Hollywood, and Deadline’s live blog, returned for the 96th Academy Awards. The sunny skies, and the fact that the 10 Best Picture nominees include several that audiences have actually seen, bodes well for the festivities. Jimmy Kimmel was back as host, and because Donald Trump remains former president, there is every chance that the Red States won’t consider the event polarized and worth watching … all signs point to a ratings rebound.
Joining Mike Fleming Jr on the live blog was his usual sparring partner Joe Utichi, who turned his Oppenheimer AwardsLine cover story into English. We also had cameos from our awards expert, Pete Hammond, and Baz Bamigboye, who are both in the room at the Dolby Theatre.
Read on for how the night went.
Joining Mike Fleming Jr on the live blog was his usual sparring partner Joe Utichi, who turned his Oppenheimer AwardsLine cover story into English. We also had cameos from our awards expert, Pete Hammond, and Baz Bamigboye, who are both in the room at the Dolby Theatre.
Read on for how the night went.
- 3/11/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr, Joe Utichi, Pete Hammond and Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Four months later than originally scheduled due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards finally showed up Monday night. Fast-paced, packed with reunions, tributes and a Best Talk Show win by Trevor Noah for a Daily Show he exited in late 2022, the Anthony Anderson-hosted ceremony was skillfully solid and eminently predictable.
Ambitious, the Jesse Collins Entertainment-produced endeavor had a lot of good moments in a compressed award season that has already left most of us dizzy. To that end, in the paper cut of criticism, it wouldn’t have hurt if the Emmys had taken their foot off the pedal a bit and given the Fox-broadcasted show some time to breathe.
Overall, as my colleague Joe Utichi said tonight on Deadline’s Emmy live blog: “This is an Emmy-worthy Emmys.” At the same time, and through no fault of their own, the...
Ambitious, the Jesse Collins Entertainment-produced endeavor had a lot of good moments in a compressed award season that has already left most of us dizzy. To that end, in the paper cut of criticism, it wouldn’t have hurt if the Emmys had taken their foot off the pedal a bit and given the Fox-broadcasted show some time to breathe.
Overall, as my colleague Joe Utichi said tonight on Deadline’s Emmy live blog: “This is an Emmy-worthy Emmys.” At the same time, and through no fault of their own, the...
- 1/16/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten years on from her explosive breakthrough in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Margot Robbie has had the moment of her career with Barbie, a project she shepherded to the screen as a producer long before she claimed the lead role. After more than a billion dollars at the box office, Barbie has entered the zeitgeist, and Robbie is ready to take a victorious breath, finds Joe Utichi.
Success takes many forms, but few movie stars can ever claim to find themselves where Margot Robbie has set up camp at the start of 2024. In the wake of the enormous triumph of Barbie, she has achieved the kind of household recognition that has proved elusive for so many actors of her generation. And while the film that brought her here is based upon one of the most storied intellectual properties on the planet, there are few who could...
Success takes many forms, but few movie stars can ever claim to find themselves where Margot Robbie has set up camp at the start of 2024. In the wake of the enormous triumph of Barbie, she has achieved the kind of household recognition that has proved elusive for so many actors of her generation. And while the film that brought her here is based upon one of the most storied intellectual properties on the planet, there are few who could...
- 1/10/2024
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Here is Deadline’s live blog of the hopefully new and improved Golden Globes. It’s a new iteration of the awards on CBS after the Globes’ longtime network, NBC, ended its relationship after the awards show’s previous management was scandalized by revelations that the now-defunct HFPA had no Black voting members, among other improprieties.
Now the Globes are a for-profit venture under Dick Clark Productions, which is co-owned by Deadline parent Pmc and Eldridge and run by Pmc CEO Jay Penske, with 300 voters (some of them paid) representing 76 countries.
The live blog again was handled by Deadline’s executive awards editor Joe Utichi and co-editor in chief Mike Fleming Jr, along with contributions by Deadline staffers who are at the Beverly Hilton on the red carpet, in the room and backstage. And as usual, we promise not to pull punches.
While some would say we risked life and...
Now the Globes are a for-profit venture under Dick Clark Productions, which is co-owned by Deadline parent Pmc and Eldridge and run by Pmc CEO Jay Penske, with 300 voters (some of them paid) representing 76 countries.
The live blog again was handled by Deadline’s executive awards editor Joe Utichi and co-editor in chief Mike Fleming Jr, along with contributions by Deadline staffers who are at the Beverly Hilton on the red carpet, in the room and backstage. And as usual, we promise not to pull punches.
While some would say we risked life and...
- 1/8/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr and Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla. Based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me co-authored by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon, the script was adapted by Coppola who also directed.
The story begins when teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis at a party and the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. From Priscilla’s point of view, the film looks at the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage.
Cailee Spaeny plays the eponymous role, for which she won a Best Actress Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. Jacob Elordi plays Elvis.
At the world premiere in Venice, the real Priscilla Presley choked up when she took...
The story begins when teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis at a party and the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. From Priscilla’s point of view, the film looks at the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage.
Cailee Spaeny plays the eponymous role, for which she won a Best Actress Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. Jacob Elordi plays Elvis.
At the world premiere in Venice, the real Priscilla Presley choked up when she took...
- 12/18/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
When Julianne Moore first was approached for May December, a dark dramedy that would have her star opposite Natalie Portman under the direction of frequent collaborator Todd Haynes, she said yes immediately. But only in looking more closely at the material and her Gracie character did she come to understand the complexity of what she’d just signed on for.
“I called up Todd and said, ‘I can’t do this. This is too hard!’” the actress admitted Saturday in conversation with Joe Utichi at Deadline’s Contenders Film L.A. “I was really struggling. I’m like, ‘Who is this woman?’” The character was difficult to get a handle on, she said, given how strongly she was holding on “to her own narrative, to her own performance,” with regard to her life and who she was. “And what is that performance?” she wondered.
In examining the script by Samy Burch,...
“I called up Todd and said, ‘I can’t do this. This is too hard!’” the actress admitted Saturday in conversation with Joe Utichi at Deadline’s Contenders Film L.A. “I was really struggling. I’m like, ‘Who is this woman?’” The character was difficult to get a handle on, she said, given how strongly she was holding on “to her own narrative, to her own performance,” with regard to her life and who she was. “And what is that performance?” she wondered.
In examining the script by Samy Burch,...
- 11/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Recreating the joyful romance and deep bond that existed between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed in the weeks leading up to their tragic deaths in a Parisian car crash after being relentlessly pursued by paparazzi helped The Crown actors Elizabeth Debicki and Khalid Abdalla navigate dramatizing the sad, dark incident for the Netflix series’ sixth season.
Speaking at a Q&a session immediately following a screening of the first episode of Season 6 at the Regency Village Theater in Westwood, Debicki admitted that, as she prepared to portray the princess whom she originally played in Season 5, she was heartbroken by the series of events leading to her demise.
