Universal, which already had July 22, 2022 RSVP’ed on the theatrical release calendar, is designating that as the day to open Jordan Peele’s next horror event title.
Between the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s Get Outand Us, his directed genre fare has minted a combined $510.5 million worldwide for the studio.
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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…
Genre films famously don't tend to figure in the awards conversation, but nine months after the release of Jordan Peele's sophomore horror Us, there's still a lot of talk about Lupita Nyong'o’s impressive double performance. At the beginning of the film the Oscar-winning actress plays Adelaide, a suburban mom on…
Jordan Peele'sUs has been named this year’s Best Film by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA). The film, which earned over $255 million globally, received three total wins including Peele for Best Director and Lupita Nyong'o for Best Actress.
"Jordan Peele continued to raise the bar in horror…
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o was just named Best Actress of the year by New York Film Critics Circle for her performance in Jordan Peele’s Us. But despite her much-acclaimed performance as matriarch Adelaide Wilson and her tethered counterpart Red, as well as the film’s overall commercial and critical success…
Lupita Nyong'o has a new appreciation for those characters in costume at amusement parks. Mainly because a few days before this interview, she was playing one of them at Universal Studios. It's not what you'd expect for an Oscar-winner, but such is Nyong'o's up-for-it attitude, she told Universal staff she'd be happy…
Following his collaboration with Jordan Peele on the Oscar-winning Get Out, supervising sound editor Trevor Gates reteamed with the director on Us, an altogether different kind of horror film, centered on terrifying doppelgängers of Peele's invention.
Following the Wilsons—a family whose vacation in Santa Cruz goes…
At Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event Saturday, the makers of 38 films were interviewed by Deadline staff and showed clips as our awards season kicked off in full swing.
In this video clip, writer-director Jordan Peele, interviewed by Deadline’s Dominic Patten, dissected Us, his genre follow-up…
The ominous caverns that may be hidden below the fractured landscape of contemporary America are the violent playground for two Universal Pictures films, Us and Queen & Slim, that were represented on Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles by two filmmakers who plugged into the nightmare side of the American…
Can Clint Eastwood save the Oscars? With luck and a little help, yes, absolutely. It could happen. The stars already are aligning.
Since the debut last week of a trailer for Eastwood's Richard Jewell, about the pursuit of a security guard who was wrongly suspected of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996…
The Night Manager star Tom Hollander and The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl are to star in BBC One's adaptation of David Nicholls' novel Us.
The four-part series has finally begun filming after being initially commissioned in 2016. Wanderlust's Nick Payne was initially attached to write but the adaptation is now being handled…