Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 14 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.
You have to give writer-director Lotfy Nathan points for originality.
His new film, The Carpenter’s Son, is not just any standard telling of the oft-told story of Joseph and Mary and their son, Jesus, but rather a speculation of his teenage years, his conflicts with his devoutly religious…
EXCLUSIVE: Happy 40th anniversary to Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and their Imagine Entertainment, which the pair founded in November 1985. They are celebrating the occasion by joining me for this special edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Len…
Much of the creative talent behind Netflix’s latest animated feature film, In Your Dreams, came from working at one time for Pixar, so expectations for something on the level of that ‘toon giant might be higher than they should be. If you come in hoping for the kind of innovative films Pixar has…
There is not much Channing Tatum is too shy about — that is unless you ask him to sing on camera (he won’t even do karaoke). But in this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, he tells all about his career in every way. Currently…
Scott Cooper started out as an actor, but, after directing his first film, 2009’s Crazy Heart, and seeing how Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall and Maggie Gyllenhaal did it, he tells me he knew then he would never go back to that side of the camera. Since…
What better day than Halloween to review a sequel to perhaps the greatest horror film of all time. No, I am not talking about Halloween and its myriad endless follow-ups, but rather 1973’s The Exorcist, which with 10 nominations including Best Picture…
Some famous friends will be turning up for Michael B. Jordan when he receives the 39th annual American Cinematheque Award next month.
Ben Affleck, Ryan Coogler and Bradley Cooper are among those tapped to honor him. Oscar winners Daniel Kaluuya…
The Santa Barbara Film Festival is once again bringing out the Oscar hopefuls.
The festival on Thursday revealed the recipients of the 2026 Virtuosos Award, an honor established to recognize a select group of talent whose work in films this year…
Some films are just ripped from the headlines, but in the case of the new political thriller Anniversary, it appears that this story of an authoritarian government and one-party system taking over America has simply stumbled coincidentally on to the…
The Actor’s Side is back with a whole new season of movie awards contenders in rich conversation.
Joining me this week is Mark Hamill, who is getting buzz for his performances in two movies adapted from Stephen King works including his acclaimed…
Derek Cianfrance has taken his time to make movies he wants to make. It paid off with 2010’s Blue Valentine, 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines, and 2017’s The Light Between the Oceans. In 2020, he made the Emmy-winning HBO limited series I Know This Much…
If Song Sung Blue, which had its world premiere as the closing-night film of AFI Fest, weren’t a true story no one would ever have the nerve to make it. The unlikely triumphs and unspeakable tragedies of a Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute band known as…