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“When you're walking backwards, and you roll your shoulder backwards, it's not a seduction—it's a con." It's one of the first impressions we get of Michelle Williams' Gwen Verdon as she dispenses advice to a group of tired dancers performing "Big Spender" during her husband Bob Fosse's 1969 film Sweet Charity. It's a…

An inside look at the partnership between choreographer/director Bob Fosse and legendary dancer Gwen Verdon—two of the most influential artists of the 20th century—FX limited series Fosse/Verdon covers five decades of American history over the course of its eight episodes. Given the scope of the story at hand, the…

Let's be honest, the Emmy Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie category is already the winner’s circle before a single nomination is announced July 16. So join us today on Deadline's TV Talk podcast for the true plethora of riches in the category. Just say the names: Michelle Williams in FX’s Fosse/Verdon, Amy…

EXCLUSIVE: At long last, the opening-night film of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival has a distribution deal and a release date. Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights in North America, France, India and several other Asian countries to After the Wedding, the Bart Freundlich-directed adaptation of Susanne…

Like an earlier teaser, the new official trailer for FX’s Fosse/Verdon offers plenty of glimpses of Cabaret dancers and onstage strutters, but now we’re seeing more personal scenes of Broadway’s famous couple in good times and bad. The limited series chronicles five decades in what FX calls the “romantic and creative…

The #MeToo era is just the right time to be doing an eight-episode series about the complicated/creative/tortured relationship between dancer-choreographer Bob Fosse and dancer/muse/wife Gwen Verdon, their daughter and the producers of FX’s Fosse/Verdon told TV critics Monday at TCA. While the project was being…

EXCLUSIVE: Tonight's Sundance kickoff film, After The Wedding, fits a festival emphasis on inclusion and diversity. Even though director Bart Freundlich didn’t set out to do that when he made a film inspired by the 2006 Danish film by Susanne Bier, his decision to swap the gender of the two principal characters opened…

FX will premiere its Fosse/Verdon limited series on Tuesday April 9, the network announced today. Production on the eight-episode series starring Michelle Williams as dancer/actress Gwen Verdon and Vice Oscar nominee Sam Rockwell as director/choreographer Bob Fosse is underway in New York City. The premiere date was…

EXCLUSIVE: Just over a week before the 2019 Sundance Film Festival starts and After the Wedding writer-director Bart Freundlich has already notched one big deal. Set to have the Opening Night film slot at the Robert Redford founded shindig, the Mozart in the Jungle helmer has signed with WME for representation in all…

The finger snaps, angled poses and glimpses of Weimar decadence come fast and furious in FX’s first teaser for Fosse/Verdon, the upcoming limited series about Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Only one word is uttered: After the dancers have been put through the paces, Fosse, played by Sam Rockwell, orders “Again!” Verdon is…

Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams, Bobby Brown, Gabrielle Dennis, McKinley Freeman and K. Michelle are joining the guest star lineup in BET’s American Soul, the series based on the life and career of Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, from Jesse Collins Entertainment (The New Edition Story, The Bobby Brown Story). Ame…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Williams is set to star as Christa McAuliffe in The Challenger, a feature film about the 1986 space shuttle tragedy being produced by John and Art Linson and Argent Pictures’ Ben Renzo. Land of Mine director Martin Zandvliet will direct the biopic of sorts that is penned by Jayson Rothwell. A May…