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Matt Grobar
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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.
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DeWanda Wise, ‘Two Distant Strangers’ Oscar Winners Travon Free & Martin Desmond Roe Board Live-Action Short ‘Will I See You Again?’ As EPs
EXCLUSIVE: Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, the filmmakers behind the Academy Award-winning 2021 live-action short Two Distant Strangers, have found their next awards play in Will I See You Again?, a live-action short co-written and directed by Michael Perez-Lindsey, which they’ve boarded as…
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Neon Sets U.S. Release Date For Asif Kapadia’s Dystopian Doc ‘2073’ – Watch The New Trailer
Neon announced on Monday that 2073, the new genre-bending documentary from Oscar winner Asif Kapadia (Amy), will be released in select U.S. theaters on December 27th. The studio also unveiled a new trailer, which you can view above.
Starring Samantha Morton (The Serpent Queen) and Naomi Ackie (Blink T…
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Gal Gadot To Star In Kevin Macdonald-Directed Thriller ‘The Runner’ From Amazon MGM Studios & David Kosse’s Rockwood Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot has been set to star in The Runner, a London-set action thriller that will be directed by Kevin Macdonald. Amazon MGM Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the film which was developed and will be produced by David Kosse under the veteran exec’s new venture, Rockwood…
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Hiro Murai To Make Feature Debut With A24 Samurai Film ‘Bushido’
EXCLUSIVE: Hiro Murai, one of today’s most influential and in demand directors of television and music videos, has found his long-awaited first feature project in Bushido, an original samurai film to be financed by A24, which will produce alongside Square Peg and 2AM.
While plot details are being…
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EXCLUSIVE: After scoring his eighth Grammy nomination for comedy album The Prisoner, Jim Gaffigan has unveiled the trailer for The Skinny, his new special coming to Hulu on November 22, which will be the first unveiled as part of the streamer’s new stand-up brand, Hularious.
Gaffigan has a knack for…
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Angela Bassett Returning For ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett is ready for another Mission, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
In Mission: Impossible 8 — now known as Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — Bassett reprises her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane from 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
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Melissa Barrera To Star In Western Thriller ‘In The Cradle Of Granite’ From Ariel Escalante
EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Barrera (Scream VI) is set to lead In the Cradle of Granite, a new Western thriller marking the English-language debut of Ariel Escalante (Domingo and the Mist).
Based on an original screenplay by Jay Holmes, the film is set in the brutal American west of the late 1800s, where a…
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Rosa Salazar Signs With Sugar23
EXCLUSIVE: Rosa Salazar, the actress, director and producer best known for roles in Alita: Battle Angel and Prime Video’s Undone, has signed with Sugar23 for management ahead of a busy 2025.
On February 14, Salazar enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a role alongside Anthony Mackie and Harrison…
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Ricky Gervais & Nikki Glaser Score First Grammy Nominations For Best Comedy Album; Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan & Trevor Noah Also In Mix
Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, and Trevor Noah were the five comedians nominated for the Grammy for Best Comedy Album on Friday morning.
Gervais, Chappelle and Noah scored for their respective specials Armageddon, The Dreamer, and Where Was I, which were all released on…
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Sundance Institute Names 2024 Episodic Lab Fellows
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute this morning named the eight artists selected as Fellows for the 2024 Edition of their Episodic Lab. They are Miriam Agwai (Midnight Point), Osiris Pichardo Grullón (Majao y Mambo), Fatima Liaqat and Kyle Kubo (You’re Invading My Space), Missy Malek (Plain Sight), Paul…
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Daniel Zolghadri In Talks To Star In Sci-Fi Horror Film ‘The Temple’
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zolghadri, star of A24’s Funny Pages and upcoming Y2K, is negotiating for the lead role in The Temple, a sci-fi horror film from the Canadian writing and directing duo of Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas.
In the indie gearing up for a shoot up north, an orphaned millionaire (Zolghadri)…
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Zarna Garg Sets Stand-Up Special With Hulu
Comedian Zarna Garg has inked a deal for a stand-up special with Hulu, becoming the latest to take part in their new comedy brand, Hularious.
No specifics on the special were provided, other than that Rotten Science is producing, and that it will launch domestically on Hulu and Disney+…
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