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Scott Alexander, a magician who appeared on Season 6 of America’s Got Talent, has died following a stroke, his wife Jenny revealed on Instagram. “He suffered a stroke while working on a cruise ship in St Kitts and did not make it home to us,” Jenny wrote. “We are shattered. Please hold us in your…

Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name tells the true story of the efforts in the 1970s by Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) to make a movie based on his stage persona Dolemite. Murphy's co-stars and collaborators told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York how they filled in Moore's crazy ensemble. Wesley Snipes…

EXCLUSIVE: The Craig Brewer-directed Dolemite Is My Name stars Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore, the unsung filmmaking hero who would eventually help define the Blaxploitation era of cinema. Written by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (Big Eyes, Ed Wood, The People Vs. Larry Flynt), Dolemite is essentially a story…

A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

In any given awards season, whenever a movie studio or TV network has the goods, they show it. If it’s bad, they hide it. And with Fox 21 Television Studios and FX, they knew well in advance they had Emmy gold with their limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and began banging the drumming as…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story finale  “There’s been a joke on social media,” says writer/executive producer Larry Karaszewski about tonight’s finale to FX’s The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story: “Don’t spoil it!” Of course everyone…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have told the life stories of many eccentric geniuses. After the duo exec produced the celebrated FX event series The People V. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, they just made a deal with Amazon Studios to script a feature on the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, whose…

When Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski came across the bizarre story of Walter and Margaret Keane, they thought they’d found a seamless vehicle on which to make their directorial debut. It was cheap, and had all the requisite characteristics of their best known scripts, Ed Wood, Man On The Moon and People Vs. Larry…

Screenwriting software co. Final Draft will award Big Eyes duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski with its 2015 Hall of Fame honors at its annual Final Draft Awards, to be held February 12 on the Paramount lot. Alexander and Karaszewski join a list of previous Hall of Famers including Nancy Meyers, Lawrence Kasdan…

Director Tim Burton and producer/screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are admittedly drawn to telling tales of characters working on the fringe of society, and particularly about oddball artists of one stripe or another. In our latest video (see above) from The Contenders, Deadline’s annual Oscar…