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EXCLUSIVE: A year after becoming one of Netflix’s most popular original films to date, the sequel to The Old Guard is gearing up quickly as Netflix and Skydance zero in on a next director to take the helm. Sources tell Deadline that Victoria Mahoney has come on to direct The Old Guard 2, with stars Charlize Theron…

Victoria Mahoney, who is the first woman ever to direct a Star War movie, will direct the Kerry Washington-Sterling K. Brown action drama Shadow Force for Lionsgate. Mahoney served as the second unit director on Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.  Shadow Force, written by Leon Chills and Joe Carnahan, follows…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Lovecraft County episode ‘A History of Violence’ on HBO. Tread carefully. EXCLUSIVE: "There was an operative sentence that came to me at the beginning, and it had to do with Jurnee Smollett calling me on a Saturday early early early in the morning," explains…

Amazon Studios has hopped on board with Macro Television Studios to partner with Ava DuVernay's Array Filmworks to develop a TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s 1987 sci-fi novel Dawn. Victoria Mahoney (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Lovecraft Country) has been set as creator and will adapt and direct the…

The Force is strong with Victoria Mahoney. From hanging out with Basquiat during her youth in New York to directing her first feature Yelling to the Sky to helming episodes of numerous TV shows such Queen Sugar and Grey’s Anatomy, Mahoney has been through and seen a lot in her career and life. All of it has paved the…

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Mahoney, who made history as as the first woman to direct a Star Wars film, has signed with CAA for representation. Mahoney served as second unit director on JJ Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker after Abrams personally selected her for the job. In TV, Mahoney directed CBS drama pilots The Red…

EXCLUSIVE: After making history as as the first African-American woman to direct a Star Wars film with her second unit directing gig on JJ Abrams’ Star Wars Episode IX, Vic Mahoney is returning to TV as director and executive producer on the CBS medical drama pilot Under the Bridge. The project, which recently cast Dav…

Another historic moment for a female director, as Victoria Mahoney has been tapped by Lucasfilm and JJ Abrams to be second unit director on Star Wars: Episode IX. Ava DuVernay just tweeted the historic news. DuVernay became the first African American woman to sign on to direct a major superhero film in DC’s The New God…

EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has given a pilot order to Misfits, a supernatural drama inspired by the British series. It comes from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire and Diane Ruggiero-Wright (iZombie, Veronica Mars), who wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner. Cast as four of the five leads in the pilot…