The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists.
Every installment asks the same five questions…
Apple TV+ has picked up Five Days at Memorial, a limited series from Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse that chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, comes on…
The murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and the peaceful protests that followed sparked soul searching in Hollywood, including a Blackout Tuesday shutdown in solidarity to Black Lives Matter protests, and the enactment of diversity measures to hopefully create a more inclusive industry culture. How, then, to…
A day after WarnerMedia's Sandra Deweypromised a virtual Cannes that Gone With the Wind would be back on HBO Max "very soon," the controversial 1939 film has indeed returned – with some poignant historical context "about the film's handling of the topic of slavery, and its treatment of Black characters."
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EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director John Ridley has been writing and directing film and TV projects about racial conflict his whole career. And despite winning the Oscar for scripting 12 Years a Slave, he has always found it a tough sell, the idea of forcing people to confront their own feelings about race and prejudice. He is…
Less than two weeks after launch, HBO Max has removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming offering. It’s a significant move given the film’s popularity and status as the highest-grossing movie of all time when box office numbers are adjusted for inflation.
From an HBO Max spokesperson:
Gone With the Wind is a…
Black No More, a new musical by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter and American Crime creator John Ridley and The Roots’ Tarik Trotter (aka Black Thought), will launch The New Group’s 2020-2021 theater season at Off Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center.
Directed by Scott Elliott, with choreography by Bill T. Jones…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Guerrilla) has signed on to write, direct and executive produce an untitled musical drama for Showtime, which has received a straight-to-series order. On the project, originally announced in July with a series commitment, he joins executive producers Alicia Keys…
Writer/director/producer John Ridley has signed a new five-year overall deal with ABC Studios. This is the longest-term pact for Ridley at the studio where he has been since 2014 with a two-year overall deal, followed by a three-year one.
The long-term agreement reflects the desire by TV studios to secure their talent…
A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter
To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks:Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…
Oscar-winning writer-director John Ridley (American Crime) has been tapped to direct the first episode ofGodfather of Harlem,Epix’s straight-to-series crime drama, starring and executive produced by Forest Whitaker. The series hails from Narcos creator Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and ABC Signature…
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