“I’ll be honest, I was devastated at the time,” Debicki said during the panel moderated by Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi. “I remember I read all four [of the episodes] and then I took a deep breath and went and just laid down somewhere.
Speaking at a Q&a session immediately following a screening of the first episode of Season 6 at the Regency Village Theater in Westwood, Debicki admitted that, as she prepared to portray the princess whom she originally played in Season 5, she was heartbroken by the series of events leading to her demise.
“I’ll be honest, I was devastated at the time,” Debicki said during the panel moderated by Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi. “I remember I read all four [of the episodes] and then I took a deep breath and went and just laid down somewhere.
- 11/13/2023
- by Scott Huver
- Deadline Film + TV
Good afternoon Insiders. We’re back after a busy week in Cannes and Max Goldbart is here helming your weekly dose of news and analysis. Read on and sign up here.
Conflict Week Two
Here for the long haul: We are approaching the two-week anniversary of the bloody Hamas massacre on Israel, and there is now a terrifying recognition that the region is in it for the long haul. This week has been about attempted damage limitation as Israel takes revenge on its attackers and Western nations rush to stem the flow of a crisis that is so far estimated to have claimed around 5,000 lives. Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have both visited, attempting to walk a tightrope in pledging their support for Israel while stressing the need for international law to be observed and innocent Palestinian lives to be spared. Biden was the most successful, securing...
Conflict Week Two
Here for the long haul: We are approaching the two-week anniversary of the bloody Hamas massacre on Israel, and there is now a terrifying recognition that the region is in it for the long haul. This week has been about attempted damage limitation as Israel takes revenge on its attackers and Western nations rush to stem the flow of a crisis that is so far estimated to have claimed around 5,000 lives. Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have both visited, attempting to walk a tightrope in pledging their support for Israel while stressing the need for international law to be observed and innocent Palestinian lives to be spared. Biden was the most successful, securing...
- 10/20/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“It felt like we were reconnecting after a long time,” To Leslie star Andrea Riseborough said today of working with Domhnall Gleeson on Alice & Jack, Channel 4 & PBS Masterpiece’s upcoming romantic drama that premiered at Mipcom Cannes.
Riseborough and Gleeson have worked plenty together down the years including on Never Let Me Go and Shadow Dancer, but hadn’t partnered on a project for some years until the series.
During an Alice & Jack Q&a this evening at Mipcom Cannes, chaired by Deadline’s Joe Utichi, Riseborough said it “felt like were reconnecting after a long time” and this had been obvious from the first scene that the pair did together.
“It was so catapulted and so real,” she added. “It’s strange to be both young and old with someone but I’ve done that with Domhnall and our relationship kind of reflects Alice and Jack’s meeting.
Riseborough and Gleeson have worked plenty together down the years including on Never Let Me Go and Shadow Dancer, but hadn’t partnered on a project for some years until the series.
During an Alice & Jack Q&a this evening at Mipcom Cannes, chaired by Deadline’s Joe Utichi, Riseborough said it “felt like were reconnecting after a long time” and this had been obvious from the first scene that the pair did together.
“It was so catapulted and so real,” she added. “It’s strange to be both young and old with someone but I’ve done that with Domhnall and our relationship kind of reflects Alice and Jack’s meeting.
- 10/16/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Linklater brought his Hit Man to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, world premiering the comedy thriller out of competition to a six-minute ovation inside the Sala Grande.
The crowd’s response to the pic was notably enthusiastic, with one scene in particular between star Glen Powell and co-star Adria Arjona causing the audience to erupt in applause.
(Watch) 6-minute ovation for Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’ #Venezia80 pic.twitter.com/JlfIMTDCaK
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 5, 2023
Hit Man is loosely based on a true crime article Linklater came across about 20 years ago in the Texas Monthly about Gary Johnson, who had helped Houston police catch would-be criminals seeking a hitman’s services.
In the New Orleans-set film, this true tale is the jumping-off point for an escalating affair between Johnson (Powell) and a desperate woman (Arjona) trying to flee an abusive husband as Johnson finds himself becoming one of his false personas,...
The crowd’s response to the pic was notably enthusiastic, with one scene in particular between star Glen Powell and co-star Adria Arjona causing the audience to erupt in applause.
(Watch) 6-minute ovation for Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’ #Venezia80 pic.twitter.com/JlfIMTDCaK
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 5, 2023
Hit Man is loosely based on a true crime article Linklater came across about 20 years ago in the Texas Monthly about Gary Johnson, who had helped Houston police catch would-be criminals seeking a hitman’s services.
In the New Orleans-set film, this true tale is the jumping-off point for an escalating affair between Johnson (Powell) and a desperate woman (Arjona) trying to flee an abusive husband as Johnson finds himself becoming one of his false personas,...
- 9/5/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Michelle Yeoh never imagined a path for herself that would lead to her mind-bending performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, the film that has made her Oscar’s first Best Actress nominee openly of Southeast Asian descent and that has earned her SAG’s Best Actress prize, among other accolades. After a lifetime spent breaking down barriers, she tells Joe Utichi how it feels to have at last been invited to the ball.
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Michelle Yeoh’s mother is a worrier. Janet Yeoh has spent the past four decades watching her wildest dreams for her daughter come true.
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Michelle Yeoh’s mother is a worrier. Janet Yeoh has spent the past four decades watching her wildest dreams for her daughter come true.
- 3/1/2023
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here. It’s Oscar noms week, and we’d be rude not to bring you the latest headlines and analysis from the Academy and beyond. Read on.
And The Nominations Are In
Everything Everywhere all at the Oscars: Zac Ntim here reporting after an Oscar noms week in which A24’s multiverse epic Everything Everywhere All at Once scored a leading 11 nominations, while there was plenty to digest on the international side. The film’s haul included Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, who became the first actress of Asian descent nominated in the category. Writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert originally created the role for Jackie Chan. The A24 pic has leapt from plucky underdog to awards frontrunner in a matter of weeks, collecting impressive hauls at BAFTA and numerous others. A nomination for Best Supporting Actress Stephanie Hsu, who...
And The Nominations Are In
Everything Everywhere all at the Oscars: Zac Ntim here reporting after an Oscar noms week in which A24’s multiverse epic Everything Everywhere All at Once scored a leading 11 nominations, while there was plenty to digest on the international side. The film’s haul included Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, who became the first actress of Asian descent nominated in the category. Writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert originally created the role for Jackie Chan. The A24 pic has leapt from plucky underdog to awards frontrunner in a matter of weeks, collecting impressive hauls at BAFTA and numerous others. A nomination for Best Supporting Actress Stephanie Hsu, who...
- 1/27/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Ukrainian cast and crew of Luxembourg, Luxembourg — premiering in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival — today used their Lido photo call as a powerful call for support of Ukraine’s families.
