EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Olsen has signed with CAA for representation. Known best for her role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch in films such as Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness. She…

Primary Trust, Eboni Booth’s play that was given an Off Broadway staging by Roundabout Theatre Company last summer, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today. The play was described by the Pulitzer board as “A simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Television has acquired the rights to Jana Monroe's memoir Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit, And My Life As a Woman In The FBI to develop into a series. Winner filmmaker Susanna Fogel and Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead) will…

Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there's nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Is Laura getting back on the dating scene? Deadline has an exclusive clip from Monday’s episode of All American, featuring a visit from Laura’s (Monet Mazur) mom. She’s happy to be visiting her daughter in Los Angeles because, as she says, there’s no shortage of “gorgeous guys.” But…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominated writer Samy Burch has signed with WME. Burch is the writer behind May December, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, in addition to WGA and Critics Choice Awards nominations. Burch won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First…

The New Yorker’s Justin Chang won a Pulitzer Prize for his movie criticism during his tenure at the Los Angeles Times. Chang also is the former film critic for Variety. The judges recognized Chang for his “richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Rudy Valdez (The Sentence) has signed with Inspire Entertainment for management. Most recently, Valdez served as director, EP and cinematographer of the six-part docuseries Choir for Disney+, as well as Carlos, the Carlos Santana doc from Sony Pictures…