“I despise auditions,” Marlon Brando barked as he launched into the audition for his role in The Godfather. It was his idea, I reminded him, so he himself had caused his actors angst, not the studio. (It was, of course, a great audition.) Actors’ angst was much in evidence yet …
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Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers won Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of the Year honors from the Dorian Film Awards, the annual honors bestowed GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. The Searchlight drama starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as two troubled souls who fall for each …
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Once the hottest writer in town, Truman Capote also was a master at self destruction. Cut to The Bistro, Beverly Hills circa 1973. Cradling his cocktail, Capote was at once amiable and petulant. I was sitting across from him at the elegant café to discuss his new screenplay, but the …
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Deadline may receive commission from some products and services linked in this post. Super Bowl LVIII pitting defending NFL champions the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers is set for Sunday, February 11, 2024 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The game, scheduled to kick off at 6:30 …
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Avatar: The Way of Water, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Star Trek: Picard were among the main winners Sunday at the 51st Saturn Awards, which honor the best in genre entertainment. Winners across film, TV and home media were revealed Sunday during a ceremony at the L.A. Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel …
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The 66th Grammy Awards are underway Sunday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, beginning with the pre-show ceremony and leading to the primetime showcase beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, the latter airing live on CBS and Paramount+. Trevor Noah returns to host the marquee show for a fourth …
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Given the strong slate of this year’s Oscar nominees, the pre-Academy Awards season has been devoid of the intrigues and mud-slinging of previous epochs. Oops! – could a new outbreak of Barbie-phobia break the harmony and bring naysayers out of the shadows? I already hear a few negative murmurs: Not …
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The 66th Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 4 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah for a fourth consecutive year, will air live on CBS and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+. The main …
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The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings. Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the Sundance buzz in January; …
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Editors note: 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 series GCPD: The Blue Wall. He also hosts with Matt Carey the Deadline podcast Doc Talk, and occasionally contributes guest columns, last of which focused on the dismantling of …
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The 75th annual Emmy Awards, in the shape of the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, kick off this weekend at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, opening the door to a month of major kudos-giving. Saturday’s Creative Arts ceremony features largely the scripted awards that are not being doled out on …
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If Hollywood truly suffers from a leadership malaise, as some charge, would the return of Monroe Stahr resuscitate the system? Filmmakers respect his judgment, stars his panache and investors his discipline, so Stahr’s return may ignite a new Irving Thalberg-like era. Whoops — he’s not available. The manic and manipulative …
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