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Netflix has released a new clip for their film The School for Good and Evil based on the best-selling series by Soman Chainani. The feature directed by Paul Feig stars Sophia Anne Caruso, Sofia Wylie, Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington will be available to stream on October 19. In the above clip shared by the…

This week’s 20 Questions On Deadline guest is Rachel Bloom. The multi-hyphenate Bloom first found fame as co-creator and star of the musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, for which she won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice award. In this chat covering how to deal with the pain of rejection, a creepy…

Netflix on Tuesday released the first look at its anticipated adaptation of the YA fantasy novel The School for Good and Evil starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington. Based on the Soman Chainani novel, the film is directed by Paul Feig and also stars Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso. The trailer is brief, with…

EXCLUSIVE: After the original’s box office success and critical acclaim, Lionsgate and Amazon Studios are getting the gang back together for a sequel to A Simple Favor. Sources tell Deadline the studios will partner on the sequel with stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively set to reprise their roles and Paul Feig…

Chris Rock was supposed to deliver the big laugh, not the big slap, but to comedy practitioners the Oscars debacle seemed an appropriate metaphor for the state of their craft. "The 1960s would have been easier to survive with a laugh track," Lenny Bruce once explained, and his sardonic observation would apply…

UPDATED WITH LATEST: After a 51-year directing career, and longer as a producer, Ivan Reitman, the comedy architect behind such classics as the Ghostbusters franchise, Twins, Kindergarten Cop and more, died Saturday night, leaving a deep hole in many hearts. 2021 was quite a year for Reitman: He saw his son Jason…

EXCLUSIVE: Alison Pill is getting into the scripted podcast universe. The Star Trek: Picard and Devs star is to star in and produce supernatural audio drama The Doctor Is In. The series was created and written by Cassie Keet and is produced by Paul Feig and Laura Fischer's Powderkeg Media for podcast studio <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/echoverse/" id="auto-tag_echoverse"…

EXCLUSIVE: The Producers Guild of America and Google announces the two projects that will each receive $50,000 grants for the production of new short films as part of "The Short Film Project" presented by the Producers Guild of America and Google. The grant recipients are producers Sabrina Ehlert and Ashley Flores for…

A very diplomatic-sounding Paul Feig called out Sony and Columbia Pictures over an omission in the studio’s forthcoming “Ultimate Collection” of Ghostbusters movies. What’s missing? While the eight(!)-disc boxed set includes the original Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II and this year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it does…

At the exit to a gallery in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a display of opinions about the future of cinema. For example: "THE FUTURE OF CINEMA IS INCLUSION NOT EXCLUSION" –Kimberly Steward                                                                          Film Executive Or: "THE FUTURE OF CINEMA IS A…

Grammy winner Young Thug has joined the team for Throw It Back, the musical dramedy that already stars Shahadi Wright Joseph and is in the works from Feigco Entertainment and Tiffany Haddish's She Ready Productions. The Atlanta rapper will now co-star alongside Joseph in his acting debut as well as executive produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) and Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) are set to produce musical dance dramedy Throw It Back, which MadRiver and CAA Media Finance will be launching at the virtual Cannes market. Haddish will take a supporting role in the hot package, which will star Us and The Lion King (reboot)…