EXCLUSIVE: Sing Sing scored a leading four awards from the Black Film Critics Circle today including Best Film of 2024 and Best Actor for Colman Domingo. Wicked star Cynthia Erivo won Best Actress, and RaMell Ross took Best Director for Nickel Boys, which claimed three BFCC prizes. Sing Sing also…

The African American Film Critics Association on Friday said that it has selected Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys as its Best Picture of 2024 to lead the 16th annual AAFCA Awards. Its writer-director RaMell Ross also won Best Director for his work adapting Colson Whitehead’s…

The Colman Domingo-starring Sing Sing is the latest installment in Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series that highlights the script behind this year's most-talked about movies in awards season. The Greg Kwedar-directed film is based on the true story of John "Divine G" Whitfield (Domingo), who's…

For composer Bryce Dessner, working on a film like Sing Sing was all about defying expectations in the score. Though the film takes place in a prison, the story itself avoids the usual stereotypes of violence to focus on a tale of rehabilitation. Dessner decided to focus on a sense of freedom for the…

After nabbing a Golden Globe nomination for his starring turn in A24’s prison theater drama Sing Sing, Colman Domingo spoke with Deadline about his upcoming Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, films he’s directing on Sammy Davis Jr. and Nat King Cole, his mission as an artist at this stage of his career, and…

Colman Domingo first met Clarence Maclin on a Zoom call in 2022. Domingo's slate that year included playing Mister in the remake of The Color Purple and the title role in Rustin, a biopic about Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin that would earn him an Oscar nomination. Maclin, by contrast, was a decade…

UPDATED with latest: Angelina Jolie will receive the Palm Springs Film Festival’s 2025 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for her “extraordinary portrayal” of Maria Callas in Maria. “Maria presents the iconic Angelina Jolie in the role of a lifetime as she embodies Maria Callas, the…

EXCLUSIVE: The cast of A24’s Sing Sing, led by Colman Domingo, is set to receive the 2024 Gotham Social Justice Tribute at the 34th edition of The Gothams, taking place live and in person at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, December 2. The Social Justice Tribute was created in order…

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, the wrongfully convicted former prisoner who now appears with Colman Domingo in the A24 prison drama Sing Sing, has been officially exonerated in a 1998 murder case. Velazquez reportedly thumped his chest and pumped his fist as he was officially cleared by Judge Abraham…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg isn’t done adding to the A-list ensemble for his next event film as sources tell Deadline Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo is in early talks to join the untitled film from Spielberg, Amblin and Universal. Domingo joins a cast that includes Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Eve…

Serial killer thriller Strange Darling and poignant comedy Between The Temples had nice debuts as Coraline's re-release continued to kick this weekend along with a handful of holdovers from Didi to Sing Sing. Related Stories …

Coraline 15th Anniversary notched a nice no. 5 at the domestic box office with $8.63 million for the three-day weekend on 1,603 screens. The cume of $12.5 million including Thursday ($20+ million worldwide) broke its previous record for Fathom Events. Last year, the stop-motion animated feature by Henry…