By Angelique Jackson | Variety Issa Rae has been named creative director for the 2024 American Black Film Festival (ABFF), the annual film festival presented by Nice Crowd. “Throughout the course of her career, Issa Rae has made an indelible impact within the...
by Clayton Davis | Variety If Tom Hanks is America’s Dad, then Will Smith is the cool big brother. Smith has been a favorite of audiences and awards voters during his impressive three-decade career. He’s explored multiple genres, such as drama (“The Pursuit of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhsZm-d_MHk By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the...
John Ridley | Deadline John Ridley is the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave writer, writer-director of Five Days At Memorial, and the Eisner-nominated writer of the DC graphic novel...
space By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative...
By Anthony D'Alessandro | Deadline After the Transformers was gearing down, filmmaker Steven Caple Jr. was able to put gas back into the tank of the storied Paramount Hasbro movie franchise with Rise of the Beasts this weekend which opened to $171M worldwide, stealing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htY8-FE71Qs DESCRIPTION: Jennifer Garner’s first starring role in a TV series, as a butt-kicking spy on 2001’s “Alias,” made her an international star and launched a movie career that includes “13 Going on 30” and “Electra.” And Sheryl...
By Jazz Tangcay | Variety Ruth Carter doesn’t need the prefix “costume designer” in front of her name; she is a household name. Carter made Oscar history when she became the first Black woman ever to win two Oscars, thanks to her work on the “Black Panther” films....
By Jem Aswad | Variety The music world has seen countless reinventions, rehabilitations, transformations and image overhauls, but there’s never been anything quite like Prince changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol on his 35th birthday, 30 years ago today. His...
Boots Riley (Guest Column) | Deadline Editor’s note: As a founding member of The Coup and the director of the acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley has always brought a social consciousness and activism to his work. Today, the creator of Prime Video’s...
Manori Ravindran | Variety Steve McQueen looks stressed out. He’s a few weeks into post-production on “Blitz,” his World War II drama for Apple TV+, while starting promotion on his other, long-gestating wartime project, the documentary “Occupied City.” “It’s...
By Sophia Scorziello | Variety Derek Luke always knew he wanted to be a hero — or rather, play one. But when the opportunity for him to join the Marvel universe arose in 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger,” he wasn’t so sure — even after his agent, the late Ed...