Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week we bring you conversations with Kemp Powers, award-winning playwright and co-director of "Spider-Man: Across the ...
“Satire is a dangerous game In Hollywood,” Billy Wilder once observed. “It invites self-immolation.” Still, the satiric spirit looms large in many of this year’s buzzworthy movies: American Fiction, ...
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could Cord Jefferson and Jeffrey Wright be the new Scorsese and De Niro? There’s definitely magic happening between the debuting ...
A decade ago, Cord Jefferson was one of the most captivating writers at Gawker, the then-flourishing news and gossip blog. In 2014, during the early Black Lives Matter movement, he wrote an essay ...
The Declaration of Independence states that all men have certain "unalienable rights." From Mark Twain to Jon Stewart, satirists have picked apart that guarantee and what politicians do to honor it.