In connection with the theme of the movie, director Antonio Lukich and team held up a series of pictures from classic films featuring a strong father and son relationship, and in which the father’s image was obscured. This while posing with banners that read “Imagine movies without fathers” and “Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, thousands of Ukrainian children have been left without parents.”
Luxembourg, Luxembourg follows twin Ukrainian brothers who set out on a journey to the titular country upon learning their long-absent father is sick in the capital.
In a statement, the filmmakers said, “We want to attract the attention to the problem with which we, as Ukrainians, will be faced after...
In connection with the theme of the movie, director Antonio Lukich and team held up a series of pictures from classic films featuring a strong father and son relationship, and in which the father’s image was obscured. This while posing with banners that read “Imagine movies without fathers” and “Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, thousands of Ukrainian children have been left without parents.”
Luxembourg, Luxembourg follows twin Ukrainian brothers who set out on a journey to the titular country upon learning their long-absent father is sick in the capital.
In a statement, the filmmakers said, “We want to attract the attention to the problem with which we, as Ukrainians, will be faced after...
- 9/7/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The 79th Venice Film Festival is continuing in beautiful Lido di Venezia, Italy, and one of the big premieres of the night is the new film by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, Bones & All.
The film is a coming-of-age romantic horror adventure starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as two runaways named Lee and Maren who connect in the 1980s taking a road trip across America and coming to realize they both are cannibals.
Much of the film’s cast, which also includes Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark Rylance and the director David Gordon Green, fielded press questions along with director Guadagnino about the movie this morning.
On playing characters in a different time period, Chalamet said, “It was a relief to play characters that are wrestling with internal drama absent the ability to go on Reddit or Twitter or social media or TikTok to see where they fit in.”
He...
The film is a coming-of-age romantic horror adventure starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as two runaways named Lee and Maren who connect in the 1980s taking a road trip across America and coming to realize they both are cannibals.
Much of the film’s cast, which also includes Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark Rylance and the director David Gordon Green, fielded press questions along with director Guadagnino about the movie this morning.
On playing characters in a different time period, Chalamet said, “It was a relief to play characters that are wrestling with internal drama absent the ability to go on Reddit or Twitter or social media or TikTok to see where they fit in.”
He...
- 9/3/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Afternoon all, Max Goldbart here looking back on quite a week. Lots to digest so the Insider has you covered. Read on.
Smith Vs Rock: The Fallout
“The Slap Heard Around The World”: Once a year, film fanatics across the globe are used to waking up to (or being awake for) news of the major Oscar winners, bleary-eyed and chilly, but no global Oscar morning reveal has ever been quite like Monday’s. Waking up to news of the ultimate drama, Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face following a tactless GI Jane joke, the world’s media sprung into gear and Andreas had this handy roundup of the best reactions. “The Slap Heard Around The World” was perhaps the best summary from Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald. As the Ukraine conflict was knocked off front pages for the first time in weeks, multiple papers criticized King Richard...
Smith Vs Rock: The Fallout
“The Slap Heard Around The World”: Once a year, film fanatics across the globe are used to waking up to (or being awake for) news of the major Oscar winners, bleary-eyed and chilly, but no global Oscar morning reveal has ever been quite like Monday’s. Waking up to news of the ultimate drama, Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face following a tactless GI Jane joke, the world’s media sprung into gear and Andreas had this handy roundup of the best reactions. “The Slap Heard Around The World” was perhaps the best summary from Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald. As the Ukraine conflict was knocked off front pages for the first time in weeks, multiple papers criticized King Richard...
- 4/1/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
After being exclusively virtual the past couple of years, we are happy to announce we are back in front of a live audience again.
The Oscars may have just ended, but Deadline’s Contenders Television event is looking forward with the biggest gathering of the small screen’s awards hopefuls we have ever put together. It will all take place at Paramount Studios in person, and live streamed for those at home, on the weekend of April 9 and 10, 2022.
Forty-seven shows and 146 speakers will participate in Deadline’s Contenders Television, a massive kickoff event for the TV awards season. The hybrid gathering will begin in person at Paramount at 7Am with a catered breakfast, as well as virtually streaming live starting at 8Am Pt both days. There will also be lunch served and a cocktail reception following each day.
ABC, Amazon Prime Video, AMC Networks, Apple TV+, CBS Studios, Disney Television Studios,...
The Oscars may have just ended, but Deadline’s Contenders Television event is looking forward with the biggest gathering of the small screen’s awards hopefuls we have ever put together. It will all take place at Paramount Studios in person, and live streamed for those at home, on the weekend of April 9 and 10, 2022.
Forty-seven shows and 146 speakers will participate in Deadline’s Contenders Television, a massive kickoff event for the TV awards season. The hybrid gathering will begin in person at Paramount at 7Am with a catered breakfast, as well as virtually streaming live starting at 8Am Pt both days. There will also be lunch served and a cocktail reception following each day.
ABC, Amazon Prime Video, AMC Networks, Apple TV+, CBS Studios, Disney Television Studios,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Mike Fleming: Joe, I thought it a good idea to go back and compare our feelings, days after we live-blogged the Academy Awards for Deadline on Sunday. I must say right up front, I am ashamed of the position I took, in respecting Will Smith for standing up for his wife when she was insulted by Chris Rock, because Jada Pinkett Smith has alopecia and that is why she keeps her hair close-cropped. The person I should have lauded was Rock, who clearly didn’t know about the alopecia and therefore in his mind delivered a silly benign joke, had the discipline to keep his cool after being shockingly assaulted onstage. Smith blew what should have been the pinnacle of his inspiring career, and I blew it in not recognizing the incalculable damage he did to his legacy, and the Academy Awards.
I think by not swiftly removing Smith from the premises,...
I think by not swiftly removing Smith from the premises,...
- 3/29/2022
- by Joe Utichi and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Journalist and author Lynette Rice, who has covered the TV industry for more than two decades, is joining Deadline as TV Editor, Awards and Senior TV Writer. She starts March 16.
Rice will help spearhead the print and online coverage of TV awards season and contribute to the site’s coverage of TV industry news. She can be reached at lrice@deadline.com.
“I’ve known Lynette for 22 years. It’s a long story but she is the reason I got into entertainment journalism,” said Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Nellie Andreeva, who made the hire with Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming Jr. “As we finally get to work together, Mike and I are thrilled to have Lynette bring her deep knowledge of the TV business and extensive industry contacts to Deadline.”
On the breaking TV news side, in addition to Andreeva, Rice joins Deadline’s TV Editor Peter White, Senior TV Reporter Rosy Cordero,...
Rice will help spearhead the print and online coverage of TV awards season and contribute to the site’s coverage of TV industry news. She can be reached at lrice@deadline.com.
“I’ve known Lynette for 22 years. It’s a long story but she is the reason I got into entertainment journalism,” said Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Nellie Andreeva, who made the hire with Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming Jr. “As we finally get to work together, Mike and I are thrilled to have Lynette bring her deep knowledge of the TV business and extensive industry contacts to Deadline.”
