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Tom Holland made his first-post SAG-AFTRA strike appearance at Deadline's Awardsline Screening Series panel for Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room. Akiva Goldsman created the series, inspired by the book The Minds of Billy Milligan, but changed the character from the real-life Milligan to the fictional Danny…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the May 17 episode of This Is Us, “The Train.” It was played Monday night at the Landmark Theater as part of Deadline’s Awardsline Screening series, followed by a Q&A with series creator and executive produced Dan Fogelman. You can watch a two-part video of it, in which h…

French-born filmmaker Elie Grappe moved to Switzerland 10 years ago and is now representing his adopted home in the International Feature Oscar race with Olga, a movie that itself focuses on a character living between two worlds. Olga debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the SACD prize in the Critics'…

Director/writer Igor Drljaca's The White Fortress premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is Bosnia and Herzegovina's official submission to the International Feature Oscar race. In the film, two teens from very different backgrounds meet in post-war Sarajevo. Faruk (Pavle Cemerikic) lives with…

Debuting at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year, Leave No Traces instantly became Poland’s official submission for the International Feature Oscar race. Directed by Jan P. Matuszyński, it's based on a reportage by Cezary Lazarewicz and chronicles true events that took place in 1983, when Poland was shaken by…

Adapted from Stephanie Land's 2019 autobiographical book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, Netflix's recent ten-part mini-series stars Margaret Qualley as Alex, a young mother who leaves an abusive relationship with her infant daughter and tries to make ends meet as a cleaner. The book was an…

Desus & Mero have been making noise in late-night over the last few years, starting at Complex before moving to MTV2 and then Vice before settling in on Showtime, where their eponymous show is currently in its third season. The pair call this process "levelling up" and they've certainly got their footing, having now…

The fact that Saudi Arabia did not even open its first cinema until 2018 did not hamper the ambitions of female filmmaker Shahad Ameen, who studied in the UK and the U.S. but always remained determined to bring her culture to the big screen. "When I decided I wanted to be a filmmaker it was when I was 10, and it…

“We wanted to tell that story as it related to the first year. We wanted people to know it’s not all roses — there are some thorny parts of it,” said Maverick Carter, who served as an executive producer alongside LeBron James on the Quibi docuseries I Promise, which details the first academic year of James Family…

It is hard to keep up with all the awards coming James Corden’s way. His CBS series The Late Late Show with James Corden just celebrated its fifth anniversary in March and over that time has racked up 21 Emmy nominations and seven wins in multiple categories from Variety Talk Series to Variety Special, Writing…

“I would never do it unless it was a story worth telling, but from the perspective of at least the people that I've worked with, you know, in a heartbeat,” Defending Jacob star Chris Evans said when I asked a newsy question about the possibility of doing a second season of Apple TV+’s gripping Emmy-buzzed eight-part…

Kevin Costner wasn’t intending to be headlining a regular continuing TV series when he signed on to star as John Dutton, the complex man who controls the largest ranch in America, in the Paramount Network series Yellowstone, which returns for its third season Sunday. He says he was told it was just one limited…