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Awkwafina, Kaitlyn Dever, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Micheal Ward and Jack Lowden have been nominated for the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star award. Awkwafina, a Golden Globe winner on Sunday night, was nominated for The Farewell; Dever for Booksmart (the U.S. actress was also Golden Globe-nominated for Netflix series Unbelievable);…

It is no secret that the Hollywood Foreign Press was put under fire for shutting out women in the Best Director category at this year’s Golden Globes. In fact, the amount of women, people of color and underrepresented voices were fairly thin across all categories. Deadline talked to female filmmakers, producers and…

When director Olivia Wilde found out that Delta Airlines had removed the LGBTQ elements from her movie Booksmart in October, she demanded they be reinstated. By November, Delta committed to showing both Booksmart and Rocketman with LGBTQ scenes intact. Wilde told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New…

A Texas native, Kaitlyn Dever started acting at a young age, acting in commercials which eventually paved the way for her to have a blossoming career in Hollywood which started with An American Girl. From there, she began to appear in more and more projects in film (The Spectacular Now, Beautiful Boy) as well as TV (Ju…

EXCLUSIVE: FX Networks has given a pilot green light to Platform, a half-hour anthology pilot, written, directed and executive produced by B.J. Novak (The Office). Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Kaitlyn Dever, Boyd Holbrook, O'Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace and Ed Asner are among the actors set to star in the pilot…

They have been calling it a “female Superbad,” and it’s an apt comparison in terms of the raunch factor in this completely female-driven coming-of-age comedy. But beyond the gross-out gags, there is something else going on here: Booksmart is for the smart girls — the ones who left high school and never forgot the one…

Many will compare Olivia Wilde’s teenage comedy Booksmart to Superbad. Both tell the story of two friends who are about to graduate high school that want to end their senior year with an awesome night of partying — but that’s where the comparisons end. In Wilde’s feature directorial debut, we follow two young women…

“We have to go to a party tonight,” the normally studious high school senior says on the last day of classes. “Nobody knows that we are fun. We didn’t party because we wanted to focus on school and get into good colleges.” Her BFF replies: “And it worked.” But, the friend notes, “Irresponsible people who party also…

The Stella Artois & Deadline Sundance Series at the Sundance Film Festival continues to go strong Monday with the filmmakers and cast from Them That Follow. Moderated by Dominic Patten, the panel will include directors and writers Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage; producers Bradley Gallo, Michael Helfant, Alan Siegel…

Toni Collette (United States of Tara), Merritt Wever (Godless) and Kaitlyn Dever (Last Man Standing) have been cast in Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary)…

Last Man Standing alumna Kaitlyn Dever has been added to the cast of Them That Follow, the dramatic thriller from Amasia Entertainment and G-Base. Brittany Poulton and Daniel Savages are co-directing the film, based on their script, with shooting scheduled to begin this month in Ohio. Dever  joins Olivia Colman, Alice…

Kaitlyn Dever and Hannah Murray have been cast in Kathryn Bigelow's untitled Detroit movie, a crime drama from an original screenplay by her Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker collaborator Mark Boal. The Detroit story which is set against the riots that took place over five days in 1967, is Bigelow’s next project…