On the breaking TV news side, in addition to Andreeva, Rice joins Deadline’s TV Editor Peter White, Senior TV Reporter Rosy Cordero,...
- 3/11/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
After a charged premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín’s Spencer has become one of this season’s hottest contenders. A haunting study of one particular Christmas at Sandringham for Diana, Princess of Wales, as her marriage falters and the Royal fairytale turns grim, Spencer features a landmark performance by Kristen Stewart that has catapulted her to the top of the Best Actress race. Joe Utichi meets Larraín and Stewart to dig deep into the production.
What was the jumping-off point for Pablo Larraín and Kristen Stewart for the film that would become Spencer? The pair share a look and laugh.
“It’s a very reasonable question,” Larraín says.
“And a reasonable start of a conversation,” Stewart agrees.
But it’s also impossible for them to know how to respond. “Depending on how we answer the conversation can go any which way, so which conversation is this going to be?...
What was the jumping-off point for Pablo Larraín and Kristen Stewart for the film that would become Spencer? The pair share a look and laugh.
“It’s a very reasonable question,” Larraín says.
“And a reasonable start of a conversation,” Stewart agrees.
But it’s also impossible for them to know how to respond. “Depending on how we answer the conversation can go any which way, so which conversation is this going to be?...
- 12/8/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Aunjanue Ellis, who plays Venus and Serena Williams’ mother, Oracene, in King Richard, said her character deserves more credit, including from herself.
The film tells the story of how the Williams sisters’ father, Richard Williams (Will Smith), designed a plan for their tennis success. Ellis spoke with Deadline’s Joe Utichi about her performance at Contenders New York on Saturday.
“Before, I had a perception of her that I know so many people have that she was this doting mother in the stands who was always there cheering her daughters on,” Ellis said. “She wore these glasses. She was a woman of mystery but we didn’t know her.”
The Contenders Film: New York — Deadline’s Complete Coverage
When Ellis began researching Oracene, even she took issue with sites like Wikipedia calling her Venus and Serena’s coach. The more Ellis researched, she realized how wrong she was.
“I felt...
The film tells the story of how the Williams sisters’ father, Richard Williams (Will Smith), designed a plan for their tennis success. Ellis spoke with Deadline’s Joe Utichi about her performance at Contenders New York on Saturday.
“Before, I had a perception of her that I know so many people have that she was this doting mother in the stands who was always there cheering her daughters on,” Ellis said. “She wore these glasses. She was a woman of mystery but we didn’t know her.”
The Contenders Film: New York — Deadline’s Complete Coverage
When Ellis began researching Oracene, even she took issue with sites like Wikipedia calling her Venus and Serena’s coach. The more Ellis researched, she realized how wrong she was.
“I felt...
- 12/4/2021
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
Against all the odds, Denis Villeneuve has delivered the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 classic novel Dune. But a complex narrative and the difficulty of shooting a blockbuster in the scorching deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan became the least of the challenges when a global pandemic threatened to disrupt the movie’s chance to screen in theaters. At the end of the process, with a follow-up having been announced, Villeneuve, producer Mary Parent and the cast of Dune tell Joe Utichi why the journey to Arrakis was worth the effort.
A few weeks past the domestic release of Dune, Denis Villeneuve is in a reflective mood. It’s not quite that he can finally relax—in fact, he says, he’s already deep into prep on the second chapter of his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi tome—but rather that the many dice he’s been rolling...
A few weeks past the domestic release of Dune, Denis Villeneuve is in a reflective mood. It’s not quite that he can finally relax—in fact, he says, he’s already deep into prep on the second chapter of his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi tome—but rather that the many dice he’s been rolling...
- 11/24/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s awards team, responsible for the brand’s print publication AwardsLine, has been bolstered today by the promotion of Antonia Blyth to Senior Awards Editor, and the additions of Damon Wise as Film Editor, Awards and David Morgan as Production Editor, Awards.
Antonia joined Deadline in 2019 as AwardsLine’s Deputy Editor, after a long association with the brand as a freelance contributor. She continues to report to Joe Utichi, Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor, whose own promotion was announced earlier in the year. “Antonia has been my right hand since long before she joined us full-time,” said Utichi. “She is an indispensable part of the Deadline family; a consummate journalist and gifted writer who has fully embraced the challenge to deliver world-leading awards coverage. She is my ultimate partner-in-crime.”
Damon has had a long and storied career in his native UK, covering cinema for outlets like Total Film, Empire,...
Antonia joined Deadline in 2019 as AwardsLine’s Deputy Editor, after a long association with the brand as a freelance contributor. She continues to report to Joe Utichi, Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor, whose own promotion was announced earlier in the year. “Antonia has been my right hand since long before she joined us full-time,” said Utichi. “She is an indispensable part of the Deadline family; a consummate journalist and gifted writer who has fully embraced the challenge to deliver world-leading awards coverage. She is my ultimate partner-in-crime.”
Damon has had a long and storied career in his native UK, covering cinema for outlets like Total Film, Empire,...
- 11/8/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles Set For November 14; 30 Awards Contenders To Be Featured
After going strictly virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic, Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles is returning in-person next month at the DGA Theater.
The Sunday, November 14 event, like the recent Contenders London, will be a hybrid event, running live in-person from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Pt as well as stream live from 8:50 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Pt.
A total as of now of 30 films will be highlighted and feature some of the season’s top Oscar and awards contenders including Being the Ricardos, The Tender Bar, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Coda, Belfast, Sing 2, House of Gucci, Licorice Pizza, Spencer, Respect, The Power of the Dog, Don’t Look Up, tick,tick…Boom!, The Lost Daughter, Parallel Mothers, King Richard, Mass, I’m Your Man, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, A Hero, Swan Song, Leave No Traces, The Boss Baby: Family Business, Spirit Untamed,...
The Sunday, November 14 event, like the recent Contenders London, will be a hybrid event, running live in-person from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Pt as well as stream live from 8:50 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Pt.
A total as of now of 30 films will be highlighted and feature some of the season’s top Oscar and awards contenders including Being the Ricardos, The Tender Bar, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Coda, Belfast, Sing 2, House of Gucci, Licorice Pizza, Spencer, Respect, The Power of the Dog, Don’t Look Up, tick,tick…Boom!, The Lost Daughter, Parallel Mothers, King Richard, Mass, I’m Your Man, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, A Hero, Swan Song, Leave No Traces, The Boss Baby: Family Business, Spirit Untamed,...
- 10/28/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: Director Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space) who was the subject of allegations of abuse by an ex-partner, has filed criminal complaints in France in response.
“My attorney has filed criminal complaints of Libel and Harassment on my behalf, in France, against Tracy Robertson, aka ‘Scarlett Amaris’, a screenwriter and fantasist who launched a vicious attack on my career and reputation on March 16, 2021,” Stanley said.
Stanley called the accusations “lies and damnable lies, and I have the witnesses and evidence to fully discredit Tracy’s story as a dark fairytale that bears no relationship to the truth.”
