In a wide-ranging interview with Empire, Hayden Christensen has revealed his doubts that he’d win the role of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He also talked of its backlash. ...
https://deadline.com/2024/02/hayden-christensen-speaks-out-on-star-wars-casting-1235842741/
Taraji P. Henson, who has been speaking out about pay disparity in Hollywood, reveals she fired her entire team for not capitalizing on the success of her hugely popular Cookie character on Empir...
‘It’s time for change,” former Empire star Terrence Howard said today announcing he is suing CAA over allegedly screwing him financially over the hip hop soap’s blockbuster six season run...
https://deadline.com/2023/12/terrence-howard-empire-lawsuit-caa-1235658924/
Jussie Smollett could soon be back behind bars after an Illinois appeals court today backed the ex-Empire actor’s disorderly conduct convictions stemming from a faked hate crime and playing fa...
https://deadline.com/2023/12/jussie-smollett-loses-appeal-jail-time-1235648397/
Empire, an absurdist period drama about Denmark’s colonial history from filmmaker Frederikke Aspöck and writer Anna Neye, has won the 2023 Nordic Council Film Prize. The award was announced ...
Former Empire star Jussie Smollett has filed an appeal of his 2021 conviction for faking a hate-crime attack in Chicago in early 2019. “The renewed prosecution of Mr. Smollett violated his due ...
https://deadline.com/2023/03/jussie-smollett-appeals-conviction-hate-crime-hoax-1235277073/
Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival returned this month after two pandemic-disrupted editions with an accomplished crop of urgent and highly-political competition titles. On opening night, there w...
https://deadline.com/2023/02/empire-frederikke-aspock-anna-neye-denmark-goteborg-efm-1235255754/
EXCLUSIVE: REinvent International Sales has picked up Empire, an absurdist period drama about Denmark’s colonial history from Danish filmmaker Frederikke Aspöck. Conceived and written by Anna ...
A new season of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens begins today with my conversation with Danny Strong, a writer, director, producer and actor who has become one of the most prolific creato...
https://deadline.com/video/danny-strong-career-interview-dopesick-behind-the-lens/
UPDATE, 6:41 PM: Jussie Smollett is officially out of jail. Following the decision earlier today, by an Illinois Appellate Court to cut short the former Empire star’s 150-day sentence pending a...
https://deadline.com/2022/03/jussie-smollett-free-jail-appeal-judge-hate-crime-1234980729/
Just more than three months after being found guilty on five felony counts, including lying to Chicago cops, over an alleged 2019 hate crime attack, former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was senten...
UPDATE, 5:05 PM: Jussie Smollett has yet to be sentenced for being found guilty today of faking a hate crime attack on himself nearly three years ago, but the Empire actor isn’t over fighting ...
https://deadline.com/2021/12/jussie-smollett-guilty-verdict-jury-felony-trial-empire-1234887962/