David Kohan and Max Mutchnick have worked on several half-hour television comedies, but there can be no question they struck gold — twice — with the groundbreaking Will & Grace. The show made network history with its gay characters and themes when it…

Peter Berg may have started as an actor, but he has turned into a showbiz quadruple threat with top credits as director, writer and producer as well. His latest is the Netflix limited series American Primeval, a historically inspired, brutally realistic…

Craig Mazin has one of the most uniquely successful careers in the business, one that has been unpredictable all the way. Starting in comedy with such films as Disney’s RocketMan in 1997, The Specials, Senseless with David Spade and Marlon Wayans, to Sca…

Jonathan Tropper is a screenwriter, producer, creator, showrunner, director, writer, executive producer and author of six novels among other past credits, and currently as the creative force behind the new Apple TV+ series Your Friends & Neighbors…

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is well on his way to becoming an EGOT winner. He already has an Oscar for Best Documentary for Summer of Soul, and he has six Grammys. Now he is hoping to grab an Emmy for his dedicated work directing the 50th anniversary…

Seth Rogen has been nominated for three Golden Globes, five Emmys, at SAG and the Independent Spirits — you name it — but has yet to win any, something to which his studio head character Matt Remick in Apple TV+’s The Studio can certainly relate. The…

Joining me today for this week's episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens is the brilliant team behind one of the year's most delightful, and long-awaited, animated features, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. This includes the…

Chris Sanders, director and screenwriter of DreamWorks Animation’s praised The Wild Robot, just received his fourth career Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature for the film, after previous nominations for Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon…

When a filmmaker's first-ever feature directorial credit makes $1.7 billion at the global box office, you should pay attention. Many may still not know the name Kelsey Mann, yet he steadily moved up the Pixar ladder and was finally given the reins to do…

Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a Best Cinematography Oscar nomination, as well as an ASC nomination, for her work on 2017’s Mudbound. Her career behind the lens also includes the history-making Black Panther plus Fruitvale Statio…

James Mangold has made a career out of versatility in tackling the kinds of movies he wants to do as a filmmaker. In fact. I compared him to Howard Hawks who seemingly could do it all. That versatility ranges from indie breakouts like his first…

Jon M. Chu is riding high these days. His smash screen adaptation of Wicked already has broken just about every record for a Broadway-to-screen adaptation, and he is about to restart postproduction on Part 2, the now-titled Wicked: For Good, which is…