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The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals tonight announced its 2025 Jury and Special Award winners. Amy Wang’s Slanted, which the jury called an “unflinching satirical thriller” about identity, won the Narrative Feature competition. Special Jury awards went to director/writer/actress Annapurna Sriram for Fucktoys and actress Amanda Peet for Fantasy Life. Shuffle directed by Benjamin Flaherty won the […]

Warner Bros. is offering guests a one-day, Superman-themed tour of its Burbank studio on April 18 in celebration of Superman Day, the studio announced today. The Superman tour will take guests across the historic 110-acre lot, offering a look at iconic sets, the creative process behind bringing DC’s storytelling to life and a chance for […]

EXCLUSIVE: By the end of April, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival should be public knowledge with the Salt Lake City/Park City combo, Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati bid picked as the host for the next decade. However, a bill heading toward Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk that would ban the Pride flag in […]

EXCLUSIVE: While it is super early in the dealmaking process, sources tell Deadline that Netflix and director Greta Gerwig are aiming high for their next piece of casting on their Chronicles of Narnia movie, as Daniel Craig has an offer to join the cast. Sources stress that it is unknown whether Craig will ultimately come […]

EXCLUSIVE: T.J. Miller is now starring in the techno thriller A.I. Heart You, written and directed by Jason Cook. The stand-up comedian and Silicon Valley alum joins an ensemble that includes Zach Gilford, Heather Morris, Kayla Compton and Jonathan Kite. Miller takes on the role of Marco, an eccentric AI tech partner, in the film’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi are set to star in Kornél Mundruczó’s feature drama Place to Be. Written by Mundruczó’s frequent collaborator Kata Wéber, Place to Be follows the unlikely friendship of an elderly woman (Burstyn) and middle-aged man (Waititi) as they travel from Chicago to New York to return a lost […]

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, the documentary from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald that has been on the festival circuit since bowing at last year’s Venice Film Festival. It is set to premiere exclusively on Imax screens April 11 before a wide release the next week. The feature-length […]

Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company have set Arielle Kebbel, Joshua Bassett, Sophie Skelton and Sammy Dell to star opposite Milo Ventimiglia and returning cast members John Finley, Trace Adkins and Dennis Quaid in I Can Only Imagine 2. The faith-based film continues the inspirational true story of Bart Millard (Finley), the lead singer of the Christian […]

Coming off an original-film heavy February, Netflix has a mix of classics, theatrical releases and original projects arriving in March 2025. Those seeking action-packed installments that will get adrenaline going can tune in for The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt arriving March 14 to the streamer or Den of Thieves 2: […]

EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures are making the Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy, with Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Industry’s Harry Lawtey set to headline. Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana) wrote the most recent draft, revising a script penned by Ben August. The screenplay is adapted from the bestselling […]

THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE Section: Documentary SpotlightDirector: Dan FarahLogline: An unprecedented and revelatory documentary –featuring 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community– that reveals an 80-year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin. The film exposes the profound impact […]

“It’s a beautiful love story.” There are many aspects to The Rivals of Amziah King, but this is the reason Matthew McConaughey says he got involved with the film – the story of reconnection between Amziah King and his estranged foster daughter Kateri. That story is also what captured the attention of Angelina LookingGlass, who […]

Although a film called Clown in a Cornfield might inspire little confidence in anything of substance, writer-director Eli Craig’s latest film offers much more than the title suggests. Based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Adam Cesare, the satirical slasher stars Katie Douglas as Quinn Maybrook, a troubled teen girl who moves […]

Following her executive production work on Prime Video’s Música, in which she also starred along the film’s writer and director Rudy Mancuso, as well as her EP role on the streamer’s romantic comedy Upgraded, in which she starred alongside Archie Renaux and Marisa Tomei, Camila Mendes’ latest double-duty project takes place in the world of […]

Chase Sui Wonders gave a little insight into Sony Pictures’ forthcoming relaunch of the I Know What You Did Last Summer universe, to bow in theaters July 18. Speaking to People at SXSW, The Studio star said production on the sequel will soon wrap and that she had an “incredible” and “surreal” experience being on […]

Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles jury on Monday finding for the House of Mouse in the animated franchise dispute, at least for now. While the panel of six women and two men determined in just under three hours […]

Title: We Are Storror Festival (section): Visions Director: Michael Bay Logline: At the peak of a death-defying career, the 7 friends of parkour team Storror embark on what could be their final project: a globetrotting quest to conquer 4 extreme environments. Faced with harrowing accidents and personal conflicts, the team grapples to maintain the bonds that have united them […]

Title: The Surfer Festival (section): Festival Favorite Director: Lorcan Finnegan Logline: A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point. Panelists: Lorcan Finnegan, […]

Title: Odyssey Festival (section): Visions Director: Gerard Johnson Logline: A real estate agent’s ambitious climb to the top is built on loans secured from the wrong crowd. When those debts are called in, she sets out on a wild ride through London’s dark underbelly in search of an old friend who can help show her collectors what it means […]

Stanley R. Jaffe, a film executive and producer who won a Best Picture Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer and was nominated for Fatal Attraction during a career that also including producing such films as The Bad News Bears, Taps, Black Rain and Goodbye, Columbus, died today. He was 84. CAA, which repped Jaffe, confirmed his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) are attached to star in Giant, a remake of Corazón de León. Marcos Carnevale, who wrote and directed the 2013 original, will direct the English language translation. The script is by Gonzalo Maza, the Chilean scribe who co-wrote A Fantastic Woman!, which won the Best […]

Firmly established in the digital age as its own genre, Screenlife defines movies taking place in their entirety on computer screens. A real pioneer in all this is filmmaker/producer Timur Bekmambetov who has shepherded some of the best known and better films in the format including 2015’s horror film Unfriended, 2018’s suspense-driven Searching and its […]

Cannes weighs the reception to its world premieres in standing ovations, however, at SXSW they’re measured by screams. Anecdotally, in a battle of it girls in Austin, it could be argued that Ms. Jenna Ortega received more cheers tonight following the world premiere of her A24 genre comedy Death of Unicorn than Blake Lively did […]

Although writer-director Alex Scharfman makes a big swing with his A24 horror comedy debut, Death of a Unicorn struggles to live up to its bold premise. The movie stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as Elliot and Ridley Kinter, an estranged father and daughter who put on a united front to get his family-oriented boss […]