Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 15 years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering the year-round Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline's Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim, as well as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide for which he was a contributing editor. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the PBS SoCal Cinema Series and the weekly PBS television series "Must See Movies." He previously held producing positions at "Entertainment Tonight", "Extra," "Access Hollywood," "The Arsenio Hall Show," "The Martin Short Show" and AMC Networks and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing. Pete is only the second journalist to have received the Publicists Guild of America’s Press Award twice, in 1996 and 2013.
Crime dramas, notably ones revolving around notorious serial killers, are the stuff of TV limited series in every shape and form. This adaptation of Alex North’s bestseller The Whisper Man is one you might normally expect to turn up in the…
The lovable dog in Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars isn’t actually the star of film, despite the title. Sadly, Jasper is only a supporting player in the first half hour of the movie. The real star here is Jacob Elordi, who is continuing to show genuine chops as a leading man. He does it again here as a…
Olivia Newman 's latest film, Netflix's Remarkably Bright Creatures, has not only been a hit for the streamer but also with the Television Academy, where it is Emmy-nominated for Best Television Movie, along with a Lead Actress in a Limited Series…
Stars of breakout hit movies Obsession and The Odyssey, as well as the actor and puppeteer behind Rocky from the blockbuster Project Hail Mary, are among the honorees as the Critics Choice Association on Monday revealed the full slate for its sixth…
The road to creating Widow’s Bay, Apple TV’s newest comedy sensation that has landed 19 Emmy nominations in its debut season, has been a long one for creator/showrunner/executive producer Katie Dippold. In fact, from the first drafts to its premiere at…
Sarah Pidgeon learned a lot in playing Carolyn Bessette in Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the FX limited series that took the world by storm and landed seven Emmy nominations including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series…
The ads for the sixth installment of Sony’s cash-cow horror franchise Insidious: Out of theFurther try to compare it to the enormous success earlier this year of innovative genre entries Obsession and Backrooms by noting it comes from the same producers (these include Blumhouse, James Wan etc.). So…
The Oscar voters are getting busy and proving there is more to being an Academy member than just casting a ballot.
Among those serving will be four-time Oscar winner Sean Baker, who the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday will…
Pluribus creator and executive producer Vince Gilligan learned a big lesson about saying too much about a series when he answered questions about the meaning of his first big hit, Breaking Bad. "I was always talking about 'this is what this means. No, you’re wrong and don’t interpret it that way.'…
Paul Anthony Kelly knew when he took on the role of such an icon as the beloved John F. Kennedy Jr, a person America and the world has known since he was just a little boy learning to walk, that it would be no easy task. "It’s very challenging playing a historical individual, certainly one who’s so…
Apple TV's Your Friends and Neighbors has been nominated this year in the marquee Emmy category of Outstanding Drama Series. It marks the first-ever Emmy nomination for the series, and it has been achieved in just its second season. It also made a kind of Emmy history as becoming only the second…
For Debora Cahn, getting to create and run her own Netflix hit series was simple. First, get jobs and spend years writing and producing on iconic shows like The West Wing, Homeland and Grey’s Anatomy.
Cahn is creator, showrunner and executive…