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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Joker and Atlanta actress Zazie Beetz have been set to star in drama pic Shelter. Jen Gerber is directing from a script by David Rysdahl, who is also in the cast as a troubled father who reconnects with his estranged daughter after they find themselves homeless in the middle of…

When writer and director Edson Oda set out to make his supernatural drama Nine Days, he wanted to create something “very human, very emotional, but in a reality that is not necessarily the reality that we live.” “I always liked those kinds of weird premises and world-building, said Oda who stopped by Deadline Sundance…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Zazie Beetz, best known for her roles in hits like FX’s Atlanta, Deadpool 2, and the Oscar-nominated film Joker, has signed on to narrate Breathe, an environmentally-driven augmented reality journey created by transdisciplinary artist and PhD sustainability scientist Diego Galafassi. Set to premiere…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Atlanta co-star Zazie Beetz, has signed with CAA. The actress can currently be seen starring alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro and Frances Conroy in blockbuster Joker, which recently became the first R-rated film to cross $1 billion at the box office. Beetz received an Emmy nomination…

Adam Devine (The Righteous Gemstones), Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2) and Ken Jeong (Crazy Rich Asians) will lend their voices to animation feature, Extinct, from China Lion, HB Wink, Huayi Tencent Entertainment Ltd, Tolerable Entertainment and Timeless Films. David Silverman, who…

EXCLUSIVE: In a hot package to perk up a slumbering marketplace, Black Panther‘s Winston Duke is set to star in Nine Days with Deadpool 2‘s Zazie Beetz, It‘s Bill Skarsgård, Doctor Strange‘s Benedict Wong and David Rysdahl. The film is written and will be directed this summer by Edson Oda, the celebrated commercials…

Zazie Beetz and Betty Gabriel will appear in an early episode of The Twilight Zone, the high-profile revival by CBS All-Access that will get underway on April 1st when the first two episodes are released. Anther episode will follow every Thursday beginning April 11. Jordan Peele hosts the show, which will follow the…

With his second film out of Sundance in the last few years, Babak Anvari had a lot to live up to. His first effort, 2016's Under the Shadow, drew critical raves, winning a BAFTA Award, two British Independent Film Awards, and other accolades, and winding up as the British entry for Best Foreign Language Film that same…

Todd Phillips is looking to battle paparazzi leaking photos from the set of his forthcoming Joker movie by taking matters into his own hands. The director recently released photos of Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Batman villain and followed that up with a photo of actress Zazie Beetz from the movie. Phillips took to I…

EXCLUSIVE: In an eye-catching deal, Netflix has bought global rights to Steven Soderbergh’s sports-themed feature High Flying Bird, marking the director’s first collaboration with the streaming giant. The anticipated drama, set during a pro basketball lockout, follows a sports agent who pitches a rookie basketball…

As said in its new trailer, Slice is a movie about a ghost, a werewolf, and a “pretty sh*tty pizza place” — and it’s also Chance the Rapper’s feature acting debut! The A24 pic echoes classic B-movie horror fun and follows a story about a string of pizza delivery boy deaths in a spooky small town. Chance the Rapper…

If you were expecting the Deadpool 2 panel at San Diego Comic-Con to reveal some news about a third installment or an X-Force movie, consider your expectations not met. Instead, the panel shared deleted scenes from the upcoming “Super Duper $@%!#& Cut” of the movie which will be released August 21 on Blu-ray and…