He added that he was confident in the outcome of his legal proceeding, and said his reputation would be vindicated by the evidence he would present.
“In the meantime,” he concluded, “I wish to thank all those who have stood by me through this difficult period.”
Earlier: Director Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space...
“My attorney has filed criminal complaints of Libel and Harassment on my behalf, in France, against Tracy Robertson, aka ‘Scarlett Amaris’, a screenwriter and fantasist who launched a vicious attack on my career and reputation on March 16, 2021,” Stanley said.
Stanley called the accusations “lies and damnable lies, and I have the witnesses and evidence to fully discredit Tracy’s story as a dark fairytale that bears no relationship to the truth.”
He added that he was confident in the outcome of his legal proceeding, and said his reputation would be vindicated by the evidence he would present.
“In the meantime,” he concluded, “I wish to thank all those who have stood by me through this difficult period.”
Earlier: Director Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space...
- 10/25/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Denis Villeneuve told the audience at Contenders London today that embarking on an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi book Dune was the “project of a lifetime” for him.
Speaking to Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, Villeneuve said he’d read the book at 13 or 14 when he was first discovering filmmaking, and the project had continued to pop into his mind as he established himself in the industry with big budget pics like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049.
Finally realizing that vision came with its own challenges, however. “When we read a book we have images in our mind. I was trying to honor those visions, that dream. It put a lot of pressure on my shoulders, to bring to life one of my oldest dreams. Trying to please that teenager was not an easy task,” the filmmaker added.
Villeneuve was joined on stage by Rebecca Ferguson,...
Speaking to Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, Villeneuve said he’d read the book at 13 or 14 when he was first discovering filmmaking, and the project had continued to pop into his mind as he established himself in the industry with big budget pics like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049.
Finally realizing that vision came with its own challenges, however. “When we read a book we have images in our mind. I was trying to honor those visions, that dream. It put a lot of pressure on my shoulders, to bring to life one of my oldest dreams. Trying to please that teenager was not an easy task,” the filmmaker added.
Villeneuve was joined on stage by Rebecca Ferguson,...
- 10/9/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Riz Ahmed scored a worthy Oscar nomination earlier this year in Sound Of Metal as a heavy metal drummer stricken with hearing loss, and in the latest film by Beast director Michael Pearce he shows even more range. In Amazon’s Encounter he stars a Marine who sets out on a secret mission to save his two pre-teen sons (Lucian-River Chauhan and Aditya Geddada) from a mysterious alien threat. Octavia Spencer and Rory Cochrane also star, and Pearce directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joe Barton.
Speaking to Deadline’s Joe Utichi, Pearce explained that Encounter shares a great deal of DNA with his 2017 debut. “I wanted to continue what I started with Beast,” he said, “which was to take an antihero and do a sympathetic portrait of them by putting them inside a story engine that was amplified by genre. So I was reading a lot of scripts...
Speaking to Deadline’s Joe Utichi, Pearce explained that Encounter shares a great deal of DNA with his 2017 debut. “I wanted to continue what I started with Beast,” he said, “which was to take an antihero and do a sympathetic portrait of them by putting them inside a story engine that was amplified by genre. So I was reading a lot of scripts...
- 10/9/2021
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline Contenders Film: London, our annual awards-season kickoff that is gearing up for its hybrid in-person/virtual edition this weekend, has finalized its lineup of panelists for this year’s showcase, which will put the spotlight on 19 of the year’s buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent for BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters.
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
- 10/5/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders London is officially back and in person, with the latest edition of the movie awards-season showcase set for Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel. The all-day series of panels with 19 of the buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent will begin at 8 a.m. London time. There will also be a virtual edition beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Returning as host and moderator is Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, who steers Deadline’s awards-season coverage. He’ll be joined by fellow moderators including Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr, Awardsline Deputy Editor Antonia Blyth, Television Editor Peter White, International Film Reporter Tom Grater, International Features Editor Diana Lodderhose, Awards Columnist and Film Critic Pete Hammond (who’ll be joining virtually), Awardsline contributor Damon Wise and Film Critic Anna Smith.
Throughout the event BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will hear from the filmmakers, stars and crew...
Returning as host and moderator is Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, who steers Deadline’s awards-season coverage. He’ll be joined by fellow moderators including Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr, Awardsline Deputy Editor Antonia Blyth, Television Editor Peter White, International Film Reporter Tom Grater, International Features Editor Diana Lodderhose, Awards Columnist and Film Critic Pete Hammond (who’ll be joining virtually), Awardsline contributor Damon Wise and Film Critic Anna Smith.
Throughout the event BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will hear from the filmmakers, stars and crew...
- 9/29/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: The Nominees, out annual award-season event that this past weekend shined a light on panel presentations from 34 Emmy-nominated series featuring 117 cast and creatives from 16 broadcast and cable networks and streamers.
Click here for the Contenders Television: The Nominees streaming site.
The Saturday and Sunday virtual panels included in-depth conversation with the likes of Pose‘s Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez, Mare of Easttown‘s Kate Winslet, Secrets of the Whales‘ James Cameron, A West Wing Reunion‘s Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme and Bradley Whitford, Christmas on the Square‘s Dolly Parton and Debbie Allen, Genius: Aretha‘s Cynthia Erivo, In Treatment‘s Uzo Aduba, Hacks‘ Jean Smart, Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr and Philippa Soo, Cobra Kai‘s Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, SNL‘s Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang,...
Click here for the Contenders Television: The Nominees streaming site.
The Saturday and Sunday virtual panels included in-depth conversation with the likes of Pose‘s Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez, Mare of Easttown‘s Kate Winslet, Secrets of the Whales‘ James Cameron, A West Wing Reunion‘s Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme and Bradley Whitford, Christmas on the Square‘s Dolly Parton and Debbie Allen, Genius: Aretha‘s Cynthia Erivo, In Treatment‘s Uzo Aduba, Hacks‘ Jean Smart, Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr and Philippa Soo, Cobra Kai‘s Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, SNL‘s Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang,...
- 8/16/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Ever-popular Deadline franchise The Contenders is set for the last big blowout of the TV season just as final voting for Emmys begins. Deadline’s The Contenders Television: The Nominees has grown so big that we had to spread it across an entire weekend, so in livestreamed presentations we are hosting panels for comedies, documentaries/reality and specials on Saturday August 14, and panels for Dramas, Limited Series & Movies on Sunday, August 15. Each day begins at 9 a.m. Pt.
The 34 different shows run the gamut of some of the season’s most acclaimed, awarded and nominated programs from a total of 16 networks and featuring 108 talent involved.
You can register for the event at https://contenderstelevision.deadline.com.
Moderators from Deadline include Mike Fleming Jr., Pete Hammond, Dominic Patten, Rosy Cordero, Anthony D’Alessandro, Antonia Blyth, Joe Utichi, Matt Grobar, Dade Hayes, Matthew Carey, Jill Goldsmith and Alexandra Del Rosario.
