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EXCLUSIVE: Creed and Avengers: Endgame star Tessa Thompson will star in and produce podcast The Left Right Game, the latest fiction pod from Blackout and Carrier outfit QCode. Cast also includes W. Earl Brown, Aml Ameen, Dayo Okeniyi, Inanna Sarkis, Colleen Camp, Robin Bartlett, John Billingsley, Jojo T Gibbs, Brian…

If a film played at a major festival like Sundance, SXSW or the Toronto International Film Festival, chances are, Kelvin Harrison Jr. was in it. The breakout actor has a resume filled with festival favorites such as Mudbound, Monsters and Men, All Rise, Jinn and Assassination Nation and The Wolf Hour. He appeared in…

Actress Renee Elise Goldsberry is probably best known from her role as Angelica Schuyler in the Tony-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. The show became a cultural phenomenon and she continues to get praised for blazing a trail for the inclusive and groundbreaking musical. Goldsberry is now going from singing about…

Jodie Turner-Smith started off in modeling and has appeared in TV series such as Nightflyers, The Last Ship and True Blood and has appeared in feature films like The Neon Demon. She now stars opposite Daniel Kaluuya in the Melina Matsoukas-directed Queen & Slim written by Lena Waithe (opening November 27). The film is…

Melina Matsoukas is known for directing some of the most compelling and visually striking music videos including Rihanna’s “We Found Love” and Beyonce’s game-changing “Formation” — both earned her an MTV Video Music Award. This year, she made her foray into the feature space with Queen and Slim. Written by Emmy winner…

EXCLUSIVE: Following his five-year TV deal with HBO and a first-look Paramount deal for feature films, Adam McKay's new production company Hyperobject Industries has made an alliance for podcasts. Hyperobject has aligned with Three Uncanny Four Productions — the podcast company from Adam Davidson, Laura Mayer and Sony…

Actress Brenda Song is a Disney Channel icon. How can we forget her role as London Tipton on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody franchise and seeing her kick butt on Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (by the way, Song has a black belt in Taekwondo). She soon graduated from the Disney Channel universe and starred in more mature…

After adapting four podcasts into high-profile TV series, Homecoming, Dirty John and the upcoming Dr. Death and Joe Exotic, UCP is getting into the podcasting business itself with the launch of UCP Audio. The podcast network is set to launch in 2020 with The End Up, a scripted podcast starring LaKeith Stanfield (Atlant…

In the Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name, actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph steps into the role of Lady Reed, a comedian, actress and a frequent collaborator of the comedy legend Rudy Ray Moore who made some of the most memorable cult classic Dolemite films from the ’70s. Everyone knew about Moore but as for Lady Reed…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has piloted a TV version of Spotify’s feisty, no filter podcast The Receipts as it experiments with bringing diverse new talent to the screen. Deadline has learned that the Comcast-owned British broadcaster worked with The Graham Norton Show producer So Television to record a loosely formatted episode…

Endeavor Audio held its inaugural upfront tonight at the Neuehouse in New York to discuss its upcoming podcast slate. Among the projects are a fictional series produced by Dick Wolf, a docuseries from Adam Levine’s 222 Productions and a WWE-produced podcast with Corey Graves. Among the projects discussed were Hunted…

Pod Save America producer Crooked Media is moving into daily podcasts with the launch of What A Day from author and comedian Akilah Hughes and former Daily Beast writer Gideon Resnick. Each episode of the podcast, which debuts on Monday October 28, is 15 minutes long and brings listeners the top stories of the day…