elba in a Netflix film continuing the story of Luther, Deadline has confirmed. Emmy nominee Jamie Payne (The Alienist) will…

EXCLUSIVE: All pieces have fallen into place for Steel, a thriller drama set in 1970s London, starring and executive produced by Cynthia Erivo (Genius: Aretha Franklin, The Outsider). The project, teased by MRC Television President Elise Henderson in her Deadline interview in June, will be directed by Francis Lawrence…

As a Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner and Oscar nominee who just recorded her first solo album of original music, Cynthia Erivo is well-acquainted with artistic challenges. But the prospect of portraying Aretha Franklin in National Geographic’s third season of its Genius anthology series was unlike anything she had…

The 78th Venice International Film Festival has set its full roster of juries. As previously announced, Parasite filmmaker Bong Joon Ho will preside over this year’s Competition jury. Joining the Korean filmmaker are Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo, Belgian-French actress Virginie Efire, British actress Cynthia Eriv…

Cynthia Erivo earned her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination on Tuesday for her portrayal of Aretha Franklin in the National Geographic limited series Genius, a role she approached with the utmost R-E-S-P-E-C-T as a longtime fan. “I learned about storytelling through music from Aretha, she’s my idol. I grew up…

The first series in the franchise to have an African-American and a woman as its marquee player, NatGeo's Genius: Aretha is, like the title of its opening episode and the Queen of Soul herself, all about "Respect." Penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, the pandemic-delayed premiere picks up with the Cynthia…