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EXCLUSIVE: Actor and rap artist Tip "T.I." Harris and John Ortiz (Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6) have signed to topline Flint, a feature set against the backdrop of the Flint, Michigan water crisis written by Malcolm M. Mays, who will also direct. The project hails from Will Smith and James Lassiter-founded Overbroo…

Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on contenders in the key categories for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the category of Outstanding Television Movie. There can be no question that the once very prestigious Emmy competition for Outstanding TV Movie was…

Lifetime has greenlighted The Simone Biles Story (working title) a biopic about Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles, and set fall air dates for previously announced movies The Watcher in the Woods, Flint, and The Lost Wife of Robert Durst. I Am Elizabeth Smart also premieres as part of a cross-network event with…

Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) has teamed with Imaginary Forces and Montrose Pictures on Flint, a feature documentary about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, MI. The filmmaker unveiled the project during a special screening this morning of 20 minute of footage at the Traverse City Film Festival, which sits less…

Kate Vernon (The 100) is set for a recurring role opposite William Hurt in Condor, AT&T Audience Network's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, and written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condo…

Queen Latifah (Star), Betsy Brandt (Life In Pieces, Breaking Bad), Jill Scott and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) are set to headline Flint, Lifetime's original movie about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, MI, from Sony Pictures TV. Queen Latifah also will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside…

EXCLUSIVE: Cher has departed Flint, Lifetime's original movie about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, MI, citing a family issue that would prevent her from traveling to Toronto where Flint is slated to begin production next month. The movie, executive produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Katie Couric, has…

In an expansion of its female-centric programming, Lifetime has officially greenlighted three new movies: Watcher in the Woods, starring Anjelica Huston; I Am Elizabeth Smart, featuring Elizabeth Smart; and as Deadline previously reported, Flint, starring Cher, the network announced today during its upfront. Lifetime…

EXCLUSIVE: Cher is set to star in Flint, Lifetime’s original movie about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan. The Oscar winner also will executive produce the project, along with Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, and Katie Couric. Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford has been tapped to direct Flint, which has…

Katie Couric is joining Craig Zadan and Neil Meron as an executive producer on Flint, the duo’s Lifetime original movie about the drinking water contamination disaster in Flint, MI, from Sony Pictures Television. The hard-hitting, fact-based drama will examine the events that led to the "toxic crime" committed against…