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Many may not know the name Shirley Chisholm, but it is not for lack of Hollywood trying to keep her flame alive. The seven-term Brooklyn congresswoman, who became the first African American woman elected to Congress when she won in 1968, also became the…

An invitation-only industry presentation of You Hateful Things, a new play by Will Arbery directed by Simon Stone, will be held this week in New York, with a cast including Christian Slater, Amandla Stenberg, Jakeem Powell, John Cameron Mitchell, Lucas Hedges and Myha'la. The play’s synopsis: “In You…

BAFTA-nominated Mike Faist and Oscar-nominated actor Lucas Hedges will star in a London stage adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain. The production is described as a play with music and will run at the Sohoplace Theatre in the West End for a 12-week season beginning May…

EXCLUSIVE: Lance Reddick (John Wick franchise), Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), André Holland (Passing), Terrence Howard (Empire), Christina Jackson (Swagger), Michael Cherrie (Home Again), Dorian Missick (For Life), Amirah Vann (Underground), W. Earl Brown (Deadwood) and newcomer Ethan Jones Romero have joined…

With his new FX anthology series The Premise, creator B.J. Novak looked “to say something simple and sincere” about some of the most compelling issues of our time, “exploring an idea thoroughly and moving the hell on.” “I wrote these scripts and said, 'These are stories about our time, the way I see them,'” Novak…

The New York Film Festival wrapped tonight, and its closing-night film, French Exit, is a winner that firmly places Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time past nominee, back in the heart of the Best Actress Oscar race. She tops an aces cast that is sublime in every way in an absurdist comedy that is surreal, dark, witty…

The names have been changed in Honey Boy, but Shia LaBeouf, as not only a co-star in the film but also its writer, is not trying to hide the fact that this is the story of his life, no matter what poetic license may be taken it its telling. And what a story it is, a raw and revealing movie in which two actors in…

In a touching panel at Deadline’s recent The Contenders London awards-season event that went beyond the subtext of Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf held court with director Alma Ha’rel, and his co-stars Lucas Hedges and Noah Jupe, on the subject of being a child actor and finding balance in your life. The film was written by…

Honey Boy might be Shia LaBeouf’s fictionalized version of his troubled, young child-star life, but anyone who followed the actor back in his Even Stevens days will know exactly who this film is about after watching the new trailer. In a scene that could have been lifted entirely from LaBeouf’s old Disney Channel kid…

EXCLUSIVE: FX Networks has given a pilot green light to Platform, a half-hour anthology pilot, written, directed and executive produced by B.J. Novak (The Office). Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Kaitlyn Dever, Boyd Holbrook, O'Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace and Ed Asner are among the actors set to star in the pilot…

Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts will headline French Exit, a surrealist comedy that Azazel Jacobs is directing. The pic, which will be presented at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, is based on the international bestselling book of the same name by Patrick deWitt, who also adapted the screenplay…

When Shia LaBeouf was ordered by a judge to write about the childhood trauma that seeded a fiery transition to adulthood punctuated by angry outbursts, car crashes, and curious creative choices that transformed him from golden boy to pariah, his decision to bare his pain in the screenplay format he was so familiar…