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: Andrew McCarthy (Brats), Drew Van Acker (Last Survivors) and Debby Ryan (Shortcomings) have wrapped production in New York on Orion, a new sci-fi thriller from director Jaco Bouwer (Gaia).
Written by first-timer Anne Vithayathil, the film centers around a heated interrogation between a…
On Thursday, Lionsgate unveiled the first trailer for Flight Risk, the suspense thriller teaming Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg with Oscar-winning filmmaker Mel Gibson. Marking Gibson’s first outing behind the camera since the Academy Award-nominated war drama Hacksaw Ridge for the same studio, the…
EXCLUSIVE: C. Thomas Howell (SEAL Team) and Michelle Hurd (Star Trek: Picard) have signed on to star alongside Trevor Donovan and Ashley Elaine in Where the Wind Blows, a romantic Western based on the USA Today bestselling novel by Caroline Fyffe.
Shooting this summer in Montana, the film follows…
Comedian Ricky Gervais on Thursday announced “Ricky Gervais: Mortality”,” a tour he’ll head out on later this year, which will run through the end of 2025 and culminate in a new special for Netflix.
The special will be Gervais’ fourth for the streamer, on the heels of Armageddon, Humanity and SuperN…
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh announced on Thursday that Catherine Benoit Masraff has been hired as Head of Human Resources. The agency has also promoted Kenji Shishido to the role of agent in the Below the Line/Production department, as well as nine others to coordinator in various departments.
Promotees to…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress Cree for representation in all areas.
Currently, Cree can be starring alongside Isabela Merced in Turtles All the Way Down, Hannah Marks’ adaptation of John Green’s beloved New York Times bestseller for Max. Adapted for the screen by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing a feature adaptation of A Thousand Boy Kisses, the bestselling novel written by the UK’s Tillie Cole, sources tell Deadline.
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will direct from a script by Liz Maccie (Siren), with David Hoberman producing for Hobie…
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed actor Lyon Daniels (The Spiderwick Chronicles) for representation in all areas.
Currently, Daniels can be seen starring opposite Christian Slater and more in The Roku Channel’s adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, the bestselling fantasy book series by Tony DiTerlizzi…
EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has taken global rights to Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, a documentary on the creation of Hendrix’s famed recording studio from Experience Hendrix L.L.C.
The distributor comes to the project after backing two past Hendrix docs from Electric Lady Studios…
EXCLUSIVE: Following the huge success of Michael Showalter’s Prime Video rom-com The Idea of You, Showalter and Jordana Mollick’s Semi-Formal Productions has entered into a multi-year first-look film deal with Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
Under the pact, Amazon MGM will have…
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Clawfoot, a darkly comic psycho thriller from Yale Entertainment starring Francesca Eastwood (Outlaws & Angels), Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) and Olivia Culpo (I Feel Pretty).
In the film, which will be released July 19, an upper-class suburban…
EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Maiden (Stranger Things) has signed on to the ’80s revenge thriller Stone Cold Fox in a supporting role.
The actress joins an ensemble led by Kiernan Shipka, Kiefer Sutherland and Krysten Ritter, which will also include Lorenza Izzo, Jamie Chung, Karen Fukuhara and Spenser…