Season 2 of Ava Duvernay’s OWN series Queen Sugar will premiere on June 20, while Season 1 will stream on Hulu beginning April 21, under a new deal announced Thursday by the streaming service and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. https://www.instagram.com/p/BS2MCwMBEAa/?taken-by=kofisiriboe&hl=en The show’s second season will launch with a two-night event, airing new episodes on […]
American Crime and Burning Sands star Trevor Jackson, “Saturday Night Live” vet Chris Parnell and “Veep” actor Matt Walsh have joined Yara Shahidi in ABC’s proposed “Black-ish” spinoff, reports Deadline. Their episode will serve as a backdoor pilot for the potential spinoff, which centers on Shahidi’s character Zoey Johnson — Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow’s […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 89th Academy Awards kicked off with Justin Timberlake dancing down the Dolby Theatre aisles, Jimmy Kimmel mocking Matt Damon and a standing ovation for the “highly overrated” Meryl Streep.Timberlake’s ebullient song — “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” from the animated film “Trolls” — was an early cue that the Oscars would […]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — If anyone was wondering if the Academy Awards will get political this year, film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs all but confirmed it Monday at the annual Oscar nominees’ luncheon. Boone Isaacs opened the private gathering at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with a galvanizing speech that promised the academy will […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization. The academy says its invitees are 46 percent female, 41 percent minority and represent 59 […]
UPDATE 2/29/16 Deadline is reporting that the 2016 Oscars hit an 8-year low, a 6% dip from last year’s show. — LOS ANGELES (AP) — In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama “Spotlight” took best picture at a 88th Academy Awards. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. A study to […]
While Lorrie Bartlett might not be a familiar name to those outside the acting realm, she has emerged as one of Hollywood’s major players behind the scenes. Bartlett is the first Black person to head a major talent agency, and is responsible for the careers of rising and established actors and actresses across multiple genres. […]
The Critics Choice Awards announced nominees for its 21st annual ceremony on Monday, and newcomer Shanice Williams earned an acting nod for her turn as Dorothy in NBC’s The Wiz Live! Her co-stars David Alan Grier, Ne-Yo and Mary J. Blige were also nominated for their performances, as was the production itself. Grier and Ne-Yo […]
Wednesday’s drama-packed midseason finale of Empire drew 11.54 million total viewers, the best ratings since the 11.68 million who watched the Nov. 4 episode with Hakeem struggling to feel like a man after his kidnapping. Co-creator Danny Strong, currently working on the 14th episode of the 18-episode season, sat down with Deadline.com to discuss the […]
Deadline realized exactly how ridiculous it sounded last week when it allowed one of its columnists to whine about the influx of “ethnic castings.” Nellie…
