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EXCLUSIVE:  Broad City may be over, but the legacy of Comedy Central series will live on beyond its years — particularly with a featurette that sheds light on the journey of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s series that started off as a humble web series and turned into a cult comedy phenomenon. And for five seasons…

If anyone could put in perspective the unbelievable trajectory of filmmaker Ryan Coogler from his Fruitvale Station debut to Black Panther, it would be Sylvester Stallone, his creative partner on the film in between, Creed. Before Coogler even filmed a debut that would become a Sundance sensation, he was knocking on St…

EXCLUSIVE: The production designer behind The Favourite, Fiona Crombie relied on the generosity of strangers, in order to bring Yorgos Lanthimos’ wild vision to life, as she explains in the video above. An 18th century black comedy, Lanthimos’ first period piece pits a servant and a duchess against one another, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Roma was built from the memories of its writer-director Alfonso Cuarón during his childhood in Mexico City. Those memories are as much of sounds as they are of visuals, according to the filmmaker, who along with his sound gurus explain in a new behind-the-scenes featurette. The pic has been…

Fox 2000's adaptation of Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give is a tragic and familiar story of the unlawful murder of an African American man and the following impact it has on a community. Starring Amandla Stenberg, the film, centers on Starr Carter, whose world is shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her…

Not viewing himself as a comic book fan when he interviewed for 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger, visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend was surprised that he got that job, and even more so, that his relationship with the studio has continued through several films. Townsend's collaboration with Marvel…

Annihilation, says actress Gina Rodriguez in this just-released featurette about the upcoming sci-fi thriller from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, is “something we haven’t seen quite yet.” She’s talking about “the Shimmer,” the strange, glowing, sinister, shape-shifting phenomenon that threatens to carry out just…

“It’s L.A. right now,” says Noomi Rapace in this new featurette for the upcoming Netflix film Bright, then she drops the kicker: “It just happens to be dwarves and elves.” Bright, directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad) and arriving in December, stars Will Smith, Joel Edgerton and Rapace in an action-thriller about two…

EXCLUSIVE: Is The Florida Project the little movie that could? After setting the Directors Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival on fire and being picked up for domestic distribution by A24 Films, director Sean Baker’s lyrical look at childhood under adversity also scored big applause at the Toronto Film Festival and…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features and Laika’s  great Oscar hope, Kubo And The Two Strings  is coming off a high after a surprise win at BAFTA for Best Animated Feature. That is an award that has mirrored the eventual Oscar winner in the category in each of the past ten years with the exception of 2014  when BAFTA winner  The L…

With two big BAFTA wins on Sunday for screenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck,  a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday,  a domestic box office gross nearing $50 million  , and six Academy Award nominations  Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after…

Deadline goes behind the camera. EXCLUSIVE: Mandy Moore did an extraordinary job as choreographer of La La Land. It is a shame there is no Oscar category for that; the last to Hermes Pan in 1937, when Academy Awards were given for Dance Direction. But since then, only occasionally has a choreographer gotten official…