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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.
The National Academy of Television, Arts & Sciences recently recognized Cherokee Nation's Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People with six Heartland Regional Emmy Awards.
The tribe's cultural television series, and the short documentaries within it, continues to be honored with numerous regional…
Barbie is a surprisingly profound film, more philosophical and existential than one initially would expect from a franchise rooted in plastic fashion dolls that became a cultural icon in the late 1950s. This was a period in time when young girls were in desperate need of role models, and Barbie came along…
EXCLUSIVE: The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will commemorate Hip-Hop's 50th anniversary with a screening series that spotlights the genre's lasting influence on the cinematic arts. The selected films will serve as the centerpiece of AAFCA's sixth annual summer screening series, -a…
Netflix has dropped a trailer for the animated movie TheMonkey King.
The film stars Jimmy O. Yang, Lin Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Nan Li, Bowen Yang, Jo Koy, Ron Yuan, Hoon Lee, BD Wong, Andrew Kishino, Sophie Wu, Jodi Long, James Sie, Andrew Pang, Stephanie Hsu, and Kuno Inghram.
With animation…
It's Day 1 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 74 of the WGA strike.
The stars are out in force on the first day of the actors strike and, as Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur said, "Now a thousand very attractive people have shown up and joined the lines, it's an enormous amount of wind in our…
EXCLUSIVE: Miles Brown (Black-ish) and Andrew Koji (Bullet Train, Warrior) are set to star in Electric Panda Entertainment and Gold Star Productions’ upcoming comedic action-thriller Sixteen. Emmy-nominated stunt coordinator/action director Brett Chan (Netflix's Wednesday, Max's Warrior) will be making…
EXCLUSIVE: Alix West Lefler (The Good Nurse and Riverdale) is set to appear as a supporting lead in Blumhouse's upcoming remake of the Danish thriller, Speak No Evil. Universal has set a theatrical release of Aug. 9, 2024.
Lefler joins previously announced cast members James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis…
The Native American Media Alliance has announced a call for applications for the third Annual Native American Unscripted Workshop.
This endeavor highlights Native American creators focused on nonfiction content. With support from Comcast NBCUniversal, A+E Networks, Yahoo and Spectrum, NAMA is…
EXCLUSIVE: Cole Brown, DreamCrew Entertainment, Jermaine Dupri, and Jami Gertz announced that production has wrapped on the forthcoming documentary series Magic City: An American Fantasy – a three-part series uncovering the story behind the famed Atlanta strip club, Magic City, and its decades-long…
Hello and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen podcast. I am Valerie Complex, and today we're talking about the HBO documentary The Stroll with its directors Kristen Lovell (in her directorial debut), and Zackary Drucker, and one of the film's subjects Carey Smith about the making of the film, how “The Stroll”…
Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth installment of the Insidious franchise and helmed by actor-turned-director Patrick Wilson, promises a dive into the haunted memories of the past, but the script by Scott Teems delivers little more than a stifling yawn…
Hello and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen podcast. I am your host Valerie Complex and today we are talking to Screenwriter/director Steven Canals and Screenwriter Dani Fernandez.
Both are queer members of the Writer's Guild of America and have a lot of thoughts about how this strike is affecting…