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Paul Giamatti has joined the cast of the upcoming Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in a recurring role. He will play the Season 1 villain, a man with an ominous past connected to one of our cadets. “Sometimes you're lucky enough to discover that one of the greatest actors alive…

Hostel is in the works for the small screen. Paul Giamatti is attached to star in a television series based on Eli Roth’s horror franchise, from Roth, Chris Briggs, Mike Fleiss, all of whom worked on the films, and Fifth Season, Deadline has confirmed. The show is currently in development and does…

Focus Features and Carnival Films are officially in production on Downton Abbey 3 with main cast members returning and a number of new additions to the feature franchise spawned by creator Julian Fellowes' global TV phenomenon. Simon Curtis is directing after helming 2022's feature sequel Downton Abbey: A…

“This is a love letter to Black women,” Da’Vine Joy Randolph said backstage at the Academy Awards, having just collected her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Holdovers. Related Stories <a href="https://deadline.com/category/news/" class="c-span__link a-font-accent-bold-xs u-color-brand-red u-text-transform-uppercase…

The Holdovers collaborators, director Alexander Payne and screenwriter David Hemingson, are working on another film together—a Western, in fact—and during a Q&A following a screening of The Holdovers at Soho House in West Hollywood on Friday, Hemingson revealed there’s a part earmarked for Paul…

"It genuinely feels like things are happening in real time." That's Da'Vine Joy Randolph's take on how her wise-beyond-years private school cafeteria lady Mary was able to forge a solid chemistry with Paul Giamatti’s curmudgeon ancient civilizations instructor Paul Hunham in Focus Features' The Holdov…

Paul Giamatti’s turn as the walleyed loner schoolteacher who smells of fish in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers has propelled the actor to be squarely in the mix in the Best Actor Oscar race. This has been a long time coming, as the Yale School of Drama-educated Giamatti has been turning in outstanding…

After landing his second Oscar nomination on Tuesday morning for his starring turn in Alexander Payne’s dramedy The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti spoke with Deadline about the reasons horror is currently at top of mind for him, the filmmakers active in that genre today that he’d most like to work with, his…

Following the announcement of his Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination Tuesday morning, The Holdovers screenwriter David Hemingson revealed to Deadline that some dialogue and scenes were taken verbatim from his own life. Hemingson had originally written a pilot based on his own boarding school…

Alexander Payne's The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you'll see Da'Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hair when she played Louise "Weezy" Jefferson in the classic TV comedy The Jeffersons. "I do this all the…

Paul Giamatti won at the Critic Choice Awards for Best Actor for The Holdovers and acknowledged his viral fame this week during his acceptance speech. “Wow, guys, I didn’t think my week could get any better than going viral for eating a cheeseburger,” Giamatti joked. The actor was referencing a…

"We did two films together and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Maybe there's time for one more?" said Martin Scorsese, turning to Daniel Day-Lewis after the actor lovingly introduced him at the National Board of Review awards gala. The crowd at Cipriani 42nd Street was entranced by…