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"So today, I stand here before you very, very unemployed," admitted Harlem creator Tracy Oliver today in her speech USC School of Cinematic Arts graduates. " "Yup, I'm this year's Mary Pickford recipient and I ain't got no jobs, my Apple deal was just suspended, I can't make money as a writer for…

Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studios' respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that brink, the studios have…

There’s a new version of The X-Files on the horizon from Ryan Coogler, according to series X-Files Chris Carter. "I just spoke to a young man, Ryan Coogler, who is going to remount The X-Files with a diverse cast. So, he's got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory,” Carter…

EXCLUSIVE: As his directorial debut Creed III was cresting toward a $100 million global opening weekend and setting numerous records — top opening for the Creed franchise and biggest sports film opening ever and a knockout victory for MGM, new parent Amazon & United Artists Releasing as the company…

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Media exec Kelli Buchanan is joining Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media as VP, Nonfiction. At Westbrook Media, Buchanan built and developed a multi-platform slate of original programming as their VP of Development. In her new role, Buchanan will report to Proximity co-founder…

USC School of Cinematic Arts alums Ryan Coogler (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Fruitvale Station) and Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, Little) have joined the school’s Board of Councilors. The appointment was announced by Elizabeth M. Daley, Dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Donna Langley…

Sheba, a one-hour-scripted drama series, from Chantelle Wells (Yellowjackets), Azie Tesfai (Supergirl) and Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media, is being developed by Onyx Collective for Hulu. The project was announced Saturday during Onyx Collective’s panel at the Sundance Film Festival. Co-created by…

"I prefer to speak through my movies," Ryan Coogler told a well-heeled crowd tonight at the late night A Taste of Sundance dinner. That may be true for the Creed and Black Panther director, but accepting the first annual Sundance Institute Visionary Award on the first day of the 2023 festival, 2013…

"It's a part of me," says Ryan Coogler of the Sundance Film Festival a decade after Fruitvale Station debuted in Park City and took home both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Award. So much of it impacted me and made me the filmmaker that I am today, the Black Panther director adds. "Without…

Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is heading to Utah, not for a game against the Jazz but an event in an entirely different arena: the Sundance Film Festival. We're told the future hall of famer intends to make the world premiere of Stephen Curry: Underrated on Monday night, January 23…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. In 2020, the tragic loss of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman sent writer-director Ryan Coogler into a tailspin. While in the early stages of…

Ryan Coogler has revealed the complicated backstory on what his film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was supposed to be before the tragic death of the original film’s star, Chadwick Boseman. Speaking to the New York Times, Coogler said the original intent was to make the film’s center about the…