Sharon Jones Dies: Legendary R&B Singer Was 60
Funk, soul and R&B singer Sharon Jones, lead singer of the revivalist funk band Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 60. Nominated for a...
View ArticleEncore: ‘Moonlight’ Star Mahershala Ali On Responsibility To The Material And...
Editors Note: This story originally ran on November 18. By any measure, Mahershala Ali is having a banner year. As Remy Danton on House of Cards, Ali went toe-to-toe with the likes of Kevin Spacey and...
View ArticleMLK Assassination: 50 Years Later, Hollywood Remembers His Legacy
Half a century ago today, Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in Memphis while supporting striking black sanitation workers in that southern city. For a nation still severed today along stark racial...
View Article‘Luke Cage’ Season 2 Trailer: Mariah Dillard & Bushmaster Battle For Control...
“Harlem doesn’t need a hero, it needs a Queen.” So says Alfre Woodard’s Mariah Dillard near the beginning of the final trailer for Season 2 of Marvel’s Luke Cage. Season 2 finds Mariah faced with an...
View ArticleUBS Downgrades Netflix Stock: “Risk/Reward No Longer Compelling”
Citing data from its own polling of consumers as well as its financial analysis, UBS issued a downgrade of Netflix stock to “neutral” from “buy.” In a research report issued after the close of trading,...
View ArticleNetflix Chief On More Marvel Series, ‘Daredevil’s “Return To Form,” ‘Luke...
Netflix made a big splash in 2013 when it made a deal with Disney, hailed by both sides at the time as “unprecedented,” for four Marvel TV series, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, and...
View ArticleNetflix Knocks Out ‘Marvel’s Iron Fist’, No Season 3 For Martial Arts Series
EXCLUSIVE: Just over a month after its significantly improved second season launched on Netflix, the streaming service has delivered a knockout cancellation punch to Marvel’s Iron Fist “Marvel’s Iron...
View ArticleNetflix Pulls The Plug On ‘Luke Cage’, No Season 3 For Marvel’s Harlem Hero
EXCLUSIVE: One week after Iron Fist was canned and the same day that the long awaited third season of Daredevil launched, Netflix has canceled Luke Cage. “Unfortunately, Marvel’s Luke Cage will not...
View Article‘Luke Cage’ Showrunner, Cast, Finn Jones & Others React To Netflix...
Refresh for updates…Hours after Netflix’s surprise axing of Marvel’s Luke Cage, showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker and others have taken to social media to praise the show, lament its leaving and even ponder...
View Article‘Daredevil’ Canceled By Netflix After 3 Seasons; Future In Other Marvel Projects
EXCLUSIVE: The ax continues to fall on Marvel’s series at Netflix. Daredevil, which launched the Marvel universe on the streaming platform, has been canceled after three seasons. The move comes on the...
View Article‘Luke Cage’ Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker Inks Overall Deal With Amazon
Two months plus a day after Netflix and Marvel pulled the plug on a widely expected third season of Luke Cage, creator Cheo Hodari Coker has found a new long-term home with Amazon Studios. In a stealth...
View ArticleEminem Throws Slim Shady On Netflix Over ‘Punisher’ Cancellation
Netflix probably thought they made a swift surgical move cutting Marvel’s The Punisher and Jessica Jones this week, but Eminem made it very clear tonight he can take a slice out of the streamer in...
View Article‘Luke Cage’ Season 2 Review: Marvel & Netflix Series Is Truly The Real For Real
The launch of Season 1 of Marvel’s Luke Cage in 2016 crashed Netflix. The June 22-debuting second season may or may not repeat that feat, but it sure packs a lot more punch. I was a big fan of the...
View Article‘Clemency’s Alfre Woodard: More Diverse Stories Can Be Told Since “Netflix...
It has been a busy time for Alfre Woodard, beginning in January, when Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency debuted at Sundance to critical acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Prize. Although the Oscar-nominated,...
View Article‘Evil’ Star Mike Colter Joins Jason Sudeikis & Evangeline Lilly In Thriller...
EXCLUSIVE: Mike Colter (Evil, Luke Cage) has joined the cast of thriller pic Till Death, which is being helmed by Big Bad Wolves director Aharon Keshales. As we revealed back in November, Jason...
View Article‘The Midnight Hour’s Adrian Younge Drops ‘T.A.N.’ Trailer; Amazon Film...
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a busy 2021 for Adrian Younge so far, and now the acclaimed musician is leaping into a new realm with his film directorial debut T.A.N. Constructed as a companion piece to Younge’s...
View ArticleDisney Preps Plans For Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’, ‘Jessica Jones’, ‘Luke Cage’&...
Netflix’s Marvel series are coming home. Social media has been abuzz this morning about a notification added to the six Defenders universe shows, that they would only be available on Netflix until...
View ArticleDisney+ Expands Into TV-MA Fare As It Adds Marvel’s ‘Defenders’ Franchise...
All six of Marvel’s original seres for Netflix, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, and The Defenders limited series as well as Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which had been...
View ArticleHip-Hop At 50: Cheo Hodari Coker On Icons, Evolution & The Spirit That...
Editors’ Note: This guest column by former Luke Cage showrunner and Creed II writer Cheo Hodari Coker is part of Deadline’s series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11. In 1999,...
View ArticleNathan Louis Jackson Dies: ‘Luke Cage’&‘S.W.A.T.’ Writer-Producer,...
Nathan Louis Jackson, the award-winning playwright who made a splash with the debut of Broke-ology in 2008 and who went on to write and produce TV shows such as Luke Cage, S.W.A.T., 13 Reasons Why and...
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