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I was joined at today's Contenders Film LA3C event by the key people behind the hit epic The Woman King, which was just named to the prestigious list of AFI's Top 10 Movies of the Year. It also scored a rare A+ Cinemascore during its opening weekend in September, proving it has not only critical acclaim…

CBS Studios has teamed with Damon Wayans Jr to create a Baltimore-set version of its African drama MTV Shuga for streaming sister company Paramount+ and is co-producing shows in Australia and on the France-Spain border. Shuga: Baltimore will follow the lives of six people seeking to find beauty in…

What do Idris Elba, Lupin superstar Omar Sy and emerging French-Vietnamese writer Quoc Dang Tran have in common? Other than their obvious creative skills, they are among a growing number of stars born outside the U.S. who have signed talent deals in the last year. Deadline estimates as many as 20…

Sheila Atim marveled that the top four actors listed on the call sheet during filming of Gina Prince-Bythewood's hot epic The Woman King "are all dark-skinned Black women." Counting on the fingers of one hand, Atim recited the names of her fellow stars: “Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch, Thuso Mbedu and me!" Smiling, she…

EXCLUSIVE: The Underground Railroad star Thuso Mbedu is to create a suite of shows for Paramount+ outside the U.S. after striking a first-look deal with VIS Social Impact division. The fast-rising South African actress will create, develop and produce scripted and doc programmes focused on equity, climate and health…

TriStar Pictures has unveiled first-look photos from The Woman King, the historical epic directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard, Beyond the Lights) that is hitting theaters on September 16. The film is inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of…

The stars of The Underground Railroad, Amazon’s acclaimed limited series from Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, joined me for Wednesday night’s Deadline Virtual Screening Series. I moderated a discussion with Thuso Mbedu, who plays runaway slave Cora Randall; Joel Edgerton, who plays Ridgeway, the bounty hunter tracking her…

If you have seen Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime Video, you probably already had your breath taken away by its beauty, riveted by the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for fiction. There is one other major takeaway from the series…

If social media is any indication, the fact that Thuso Mbedu had 1.3 million Instagram followers even before her U.S. breakthrough role in The Underground Railroad was even released should point to the arrival of a fully formed star. Mbedu's following comes from her native South Africa, where she made a name on…

Barry Jenkins turns to television for his latest project, a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, Starring Thuso Mbedu, which hit Amazon Prime Video last week. It's his most ambitious project yet, set on a grander canvas and with much greater emotional stakes th…

In African American history the phrase "Underground Railroad" is a metaphor that refers to a secret network of routes and safe houses that would help enslaved people escape to freedom. But in Barry Jenkins' dazzlingly ambitious Amazon Prime Video serie, an adaptation of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson…

Debuting on Friday on Amazon Prime Video, The Underground Railroad is the show you have to watch this weekend, this week, and over the weeks and months to come. As a cursory glance at some of the brutal truths of American history tells all of us, there is a lot to take in from Barry Jenkins' brilliant adaptation of…