EXCLUSIVE:Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer have been cast in Invasion, a sci-fi thriller pic from BAFTA-winning UK filmmaker Michael Pearce (Beast).
I can also reveal that Amazon Studios has taken worldwide rights to the project and will produce alongside American Animals outfit Raw and UK funder Film4, which backed…
When it comes to the conversation of diversity and inclusion in Hollywood, representation of the disabled community is becoming more and more front and center. Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer has joined the Ruderman Family Foundation to call on the film and TV industry to increase the casting of people with disab…
We can't talk about Jon Stewart's upcoming Irresistible movie yet, but we can speak of the moves toward restarting Hollywood productions, reopening movie theaters and maybe moving the Oscars because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
That's exactly what we are doing today on this week's episode of Deadline's TV Talk…
Octavia Spencer starts out our conversation for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side by joking about how some of the parts she has played in the past few years seem to have something in common. Spencer says in The Help she was a maid, then in Hidden Figures she worked at NASA, and then in Th…
Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Joel McHale, Aimee Carpenter and Leslee Feldman have joined forces with Frontline Foods in an effort to connect local restaurants with hardworking hospital clinicians.
The idea is simple: donate healthy meals to hospital clinicians who are working in wartime conditions…
Apple continues to hand out second-season pickups to its crop of original scripted series. The latest to get a Season 2 renewal is drama Truth Be Told, starring and executive produced by Octavia Spencer. The series is created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and is produced by Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment and…
As the nominees hit the red carpet Sunday for the 77th annual Golden Globes, several actors and presenters were missing.
Octavia Spencer, who was set to present, took to Instagram to say she came down with a bug and would not be attending the awards at the Beverly Hilton. The actress posted a playful picture of her…
Netflix has unveiled the official title and premiere date for their previously announced C.J. Walker project starring Octavia Spencer. The four-part limited series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker will debut on the streaming platform March 20. Netflix also released the first look at Spencer as the…
Christmas is still weeks away, but there are a few presents under the small screen tree that you really should open this week.
Yes, there's the return of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for its lush third season tomorrow, the CW's December 8 premiering supersized annual Crisis on Infinite Earths team-up and Fox's…
The Producers Guild of America said Friday that Oscar-winning actress and producer Octavia Spencer will be honored with the guild’s Visionary Award, which is given to producers “who share inspiring, uplifting stories that add unique value to society and culture.”
The honor will be bestowed at the 31st annual PGA…
Disney’s animated movies often feature a missing parent, but the next Pixar toon kinda flips the script. Dad is gone in Onward, but it seems there’s a way to bring him back, if only for a day. Watch the new trailer above.
Tom Holland and Chris Pratt star as Ian and Barley Lightfoot, teenage brothers in a suburban…
“I have to get to the truth of what happened that night,” says Octavia Spencer’s Poppy Parnell in a voiceover at the beginning of the first-look trailer for Apple TV+’s limited series Truth Be Told. “I am for truth no matter who tells it, I’m for justice no matter who it’s for, or against,” Spencer continues.
That is…
