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EXCLUSIVE: Creator+, a next-generation content studio and distribution platform for digital-first storytellers and creators, has unveiled their inaugural class of emerging filmmakers for its 'Flip the Script' Short Film Fund. Creator+ is a studio and distribution platform, whose goal is to empower the next…

Nicole Kidman's fifth ever Oscar nomination came in Tuesday morning, this time for Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos, from Amazon Studios. As I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball, Kidman depicts the life of a creative comedic icon who led an unprecedented charge for women in the industry, essentially writing for, producing…

Lulu Wang, director of Awkwafina comedy drama The Farewell, and producer Dani Melia have launched their own production company and struck a first-look TV deal with Amazon. The pair have established Local Time and will work with Amazon Studios to exec produce television projects. It will focus on championing emerging…

When Elise Henderson joined MRC as President of Television in April 2019, the company had one series on the air, Netflix’s Ozark, was about to start production on HBO limited series The Outsider and had just finished a pilot for Hulu’s The Great. Two years — and a pandemic — later, MRC Television has eight series, the…

The Farewell director Lulu Wang is cooking up something new. News broke Wednesday that the indie director, whose Awkafina-led multi-generational drama landed her on the map, will direct a new English-language project inspired by Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son. Wang’s re-imagining of Kore-eda’s 2013 film…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has unveiled their keynotes, conversations and panelists for the 15th annual Film Independent Forum. The Forum, which is traditionally a weekend event, will now be a week-long virtual event that will reach all corners of the globe from July 31 to August 7. The event has set a roster of…

UPDATE, 3:55 PM:  Burning up the keyboards for more than six hours now, the Directors tweet-a-thon from Ava DuVernay and her ARRAY collective have filled the last open slot of the day. Oscar nominee and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels will be online taking questions, spinning yarns and pulling back the curtain at the…

South by Southwest has unveiled its final round of keynotes and featured speakers including Damon Lindelof, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Lulu Wang, Janelle Monae, Judd Apatow, Kenya Barris, Rashida Jones, Annie Clark, Carrie Brownstein, Kevin Feige, The Russo Brothers, Spike Jones, Julianne Moore, Robin Thede and an…

Bright and early Monday morning, John Cho and Issa Rae unveiled the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards and when it came to Best Director, we all waited with bated breath to see if the Academy would follow this unfortunate trend of women being shut out of the category. One by one, Rae announced the nominees: “The Iris…

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…

Quentin Tarantino, Lulu Wang, and Steven Canals have been named this year’s recipients for the 15th Annual Final Draft Awards, which will take place at Paramount Studios on January 21, 2020 in a ceremony hosted by comedy duo Randy and Jason Sklar. Academy Award winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino will be presented…

When Lulu Wang's The Farewell debuted at Sundance, it immediately became the talk of Hollywood. The dramedy based on Wang's own story about her family keeping her grandmother's cancer diagnosis a secret goes beyond family issues. It's also an immigration story that explores cultural identity through Awkwafina's…