Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on contenders in the key categories for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the category of Outstanding Television Movie. There can be no question that the once very prestigious Emmy competition for Outstanding TV Movie was…

Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on the top acting contenders for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the categories of Outstanding Lead and Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie The good news…

It’s a fine day for Laura Dern, who is celebrating not just her own Emmy nomination, but also nods for Ted Danson—the godfather to her children—and David Lynch, with whom she most recently reunited for Twin Peaks. Of her own nod, Dern says, “I’m grateful that The Tale has been acknowledged because it gives more of a…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale airs tonight at 10 PM on HBO, after a Sundance Film Festival premiere in January, which is where I first saw it. The film is a powerful piece of memoir in which Fox, best known for her work in documentary film, struggles with a revelation that a relationship she had when she was…

HBO Films will premiere The Tale, Jennifer Fox's powerful narrative memoir about her own reckoning with childhood sexual abuse, on May 26th, and Fox joined castmembers Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn and Common for a moving panel after Sunday night’s AwardsLine screening of the film at LA’s…

UPDATED, 2:59 PM: HBO Films said today that its Sundance pickup The Tale, starring Laura Dern, will premiere at 10 PM Saturday, May 26, on the premium channel. Here is the new teaser: PREVIOUSLY, January 26: HBO Films said today that it has acquired exclusive rights to The Tale, Jennifer Fox’s timely drama that…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed to rep Jennifer Fox in all areas, this after she directed, wrote and produced the Sundance standout film The Tale. A harrowing autobiographical account of the sexual abuse that Fox suffered as a teenager, the film sold in one of the biggest deals of the Sundance Festival to HBO, which will…

Backed by strong performances from Laura Dern and Isabelle Nélisse (Mama), Jennifer Fox’s The Tale is a powerful Sundance movie that demands attention as the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements continue to shed light on stories of abuse. Fox’s film is autobiographical in the most exacting detail, to the point that Dern…

Mongrel International has boarded sales on Blackbird Film's The Tale, written and directed by Beirut: The Last Home Movie's Jennifer Fox. Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Sebastian Koch and Elizabeth Debicki star in the drama that begins principal photography this summer. It's produced by Lawrence Inglee and Oren Moverman (T…