When AFI revealed its Top 10 Films of the Year last month, five of them were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts. To Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond, 2021 looked like it could be a landmark year. Then came the crazy BAFTA nominations, along with the Producers and Directors guilds’ lists. Now what?
Just before Cloud 9’s doors shutter for good, Superstore star America Ferrera will return for the NBC comedy’s series finale.
Ferrera, whose Amy Sosa packed her bags for California for a new corporate gig at Zephra, will reunite with the Superstore cast once more as a final farewell. The actress will appear in the…
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has acquired the U.S. rights to the Miramax and 6th & Idaho sci-fi thriller Mother/Android starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
The streamer will premiere the movie at some point this year.
The pic, which reps Mattson Tomlin’s feature directorial debut, is set in the near future and follows Georgia (Chloë…
“Are you ready for me?” Tina Turner shouts from a stage in a classic clip featured in this trailer for HBO’s documentary Tina. By the end of the preview the answer has to be a resounding yes.
Told in her own words with lots of vintage performance footage – including some never-before-seen film, audio tapes and…
The Good Lord Bird star Joshua Caleb Johnson is set to recur opposite Adrienne Warren and Cedric Joe in ABC's limited series Women of the Movement, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.
The six-episode limited series is set in 1955. It centers on…
George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards, based on the popular book series, is set up at a new home. The project, which had been in development at Hulu since 2018, has moved to Peacock with UCP producing.
The Secret Circle creator Andrew Miller, who was previously attached to write and executive produce, is no longer involved…
Chuck Lorre’s new CBS comedy United States of Al is moving to a new time slot on Thursday nights. The series, which premieres April 1, will move to 8:30 pm ET/PT following Young Sheldon.B Positive, which was previously in the 8:30 pm slot, will shift to 9:30 pm ET/PT slot following Mom.
With United States of Al being…
EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm and Rain Management Group have signed Kourosh Ahari, the Iranian-American director of IFC Midnight's The Night.
Ahari also co-wrote and produced the psychological-thriller through his LA-based production banner Mammoth Pictures, along with his producing partner, Alex Bretow.
Ahari's feature…
EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Morgenstein, founder of Alloy Entertainment and producer of series including Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, is staying at Warner Bros.
Morgenstein has struck a contract extension with Warner Bros. Television Group that will see him continue as President of the books-to-TV and film…
HBO Max has set a new audience initiative titled HBO Max Pa'lante! which looks to break down barriers for new voices and driving awareness to culturally relevant programming across HBO Max for Latinx audiences.
Pa'lante!, which translates to “forward”, was founded on the vision of empowerment, resilience, and hope. It…
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Catherine Hook and Imani Lewis have been cast as the leads in First Kill,Netflix’s upcoming series executive produced by Emma Roberts.
Written by Felicia D. Henderson and best-selling author Victoria "V. E." Schwab, First Kill is based on a short story by Schwab.
In it, when it’s time for teenage…
After nearly a decade as head of scripted television for MGM, Steve Stark is leaving the studio’s executive ranks. The news comes a year after MGM's Worldwide Television Group, run by Chairman Mark Burnett, last extended Stark with a new contract in conjunction with him being named President of a new label, MGM/UA Tele…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Hot off of a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer, South African drama Moffie is due to release in select U.S. theaters and on digital and VOD platforms via IFC Films on April 9. Check out the new trailer above.
Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie…