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EXCLUSIVE: Chase Sui Wonders is in talks to join Sony’s reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer, we hear. Deal terms are being finalized. The Bodies Bodies Bodies actress will join previously announced Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King. The Culver City lot is also in discussion with Jennifer Love Hewitt […]

An Avenger, a Jedi and Inigo Montoya are putting their franchises aside to unite in support of Kamala Harris and real-life heroes. Heroes 4 Harris is hosting a virtual Kamala-Con on Sunday, Sept. 8, featuring Mark Ruffalo, Rosario Dawson, Mandy Patinkin, Sean Astin, Alex Winter and more celebrity guests, all fundraising for the Democratic nominee […]

Lionsgate has pushed the release date for Mel Gibson’s anticipated suspense thriller Flight Risk, starring Mark Wahlberg, Topher Grace and Michelle Dockery, to 2025, the studio announced on Friday afternoon. The film will now open wide on January 24, 2025, contending in its opening weekend with only the Disney-inspired indie horror comedy Screamboat and IFC […]

“Screamin’ Scott” Simon, who played piano in the early-rock revival group Sha Na Na for more than a half-century and co-wrote the song “Sandy” that John Travolta crooned in Grease, died September 5 of sinus cancer in Ojai, CA. He was 75. His daughter Nina Simon announced the news. The elder Simon joined Sha Na […]

As his Horizon: An American Saga — Part 2 premieres Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, Oscar-winner Kevin Costner graces the final installment of The Film That Lit My Fuse, in a special extended segment. We hatched this video feature in the teeth of the pandemic several years ago as a way to give a […]

After 50 years, Michael Keaton is outgrowing his stage name and returning to his roots. The Academy Award nominee, who was born Michael John Douglas, recently explained how he landed on his professional moniker after the Screen Actors Guild prohibited him from using the same name as Wall Street actor Michael Douglas or talk show […]

Amid a recent series of sexual assault allegations against award-winning author Neil Gaiman, Disney has put a planned feature adaptation of his 2008 YA title The Graveyard Book on pause, Deadline can confirm. Reps for the studio declined comment. We’re told that there were a number of factors behind the decision to push pause on […]

Omar Apollo is sure to set pulses racing with his big screen debut as he reveals details about his appearance in Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer. Ahead of the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, the Grammy Award nominee revealed the lengths he went to in order to prepare for his intimate scene with Daniel Craig, whom he […]

Two years after surviving serious burns, Jay Leno is honoring the courage of fellow burn survivors. The Emmy Award winner will appear at the Sept. 7 KINO digital premiere of Courage Rising, a documentary about eight burn survivors climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, with all proceeds from the event benefitting Valleywise Health Foundation. Courage Rising follows eight […]

Alison Brie (Apples Never Fall) has landed the role of villain Evil-Lyn in the live-action Masters of the Universe film from Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Films, Deadline has learned. Brie joins an ensemble led by Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam aka He-Man. As previously reported, Camila Mendes is also aboard to play Teela, a […]

Matt Reeves is gearing up to start production of The Batman II and is teasing what to expect from the sequel starring Robert Pattinson. The filmmaker gave a timeframe for starting filming the DC Studios film and explained how HBO’s The Penguin series will be tied to the superhero film. “The plan is to shoot […]

UPDATED, 1:57 p.m.: Within a day of launching a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of expanding Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice‘s distribution potential, the filmmakers have exceeded their goal. While the team behind the hot-button Ali Abbasi film had initially sought $100,000, which would help them get the film in front of as many viewers as […]

There are two kinds of pornography, according to movie mythology. One kind is sordid, exploitative, and supported by shady money and even shadier characters. Then there is the cuddly, family kind, as fluffy and innocently randy as a burrow full of bunnies, that flourished on video before the horrible internet spoilt everything and made porn […]

Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion winner Joker, just had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival — dancing away with a 12½ minute ovation. Accompanying Phillips at the screening of the Warner Bros./DC film were stars Joaquin Phoenix, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Will Smith is exiting his co-starring role in upcoming action movie Sugar Bandits. We understand Smith and his production company Westbrook will remain producers on the big-budget project, which was due to begin filming in coming months but had stalled due to uncertainty over Smith’s on-screen commitment. We hear that Smith is exiting as […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation is developing an original Untitled Animated Comedy with Mindy Kaling on board to produce. Aathil Chaturvedi & Justin Soul penned the script. Kaling will produce along with Jay Brown and Ty Ty Smith. Shawn Wong, Director, Animation Development, is overseeing the project for Paramount Animation. The animated movie takes us to a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Griffin Dunne (After Hours) has been tapped for a supporting role in Darren Aronofsky’s Sony crime thriller Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler. No word on the part he’s playing. Based on the books by Charlie Huston, who adapted the screenplay, the film follows Hank Thompson (Butler), a burned-out former baseball player, […]

Director Suzanne Bier’s latest is the Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple that drops Thursday, with Nicole Kidman and Eve Hewson starring. Bier has a considerable track record of hit films and series. It all began in Denmark, where she matriculated from music video and commercials to early feature films that included Freud’s Leaving Home, […]

Ridley Scott is opening up about his relationship with Russell Crowe ahead of Gladiator II’s premiere in theaters later this year. Crowe starred in the 2000 film directed by Scott, in which he played Maximus Decimus Meridius. The actor, who won an Oscar in 2001 for his role in the Scott film, is not part of the […]

It’s been a hell of a ride so far for the producers of controversial Donald Trump movie The Apprentice. The movie about Trump’s rise to power debuted to acclaim at Cannes but became bogged down by legal threats from the former President who took exception to the material. Then producers had to deal with main […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Stefiuk from Montreal was part of the 2023 Telluride Film Festival student symposium intake — where Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins sharpened his filmmaking chops 20 years ago — and the experience has been life-changing. The town of Telluride is tucked into a box canyon surrounded by towering picturesque peaks in the southwestern neck of Colorado. There […]

“Speaking hypothetically, what would happen if a Yankees fan yelled ‘Bucky Fucking Dent’ as you are in your windup to throw out the first pitch today,” I ask Matt Damon as he marinates in the anxiety of Jason Bourne screwing it up on the mound in front of a sellout crowd at Fenway Park. He […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tre Hale (Platonic), Baron Vaughn (Grace and Frankie), Vivian Bang (White Rabbit) and Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death) have wrapped in Oregon on Song of the Bigfoot, an indie dramedy written and directed by Brent Bishop, in his feature debut, in which they play lead roles. Others in the cast include Brenda Strong […]

Indie filmmaker John Swab’s action thriller King Ivory, a multi-faceted dive into the U.S. fentanyl crisis that weaves together storylines from various angles of the war on drugs, had its world premiere in the Horizons Extra strand at the Venice Film Festival this week. Much of the main cast was on hand to reunite on […]