While shooting Hulu's true-crime series The Act, Joey King relished the opportunity to learn from her Oscar-winning co-star, Patricia Arquette.
Following an Awardsline screening last night of the series' second episode , the actors appeared for a conversation, during which King spoke in depth about what she'd learned…
EXCLUSIVE: Coming off an Emmy nomination for her starring role in The Act,Joey King is attached to headline another limited series,A Spark Of Light.
The project is set up at Sony Pictures TV which, in a competitive situation, has landed the rights to the bestselling book by Jodi Piccoult for producer Doug Robinson’s…
“It was the most freeing experience as an actor, to be able to let go of my vanity," reveals Joey King of her acclaimed performance opposite Patricia Arquette in Hulu's The Act.
The eight episode first season of the crime anthology unraveled the sordid and strange real life tale of domineering mother Dee Dee…
Hulu’s limited series The Act is truly a horror show in many ways, the story of an obsessive mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, taking her daughter through hell as she makes up all sorts of illnesses and maladies. It is all based on the true and startling story of Dee Dee Blanchard, played by Patricia…
Hulu's The Act launched in March with a focus on true crime, a format like True Detective and a star from True Romance. On Sunday at Deadline's The Contenders Emmys, that star, Patricia Arquette, told moderator Pete Hammond that the show's allure is a reminder that fact is often stranger (and more messed-up) than…
Netflix said it is making a sequel to The Kissing Booth, the original film it released last year on the streaming service based on Beth Reekles’ smash self-published YA book. The Kissing Booth 2 is now in production with stars Joey King, Joel Courtney and Jacob Elordi all back.
Netflix said in December The Kissing Boot…
Patricia Arquette recognizes that playing a mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy in the first season of Hulu's The Act so soon after playing a prison employee/inmate lover in Showtime's Escape At Dannemora has left her "a little exhausted at playing crazy women."
She acknowledged people have treated her…
EXCLUSIVE: Joey King (The Kissing Booth) is set as the co-lead opposite Patricia Arquette in the first season of The Act,Hulu's character-based anthology series from writers Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean and UCP.
Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, The Act is a seasonal anthology…
EXCLUSIVE: Wish Upon and Summer 03 star Joey King is joining Oscar winner Gary Oldman and Maze Runner star Dylan O'Brien in crime-thriller The Bayou, I can reveal.
Shoot is due to get underway in New Orleans in June on the project, which we revealed this week. It will be Oldman’s first movie since his Oscar win for The…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded world rights to writer-director Becca Gleason's SXSW debut Summer 03, starring Joey King (Independence Day: Resurgence).
Todd Slater brokered the deal on behalf of U.S. sales firm Blue Fox while ICM and UTA's Grace Royer negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers. Blue Fox’s…
“You’ll come of age when you see this. Everybody’s going to come of age!” Summer ’03 star Joey King said during her stop at Deadline’s Studio at SXSW along with writer-director Becca Gleason and co-star Paul Scheer, who called the pic “the Transformers of coming-of-age movies.”
Inspired by true events, the story…
Lyndon Smith (Parenthood) has been tapped as the lead Emmy in the CW supernatural cop drama pilot Dead Inside, from writer Katie Lovejoy and producer Bill Lawrence. She replaces Joey King who had been originally cast in the role opposite male lead Freddie Stroma.
The casting change was made after the table read. At…
