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Michael Keaton is not too upset about the Batgirl movie getting canceled. In a new interview, the actor talked about the DC film that Warner Bros. ultimately shelved, in which he would have reprised his role of Bruce Wayne. “I didn’t care one way or another,” Keaton told GQ. “Big, fun, nice check.” Adil El […]

EXCLUSIVE: After a three-season run on Prime Video’s hit series The Boys, Claudia Doumit has found her next big project in SOULM8TE, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse’s new film out of the M3GAN universe. Details as to the role Doumit is playing are under wraps. She’s set to star opposite previously announced leads Lily Sullivan and […]

After notching box office successes with Rewind and A Very Good Girl, ABS-CBN has produced another hit: Un/Happy For You. In its opening five days, the romance film has grossed 150M Philippine pesos ($2.65M), with over 450,000 admissions. The film will open across the U.S. and Canada on August 23 and in Australia on August […]

Before there was Priscilla, Cailee Spaeny revealed that her first collaboration with Sofia Coppola was an eventually scrapped version of The Little Mermaid. “My first-ever callback was through Sofia,” the Alien: Romulus star told Empire. “It was for [Coppola’s] The Little Mermaid, [which] ended up not getting made. I sent this weird self-tape, playing a mermaid […]

If the idea of a live-action Minions movie makes you shudder, you’re not the only one Chris Renaud, who directed the first two and fourth films in the Despicable Me franchise, shot down the potential of a live-action treatment of the mischievous banana-loving helpers.  “God, I hope not,” Renaud said bluntly when asked by Film […]

This post contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine. Logan co-writer Michael Green called Marvel‘s Deadpool & Wolverine “nothing but complimentary” to his 2017 film.   While Logan, the last film in the Wolverine trilogy, sees the Adamantium-clawed hero die, the latest film’s opening scene features Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) resurrecting his corpse to fight off a squadron […]

After a journeyman career that included stints as an MTV VJ, a rapper named Dirt Nasty, a model and the goofball star of three Scary Movie installments, Simon Rex is having a moment. He stars alongside Channing Tatum in the Zoe Kravitz-directed drama Blink Twice, and opposite Lily James and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Greedy […]

Despite some stiff competition, J.K. Simmons received the highest praise for one of his most iconic roles. More than 20 years after debuting in the MCU as J. Jonah Jameson, the actor recalled that Marvel godfather Stan Lee gave him a “great compliment” about his performance in Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man (2002), even though Lee admittedly […]

20th Century Studios/Disney’s Alien: Romulus is gobbling up tickets around the globe, now poised to come in with a $100M worldwide opening — significantly higher than pre-weekend projections. This is notably due to the strength of the Fede Alvarez-directed sci-fi horror at the international box office, and more specifically in China. As Anthony has reported, […]

Maciek Hamela’s Oscar-shortlisted documentary In the Rearview arrives on video on demand platforms this weekend — a compelling portrait of Ukrainian civilians fleeing for their lives in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Polish-born Hamela is both filmmaker and, in a real sense a participant in the documentary even though he is rarely […]

The first trailer for Goodrich debuted on Friday, teasing Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis as an estranged father and daughter reconnecting. Keaton stars as Andy Goodrich, whose life is upended when his wife and mother of their 9-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into […]

The Jurassic World franchise’s Derek Connolly has been tapped to write Eternal Champions, a live-action feature adaptation of the Sega video game for Skydance, Deadline can confirm. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce for Skydance, alongside Toru Nakahara for Sega. Rob Ree will exec produce, with Aimee Rivera overseeing the project for […]

Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, says that he has hidden Jack Skellington’s in every one of his films. The filmmaker recently revealed that he has left Easter Eggs for fans in all of his movies. “If you look very, very carefully, you might find that there’s some image of Jack in […]

From facial wars to a penguin friend, wandering surfers and Haitian immigrants in Miami, the independent film market is fun, thoughtful, varied and contending with a faster cadence of high performing studio wide releases. That’s exhilarating on one hand but, indie distribution executives say, is making it increasingly difficult to date their films after having […]

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency and Maximum Effort are teaming on a feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel Eight Perfect Murders, having recently acquired rights to the Peter Swanson novel, attaching Harry Bradbeer to direct. The novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. “I’m delighted to be working with Maximum Effort and […]

Roadside Attractions said Friday that it has acquired rights to Bob Trevino Likes It, the news coming off the indie comedy drama’s premiere at SXSW where it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Award. The pic, written and directed by Tracie Laymon, stars Euphoria‘s Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo, French Stewart, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer and […]

Halle Berry is leaving the door open to reprising her Catwoman role, which she portrayed in the 2004 film directed by Pitof. The star of The Union hinted that there’s one way to get her to wear the catsuit again. “Maybe, if I could direct it,” Berry told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show after […]

Osgood Perkins’ breakout horror film Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and an unrecognizable Nicolas Cage, has hit a major benchmark in crossing $100 million globally, the studio announced on Friday. With a current cumulative gross of $72M in the U.S. and Canada, Longlegs is now Neon’s highest grossing film ever, not to mention this year. Pic […]

EXCLUSIVE: After tapping Emily Bunt to star in May, Steven Spielberg looks to have found another A-lister for his next event film as Deadline is hearing Colin Firth is in early talks to join the cast. The Amblin and Universal pic is based on a story by Spielberg and has the filmmaker’s longtime collaborator David […]

Yellowstone star Kevin Costner will return to the Western genre with his film series Horizon: An American Saga, the first part of which is set to arrive in theaters June 28. The first film in a planned four-arc installment premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival to an 11-minute 40-second standing ovation, which brought the actor to tears. Costner, who […]

Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine has added to its list of records, now becoming the highest-grossing U.S. R-rated movie ever on a global basis. Through Thursday, the Merc with a Mouth and the adamantium-clawed X-Man have grossed  $1,085.6 million (or $1.086 billion) worldwide. The breakdown is $516.8M from the domestic box office and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law has got a bounty on his head. Hong Kong authorities, under the thumb of China, consider him a fugitive from justice for helping lead the Umbrella Movement that dared to assert the people’s right to political freedoms.   His story is told in the documentary Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?, […]

In Really Good Driver, which debuted at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, an Asian American mom (Keiko Agena) teaches her grown-up child (Alex Song-Xia) how to drive, forcing both of them to confront the slightly dangerous task at hand while resurfacing tensions between them in the past. Song-Xia, who wrote, directed and stars in the […]

Gena Rowlands, whose captivating work as the elder and dementia-ridden Allie in The Notebook moved moviegoers, has died at 94. Rowlands died this afternoon at her home in Indian Wells, CA, where she was surrounded by family. No cause of death was given, but the retired actress had been battling Alzheimer’s disease, ironic in light […]