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HBO Max is doubling down on adult animation, ordering three series and setting a bustling development slate. The streamer has handed a two-season order to Clone High, the reboot of the classic MTV series with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, and ordered Scooby-Doo spinoff Velma with Mindy Kaling set as lead…

Judd Apatow has shown a skill for crafting vehicles for offbeat comic personalities that channel elements of their lives and the things that make them so appealing. After doing this with Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer, Apatow channeled the slacker charm and energy of Pete Davidson, the Saturday N…

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Judd Apatow, Saturday Night Live writer Dave Sirus and Pete Davidson came together to pen the script for The King of Staten Island, the dramatic comedy based on Davidson’s life…

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Davidson is taking on an iconic film character, James Stewart’s George Bailey. The Saturday Night Live actor and Maude Apatow (Euphoria), who recently starred together in The King of Staten Island, are reuniting for Ed Asner’s one-night-only live virtual celebrity table read of the 1946 holiday classic…

EXCLUSIVE: In the starriest new package announced so far for this year’s virtual AFM, we can reveal that Tye Sheridan (Mud), Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), Golden Globe-nominee Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Bill Skarsgard (It Chapter One & Two), Pete Davidson (The King Of Staten Island), As…

During Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment, Pete Davidson gave his two cents on J.K. Rowling’s transphobic comments. When Colin Jost asked what The King of Staten Island star thought of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts author’s comments, Davidson said her comments were “very disappointing” and that he…

Comedy lovers can laugh for a good cause as Bring Back Laughs sets the lineup for its COVID-19 event on October 1 and 2. Among the comedians slated to appear during the two-day event are Pete Davidson, Hannibal Buress, Ilana Glazer and Hasan Minhaj. Inspired by Rebecca Trent’s comedy charity events and by Saturday Nigh…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Hustlers, STXfilms looks to have found a project in the vein of that box-office smash and has teamed with two of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars on it. Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson and Straight Outta Compton‘s O’Shea Jackson Jr. are set to co-star in American Sole, a…

I’d never laid eyes on Pete Davidson before, nor have I ever set foot on Staten Island in all the time I've spent in New York City; nobody has ever remotely recommended it, although I must say that one scene in The King of Staten Island shot at the local minor league baseball park affords so spectacular a view of…

UPDATED, 2:23 PM: We hear from exhibition sources that it was the filmmakers behind The King of Staten Island who wanted to keep the movie as a premium VOD release, and not a simultaneous PVOD-theatrical release this weekend. Apparently, this whole snafu had nothing to do with Universal’s stiff terms with exhibitors…

Earlier during this pandemic, I reviewed Big Time Adolescence, in which Pete Davidson plays a weed-smoking slacker aimlessly marching through life. This week Universal opens director Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island, in which Davidson also appears to be a weed-smoking slacker. But the comparison stops there…

Judd Apatow’s comedy starring Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson is due to hit VOD on June 12, and Universal has today unveiled the first official red band trailer. Check it out above as Davidson’s character struggles with growing up and letting go, even though he’s in his mid-20s. The film was expected to make its…