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Lilly Singh made her transition from online to linear in the best way possible — by premiering the very first episode of her new NBC late-night show A Little Late with Lilly Singh on YouTube before it aired on television. Taking over the 1:35am timeslot, previously held by Last Call With Carson Daly, Lilly Singh not…

“What would you do if you knew that at a certain point, you'd become so dependent, and would have to watch this incredible deterioration?” In discussing playing Lily, a terminally ill woman with ALS in Roger Michell’s Blackbird, Susan Sarandon pondered her mortality at Deadline’s TIFF studio. Sarandon was joined in…

The Office alum Rainn Wilson is set to co-star opposite Sasha Lane in Utopia, Amazon's adaptation of the British series, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn. Amazon Studios Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online that are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization…

Rainn Wilson, Mena Suvari, Fionn Whitehead, and Jack Dylan Grazer star in Don’t Tell A Soul, a dramatic indie thriller written and directed by Alex McAulay. It’s the first directorial outing for McAulay, who penned the 2017 feature Flower starring Zoey Deutch. Don’t Tell A Soul follows two young thieving brothers…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has joined Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska in the Roger Michell-directed English-language remake (formally titled Blackbird) to the 2014 Danish film, Silent Heart, directed by Bille August. Sarandon will take over for Diane Keaton, who was previously attached to the project…

Rainn Wilson, who plays everyone’s favorite intergalactic con man Harry Mudd on Star Trek: Discovery, took to Twitter to tease the return of the fan favorite. “Guess who's back!? (Ok, I'll tell you.) #HarryMudd Big announcement on Thursday from @StarTrekCBS!” wrote Wilson on Twitter. The tweet was accompanied by a…

Hugh Dane, a veteran character actor who recurred as Hank the security guard on NBC’s The Office among dozens of film and TV credits has died. He was 75. Series star Rainn Wilson confirmed the news on social media, but no details were available. RIP Hugh Dane, aka Hank the security guard. He was one of the greats…

SoulPancake, a provider of uplifting programming, has joined Amazon Prime Video as a content provider and plans to debut a collection of original videos on the service. This new content-distribution partnership expands on SoulPancake’s mission to bring positive and inspirational content to audiences. SoulPancake will…

AMC had added several new scripted projects to its development slate under AMC's "scripts-to-series" model, including an alien drama with dark humor starring and executive produced by The Office alum Rainn Wilson, from Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment; and dramas from the Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick; The Walking…

“Office space?” Rainn Wilson has boarded CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery as a character known to fans of the original series. The Office alum, who earned three Emmy noms for his role as Dwight Schrute, will play conman and intergalactic criminal Harry Mudd, Roger C. Carmel originated the character, aka Harcourt…

Digging deeper into the do-good business, Jeff Skoll's Participant Media, a socially conscious entertainment company, is buying Rainn Wilson's SoulPancake, a similarly oriented digital enterprise known for uplifting web fare like the online series The Science Of Happiness, the companies said Thursday. "They're…

EXCLUSIVE: Rainn Wilson has reeled in a lead role opposite Jason Statham and Fan Bingbing in Meg, Warner Bros’ horror-adventure film about a huge shark from another time that wreaks havoc off the coast of present-day China. Wilson will play Jack Morris, a tech billionaire who funds an underwater observation program…