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UPDATE: Joyce Mitchell, the 55-year-old prison tailor who was a key to helping two convicted killers break out of a maximum-security New York prison, has been paroled. The incident served as the inspiration for the 2018 Showtime miniseries, Escape at Dannemora, which starred Patricia Arquette, who won a Golden…

Michael Tolkin, the Emmy-nominated creator of Showtime's Escape at Dannemora, is urging WGA members to stop vilifying agents and to start the reconciliation that will be needed to resolve the ongoing feud with the Association of Talent Agents in advance of the upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV…

It always helps to know someone when you’re breaking into showbiz, and a familial connection to Pink Floyd led British-born Edward Shearmur to work with the late two-time Oscar nominated composer Michael Kamen, known for such scores as Brazil and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Handling a variety of tasks for more than…

Fresh from his Wildlife directorial debut, Paul Dano found himself headed to prison. In Showtime's limited series Escape at Dannemora, Dano plays real-life convict David Sweat, who escaped from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015. Meeting with Sweat in preparation for the shoot, Dano delved deep into the…

Last time Patricia Arquette was staring an Emmy in the face it was 2007, and she was on her second nomination for playing Allison Dubois in Medium—the pretty mom who has it all, with psychic powers to boot. What could have been a hackneyed stereotype became, in the hands of Arquette, a nuanced and moving portrait of a…

When Ben Stiller set out to direct his first dramatic series with Escape at Dannemora, he was intent on telling an unbelievable true story with as much authenticity as possible, capturing every minor detail of life within New York's Clinton Correctional Facility, while diving deep into the psychology of the men who…

With a total of 12 Emmy nominations, Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora has emerged as a leader in the limited series race. The show based on a real-life 2015 prison break explores the dynamics between convicts Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano) and prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia…

Patricia Arquette has doubled down in the Emmys nominations list this year, with nods for both her leading role in Showtime’s prison-based limited series Escape at Dannemora and for her supporting role in Hulu’s limited series The Act—both were based on real-life characters. The last actress Emmy-nominated in two…

Escape at Dannemora, On The Spectrum, My Brilliant Friend, The Good Doctor and Lethal Weapon were among the big winners of the prestigious Golden Nymphs Awards at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. Escape at Dannemora, from Showtime, Red Hour Productions, Busyhands, The White Mountain Company, Michael De Luca…

Brett Johnson and Oscar-nominated The Player scribe Michael Tolkin began working with each other as producer-writers on Ray Donovan and it was during that series that they made an immediate go at adapting the true story about two inmates who escaped the maximum security Clinton Correctional facility in the quiet town…

Patricia Arquette has been killing it, as they say, in the past few years with Oscar- and Emmy-winning performances that have made her one of the most in-demand character actresses around. I emphasize the phrase “character actress ” because — as she says in today’s interview for my Deadline video series, The Actor’s…

“You can’t take it back can you? I didn't plan that. It was an unplanned f-bomb,” said Patricia Arquette, apologizing for her onstage profanity during her acceptance speech after winning the Golden Globe Award for her lead acting performance as Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries Escape at…