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Cutting deep into cable viewership on Sunday night, the wound on Cynthia Erivo's character's arm in the mid-credits scene of the finale of The Outsider was just the latest but surely not last twist in the tale of the HBO miniseries based on Stephen King's 2018 novel. Coming in with a season high of 1.37 million…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has acquired film rights to Carrier, the hit sci-fi-thriller podcast created by audio studio QCode and Dan Blank. Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winner Cynthia Erivo, fresh off her two Oscar nominations for Harriet, is attached to star and will reprise her role from the podcast. Blank will also write…

Music is a growing presence at film's biggest night, and this year seems to have a larger piece of the broadcast than ever before. Beyond the Academy Awards’ traditional Best Original Song presentations, this year's Oscars have a few "special" performances, highlighted by Billie Eilish, fresh off her Grammy majors…

National Geographic and Fox 21 Television Studios will release a first-look, national teaser promo for Genius: Aretha during this Sunday's Oscars telecast airing on ABC, a sister network of NatGeo, which is also owned by Disney. Cynthia Erivo, a 2020 Academy Awards nominee, stars as Aretha Franklin in the third season…

UK acting and filmmaking talents have weighed in with their picks for an 'alternative BAFTA list' that highlights more diverse candidates. The campaign, launched by the UK wing of Time's Up, is designed to recognize the number of women and people of color who were overlooked in this year's awards race. The BAFTA…

“Aretha not only makes art that is timeless that runs through the fabric of our lives and endures through time, but she does what genius also should be doing and does do. She's inclusive and ignites the genius in each and every one of us,” said Suzan-Lori Parks, executive producer and showrunner of Nat Geo’s Genius: Ar…

EXCLUSIVE: Nat Geo is rounding out its cast for Genius: Aretha, the next installment of its popular anthology from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios that stars Cynthia Erivo as the Queen of Soul. Newcomer Shaian Jordan is set as a series regular in a recasting. Additionally, Dear White People‘s Marque…

HBO premiered The Outsider on January 12 and it serves another helping of Stephen King fare translated to TV.  In it, Cynthia Erivo plays private investigator Holly Gibney who uses her uncanny abilities to help police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn, who was unable to attend TCA as he was sick with pneumonia…

First the Twitterverse, now Trevor Noah thinks the Academy has some explaining to do after this morning’s Oscar nominations. The comedian expressed his frustration Monday night on The Daily Show over the fact that no woman was nominated in the directing category. RELATED STORY: Hollywood Heated Over Oscar Snub For Fema…

A Grammy, Tony and Drama Desk Award winner who first entered into the world of film in 2018, Cynthia Erivo has quickly established herself as a force to be reckoned with in this arena. The star of Harriet, Kasi Lemmons' drama on slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman, Erivo earned two Oscar nominations today, for…

It is no secret that the Hollywood Foreign Press was put under fire for shutting out women in the Best Director category at this year’s Golden Globes. In fact, the amount of women, people of color and underrepresented voices were fairly thin across all categories. Deadline talked to female filmmakers, producers and…

Multiple-award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo has entered Golden Globes race with two nominations, one for her starring performance as famous abolitionist and American hero Harriet Tubman in the Focus Features biopic, Harriet, as well as for the film’s original song Stand Up which co-wrote with Joshuah Brian Campbell.…