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EXCLUSIVE: Shock Waves, the popular Blumhouse horror podcast that has interviewed guests including Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Elijah Wood and Udo Kier, is being absorbed into horror brand Fangoria's network of podcasts. First launched back in 2016, Shock Waves is hosted by filmmaker Rebekah McKendry, Fangoria's Rob…

Jordan Peele's Us has been named this year’s Best Film by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA). The film, which earned over $255 million globally, received three total wins including Peele for Best Director and Lupita Nyong'o for Best Actress. "Jordan Peele continued to raise the bar in horror…

Saturday Night Live‘s “Lunch Run” skit on Saturday mixed a little Harry Styles, some references to the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze and a dash of Jordan Peele social commentary at the very end. Guest Styles played a UK intern who offers to make lunch run for his colleagues (played by Kenan Thompson, Ego Nwodim…

Lupita Nyong'o has a new appreciation for those characters in costume at amusement parks. Mainly because a few days before this interview, she was playing one of them at Universal Studios. It's not what you'd expect for an Oscar-winner, but such is Nyong'o's up-for-it attitude, she told Universal staff she'd be happy…

Following his collaboration with Jordan Peele on the Oscar-winning Get Out, supervising sound editor Trevor Gates reteamed with the director on Us, an altogether different kind of horror film, centered on terrifying doppelgängers of Peele's invention. Following the Wilsons—a family whose vacation in Santa Cruz goes…

At Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event Saturday, the makers of 38 films were interviewed by Deadline staff and showed clips as our awards season kicked off in full swing. In this video clip, writer-director Jordan Peele, interviewed by Deadline’s Dominic Patten, dissected Us, his genre follow-up…

The ominous caverns that may be hidden below the fractured landscape of contemporary America are the violent playground for two Universal Pictures films, Us and Queen & Slim, that were represented on Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles by two filmmakers who plugged into the nightmare side of the American…

Jane Fonda was the talk of Friday night’s British Academy Britannia Awards – and she didn’t even have to show up to steal the spotlight. Receiving the prestigious Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film, Fonda pulled off what is easily the most unusual acceptance speech ever given in the annals of…

Universal Pictures has entered into a five-year exclusive production partnership with Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, who were behind the studio’s combined half-billion-grossing successes Get Out and Us.  The commitment continues to speak to the studio’s emphasis on a diverse film slate, not…

Jordan Peele is to receive The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing at the BAFTA LA Britannia Awards. The Get Out and Us director is being feted for his work in the socially-conscious horror genre at the awards, which take place on October 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He joins the likes of…

EXCLUSIVE: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits) and Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead) are ready to say his name five times in the mirror. The two actors have joined Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Us) and Teyonah Parris (If Beale Street Could Talk) in MGM and Jordan Peele’s forthcoming reboot of the classic horror film Candyma…

So many comedy stars have now invaded the horror genre that it’s not even funny. This month, it was Orion Pictures pouncing on a Scandinavian slasher pitch by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Last month, Lionsgate trumpeted Chris Rock as the idea man and executive producer who can pump new lifeblood into the studio’s rusty S…