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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Utopia has picked up world rights excluding the UK to biographical doc Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, narrated by Ruth Negga (Loving). The doc, which will unspool at the Glasgow Film Festival this week ahead of its North American premiere at SXSW in March, charts the story of British punk…

EXCLUSIVE: The remarkable story of Josephine Baker, one of the most influential female entertainers of the 20th century, will be the subject of Josephine, a limited drama series in development at ABC Signature, with Ruth Negga attached to star as the legendary Jazz Age performer and civil rights activist. Negga also…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is nearing a deal to acquire worldwide rights to Passing, the Rebecca Hall-directed and -scripted drama that stars Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland and Alexander Skarsgard. Sources said the deal will land at around a $15.75 million. The drama is about two African-American women who can…

This week on the New Hollywood Podcast, we have not one, not two but 16 guests in four separate segments. The Sundance Film Festival was virtual this year as was Deadline’s Sundance Studio. For this special episode, we share our studio interviews in podcast form. For this episode, I had the chance to speak with Christo…

The presumed dead-and-buried practice of racial passing by light-skinned blacks in the United States decades ago is returned to center-stage in Passing, a delicate, sensitive, intentionally claustrophobic and not entirely limber directorial debut from the protean British stage performer Rebecca Hall. Based on the…

One of the most talked-about titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, an adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel. Making its world premiere today in the Dramatic Competition section, Passing tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield…

Meryl Streep, Chris O’Dowd, Jacob Tremblay and Ruth Negga will voice an exclusive animated Earth Day short film for AppleTV+, Apple said today. Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth will premiere April 17. The film follows a precocious 7-year-old (Tremblay, of Room fame) who, over the course of Earth Day…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) has joined Tessa Thompson (Avengers: Endgame), Ruth Negga (Loving) and André Holland (Moonlight) in Rebecca Hall’s (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) directorial debut Passing. Shoot is underway in New York on the anticipated drama based on a screenplay Hall adapted from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has set up Passing, an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group.  Hall has penned the script and will…

20th Century Fox/New Regency/Bona Film Group’s science fiction epic Ad Astra will open in wide release on January 11, 2019. The pic has that date to itself for now. Brad Pitt stars as slightly autistic Roy McBride, an Army Corps engineer who searches across the galaxy for his father, Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonight's season 2 Preacher finale on AMC It’s hard to top a first season climax where your entire setting and its characters are wiped off the face of the earth. In the case of AMC/Sony TV’s Preacher, we’re talking about Annville, Texas which went up in flames and…

Church will be back in session on Monday, June 19, at 9PM ET/PT as Preacher returns for his second season on AMC. Based on the DC Vertigo comic book, Preacher season 2 follows God-power possessing West Texas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) who embarks on a road trip to find the big guy in the sky with his loose…