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.
EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay’s Array has set the 2025 lineup for its annual cinema and conversation series, Array 360.
Offering a global and intergenerational lens to explore themes of migration, resistance, gender, idenity and collective liberation, the series will open this time around with…
A little over three months after we told you about development on a Very Young Frankenstein series, FX has given it a pilot order and announced its cast. Newly announced cast members include Zach Galifianakis, Dolly Wells, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, and Kumail Nanjiani.
Cary Elwes is also…
EXCLUSIVE: After winning rights earlier this year to Motherboy — the 2024 Black List script by nurse-turned-screenwriter Tess Brewer — in a highly competitive situation, Di Novi Pictures has enlisted Alan Scott Neal to direct the thriller.
Marking Neal’s sophomore feature on the heels of horror…
EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment announced today that it has signed actor, writer, and director Corbin Bernsen.
Bernsen is best known for starring as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network series Psych, and for his role of divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC…
EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has named the filmmakers set for the 2025 editions of its Fiction and Documentary Producing Labs.
Fellows on the Fiction side will include Ashim Ahuja, Gabrielle Cordero, Ebony Elaine Hardin, Betty Hu, Adam Kopp, David Rafailedes and Rui Xu. Documentary Lab Fellows…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) will star alongside LaKeith Stanfield in Double Blind, a new indie thriller from filmmaker John Hyams (Alone), sources tell Deadline.
While unconfirmed, we’re told the film follows a scientist developing a…
EXCLUSIVE: Lana Parrilla (Once Upon a Time) will be among the stars of Synthetic, a sci-fi thriller that will mark the feature directorial debut of producer Oliver Ridge.
Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, the indie is set in the near future, where a retired soldier’s isolated…
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Podemski, an alum of series like Reservation Dogs and Resident Alien, has wrapped on the Chicago shoot for Patient, a new indie feature from filmmaker Lori Felker (Future Language: The Dimensions of Von LMO).
Expanding upon Felker’s 2023 short of the same name, the film tells…
EXCLUSIVE: Benjamin Norris (Abbott Elementary) has wrapped a starring role opposite Critics Choice Award winner Emile Hirsch in In Tandem, an adventure thriller we first reported on in 2021, which marks Hirsch’s feature writing debut.
While specifics as to Norris’ character weren’t disclosed, In…
EXCLUSIVE:Cut Off, Jonah Hill’s new comedy for Warner Bros. Pictures, has another new addition in Nathan Lane (Only Murders in the Building), Deadline has learend.
As previously announced, Hill and Kristen Wiig lead the cast also featuring Bette Midler, who officially boarded the project only…
Netflix has unveiled a first teaser for People We Meet on Vacation, its rom-com starring Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and Emily Bader (My Lady Jane), which adapts the bestseller by Emily Henry.
Set to debut on the streamer on January 9, 2026, the film follows…
EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and subsequent North American launch at Fantastic Fest, where it earned both the Next Wave Best Director Award and the Audience Award, Paolo Strippoli’s The Holy Boy has been acquired by Shudder for release in North America, the UK…