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To Leslie director Michael Morris joined stars Andrea Riseborough, Owen Teague and Stephen Root to discuss the film at Deadline’s Studio at SXSW. The film follows Leslie, a single mother from Texas played by Riseborough, who wins a life changing amount of money in the lottery only to squander it on drugs and alcohol. T…

The meat of this melancholy, live-action country ballad is left up to the imagination, somewhere in the missing years between the title credits and the point at which Michael Morris's feature debut actually starts. It's probably just as well, since To Leslie is a hard enough watch as it is, not because it's…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Riseborough has boarded To Leslie, which Bloodline EP Michael Morris will direct off Ryan Binaco’s screenplay which is inspired by the life of his mother. Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures are producers along with Kelsey Law. Binaco is also executive producing. Riseborough will play…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Morris is set to direct the first two episodes of Locke & Key, Netflix's adaptation of Joe Hill's comic, from Hill, Carlton Cuse and IDW Entertainment. Morris also will serve as an executive producer on the first episode. Locke & Key is a horror-fantasy series that revolves around siblings Kinsey…

Mary McCormack, an actress known for roles on The West Wing and USA’s In Plain Sight, tweeted a startling video that showed her husband’s Tesla sports car on fire on LA’s Santa Monica Boulevard. (See tweet and video below.) Tagging Tesla’s corporate handle, she wrote, “This is what happened to my husband and his car…

Hulu is developing Unspeakable, a single camera half-hour dramedy starring Mary McCormack (When We Rise) and executive produced by Chelsea Handler, from Tell Me You Love Me creator Cynthia Mort and Working Title Television, Deadline has learned. Based on bestselling author Meghan Daum’s book, the project is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-director Andrew McCarthy is set to direct E!’s pilot Songbyrd. This marks the pilot directing debut of McCarthy, who replaces the project’s original director Michael Morris who fell out a month ago. The music-themed Songbyrd, created/exec produced by Krista Vernoff and exec produced by Craig Zadan and…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Morris has fallen out of directing Songbyrd, one of E!‘s first two scripted pilots. Morris, who previously directed seven episodes of NBC’s Smash, was to reunite with Smash executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who executive produce the music-themed Songbyrd that centers on songwriter…