https://youtu.be/LnR8pUoPJZU Director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean Writer(s): John Collee, Bentley Dean Starring: Marie Wawa, Mungau Dain Synopsis: Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0XL5Hnf9U4 Director: Rich Schlansker, Royale Watkins Writer(s): Lil Rel Howery Starring: Lil Rel Howery Synopsis: In Lil Rel Howery's first hour-long special, he talks about everything from his upbringing to raising his own children to...
https://youtu.be/16CKrclI9Cs Director: R.L. Scott Writer(s): R.L. Scott Starring: Amin Joseph, Bai Ling, Chris Mulkey, Bill Cobbs, Gabrielle Dennis, Jonathan ‘Lil J’ McDaniel, Shaun Mixon, Monyque Thompson Scott, Iyad Hajjaj, Sean Riggs, Maurice Whitfield, T.J. Hoban,...
by The Deadline Team | Deadline Hollywood Macro, the multiplatform media company founded by former WME partner and agent Charles D. King, revealed today that it has closed its first round of funding. It scored financing from lead investor Emerson Collective, MNM...
Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced that David Hill and Reginald Hudlin will produce the 88th Annual Oscars. Django Unchained Oscar nominee Hudlin is no stranger to the Academy, having been tapped by...
Ramin Setoodeh | Variety Idris Elba nearly plunged to his death filming Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation.” The indie drama, about an African tyrant known as “the commandant” who recruits an innocent boy into his army of youth soldiers, took Elba into the depths of...
https://youtu.be/JRlVn4cKxJE Director: Jamie Babbit Writer(s): Karey Dornetto Starring: Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne, Malcolm Barrett, Jessica St. Clair, Edward Barbanell, Ron Livingston, Aubrey Plaza, John Roohinian, Kumail Nanjiani, Davenia McFadden, Jon Daly, Paul...
by Greg Evans | Deadline Hollywood Kyle Jean-Baptiste, a 21-year-old New York actor who made his Broadway starring debut July 23 in Les Miserables as the youngest — and Broadway’s first African-American Jean Valjean died August 21 night in a home accident, falling...
https://youtu.be/jX_eOikBBps Director: Roger M. Bobb Writer(s): Cas Sigers Beedles Starring: Garcelle Beauvais, Terri J. Vaughn, Essence Atkins, Malinda Williams, Stephen Bishop, Khalil Kain, Xiona R. Nieves-Vargas, Eli Cay, Teresa Truesdale, Elia Enid Cadilla,...
https://youtu.be/mIl-XY9t_Lw Director: Alex Kendrick Writer(s): Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick Starring: Karen Abercrombie, Priscilla C. Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Tenae Downing, Alena Pitts, Michael Jr., Jadin Harris, Alex Kendrick, Dave Blamy, Thomas A. Ford III,...
by Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline Hollywood The Weinstein Company is ready to greenlight its Richard Pryor biopic, and my, have Harvey Weinstein and Lee Daniels put together a terrific cast. The new additions: Oprah Winfrey will play Pryor’s grandmother, who ran a...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act It may come as a surprise to some that Spike Lee, despite a 30-year-long career as a filmmaker, and over 20 feature films, has never won an Academy Award (unless you count the Student Academy Award he received in 1983 for his NYU...