Many of the original cast of American Crime Story‘s debut season — The People V. O.J. Simpson — are expected to reassemble for the next chapter in the Ryan Murphy-produced anthology show. Producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson confirm to Awardsline that writers went to New Orleans last week on a research trip for Sea…

BREAKING: Selma helmer Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo are developing a narrative feature that is described as a sweeping love story and murder mystery framed around the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina. She will write and produce and direct, and he will produce and star. It’s the third deal behind the Sundance hit M…

EXCLUSIVE: After launching one fact-based film into Oscar season with Captain Phillips, producer Scott Rudin has used his own funds to set up another. He has acquired Five Days At Memorial, the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink that was published by Crown last month. Rudin will produce with Eli Bush through Scot…

Harry Shearer is best known for his iconic comic work in The Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap. His documentary directing debut, The Big Uneasy, is the least funny film I’ve seen in a long time. In it, Shearer demystifies the reasons that the levees failed and 1800 people died when Hurricane Katrina  pounded the coast…

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA. Spike Lee’s 4-hour HBO documentary If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise, premiering August 23-24 about the lingering impact of Hurricane Katrina, was already done shooting when BP’s oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. Even so, the director decided to…