By Clayton Davis | Variety Dawn Porter didn’t set out to become a documentary filmmaker. She was as an attorney before she hit the scene with her directorial debut, “Gideon’s Army,” in 2013. In fact, Porter wouldn’t even call herself a “director” until that film...
by Jenelle Riley | Variety Variety has selected its 10 Actors to Watch for 2020, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998. Past honorees include over 35 now Oscar winners and nominees, such as Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer,...
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood 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 influences and inspirations of...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act For any actor or actress, assuming the role of a real-life historical figure is a heavy undertaking. Akin to assuming someone's skin, you are tasked with mimicking said person's style of dress, vocal patterns and body language. As the...
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Etan Vlessing | The Hollywood Reporter The Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission on Wednesday pointed to a wide gap in...
By Ramin Setoodeh | Variety On the day Halle Berry shot the big fight scene for her new movie “Bruised,” in which she plays a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter, she cracked two ribs. Berry, 54, had injured herself on the set of a movie before — breaking three ribs...
By Nellie Andreeva | Deadline Hollywood Tia Mowry will be part of Lifetime’s original movie franchise for years to come. The Game and Sister, Sister alumna has closed a three-picture deal with the A+E network to star in and produce three holiday movies for their It’s...
by Jenelle Riley | Variety There’s something inherently terrifying about space – maybe because of the loneliness and isolation, or perhaps because it’s an unknown landscape to most of us. But it makes great fodder for films and over the decades there have been many...
By Jazz Tangcay | Variety Not many companies can say they won an Academy Award with their first film. But Lion Forge Animation’s Carl Reed and David Steward II, who formed the U.S.’s only Black-owned animation studio last year to address a lack of representation in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmqERS4J3I&app=desktop By Jake Kanter | Deadline Hollywood 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...