Among the stars...
The 34 different shows run the gamut of some of the season’s most acclaimed, awarded and nominated programs from a total of 16 networks and featuring 108 talent involved.
You can register for the event at https://contenderstelevision.deadline.com.
Moderators from Deadline include Mike Fleming Jr., Pete Hammond, Dominic Patten, Rosy Cordero, Anthony D’Alessandro, Antonia Blyth, Joe Utichi, Matt Grobar, Dade Hayes, Matthew Carey, Jill Goldsmith and Alexandra Del Rosario.
Among the stars...
- 8/4/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Tilda Swinton and Sean Baker were among the human co-conspirators present to accept awards on behalf of the canine scene-stealers in their Cannes films at the irreverent Palm Dog Awards on the Croisette this afternoon. Masterminded by journalist Toby Rose in 2001, inspired by his own French fox terrier Muttley, the Palm Dog Awards show has become an annual treat on the penultimate day of the Cannes Film Festival, and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Swinton accepted the Palm Dog prize on behalf of her very own trio of spaniels, who star alongside her in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II. Hogg was present at the show too, albeit over FaceTime from Swinton’s iPhone.
The Jury Prize was shared by Sophie in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, and Panda, the sheepdog in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb. Both directors were on hand to collect the prizes.
Baker, who arrived...
Swinton accepted the Palm Dog prize on behalf of her very own trio of spaniels, who star alongside her in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II. Hogg was present at the show too, albeit over FaceTime from Swinton’s iPhone.
The Jury Prize was shared by Sophie in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, and Panda, the sheepdog in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb. Both directors were on hand to collect the prizes.
Baker, who arrived...
- 7/16/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Hello, and welcome to International Insider. Jake Kanter here, as usual, bringing you everything worth knowing from the past seven days in global film and TV. It’s been a memorable week, with the film biz reuniting for a little-known event by the French seaside and football fever gripping Europe. Apologies to readers in Italy, but Come On England!
- 7/9/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The fourth season of The Crown detailed the first encounter between Prince Charles and the young Diana Spencer, played by Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin respectively, whose ill-fated marriage became one of the most picked apart tabloid news engines of the 20th Century. Joe Utichi meets Corrin and O’Connor to learn more.
Emma Corrin is Diana Spencer
In hindsight, Emma Corrin has an idea about why she failed her audition to attend drama school. She had been invited to audition for Rada—one of the world’s most prestigious dramatic academies—and she was keen to impress. So, she chose a monologue from John Logan’s Peter and Alice, which had first been staged by Michael Grandage in 2013 with Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw. The play tells the story of Alice Liddell, the young girl that inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, meeting with Peter Llewelyn Davies,...
Emma Corrin is Diana Spencer
In hindsight, Emma Corrin has an idea about why she failed her audition to attend drama school. She had been invited to audition for Rada—one of the world’s most prestigious dramatic academies—and she was keen to impress. So, she chose a monologue from John Logan’s Peter and Alice, which had first been staged by Michael Grandage in 2013 with Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw. The play tells the story of Alice Liddell, the young girl that inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, meeting with Peter Llewelyn Davies,...
- 6/17/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
For a second year in a row, Deadline’s Contenders Television is going virtual, and we are about to take off with an astonishing 128 creatives and stars appearing in the all-day event that will feature a total of 21 networks and 49 shows. This again is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Two weeks ago we launched our first separate Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now beginning at 8 a.m. Pt we...
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Two weeks ago we launched our first separate Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now beginning at 8 a.m. Pt we...
- 5/15/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
For a second year in a row, Deadline’s popular Contenders Television is going virtual, with an astonishing 129 creatives and stars set to appear in the all-day event Saturday, May 15 that features a total of 21 networks participating and 49 different shows. This is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Last weekend, we launched our first separate Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now we tackle the hopefuls in key competitive categories for Primetime recognition.
Studios participating on May 15 are ABC/Disney Television Studios,...
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Last weekend, we launched our first separate Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now we tackle the hopefuls in key competitive categories for Primetime recognition.
Studios participating on May 15 are ABC/Disney Television Studios,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
This is how the 93rd Oscars ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. So it was, as the Academy Awards reached its climax—having delivered the Best Picture winner to Nomadland two categories earlier—by giving its Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins… who wasn’t in the room to pick it up.
Perhaps show producers Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins were expecting the award to go in a different direction, but in the end Hopkins became the oldest Best Actor winner of all time for his turn in The Father, while Frances McDormand picked up her third Oscar for Lead Actress in Nomadland.
Elsewhere, Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah, and Yuh-jung Youn took Best Supporting Actress for Minari. The prize for Best Director went to Nomadland‘s Chloe Zhao, much earlier into the evening than we’ve come to expect.
Perhaps show producers Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins were expecting the award to go in a different direction, but in the end Hopkins became the oldest Best Actor winner of all time for his turn in The Father, while Frances McDormand picked up her third Oscar for Lead Actress in Nomadland.
Elsewhere, Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah, and Yuh-jung Youn took Best Supporting Actress for Minari. The prize for Best Director went to Nomadland‘s Chloe Zhao, much earlier into the evening than we’ve come to expect.
- 4/25/2021
- by Joe Utichi, Mike Fleming Jr and Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal went into 2019’s Toronto International Film Festival without a distributor. Now, a year-and-a-half on, it’s a six-time Oscar nominee and perhaps the most hard-fought of all of this year’s crop of Best Picture candidates. Joe Utichi meets Marder and stars Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci to take stock of a film that transformed its key players in ways they hadn’t expected.
They say Oscar loves a narrative, and they don’t come much more inspiring than Sound of Metal’s. Even before he got his debut feature to set, Darius Marder spent more than a decade honing his tale about a heavy metal drummer and recovering addict who loses his hearing, butting up against the many hard realities of filmmaking that told him a movie like this could not work. As he did it, he learned more and more about deaf culture,...
They say Oscar loves a narrative, and they don’t come much more inspiring than Sound of Metal’s. Even before he got his debut feature to set, Darius Marder spent more than a decade honing his tale about a heavy metal drummer and recovering addict who loses his hearing, butting up against the many hard realities of filmmaking that told him a movie like this could not work. As he did it, he learned more and more about deaf culture,...
- 4/14/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
This very unusual eight-month movie-awards season is winding down as BAFTA and DGA virtual ceremonies take place this weekend and Oscar final voting is set to begin Thursday. What better time for Deadline’s first-ever Contenders Film: The Nominees to take place? The final countdown starts here beginning at 10 a.m. Pt with a total of 18 films from 11 studios featuring 45 nominated filmmakers and stars, all giving us the lowdown on the movies that are bringing them all to the end of a long journey that culminates on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, April 25 (the latest date ever for an Academy Award show).
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
In January, over the course of two weekends, we presented separate Contenders Film events for Documentary, International and then a big two-day look at all the movie hopefuls in this pandemic-affected year. Now, for the first time,...
