Joe oversees Deadline’s print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, as well as its special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival. He has been with Deadline since 2012 and serves as emcee for Deadline’s The Contenders events. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK, for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and serving as a unit publicist. He is a member of BAFTA and has sat on multiple juries for the BAFTA Film Awards.
Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, a coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany featuring Waititi himself in the role of Hitler, is the director's follow-up to surprise hit Thor: Ragnarok. It began its U.S. rollout this past weekend, opening in New York and Los Angeles to a frame-leading per-screen average of…
UPDATED at 12:15AM PT with reactions and detail. In The Irishman, mobbed-up characters in need of protection talk about needing "bodies" – shorthand slang for bodyguards – to watch their backs.
Plenty of bodies patrolled Friday’s after-party for director Martin Scorsese’s Netflix release, which had a high-energy world…
Thank God for the winners at last night's 71st Primetime Emmys, who could be relied upon to inject all the humor, charm and entertainment value to a Fox telecast that might represent a nadir point for awards shows unwitnessed since Rob Lowe sang a song with Snow White at the Oscars. Wouldn't you have rather watched…
It was the Primetime Emmy Awards, and it was a night of surprises—like Fleabag‘s win for Best Comedy Series, and the total shutout for perennial favorite Veep—and expected wins, like Game of Thrones taking Best Drama Series, and love for Saturday Night Live resulting in two trophies. John Oliver also doubled up…
It was the Primetime Emmy Awards, and it was a night of surprises—like Fleabag‘s win for Best Comedy Series, and the total shutout for perennial favorite Veep—and expected wins, like Game of Thrones taking Best Drama Series, and love for Saturday Night Live resulting in two trophies. John Oliver also doubled up…
At last night's AwardsLine Screening Series event for The Report, Annette Bening, who plays Senator Dianne Feinstein in Scott Z. Burns' movie, pointed to recent headlines about the whistleblower who raised concerns about the Trump White House's communication with a foreign leader as emblematic of the need for The Repor…
It's that time of year again, as Deadline's globe-trotting The Contenders series kicks off next month in London; invitations went out today.
Our third annual The Contenders London returns Deadline to the Ham Yard Hotel for an all-day series of panels with the movers and shakers lining up to dominate the awards-season…
After writing the book of his life story, Born To Run, and producing his own theatre show, Springsteen on Broadway, it seemed that rock'n'roll legend Bruce Springsteen might have been ready to slip out of the media limelight for a little while. Not so: Springsteen came to TIFF this year with a brand new concert film…
Jason Lei Howden's Guns Akimbo drags the gladiator fight into the modern world, with an anonymous hacker group abducting civilians and forcing them to fight to the death in a live-streamed action game. The film is, "about a normal guy that gets thrust into this world of social media, televised violence," says…
When Gabriela Cowperthwaite read the Esquire article on which her new feature, The Friend, is based, she found something she wasn’t expecting—a new way into talking about grief that she hadn’t seen before. “What it was, was not talking directly about grief, but focusing on the thing that keeps you tethered,"…
Since its debut in Cannes, where it claimed a prize in Un Certain Regard, The Climb has been on an unexpected and steady ascent. Making its way to Telluride before landing at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sony Pictures Classics pic has generated a raft of reviews so good, it's like they'd been written…
Writer Anthony McCarten became so fascinated by the idea of two popes living simultaneously that he devoted himself to the research to realize a movie that would imagine a conversation between both men before the first, Pope Benedict, resigned his post. With Pope Francis now the Bishop of Rome, we are living through…
