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No matter how many times you say their names, don’t expect Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis to pop up in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Director Tim Burton recently explained why the actors did not reprise their roles as the ghostly couple Adam and Barbara Maitland from the original 1988 movie for the long-awaited sequel, which premieres Sept. […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the plot of Magenta Light Studios’s Strange Darling. If you’re not familiar with the name Willa Fitzgerald, you will be soon. A 33-year-old Nashville native who’s been working for a decade-plus, Fitzgerald has drawn notice to this point for a few prominent turns on television. Notable credits […]

Pablo Larraín’s Angelina Jolie-starring Maria was met with a 10-minute ovation following its Venice Film Festival world premiere Thursday night. The biopic of legendary opera singer Maria Callas, which is playing in Competition here in Venice, is a story about a woman who burned her voice and her life by doing what she loved. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Roselyn Sanchez (Satos, Death of a Vegas Showgirl) is set to make her feature directorial debut with Diario, Mujer & Café, a feature she penned currently in production in her native Puerto Rico. The film stars Angélica Vale (La Fea Más Bella), Marisé Álvarez (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Karla Monroig and Angelique Burgos as best friends […]

A fourth Bridget Jones film is on the way, and some returning faces as well as new famous ones have joined the latest installment in the rom-com franchise. Renée Zellweger, who first brought the titular character to life in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) will return to reprise her role in the film. The news of […]

Take one conservative anti-Trumper, add a liberal Hollywood filmmaker, toss them in a Hot Tub Time Machine, and what comes out? One of the most talked-about documentaries set to premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. In the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, TIFF’s chief documentary programmer Thom Powers joins the show to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Two years ago, Sigourney Weaver handed the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to the filmmaker Paul Schrader. As she explains to us in a rare sit-down, she didn’t imagine that two years later she would be receiving the same accolade. Looking over her career is to be quickly reminded that there […]

EXCLUSIVE: C. Thomas Howell (Obliterated) and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) have been cast opposite Ryan Phillippe and Amélie Hoeferle in the feature One Mile and its sequel, One More Mile, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Paramount’s Republic Pictures. Adam Davidson is directing the movies, which will be filmed simultaneously. Production is slated to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ciarán Cassidy’s documentary Housewife of the Year, ahead of its North American premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival. World premiering at CPH:DOX before going on to win Best Irish Feature Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh, the film will be released in theaters next spring. Housewife […]

EXCLUSIVE: In April 2022 Amazon union leader Chris Smalls and his associates in the trenches pulled off one of the most astounding feats in the annals of American labor: successfully unionizing the first Amazon facility anywhere in the country. The story of how Smalls and members of the grassroots Amazon Labor Union achieved the unthinkable […]

Shares of Paramount Global are softer Tuesday after Edgar Bronfman Jr. exited the Paramount fray last night and shareholders hoping for a bidding war with Skydance were disappointed. “It was a long shot to begin with,” said one investor of Bronfman’s offer. “But you always want a competitive process with the hope that one or […]

Netflix viewers are still flocking to Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg’s The Union, which topped the streamer’s charts for the second consecutive week with just over 40M views from August 19 to 25. That’s up from the 33.1M views is raked in during its premiere weekend, granting it a second week as not only the […]

On the heels of its world premiere at Cannes, Matthew Rankin’s comedy Universal Language  has been named as Canada’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the  97th Academy Awards. The film, written by Rankin, Pirouz Nemati and Ila Firouzabadi, will look to become the ninth in Canada’s history to be recognized in the […]

Max announced today that Sweethearts, its New Line rom-com starring Kiernan Shipka (Twisters) and Nico Hiraga (Love in Taipei), will premiere on the streamer on November 28. They also unveiled a few first look stills, which you can view above and below. In the film marking the directorial debut of Jordan Weiss, creator of Hulu’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy Award winner Bad Bunny is the latest to join Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing for Sony Pictures. Aronofsky will direct the pic, which is based on the book by Charlie Huston. The script will be written by Huston, with Protozoa producing. The film follows Hank Thompson (Butler), a burned-out former baseball […]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple and Skydance’s youth empowerment tale Way of the Warrior Kid, based on the 2017 novel by Jocko Willink, has tapped 14-year-old Belfast breakout Jude Hill for its lead role, also bringing on three-time Emmy nominee Linda Cardellini (Dead to Me) for a role. Hill plays Marc, a self-doubting boy who gets bullied and […]

A special committee of Paramount Global’s board set up to steer its M&A process has declared an end to the “go-shop” period in its pending Skydance Media merger and says the transaction will close in the first half of 2025. In a statement tonight following the withdrawal of a rival bid led by Edgar Bronfman […]

Beetlejuice guzzles “the juice is loose” hot sauce in a new Warner Bros. promo of the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which parodies popular talk show Hot Ones. In the satire clip, he flippantly answers Michael Keaton‘s questions, leading the actor to walk off the set. “How long is this gonna take? I gotta get to the […]

Megalopolis filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola said the upcoming epic purposefully cast actors who were “canceled” because he didn’t want his film to be written off as “some woke Hollywood production.” Though the road to the film’s Sept. 27 release by Lionsgate has not been estranged from controversy — from divisive critical opinion at the Cannes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Ziegler (Fitting In, My Old Ass) and Avantika (Mean Girls) have joined the cast of the indie action feature Ballerina Overdrive from 87North and Gulfstream Pictures. From Vicky Jewson, who is directing from a script by Kate Freund, Ballerina Overdrive follows a troupe of ballerinas who find themselves fighting for survival as they […]

EXCLUSIVE: Katya Martín (Promised Land) and Catharine Daddario (IF) have been tapped for lead roles in Muffled, an indie horror comedy written and directed by Stephen McNamee, who makes his feature debut. Set to enter production in the Greater New Orleans area in early September, the film follows Nora (Martín) and Harper (Daddario) as they […]

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point), Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga), Thomas Kretschmann (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) and Praya Lundberg (The White Lotus) have signed on to star alongside Anthony Hopkins in Eyes in the Trees, a sci-fi thriller serving as a modern reimagining of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, on […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tasha Smith (Bad Boys: Ride or Die), Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary), Francois Arnaud (Yellowjackets), Susan Park (Shining Vale) and Cree (Turtles All the Way Down) are the newest additions to the cast of Twinless, the dark comedy that James Sweeney wrote and is directing for Republic Pictures. Details as to the newcomers’ roles are […]

With the theatrical release of Roadside Attractions’ child trafficking drama City of Dreams coming up, the filmmakers will be giving away $1 million in free tickets for a series of sneak previews beginning Wednesday, August 28, the studio announced today. It’s expected that the giveaway will result in more than 50,000 moviegoers coming out. The […]