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Earning his first two Golden Globe nominations in 2017 and 2019 for his turn in FX spy drama The Americans, actor Matthew Rhys returns to contention this month with HBO’s Perry Mason redux.

In a seven-figure deal, Neon has acquired the North American rights to Sundance title Flee, an animated doc fromJonasPoher Rasmussen that counts Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers.

mocking of a pandemic that has claimed more than 400,000 American lives.However, an aide for U.S. Rep.

Before the pandemic shut theaters down last March, if you went to watch a film on the big screen, odds are you saw the disturbing trailer for “Saint Maud.” Unfortunately, when COVID-19 began to wreak havoc in the US, A24’s planned release kept getting delayed. Now, a year later, the horror-thriller is arriving in select theaters and on EPIX.

Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union’s members “stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to convert existing entertainment venues and convention centers into vaccination sites in order to get shots into the arms of Americans as rapidly as possible.” The Broadway League also promised support for the effort, joining other owners and operators of live venues in offering locations and staff to assist in

EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, director Baz Luhrmann has tapped up-and-comer Alton Mason to play legendary musician Little Richard in Warner Bros’ Elvis. Sources tell Deadline that even as the film got back into production following suspension due to Covid-19, Luhrmann wanted to make sure he took his time in finding the right American actor to play the part of the iconic showman.

Wavelength Productions has got on board a film about African American contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) for PBS' American Master series. Rita Coburn is set to direct Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands for PBS, while Wavelength’s founder and CEO Jenifer Westphal and president Joe Plummer will executive produce.

Year of The Rabbit will not be getting a second season, despite previously announced plans.Channel 4 backtracked on the initial order for season two in light of budget cuts as a result of the ongoing pandemic.The Objective Media Group, which had produced Year of the Rabbit, was financed by Channel 4 and IFC in the US last year and is now searching for new investors.“Year Of The Rabbit is a victim of the devastating effects of Covid,” OMG chief executive Layla Smith told Deadline.

Haley Bosselman authorAs the United States transitions under a new presidency, the 10-day People’s Inauguration kicks off Jan.

Haley Bosselman authorAs the United States transitions under a new presidency, the 10-day People’s Inauguration kicks off Jan.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla On Jan. 28, Emmy Award-winner Matthew Rhys (“The Americans,” “Perry Mason”), will bring “Playing Burton” to life on Audible Theater.

Ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on January 20, the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has set additional programming to celebrate and honor America’s diversity. The programming will include three events that will stream online highlighting diverse communities.

Also Read: Ed Helms' 'Together Together' Nabbed by Bleecker Street Ahead of SundanceThe documentary picks up with Andresen (American audiences might recognize him from the 2019 horror film “Midsommar”) 50 years after the premiere of “Death in Venice” and shows him as he examines his own personal histories, cinema history and the tragic events that surrounded his life as he tried to get his life back on track.“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” is directed by Kristina Lindstom and Kristian

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCapital Motion Picture Group has picked up North American and U.K. rights to Cold War thriller “The Man on the Other Side,” directed by Marcus Lim.