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Even Josh Peck couldn’t see himself as the lead in Twilight. The Drake & Josh star talked about his audition for the teen vampire romance on a recent episode of his Great Guys podcast. He claimed that he actually got “close” to playing Edward Cullen in the series before — spoiler alert — the role…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex Associate editor and film writer at Deadline! Now I've been off and on for a while, personal tragedies, the actors and writer strike, other work projects held me back for a bit, but I am back with a whole new lineup of guests. Today…

In the 26th episode of Deadline Strike Talk — which for below the liners signifies half a year without a paycheck that hasn’t come from Uber fares or waiting tables — host Billy Ray hits on a zeitgeist theme that gets voiced a lot by people who just feel that the business isn’t as remotely as exciting or…

EXCLUSIVE: The kids podcast world is booming, according to a new report. All Ears: The Booming Children's & Family Podcast Market, a study put together by UTA, has found that children's passion for podcast has grown over the last year with 93% of parents surveyed saying that their children have…

Pop star Bobi Wine had it made. Beautiful wife and kids, thriving music career. The Ugandan singer could have stayed in his lane, cruising through Kampala without a care. But as the award-winning documentary Bobi Wine: The People's President shows, he gave up the easy life for something far more…

Spotify gave an early peek at its two-week-old Audiobook rollout with chief executive Daniel Ek telling investors, "It's early days, but we feel good." "We just believe it is going to be a great product that will open up more authors to more consumers. And what we have seen is that when we enter a…

EXCLUSIVE: The podcast world is becoming further unionized. Earlier this year, SAG-AFTRA introduced two contracts that covers podcasts – the Independent Podcast Agreement and the MicroPod Agreement. The Table Read podcast, which offers writers the chance for their unproduced scripts to be discove…

Week 25 of Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast comes amid a tough time on the negotiations front between SAG-AFTRA and the studios. No formal talks have taken place or have even been scheduled since October 11, when bargaining was suspended amid the latest impasse. The stalemate led to a group of A-list…

Director Matthew Vaughn would love the chance to shake things up in two film franchises that fans hold sacred. Speaking on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Vaughn said he and comic book writer Mark Millar had the big concept of "a three-picture trilogy" on Superman for Warner Bros…

EXCLUSIVE: Serial Productions, the New York Times-owned company behind the breakout, eponymous podcast series, has found its next case. The company has teamed up with ProPublica and WPLN Nashville Public Radio for The Kids of Rutherford County. The four-part series, which launches on October 26…

Earlier this summer, Trevor Noah signed a deal with Spotify to host a weekly podcast series. The former host of The Daily Show is launching What Now? with Trevor Noah and it's exec produced by Ben Winston, former co-showrunner of rival late-night show The Late Late Show with James Corden. The…

Documentary filmmaking legend Errol Morris has built his extraordinary reputation on two principle foundations: what might be called dramatizations (he rejects the terms reenactments or recreations) and interviews of incredible insight and verve. He has conversed with a fascinating array of people…