Deadline’s Crew Call continues its spotlight on the revolutionaries of social media who are impacting the film and TV industry with Gen-Z mom vlogger-turned-absurdist online talk show host Bobbi Althoff. Similar to our previous social media guests — actor/comedic performer Adam Rose and teen…

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine aren’t returning for season 2 of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith?! What? Is this some sort of contract negotiation standoff? Even after the series’ 16 Emmy nominations including Lead Actor and Lead Actress in a drama? Hardly, according to co-Creator and EP Francesca…

One would think after Ridley Scott’s planned prequel of Alien petered out with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, there’d be no where left in space for the final woman standing franchise to go. However, Don’t Breathe horror-meister Fede Alvarez has proven with Alien: Romulus, opening this coming weekend, that…

Paul Feig knows a thing or two about comedy. Heck, his movies have grossed well over $1.4 billion at the box office. Then why aren’t studios making more comedies? Especially with the billion-dollar success of Deadpool…

One of the most vibrant and snappy scores this Emmy season is for Apple TV+’s Kristen Wiig comedy series Palm Royale, a complete homage to the Henry Mancini-Latin jazz-infused 1960s swinging era soundtracks (which by the way this series is set in). The most immediate reference that comes to mind is…

There was a time when most stand-up comedians post Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond dreamt of their own sitcom based on their material. However, when Chicago stand-up Sebastian Maniscalco arrived in LA in the late 90s, it wasn’t really his m.o. “I just wanted to do stand-up comedy,” the…

As the old saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Like most working actors at the onset of Covid, Adam Rose saw the jobs come a full stop. But idle time at home, an old Blue Cardigan sweater, and his penchant for dancing wound up transforming Rose’s career; the actor having…

As studio and network executives rack their heads around what the under 25 demographic craves, multihyphenate creator and actor Alan Chikin Chow, who is behind the YouTube hit series Alan’s Universe, and his cast of Chelsea Sik, Michelle Park and Haven Everly have already figured it out. As…

Much like our social media-driven news cycle today which is fixated on cancelation and schadenfreude, there arguably was a judge, jury and executioner style in Truman Capote’s published Esquire pieces, read "La Côte Basque 1965″ about New York City female elites. Ryan Murphy and Jon Robin Baitz’s latest…

When it came to delivering one of the most twisted and politically thrilling Fargo seasons ever, creator Noah Hawley says it didn’t entail him ripping up a ton of scripts to get there. “I’m a big believer that the first idea is a good idea,” says the Primetime Emmy winner, “I trust my instincts.&#8221…

Audiences had to wait eight years between the first Bad Boys and Bad Boys II, and another 17 years for the threequel, Bad Boys for Life, which thanks to filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah became the highest grossing installment in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence action cop series at $426.5M. As…

“Rob (Reiner) always wanted to do from the moment My Dinner With Andre came out — ‘My Lunch With Albert,” Albert Brooks shares about his best friend’s vision for a movie about himself. “I never wanted to do that,” Brooks adds. But when a documentary about the stand-up comic turned Oscar…