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
In January, over the course of two weekends, we presented separate Contenders Film events for Documentary, International and then a big two-day look at all the movie hopefuls in this pandemic-affected year. Now, for the first time,...
- 4/10/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
A sterling final lineup of talent, filmmakers and stars will be participating in Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees virtual event on Saturday. Among nominated actors appearing are Leslie Odom Jr., Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Carey Mulligan, Andra Day, Amanda Seyfried, BAFTA nominee Mads Mikkelsen, as well as stars from International Film contender The Man Who Sold His Skin including Monica Bellucci, Yahya, Mahayni and Dea Liane.
Filmmakers include all five directors of the International Film nominees, Kemp Powers, Darius Marder, Garrett Bradley, Tomm Moore, Maite Alberdi, Alexander Nanau, Skye Fitzgerald, Aaron Sorkin, Emerald Fennell, Thomas Vinterberg and many other artisans poised to possibly receive the film industry’s highest honors.
A total of 18 Oscar-nominated films from 11 studios and distributors will be highlighted in Deadline’s first-ever nominees Contenders Film for the movie awards season. The all-day livestreamed event is Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.
Filmmakers include all five directors of the International Film nominees, Kemp Powers, Darius Marder, Garrett Bradley, Tomm Moore, Maite Alberdi, Alexander Nanau, Skye Fitzgerald, Aaron Sorkin, Emerald Fennell, Thomas Vinterberg and many other artisans poised to possibly receive the film industry’s highest honors.
A total of 18 Oscar-nominated films from 11 studios and distributors will be highlighted in Deadline’s first-ever nominees Contenders Film for the movie awards season. The all-day livestreamed event is Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.
- 4/6/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
A total of 18 Oscar-nominated films from 11 studios and distributors will be highlighted in Deadline’s first-ever nominees Contenders Film event for the movie awards season. The all-day livestreamed event takes place Saturday, April 10 beginning at 10 a.m. Pt, and comes on the heels of our two-day Contenders Film weekend in phase one of this very unusual pandemic-affected year.
Although we have been doing our popular Contenders Film events for the past decade, this is the first time we will be doing a phase two, where voters from AMPAS, the guilds and BAFTA get to experience close-up conversations with many of the actual nominated stars and filmmakers before casting those final ballots. Because the TV awards season also was virtual last year, we were able to do a nominees edition for that as well and it was a huge success.
Among the studios/distributors participating will be Amazon Studios, Apple Original Films,...
Although we have been doing our popular Contenders Film events for the past decade, this is the first time we will be doing a phase two, where voters from AMPAS, the guilds and BAFTA get to experience close-up conversations with many of the actual nominated stars and filmmakers before casting those final ballots. Because the TV awards season also was virtual last year, we were able to do a nominees edition for that as well and it was a huge success.
Among the studios/distributors participating will be Amazon Studios, Apple Original Films,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space) has been abruptly dumped by SpectreVision after allegations of abuse by an ex-partner surfaced.
“SpectreVision will no longer work with Richard Stanley,” said a tweet on the company’s account. “We are proud of the talented cast and crew behind Color Out of Space. Yet we are horrified by the charges against its director. We will be donating future revenue from the film to charities devoted to stopping domestic violence.”
Scarlett Amaris, who describes herself as Stanley’s “long term life and creative partner,” claimed in a blog post dated March 16 that she filed charges for Domestic Violence, Assault & Battery in October 2014.
Deadline has reached out to SpectreVision for additional comment.
SpectreVision was founded in 2010 by actor Elijah Wood, producer Lisa Whalen and directors Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller. The production company mostly focuses on horror films.
Color Out of Space is...
“SpectreVision will no longer work with Richard Stanley,” said a tweet on the company’s account. “We are proud of the talented cast and crew behind Color Out of Space. Yet we are horrified by the charges against its director. We will be donating future revenue from the film to charities devoted to stopping domestic violence.”
Scarlett Amaris, who describes herself as Stanley’s “long term life and creative partner,” claimed in a blog post dated March 16 that she filed charges for Domestic Violence, Assault & Battery in October 2014.
Deadline has reached out to SpectreVision for additional comment.
SpectreVision was founded in 2010 by actor Elijah Wood, producer Lisa Whalen and directors Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller. The production company mostly focuses on horror films.
Color Out of Space is...
- 3/18/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Late Wednesday, Critics Choice Association chief Joey Berlin sent a missive to members of the organization that was, well, critical of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its disastrous Golden Globe Awards telecast last weekend.
The Critics Choice Association has its own awards show on The CW this Sunday from 7-10 p.m. Et/Pt. Berlin’s Wednesday message was, in part, to assure his organization’s members that “the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards show will be quite different than the Globes – just as our Critics Choice Association differs from the HFPA.”
One can understand why.
Not only were last weekend’s Golden Globes the lowest-rated ever, they have some experts like Deadline’s own Joe Utichi wondering if the HFPA and its show are even fixable.
While the HFPA is comprised of a secret roster of 90-odd — very odd — overseas journalists, Berlin sad his organization is not only transparent,...
The Critics Choice Association has its own awards show on The CW this Sunday from 7-10 p.m. Et/Pt. Berlin’s Wednesday message was, in part, to assure his organization’s members that “the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards show will be quite different than the Globes – just as our Critics Choice Association differs from the HFPA.”
One can understand why.
Not only were last weekend’s Golden Globes the lowest-rated ever, they have some experts like Deadline’s own Joe Utichi wondering if the HFPA and its show are even fixable.
While the HFPA is comprised of a secret roster of 90-odd — very odd — overseas journalists, Berlin sad his organization is not only transparent,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s annual Contenders Film event is coming on the weekend of January 23-24, a virtual extravaganza of awards-caliber films — 49 in all — that is a must-stop this very different Oscar season.
With a livestream beginning at 8 a.m. Pt both Saturday and Sunday, the crème de la crème of contenders will be showcased with clips and conversations with top talent. In fact, the lineup of stars and filmmakers this year is truly extraordinary: 16 studios are participating including A24, Amazon Studios, Apple, Bleecker Street, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, Gravitas Ventures, Hulu, Kino Lorber, Neon, Netflix, Sony Pictures Classics, STX Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to this much-anticipated movie-season event which normally takes place in the fall in London, New York City and Los Angeles. But as with last spring’s Emmys, and last weekend’s successful launch of our spinoff events Contenders Documentary and Contenders International,...
