Long before she was a teenage actress holding her snarky own in Roseanne, before heading a panel of women sharing their perspectives on The Talk, and before the Roseanne reboot reconfigured into The Conners, Sara Gilbert found her voice as a performer. Specifically, during an elementary school performance of The Wizard…

It's a gloomy Monday afternoon in Westwood and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is wrapping up Deadline’s cover shoot. Fresh from the Fleabag stage in New York, in two weeks' time her brainchild Killing Eve will sweep the BAFTAs, but of course she doesn't know that yet. For now she's hard at work on a very famous, typically…

If there's a takeaway from this awards season, it's that true stories are back with a vengeance. For proof, look no further than Rosamund Pike as war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War, Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush in Vice, Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley in Green Book, Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been seven years and seven months since the release of Green Lantern, but the film’s historic failure still glows brightly in the memory of Warner Bros executives and fans alike. That’s one reason the studio has struggled to decide how best to revamp a property that remains far too prominent in DC Comic…

As the Oscar nomination voting window opens, suspense is building across all the categories including Documentary Short Subject, where 10 films remain in contention. Five will go on to earn Academy Award nominations, which are set to be revealed on January 22. Among the contenders, several touch on taboo subjects. In…

For decade upon decade the remains of María Martín's mother have lain beneath a roadway in Spain, her death unmarked except for her aging daughter's lonely vigil. Cars pass indifferently across the route, a symbol of how the country paved over its history of brutal repression and political murder under the fascist…

When the Oscar Documentary Feature shortlist came out recently, Hulu had double the reason to celebrate. Two of its films made the exclusive roster, a considerable achievement in a competitive environment where Netflix, HBO, PBS, National Geographic and other parties are all vying for the Academy's favor. Hulu scored…

Ben Foster is pacing Manhattan trying to ignore the clamor. "Sorry about all the sirens!" he groans apologetically. He's just gotten home from starring as 14th Century general Jan Žižka in the biopic Medieval, hyped as Czechoslovakia's biggest blockbuster to date, and Foster just wanted to stroll around to appreciate…

 WHO Joanna Kulig Age: 36 Hometown: Krynica-Zdrój, Lesser Poland, Poland  WHAT In Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War, Kulig is Zula, a woman in post-war Poland who joins a folk music touring group. She begins a romance with conductor Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and the two form a passionate but volatile couple. The story spans time…

In the competitive world of feature animation, it takes more than an entertaining yarn and a bit of slapstick comedy to cut through the noise. To make an impact at the box office in 2018—and at the Oscars, heading now into its 91st go-round—filmmakers are called upon to pursue a new standard of excellence, going back…

Lakeith Stanfield is headed home. That is, if he can remember where he lives. "I forgot my street," he chuckles to the driver. He snaps his fingers once, twice, three times, and like magic, summons his address to mind. To be fair, he hasn't been living there long. Since his career started to click, the 27-year-old…

Hugh Grant really, really does not like Ben Whishaw. "I want him dead," he says, softly, as he sips on a cup of tea at the Ritz hotel in London. "He was my wife and I've clearly done terrible things to my wife. Then I put him in prison. I tried to kill him on a train. I seduced him, raped him, and tried to have him…