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.
For actor Luke Kirby, stepping into Étoile, the ballet-centric Amazon series from his The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel collaborators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, meant stepping inside a new world of performance — not just the high drama of an elite dance company, but the physical and emotional…
EXCLUSIVE: After garnering rave reviews for his South London-set Netflix superhero series Supacell and securing a second season order, Andrew “Rapman” Onwubolu has inked a deal to reteam with the streamer as the director of crime biopic The Council.
Written by filmmaker Peter Landesman (Concussio…
EXCLUSIVE: Laika has drafted Dave Kajganich, the hot screenwriter currently working on projects with Oscar-winning directors Barry Jenkins, Ridley Scott and Edward Berger, to pen its stop-motion adaptation of Piranesi, the internationally bestselling fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke.
Laika…
EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has acquired rights to Hal & Harper, the acclaimed indie TV series from actor-filmmaker Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth), for streaming in the U.S. and France, on the heels of its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The eight-episode family drama, co-starring Lili…
EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed in-demand comedic talent Edi Patterson for management, Deadline has learned.
Patterson received widespread critical acclaim for her performance as Judy Gemstone in HBO’s hit megachurch comedy The Righteous Gemstones, where she starred alongside fellow…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is in development on Ally Clark, a new thriller starring Oscar winner Viola Davis, who will produce alongside Rocky Oscar winner Irwin Winkler.
The project brings Davis back to Amazon on the heels of G20, a recent action thriller that landed the #1 spot on Nielsen’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Magenta Light Studios has acquired U.S. rights to Maserati: The Brothers, the new film chronicling the rise of Italy’s legendary Maserati family, with Oscar-winning Crash producer Bobby Moresco at the helm. The film enters a second and final phase of production in Rome this month, with a…
EXCLUSIVE: Following the award-winning run of his documentary Will & Harper, and with a new Spaceballs movie next on the docket for production, Josh Greenbaum has been tapped to direct a new Care Bears film for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner will produce…
EXCLUSIVE: John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones franchise) and up-and-comer Paris Brosnan (The Unholy Trinity) have signed on to star in Overhill Manor, a coming-of-age-comedy marking the feature directorial debut of Lance Clark.
Currently in production in Indiana, the film penned by Erica Leigh Dick…
Netflix’s Adolescence may have stunned audiences with its stylistic achievements — first and foremost, the use of incomparably ambitious one-take episodes — but what was perhaps a greater feat in the making of the series was identifying an actor, and a newcomer no less, who could manage the logistics…
EXCLUSIVE: In a major deal, Concord Originals has acquired RKO, the legendary film studio behind such classic properties as King Kong, Citizen Kane, The Best Years of Our Lives, It’s a Wonderful Life, Suspicion and The Woman in the Window.
The purchase gives Concord Originals the derivative…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively closed a deal to adapt “The Blanks,” the horror-thriller short story by genre maestro Grady Hendrix, for film.
21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce under the company’s longstanding creative partnership with Netflix, alongside Aperture…