Valerie joined Deadline in September 2021 from Gizmodo's genre news site io9 and a freelance writing career that includes bylines at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Collider, Conde Nast, Harper’s Bazaar and many others. A writer of graphic novels and screenplays and a lover of all things film, she is part of Deadline's reviews team and is co-host of Deadline's New Hollywood podcast, where she will continue to amplify voices from marginalized communities. She is based in New York.
James Corden is spending the week in his home city of London, to shoot a week of The Late Late Show With James Corden episodes.
In the video, he addresses the Scotus abortion ruling that dropped weeks after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion threatened to roll back Roe v. Wade. The final decision took effect Friday…
The Cherokee Nation and its film office are celebrating the premiere of Land of Gold and the first production of its kind to be filmed at the tribe's studios and state-of-the-art virtual soundstage located in Owasso. The film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Nardeep Khurmi, debuted at the Tribeca Festival in New…
The 2022 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) today announced the Best of the ABFF Award winners.
The presentation hosted by three-time Emmy-nominated actor and author Dondré Whitfield was an on-point wrap to the five-day festival with producer/director/actress Issa Rae acting as the Festival Ambassador.
The 26th…
Christian Bale wouldn't mind taking on the role of Batman, again.
The actor told Screenrant that he would slip on the Batsuit again but on one condition: Christopher Nolan returns as director. Bale starred in Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy from 2005 to 2012 and played the superhero in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and T…
On-set still photographer Lorey Sebastian, who worked on such movies as Crash, Twilight, Wild Hogs,Blow, St. Elmo’s Fire, I Am Sam, In the Valley of Elah and A Million Ways to Die in the West died May 9 in New Mexico after a brief illness. She was 78.
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Sebastian was born…
Alexander Nevsky will star in the new western Taken fromRio Bravo, which recently completed principal photography in Arizona under the direction of Joe Cornet (Promise).
Also starring Matthias Hues, Irina Antonenko (Gasoline Alley) , Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, John Fallon (The Shelter) and Cornet…
A Stranger Things spin-off might be on its way.
Creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer: “There’s a version of it developing in parallel [to season 5], but they would never shoot it parallel,” Ross reportedly said. “I think actually we’re going to start delving into that soon as we’re winding down and finishing…
The Bentonville Film Festival announces the jury prize winners for their 8th annual Festival.
The week-long Festival, led by Academy Award-winning actor and Festival Chair Geena Davis,is known for its dedication to championing female, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and people with disabilities' voices in…
Driver's License singer Olivia Rodrigo and UK musician Lily Allen gave the middle finger to the U.S. Supreme Court justices by dedicating Allen's 2009 song "F— You" to the Glastonbury festival. The tribute is due to the controversial overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case which protected a woman's choice to have an…
British singer Kate Bush's music almost became a part of the MCU.
Christian Bale who plays Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder told Total Film that director Taika Waititi planned a dance scene inspired by Bush's music, but that was axed.
"Taika and I wanted to do a whole dance, which we didn't get to do…
A teaser trailer has dropped for the Quinn Shephard film Not Okay, starring Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, and Mia Isaac.
In the film, Danni Sanders (Deutch), an aimless aspiring writer with no friends, no romantic prospects and — worst of all — no followers, fakes an Instagram-friendly trip to Paris in the hopes of…
Director, actress, writer, producer, and editor Isabel Sandoval is a trans Filipina filmmaking Auteur who made history with her third feature film Lingua Franca at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori section. It is the first film directed by and starring a trans woman of color to screen…