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Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, dozens of other films and TV and on West End and Broadway stages, has died. She was 88. Her family said today that she died September 16 at her home in Warwickshire, England, but did not give the cause. Leigh-Hunt was best known in the U.S. for […]

UPDATED with the latest: Several Harry Potter cast members have paid tribute today to their costar Maggie Smith, who died this morning at 89. “The first time I met Maggie Smith I was 9 years old and we were reading through scenes for David Copperfield, which was my first job,” Daniel Radcliffe said in a […]

Paul Feig never intended to make “who you gonna call?” such a politically-charged question. The Emmy-nominated writer and director explained that he made his 2016 female-led Ghostbusters reboot as it would have “felt weird” to continue with only part of the original cast after star Bill Murray publicly shot down the idea of a sequel. […]

Dylan O’Brien is keeping a pretty cool head after undertaking his latest role. The Saturday Night actor said he “can’t wait” to meet Dan Aykroyd following his portrayal of the Saturday Night Live alum in the upcoming Jason Reitman-helmed film, which premieres nationwide on Oct. 11, the 49th anniversary of the NBC sketch comedy show’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni spent much of the summer embroiled in a hushed battle with his It Ends with Us co-star Blake Lively. Now, he’s become entangled in another row, this time involving race and basketball.    In 2021, former NBA star Craig Hodges, who won two championships with the Chicago Bulls, struck a deal with Wayfarer, […]

With the HBO series The Penguin and the upcoming sequel Joker: Folie a Deux already earning rave reviews, DC Studios doesn’t look to be done focusing on Batman bad guys. Sources confirm to Deadline that the studio is in early development on a new movie involving classic Gotham villains Bane and Deathstroke. Matthew Orton has […]

Lady Gaga had plenty of inspiration for her upcoming album Harlequin. The Academy Award winner opened up about the “deep experience” she had playing Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel (aka Harley Quinn) in Joker: Folie à Deux, explaining how her portrayal of the DC comic book character sparked the companion album. “This idea of dual identities was […]

Indie distributors are fretting about the current marketplace, specifically a glut of films vying for precious theater space and hard-to-snare audiences who, with exceptions of course, still seems mostly willing to come out for big ticket films. While there are fewer wide studio releases than pre-Covid, theaters are giving them more space, up to 60%-70% […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Björk previewed her manifesto from her new movie Cornucopia at Climate Week today. The 16x Grammy nominee and Cannes Film Festival-winning actress is the creative director on the feature which is in post. The Cornucopia concert was filmed live in Lisbon, Portugal, and it illustrates the singer’s activism to address the climate […]

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Roadside Attractions has taken North American to the TIFF critically acclaimed Gia Coppola directed movie The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson in a career defining lead role. The movie, which is a great 84% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics, takes audiences inside the glittering world of Las […]

Will Ferrell is declaring himself a friend to the transgender community with his heartfelt documentary. The Golden Globe nominee denounced transphobia as he promoted Will & Harper, premiering Friday on Netflix and in select theaters, shining a spotlight on his longtime friendship with trans co-star and former Saturday Night Live writer Harper Steele. “I think […]

An MPAA rating almost deprived audiences of one of Samuel L. Jackson‘s most quoted lines. As the Honorary Academy Award winner reflected on his wide-ranging career, he revealed that the studio behind Snakes on a Plane (2006) had to shell out “a bunch of money” on reshoots after initially filming the movie with substantially less […]

Nobody ask John Carpenter to list his Letterboxd top four. The legendary horror director was only recently introduced to the popular moviegoers’ social media platform after his team debunked a Carpenter impersonator who had some fun in the diary entries of some of his films. “What the hell is a Letterboxd!??” wrote Carpenter on his […]

EXCLUSIVE: James Gunn’s Superman may be wrapped, but we’re hearing that Alan Tudyk is also part of the mass ensemble pic in an undisclosed role. Tudyk already is playing the voice of nuclear plant meltdown-born villain Doctor Phosphorus in Gunn’s upcoming Max animated series, Creature Commandos, which technically kicks off the first part of the DC […]

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview as crackling with ideas as their new film Megalopolis, director Francis Coppola and Adam Driver discuss the power of films whose meaning changes in the minds of moviegoers in multiple viewings over time. The closest comp to Megalopolis is probably Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Now a classic, that Heart of Darkness adaptation […]

The Critics Choice Association has announced dates and initial honorees for its upcoming diversity Celebrations series of awards shows. The 4th Annual Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television will honor actress and producer Zoe Saldaña with the Groundbreaker Award at the awards ceremony, taking place on October 22, 2024 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. […]

Welcome to Deadline’s roundup of the submissions for this year’s Best International Feature Film Oscar category. Below you will find details on each movie that has been officially put forward so far, and we will update the post as more titles are added. This is a hotly contested race that often results in clear front-runners […]

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary director John Woo has signed with Independent Artist Group. Famous for his pioneering work in the Hong Kong action genre stamped with balletic scenes of stylized violence that inspired a generation of Hollywood films, Woo just directed the remake of his signature film The Killer. The new one stars Nathalie Emmanuel and Sam […]

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all global rights to Embeth Davidtz’s directorial debut, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which recently made its world premiere at Telluride. The pic which Davidtz starred in and adapted from Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of the same name, follows 8-year-old Bobo on her family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly […]

EXCLUSIVE: (Variety ran a story three minutes behind Deadline’s scoop, and then changed their time stamp to 11:53, to appear that they had broken this story. We at Deadline are not here to bend time; it seems enough that our readers who rely on us to break virtually every festival deal story know that the […]

EXCLUSIVE: When a company called Rich Spirit recently stepped in to fill the multi-million dollar funding gap on controversial Donald Trump movie The Apprentice after original backer Kinematics stepped out of the project, many wondered: who is Rich Spirit? Today we can give you that answer and more, including an interview with founder James Shani […]

Anna Nemzer, former journalist at exiled Russian news network TV Rain, offered a word of warning today — don’t ignore “unpleasant” political signs. That comes from someone with firsthand knowledge of the aftershocks. “All countries are different, and we have a lot of countries under dictatorships, under authoritarian regimes. But we also have democratic countries […]

As AI becomes more of a reality by the day, Hollywood is organizing to regulate its usage in the entertainment industry. Although California Gov. Gavin Newsom previously signed two AI bills last week giving performers greater protections, Jane Fonda, Shonda Rhimes and Pedro Pascal are among 125 industry professionals to sign Artists 4 Safe AI’s […]

Cillian Murphy will return to his role of Tommy Shelby in a Peaky Blinders film with several notable other cast members attached to the project. The six-season BBC drama series came to a close in April 2022, but that was not the end of Tommy’s story. Read on for news, updates and everything we know […]