“Poppy, I need you to help me. I want to know who murdered my husband,” says Kate Hudson’s Micah to Octavia Spencer’s Poppy in Season 2 of Apple original drama series Truth Be Told. Apple TV+ has unveiled a teaser trailer for the second season of the NAACP Image Award-winning series, starring and executive produced by…
EXCLUSIVE:Thunder Force, Netflix’s superhero action comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, is on pace to draw 52 million global views in its first 28 days.
That projection comes from Kira Goldberg, VP Studio Film at Netflix, who included the stat in a blog post about her motivation to green-light the…
Everything in Thunder Force, writer-director Ben Falcone’s latest collaboration with wife Melissa McCarthy, seems overly familiar — certainly in its comic spin on the well-worn comic book genre. Coming on the heels of another sci-fi comedy, Superintelligence, in which McCarthy battled supernatural alien forces out to…
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer give the likes of Wonder Woman and Black Widow a run for their money in the trailer for Netflix’s Thunder Force. The comedy marks the latest project from McCarthy and husband writer-director Ben Falcone, who were also behind HBO Max’s Superintelligence.
Set in takes place in a…
EXCLUSIVE:Truth be told, Thursday proved a tense day on the set of Truth Be Told.
A shoot at South L.A.'s historic Leimert Plaza Park for the second season of the AppleTV+ crime drama was suddenly cut short today when local protestors vehemently objected to the crew and cast's presence.
Referred to as "community…
You gotta give Anne Hathaway credit. She leaves no stone unturned in diving into her dark and evil side as the Grand High Witch who dominates director Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches, the vividly intense new film version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s tale. It was previously made by Nicholas Roeg in 1990 in a version…
Kate Hudson has been tapped to star alongside Octavia Spencer in Season 2 of Apple drama series Truth Be Told.
Created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content, Truth Be Told is a quasi-anthology series in the vein of USA drama The Sinne…
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…
