After a journeyman career that included stints as an MTV VJ, a rapper named Dirt Nasty, a model and the goofball star of three Scary Movie installments, Simon Rex is having a moment. He stars alongside Channing Tatum in the Zoe Kravitz-directed drama Blink Twice, and opposite Lily James and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Greedy
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Netflix is about to release Season 2 of Unstable, the comedy that stars Rob Lowe as a tech genius in meltdown mode as he grieves the death of the wife who grounded him. Lowe co-created the show, he’s Executive Producer, and stars with his son, John Owen Lowe. That brings full circle a 40-year career’s
When your early credits include the series My Three Sons, Rawhide and his father’s famous show Sea Hunt, you just know that Beau Bridges has stories to share. The 3-time Emmy winner and son of Lloyd Bridges and brother of actor Jeff Bridges is 82, and showing no signs of slowing down. At the time
From the moment he exploded onscreen mano a mano against Eminem in 8 Mile, Anthony Mackie has been on a steady course to a career peak where he will carry his first major Marvel film playing the title character in Captain America: Brave New World. He is also getting some awards buzz as star and
Is there a working actor today who is more versatile than Jeff Daniels? Consider the range: the comedies The Purple Rose of Cairo and Dumb and Dumber and the ferocious dramatic stage turns in To Kill a Mockingbird and God of Carnage to his work in dramas that include his Emmy-winning role in HBO’s The
The tempestuous tandem of Country Music icons George Jones and Tammy Wynette are brought to life by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain in the John Hillcoat-directed limited series George & Tammy. Produced by Chastain’s Freckle Films, 101 Studios, and Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance and MTV Entertainment Studios, the series premieres on Showtime December 4. Here,
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s subject is Hiroyuki Sanada, who
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s subject is Wendell Pierce, the
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s subject is actor David Harbour,
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s subject is Seth Meyers, the Emmy-winning