Matt joined the editors desk in March 2021 after five years as Awardsline's Assistant Editor. In that role, he contributed to the coverage and editing of the magazines throughout the year, focusing on artist interviews revolving around awards season and its big nights including the Oscars and Emmys. Matt also manages the Production Value video series, which spotlights the premier craft talent working in film and TV. He also is part of Deadline's festival studio team at the likes of Sundance, Tribeca and Toronto. Before Deadline he worked at UTA, 8thDay Pictures and Infinity Management International.
Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first teaser for Verity, its adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover.
The film, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson and slated to hit theaters October 2, follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling…
Recently, Ari Shaffir came to the end of two journeys — one spanning seven months off the grid in South America, the other decades in the making.
A comedian known for disappearing abroad for extended stretches — who chronicles his escapades on his podcast You Be Trippin’ — Shaffir resurfaced in…
EXCLUSIVE: David Weil has commenced production on Tyrant, with four new additions to the L.A.-lensed Amazon MGM culinary thriller: I May Destroy You‘s Paapa Essiedu, Heated Rivalry breakout Hudson Williams, musician Omar Apollo (Queer), and fashion and lifestyle creator Nara Smith.
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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes has announced that her seventh stand-up special, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes: Ugly Baby, is set to premiere on YouTube on Mother’s Day — Sunday, May 10 — at 12 p.m. PT.
Self-produced and self-financed, Ugly Baby marks Johnson-Reyes’ directorial debut. At the…
EXCLUSIVE: 24-year-old multi-hyphenate Jillian Moray has wrapped on Pismo, a coming-of-age comedic drama marking her feature directorial debut, in which she stars opposite Nuha Jes Izman (Yellowjackets), Madeline Popovich (Murdaugh: Death in the Family), Lindsey Normington (Anora), Jack Irv (The Sweet…
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Ben Gleib is preparing to launch Good Night with Ben Gleib, a new late-night talk show that, on May 28, will become the first launching on YouTube that was made exclusively for that platform.
Gleib’s weekly series is designed to evolve the traditional celebrity-focused late…
EXCLUSIVE: Ellen DeGeneres is returning to voice Dory, her lovable, ditzy blue tang fish, in a new short out of Pixar’s Finding Nemo universe, Deadline has learned.
Plot deals for the still-untitled short are under wraps and there’s no information available yet as to other creative attachments…
Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s take on the classic Emily Brontë novel starring Margot Robbie an d Jacob Elordi, is set to premere on HBO Max on Friday, May 1, debuting on HBO linear the following day at 8:00 p.m. ET.
A version with American Sign Language will also stream exclusively on HBO…
Fresh off his Oscar win for Sinners and a completed deal for Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85, Michael B. Jordan is out to the town with Battlefield, a feature adaptation of the Electronic Arts video game that has Christopher McQuarrie attached to write, direct and produce, Deadline can…
EXCLUSIVE: Zach Zucker, an artist at the forefront of the contemporary clown comedy movement, known for his alter ego of Jack Tucker, has announced that his first special under that name, Jack Tucker: Comedy Standup Hour, will launch on YouTube at 12:00 p.m. PT on April 26.
A graduate of École…
UPDATED, 3:04 PM: Universal’s Murder, She Wrote movie based on the classic TV show will now go on February 4, 2028, instead of December 22, 2027. Essentially, the studio believes this is a better date for the playability of this type of movie instead of Christmas. There aren’t any other major studio…
Charli xcx’s tour mockumentary The Moment, in which she plays a fictionalized version of herself, is set to make its streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max in the U.S. on Friday, May 29, debuting on HBO linear at 8 p.m. ET the following day.
Directed by Aidan Zamiri, A24’s The Moment follows a…