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Showtime's hit drama Yellowjackets is a multi-generational story that touches on hints of cannibalism and the supernatural. For co-creator Ashley Lyle, it's a universal tale of flawed women. The show tells parallel stories about a high school soccer team surviving after a plane crash in 1996, and the survivors as…

Yellowjackets continues to deliver more than just sinister suspense for Showtime as the survival drama brings in more than one million viewers with its cliffhanger-filled season finale. Showtime revealed that the Yellowjackets Season 1 finale, which aired on Sunday, brought in 1.3 million viewers across its platforms…

Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black) is set as a lead opposite Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey in Hulu's original limited event series Candy, based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Lynskey) with an ax. In 1980 Texas, Montgomery seemingly had it all — a loving…

Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Jessica Biel in Hulu's original limited event series Candy based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Lynskey) with an ax. In 1980 Texas, Candy Montgomery (Biel) seemingly had it all — a loving husband with…

UPDATED with full list of panel participants. Deadline regrets the initial omissions. When Melanie Lynskey read the pilot script for Yellowjackets, she knew she needed to be part of the series, despite the fact that she's typically “nervous” about signing on to long-term TV contracts. “You read a lot of things that…

Known for films including Eden and The Off Hours, writer/director Megan Griffiths is back at SXSW this year with a family drama titled Sadie. The film centers on Sadie, a young girl (played by breakout star Sophia Mitri Schloss) who struggles with the absence of her military father. As her mother (Melanie Lynskey)…

JJ Abrams was not part of today’s Castle Rock panel at New York Comic-Con, but he might as well have been for all the anti-spoiler control he wielded over producers and cast alike. Even a teaser trailer for the 2018 Stephen King-inspired Hulu series keeps a pretty tight death-grip on plot details. Some of those…

Melanie Lynskey (HBO’s Togetherness) has been tapped as the female lead opposite André Holland in Hulu's upcoming psychological-horror drama series Castle Rock from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock, from Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television, is named after…

Known in indie circles for his acting in films by Jeremy Saulnier, including Blue Ruin and Green Room, Macon Blair took some inspiration from those experiences in penning his feature debut, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, which took the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival last night…

After more than two decades of working in Hollywood, New Zealand-born actress Melanie Lynskey is in a really good place. Since her 1994 debut as a manipulated, murderous teen in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, she's built a diverse film and TV career that has included a role in 2009's Oscar-nominated Up in the Air…

After scoring with his 2013 indie Drinking Buddies, writer-director Joe Swanberg sold his latest pic to Paramount and Magnolia Pics out of January’s Sundance Film Festival. The latter will distribute the Anna Kendrick starrer Happy Christmas domestically in theaters July 25 and on iTunes June 26, while Paramount Home…

Todd Louiso's Hello I Must Be Going opened this year’s Sundance Film Festival and drew rave reviews for lead actress Melanie Lynskey, who plays a recently divorced New York photographer who moves back in with her parents and starts an affair with a 19-year-old actor. Blythe Danner and Christopher Abbott co-star. Oscill…