With a livestream beginning at 8 a.m. Pt both Saturday and Sunday, the crème de la crème of contenders will be showcased with clips and conversations with top talent. In fact, the lineup of stars and filmmakers this year is truly extraordinary: 16 studios are participating including A24, Amazon Studios, Apple, Bleecker Street, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, Gravitas Ventures, Hulu, Kino Lorber, Neon, Netflix, Sony Pictures Classics, STX Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to this much-anticipated movie-season event which normally takes place in the fall in London, New York City and Los Angeles. But as with last spring’s Emmys, and last weekend’s successful launch of our spinoff events Contenders Documentary and Contenders International,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
David Fincher turns Netflix homes into 1940s movie houses with his latest opus, Mank, which explores the life and frustrations of Citizen Kane’s screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he works his way through the draft of what will become Orson Welles’ seminal directorial debut. With its title role imbued with Mankiewicz’s world-weary wit by Gary Oldman, and from a script first drafted more than 20 years ago by Fincher’s father Jack, who passed away in 2003, the film reignites the debate about the authorship of a film Welles might nearly have taken sole credit for. But it is about more than that besides; a love and hate letter to the machinations of the movie business, a remarkably timely examination of the façade of truth in the news media, and an intimate study of tortured souls beaten down by the world around them and their own insecurities. Joe Utichi meets Fincher,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
This has been a trying year for movies, with the closing of cinemas in the pandemic, and a pivot by many filmmakers and stars to streaming service projects. As we wait for the boom times to return once a Covid vaccine establish herd immunity and movie theaters fill again, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what a great first quarter the 21st century has been for movies. Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Todd McCarthy, Joe Utichi and Mike Fleming Jr accepted the challenge to choose the most influential so far.
This is an impossible task. We’ve limited ourselves to live-action films and leaned into pictures that allowed for discussion of the output of directors. So, while 2007’s Paranormal Activity isn’t here despite hatching a slew of low-cost, high-gross found-footage and genre movies, you will find here Get Out, the Best Picture Oscar-nominated culmination of Jason Blum’s genre dynasty...
This is an impossible task. We’ve limited ourselves to live-action films and leaned into pictures that allowed for discussion of the output of directors. So, while 2007’s Paranormal Activity isn’t here despite hatching a slew of low-cost, high-gross found-footage and genre movies, you will find here Get Out, the Best Picture Oscar-nominated culmination of Jason Blum’s genre dynasty...
- 12/30/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr, Pete Hammond, Todd McCarthy and Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Contenders Television: The Nominees, Deadline’s livestream telecast Sunday that featured 28 of the year’s most celebrated shows hailing from 17 networks and studios, launched its streaming site Monday. It allows access to all the panels as well as interstitial video extras showcasing most of our 74 participants discussing what new skills they’ve picked up during the coronavirus lockdown and what is their best piece of advice.
Click here to access the streaming site. You can also catch up on our print coverage of our panels here.
Sunday’s 10-hour event, which like June’s pre-Emmy nominations Contenders Television event was virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent including actors Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina King,...
Click here to access the streaming site. You can also catch up on our print coverage of our panels here.
Sunday’s 10-hour event, which like June’s pre-Emmy nominations Contenders Television event was virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent including actors Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina King,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s all-day Contenders Television: The Nominees virtual event is underway and is being live-streamed all day, so get on your couch and prepare for a one-stop shopping experience as we present a remarkable gathering of this season’s newly minted Emmy and TCA nominees and Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics’ Choice winners.
Check out the full schedule below for the event, hosted again by Deadline’s Awardsline editor Joe Utichi. You can sign up for the livestream here, and also follow along on Deadline’s social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among the talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter,...
Check out the full schedule below for the event, hosted again by Deadline’s Awardsline editor Joe Utichi. You can sign up for the livestream here, and also follow along on Deadline’s social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among the talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter,...
- 8/16/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
On June 20. Deadline presented Phase 1 of our The Contenders Television all-day virtual event, a huge success with record attendance and withrecord numbers of participants including 100-plus stars and creatives. Now it is time for Phase 2 on Sunday, August 16, for an all-new, all-day invitation-only edition of Contenders TV featuring numerous Emmy and Television Critics Association nominees as well as many 2020 Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice and SAG winners. It is the place to be for voters, and it all will be livestreamed beginning at 8 a.m. Pt.
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina KIng,...
We have a total of 74 speakers this time around, along with 17 studios and networks and 28 different show contenders. Among talent scheduled to appear are Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Wanda Sykes, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Martin Short, Sterling K. Brown, Ron Chephas Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Matt Berry, Hugh Jackman, Mark Ruffalo, Regina KIng,...
- 8/10/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with site going live: Deadline’s Contenders Television, the invitation-only livestream telecast Saturday that featured its largest roster of participants ever, has launched its streaming site with all 44 series from 22 studios and networks.
Saturday’s nine-hour event, which went virtual for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent video-conferencing from locations around the world — from the Australian Bush (Russell Crowe), Rome (Willem Dafoe), and London to the East Coast, the West Coast and all points between.
Click here to go to the Contenders Television streaming site. Click on the Learn More drop-down link to get network and panelist information as well as the full panel video.
The impressive talent roster also includes Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Stewart, Anthony Anderson, Ramy Youssef, Trevor Noah, Jim Parsons, Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Steve Carell, John Malkovich, David Harbour, Jerrika Hinton, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn,...
Saturday’s nine-hour event, which went virtual for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured talent video-conferencing from locations around the world — from the Australian Bush (Russell Crowe), Rome (Willem Dafoe), and London to the East Coast, the West Coast and all points between.
Click here to go to the Contenders Television streaming site. Click on the Learn More drop-down link to get network and panelist information as well as the full panel video.
The impressive talent roster also includes Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Stewart, Anthony Anderson, Ramy Youssef, Trevor Noah, Jim Parsons, Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Steve Carell, John Malkovich, David Harbour, Jerrika Hinton, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Up Next: Russell Crowe talks Showtime’s The Loudest Room.
Deadline’s invitation-only Contenders Television all-day event is underway. For the first time ever, out of necessity due to restrictions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve gone virtual.
Originally we had aimed to present Contenders in April at Paramount Studios in front of a live audience of Television Academy and key guild voters, just like we always do. But it became abundantly clear that was not going to be possible as Hollywood, at least physically, shut down. So what to do? We went back to square one and completely reimagined Contenders for the Covid-19 era. In the spirit of the show must go on, indeed it will.
Like many of the TV series we are showcasing in this massive undertaking involving 22 studios and networks plus 44 different shows and 106 speakers, we have gone virtual in our first-ever live-streaming Contenders — a...
Deadline’s invitation-only Contenders Television all-day event is underway. For the first time ever, out of necessity due to restrictions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve gone virtual.
Originally we had aimed to present Contenders in April at Paramount Studios in front of a live audience of Television Academy and key guild voters, just like we always do. But it became abundantly clear that was not going to be possible as Hollywood, at least physically, shut down. So what to do? We went back to square one and completely reimagined Contenders for the Covid-19 era. In the spirit of the show must go on, indeed it will.
Like many of the TV series we are showcasing in this massive undertaking involving 22 studios and networks plus 44 different shows and 106 speakers, we have gone virtual in our first-ever live-streaming Contenders — a...
- 6/20/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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