Valerie joined Deadline in September 2021 from Gizmodo's genre news site io9 and a freelance writing career that includes bylines at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Collider, Conde Nast, Harper’s Bazaar and many others. A writer of graphic novels and screenplays and a lover of all things film, she is part of Deadline's reviews team and is co-host of Deadline's New Hollywood podcast, where she will continue to amplify voices from marginalized communities. She is based in New York.
A24 has dropped the trailer for Greg Kwedar's latest film Sing Sing, which stars Colman Domingo, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, Sean San José, Sean "Dino" Johnson, Jon Adrian "JJ" Velazquez and Paul Raci.
Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John 'Divine G' Whitfield, and adapted…
EXCLUSIVE: AspireTV and producer, Ri-Karlo Handy of Sunwise Media, will develop and produce new original programming as the network continues to expand the AspireTV Studios slate this year. The first series to be greenlit under this agreement is Harlem Globetrotters: Secrets of the City, a travel series…
Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I'm chatting with Ji-young Yoo, who has some anticipated performances on the horizon. It’s no wonder Variety named her one of the 10 Actors to Watch for 2023.
Ji-Young stars…
EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm D. Lee's Blackmaled Productions, is helming a new drama series in development with Peacock titled, Drunk on Love. This latest venture is part of Lee’s first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and marks a step in amplifying the voices of creatives…
Room to Read, a global education nonprofit tackling illiteracy and gender inequality, announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery for the premiere of She Creates Change, the first nonprofit-led animation and live-action film project to promote gender equality through the stories of young women…
Deadline is launching Deadline Discourse, a new video series aimed at spurring thoughtful dialogue around pressing issues facing the entertainment industry. The series kicks off with a panel that couldn’t be timelier, coinciding with Black History Month.
This sneak peek at a discussion soon to be…
ReFrame, the initiative launched in 2017 by Sundance Institute and WIF to advance gender equity in the screen industries, and IMDbPro, announced the findings of the 2023 ReFrame Report, which examines hiring across key roles on all 100 films based on IMDbPro data, can be viewed HERE. Also 29 of the 100…
Showtime announced director Daniel Peddle's Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later documentarywill debut on streaming and on-air for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan on Saturday, March 30 and premiere that day at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime.
The film, which was nominated…
EXCLUSIVE:OnBoard: The Film is a documentary film that follows the story of the incredible women who are defying the odds and reaching the pinnacle of their careers. It chronicles the evolution starting from the pioneer Patricia Roberts Harris' revolutionary appointment to the board of IBM in 1971 to…
Frameline, the San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ media arts organization and hosts 0f the annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, announces the selection of Allegra Madsen as Executive Director, effective immediately.
"Allegra's proven track record of success in leading non-profit…
EXCLUSIVE: The Black List is opening submissions for six diversity lists in partnership with GLAAD, CAPE, the MPAC Hollywood Bureau, The Salon, the Latin Tracking Board, NALIP, 1IN4 Coalition, and the WGA Disabled Writers Committee, in addition to establishing the Desi List-–a new, curated list that will…
Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International have announced the eight actors set to portray members of the Jackson 5 — Jermaine, Marlon, Tito and Jackie — at various stages of their lives in the Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
Jamal R. Henderson and Jayden Harville will play the respective older…