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New Yorker Films’ The Barber of Little Rock, an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Short, explores America's widening racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, a local barber whose visionary approach to a just economy can be found in the…

Filmed in France, the Dominican Republic and Senegal, Ivan Herrera's slow-burn drama Bantú Mama tells the story of Emma (Clarisse Albrecht), an everyday French woman of African descent whose life is thrown into turmoil when she is arrested for being a drug mule during a trip to the Caribbean. Escaping…

"I grew up in Oklahoma and on George and Tammy's music," says creator-showrunner Abe Sylvia. "I was doing research on another project when I came across a photograph of George and Tammy hugging one another. And I thought, 'Oh my gosh, no one's done this yet, and I don't know why.' It's so operatic and…

With the Netflix stop-motion anthology film The House, producer Charlotte Bavasso conducted an ambitious “experiment,” bringing together four leading indie animation directors to tell three stories set within the same space, which would reflect the unique style of each, while playing together as a satisfying and…

Producer Todd Lieberman admits that when Disney first approached him about making a Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie around nine years ago, his initial instinct was to say: “I’m not sure that’s a wise use of time, unless we do it in a very different way than one might expect.” The standard version of the film that…

Hugh Laurie is of course well known as a multi-Emmy-nominated actor, notably in long-running series House among other things. But he also is an increasingly accomplished force behind the camera too, and demonstrates that again in a new take on Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? for which he wrote the…

"It was probably my favorite episode to shot, because it was really a delight," says Evil star Katja Herbers of the "S Is For Silence" from Season 2 of the Robert and Michelle King created supernatural drama. As you can see in the video above, Herbers was speaking this week during Deadline's Virtual Screening Series…

West Side Story has come to Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series. In an in depth on-stage conversation at the Fox lot’s Zanuck Theatre  on a recent Sunday I moderated a discussion with several Oscar nominated members of the WSS team led by director/producer Steven Spielberg who started things off by explaining the…

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Paul Reiser all joined me Monday night for Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series, where we had a lively (to say the least) and at times out-of-control conversation about the third and final season of their Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method from creator Chuck Lorre. If you…

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit has swept the pre-Emmy awards circuit picking up nearly every trophy offered at various Guild and Critics ceremonies and instantly making it the show to beat, at least based on those precursor credentials, in Limited Series/Movie categories when Emmy voting time rolls around. Based on the…

Andra Day, star of The United States vs Billie Holiday, was the surprise winner Sunday in the tightly fought Golden Globes race for Best Actress in a Drama. The win further ratcheted up her chances to land a Best Actress Oscar nomination for the Lee Daniels-directed film, which examines the FBI and Federal Department…

What We Do In The Shadows , the wild and wacky FX comedy series about a bunch of vampire roommates has just been nominated for 5 Critcs Choice Awards including Best Comedy Series.  That is coming off a whopping 8 Emmy Nominations for season two of the show, one that is quickly becoming a must-see cult smash. I was…