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Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, lead producers Jeffrey Richards, Steve Traxler and Stephanie P. McClelland announced today. Directed by frequent Mamet collaborator Neil Pepe, American Buffalo will begin previews in March 2020 with…

Ava DuVernay will receive the Director Tribute and Sam Rockwell the Actor Tribute at the 2019 IFP Gotham Awards, set for December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The annual awards show, among the first of the movie season, announces its nominations October 24. Last year, the tributes went to director Paul…

Deadline has confirmed that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Oscar winner Sam Rockwell is in final talks for Clint Eastwood’s The Ballad of Richard Jewell at Warner Bros. Pic follows Jewell, the security guard whose life was turned upside down after it was leaked by law enforcement to a reporter that he was a…

So, the Upfronts are thankfully over and part of the takeaway has to be that there are going to be a lot of legal dramas on the air next season, wall of superheroes and all of the Big 4 and the CW are trying to be a bit different as well as emphasizing stability (which is a word I don't want to hear for a while after…

Like an earlier teaser, the new official trailer for FX’s Fosse/Verdon offers plenty of glimpses of Cabaret dancers and onstage strutters, but now we’re seeing more personal scenes of Broadway’s famous couple in good times and bad. The limited series chronicles five decades in what FX calls the “romantic and creative…

EXCLUSIVE: After Deadline reported that the Academy planned to go against tradition and wasn’t planning to invite last year’s winners to present the Best Actor and Best Actress and Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress awards, it has changed its course and gone back to tradition, sort of. Deadline revealed that the…

Ron Suskind has closely covered Dick Cheney and the George W Bush White House as a journalist and author of The One Percent Doctrine and The Price Of Loyalty, and he was the executive producer of the Emmy-winning Oscar-nominated feature documentary Life, Animated. His bold reporting included an inflammatory report that…

The #MeToo era is just the right time to be doing an eight-episode series about the complicated/creative/tortured relationship between dancer-choreographer Bob Fosse and dancer/muse/wife Gwen Verdon, their daughter and the producers of FX’s Fosse/Verdon told TV critics Monday at TCA. While the project was being…

EXCLUSIVE: Either today or tomorrow, the Academy will start leveling with what it is planning for the 91st Oscars on February 24. The Academy tweeted last night that all five nominated songs will be performed during the telecast, and insiders said that reports that only two — the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper team-up…

Oscar winners Sam Rockwell, Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney have been set to star in The Heart, which will be the next film from writer-directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. The duo, who won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar with Alexander Payne for The Descendants, will also helm this one next and start shooting at year’s…

FX will premiere its Fosse/Verdon limited series on Tuesday April 9, the network announced today. Production on the eight-episode series starring Michelle Williams as dancer/actress Gwen Verdon and Vice Oscar nominee Sam Rockwell as director/choreographer Bob Fosse is underway in New York City. The premiere date was…

The finger snaps, angled poses and glimpses of Weimar decadence come fast and furious in FX’s first teaser for Fosse/Verdon, the upcoming limited series about Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Only one word is uttered: After the dancers have been put through the paces, Fosse, played by Sam Rockwell, orders “Again!” Verdon is…