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HBO’s Perry Mason will see a handful of new faces as Sean Astin (Stranger Things), Tommy Dewey (Pivoting),  Oscar-nominee Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) and Jen Tullock (Severance) join the cast for Season 2. Shea Whigham (Gaslit), who appeared in Season 1, will also return for the upcoming season. They will appear…

The title South of Heaven means some kind of hell for parolee Jimmy Ray in director Aharon Keshales’ noirish genre action drama that brings star Jason Sudeikis a film role that is well south of his current success in Ted Lasso. This film was actually shot several months before Lasso became a sensation and gave…

EXCLUSIVE: Small Engine Repair, the independent film adaptation of the John Pollono play, has been set by Vertical Entertainment for release on September 10. Vertical has released the first trailer for what is best described as a study in brotherhood and toxic masculinity. The film was scripted and directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Betty Gilpin (GLOW) will play Mo Dean, joining Dan Stevens as her husband John Dean in Starz’s Watergate drama Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. Also cast as series regulars are Shea Whigham (Joker, Perry Mason) and Darby Camp (The Christmas Chronicles, Big Little Lies) in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Small Engine Repair, the indie adaptation of John Pollono’s play, finally gets its big screen moment as it tries to find theatrical distribution the only way it is done in Los Angeles these days — at the drive-in. Written and directed by Pollono a decade after it became an underground stage hit in LA, the…

Although it is nowhere near the level of Peter Bogdanovich’s landmark 1971 classic The Last Picture Show, which was set in the waning days of a small Texas town in the ’50s, Martha Stephens’ To the Stars is an appealing look at two very different high school girls in a tiny Oklahoma town circa 1960. It makes a nice…

If you’re looking to find a quality new movie that actually feels like a genuine theatrical release, look no further than The Quarry, which pits two of our finest actors — Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham — against each other in a deliberately paced, atmospheric and compelling Texas noir hitting VOD this week. The…

Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Chalk (Gotham) and Shea Whigham (Homecoming) are set as series regulars opposite Matthew Rhys in Perry Mason, HBO's limited series from Team Downey. Additionally, Nate Corddry (Mom), Veronica Falcon (Queen of the South), Jefferson Mays (I Am The Night), Gayle Rankin (GLOW) and Lili Taylor (Chambers)…

Part of a new mini-trend of taking popular podcasts and transitioning them into full-fledged TV entertainment, Amazon’s Homecoming just might be the prime example at the moment.  Who knew that would be all it would take to get Julia Roberts to commit to her first TV series? At Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders…

EXCLUSIVE: Shea Whigham, two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern and Zach Avery have joined The Gateway alongside previously announced Olivia Munn.  Emmy Award nominee Michele Civetta (The Executrix, Premonitions) is attached to direct.  Andrew Levitas will produce under his Metalwork Pictures banner alongside Stephen…

Scott Teems’ The Quarry starring Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham has commenced production down in New Orleans, LA. The two actors have worked together numerous times before including the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire and Paramount Network’s Waco last year, but also such movies as Take Shelter, Tigerland, and Bad Lieu…