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Joan Cusack (In & Out) and Mary Holland (Veep) are set for recurring roles on the second season of Amazon's psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Homecoming‘s second season will deviate from the popular Gimlet Media's podcast which Season 1 was based on and will introduce…

For Sama, Waad al-Kateab’s striking documentary about the start of the protests against the Assad regime in Syria, won the Best Feature prize at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. Al-Kateab shot hundreds of hours of footage over a course of the five-year siege that offered an unflinching view of…

Primetime Emmy voters weren’t Crazy in Love with Homecoming: A Film By Beyonce on Netflix. The documentary of her 2018 performance at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was shut out in all six categories it was nominated, which were presented at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night. Beyonce has yet to win an…

Oscar winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation) is set to star opposite Janelle Monáe in the second season of Amazon's psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, executive produced by Sam Esmail. Season 2 of Homecoming will deviate from the popular Gimlet Media's podcast on which Season 1 was based on and will introduce…

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison Experiment) is set to direct and executive produce the second season of Amazon’s psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Additionally, Stephan James, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Walter Cruz…

Hidden Figures and Moonlight star Janelle Monáe is set to headline the second season of Amazon’s psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. The description of her character provides some clues about the premise of Season 2. The actress/musician plays a tenacious woman who finds…

Beyoncé easily set a personal Emmy best today with six nominations for her Netflix special Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, outdoing her double-nominated 2016 visual album Lemonade, and the single nominations she received for 2013’s Super Bowl halftime show (short form entertainment) and special class program with…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Emmy voting closes in three days. The reason I know that is because as a Television Academy member you are constantly reminded to vote, and that is the notice I got today, as opposed to yesterday, when it was four days. I wonder if they just send…

One of three editors on Sam Esmail's Homecoming, Rosanne Tan was asked to tap into the visual and sonic style of "paranoid thriller movies [from] the past," working within a broad conceptual framework set by Esmail, while trying to surprise him with the choices she made. Based on a podcast by co-creators Micah…

With his Amazon series Homecoming, Sam Esmail strived to create a paranoid thriller in the vein of those from decades past, turning to his sound team to ratchet up the dread through experimental means. Three of the series' key creatives, Kevin W. Buchholz (Supervising Sound Editor), Ben Zales (Music Editor) and John W…

On Sam Esmail's Homecoming, cinematographer Tod Campbell looked long and hard for his "Kubrick shot," standing on the shoulders of giants. A paranoid thriller in the vein of The Conversation, the Amazon series owed a debt to the cinema titan, drawing equal inspiration from the creeping zoom shots of Brian De…

Part of a new mini-trend of taking popular podcasts and transitioning them into full-fledged TV entertainment, Amazon’s Homecoming just might be the prime example at the moment.  Who knew that would be all it would take to get Julia Roberts to commit to her first TV series? At Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders…