Director Nisha Ganatra scored points with me for delivering a smart, female-driven comedy last year in Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. It was set in the showbiz sector of late-night television talk shows but focused on two women, very different yet striving for similar professional goals in a…
Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast partnered with the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) for two live episodes in celebration of up and coming talent and underrepresented voices in the industry. The event, appropriately titled Next Gen, took place in the midst of awards season and the night before the…
Following a frustrating experience with 2017's It Comes At Night, writer/director Trey Edward Shults found a "therapeutic and cathartic" experience in mounting his third feature, Waves.
Feeling the pressure that comes when one's work is falsely framed, or misunderstood, Shults channeled it into Waves protagonist Tyler…
If a film played at a major festival like Sundance, SXSW or the Toronto International Film Festival, chances are, Kelvin Harrison Jr. was in it. The breakout actor has a resume filled with festival favorites such as Mudbound, Monsters and Men, All Rise, Jinn and Assassination Nation and The Wolf Hour. He appeared in…
A24’s family drama Waves is making waves of its own this awards season, having received critical acclaim on the fall festival circuit starting at Telluride over Labor Day, then opening to impressive box office on the specialty circuit over the weekend.
Stars Sterling K. Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Renee Elise…
Sterling K. Brown is known for playing Randall Pearson, the loving father in This Is Us, but in Trey Edward Shults' family drama Waves, he shows us a very different side. As Ronald, he's the domineering parent of Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a young man painfully striving to impress his pushy dad by becoming a great…
Waves, the new film from director Trey Edward Shults, left audiences reeling after its debut at the Telluride Film Festival a couple of months ago. Now everyone will get to see why it did. Shults, who showed promise in two previous films, Krisha and It Comes at Night, goes to a whole new level with this devastating…
“You don’t conform to what she wants, and suddenly you’re the enemy,” the model student says about his teacher. “I can tell the difference between miscommunication and provocation,” she says of a paper he wrote. “This woman has some kind of vendetta against Luce,” the teen’s adoptive parents say about her. And it’s…
EXCLUSIVE:Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Zoe Chao are set to co-star opposite Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross in Covers, the Focus Features and Working Title Films comedy being directed by Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra. Plot details are vague, but the pic is set among the talent, fame, and fast-paced world of…
One of the most prominent music video directors of the last 14 years, Nabil Elderkin collaborated with the likes of Travis Scott, SZA, Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples, John Legend, and Kanye West before coming to Gully, the project with which he'd make his feature debut.
In the dystopian drama, written by Marcus J…
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to All Rise, the drama written and directed by Anthony Mandler that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as Monster. The pic based on Walter Dean Myers’ New York Times-bestselling novel of that name is now headed for a fall 2019 domestic…
