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After nearly 40 years in Park City, the Sundance Film Festival may be pulling up stakes. With its current contract expiring after the 2026 festival, organizers of the iconic Robert Redford-founded indie film shindig in the Utah mountain town said Wednesday that they have opened a bid process for a…

The 55th NAACP Image Awards continued to honor Black excellence on Saturday night, with Queen Latifah hosting the live telecast from the Shrine Auditorium. The Color Purple continued its winning streak on the final night of the NAACP Image Awards, taking the trophy for Outstanding Motion Picture…

Neon announced on Tuesday that it will bring Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed drama Origin back to 500 U.S. theaters on February 28, for a one-night-only special screening event, featuring an exclusive pre-recorded introduction and post-screening Q&A with DuVernay. Released wide on…

Film enthusiasts and lovers of cinema came together at the 6th Annual Kodak Film Awards honoring Ava DuVernay, Andrew Haigh, Celine Song, Hoyte van Hoytema, Killer Films, Petra Collins, and Amazon’s Swarm. The event took place at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Clubhouse on Friday, Feb. 23…

Ava DuVernay's Origin's theatrical debut grossed a solid $875k on 130 screens with a $7k per-theater average said to be better than Neon anticipated. The distributor is "thrilled" with the number. Related Stories …

Neon is opening Origin on 130 screens and plans to expand the Ava DuVernay film, which premiered in Venice and had a excellent qualifying run in December. Neon took global rights on Origin before its Venice premiere where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and DuVernay became the first…

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie is getting into this year’s Oscar race. As AMPAS voting enters its final days, the Academy Award winner today threw her support behind Ava DuVernay's Origin in what looks to be doubling down by any other name. First of all, Jolie held an invite-only get together at her…

Welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. As schedules go, they could not record together, so we're having another double episode today, but this time with Origin director Ava DuVernay and the film's star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. O…

EXCLUSIVE: "This is a beautiful piece of art that I had no idea was going to resonate so deeply with me," Regina King declared at last night's overflowing tastemaker screening of Ava DuVernay's Origin. "It's a film about connectivity," the Oscar winner added to the heavy hitter crowd. "I believe this is a…

She’s a writer, producer, director and Oscar-nominated documentarian, and Ava DuVernay soon will be a Casting Society career honoree. CSA said today that the Array founder will receive its 2024 Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career Achievement at the 39th annual Artios Awards gala March 7 in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay is handing out a big screen holiday gift on Christmas Day, but you can get a sneak peek right now. The Oscar nominated filmmaker will be holding special presentations of her acclaimed Origin for Guild members on December 25. The screenings will be held on the West Coat at the…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with the ambitious Ava DuVernay-directed drama Origin, with the script also written by DuVernay inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson's groundbreaking book Caste: The Origin of Our…