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Winsome Sinclair, a veteran casting professional who worked on scores of films and TV shows — many as casting director — including Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, the Gabrielle Union series Being Mary Jane and a dozen Spike Lee movies, died August 12 of colon cancer on Long Island. She was […]

Peggy Moffitt, the iconic ’60s model who was also a contract player at Paramount and who appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, died at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday from complications of dementia. Her son, Christopher Claxton, confirmed the news to the New York Times. She was 86. Moffitt’s wide-ranging influence can be traced to […]

Picturehouse has acquired North American rights to Porcelain War, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The film directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev will be released in theaters throughout North America in the fall, in advance of an expected Oscar run. “Porcelain War is the story […]

One would think after Ridley Scott’s planned prequel of Alien petered out with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, there’d be no where left in space for the final woman standing franchise to go. However, Don’t Breathe horror-meister Fede Alvarez has proven with Alien: Romulus, opening this coming weekend, that many can still hear you scream in space. […]

Mark Duplass has really been, with his brother Jay, the king of the indie film scene for many years. Wikipedia defines him as a “filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, producer, director,” and that list probably even has more components. But he joins me on this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at California’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The film, winner of the Festival Favorite Award as well as the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, centers […]

The seventh instalment in the increasingly aimless Alien franchise is better than it has any right to be, a genuinely thoughtful reimagining that pays stylish homage to the one-two punch packed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron in 1979 and 1986 but adds in some inventively nasty surprises of its own. Sigourney Weaver is nowhere […]

Halle Berry was seemingly game to reprise her X-Men role of Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine but was not approached by Ryan Reynolds. In a new interview, Berry says she was asked by Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively if she would bring the Mistress of the Elements back to life, but she never got a formal […]

The New Orleans Film Society has appointed Carroll Morton as its new Executive Director. Morton joins NOFS with an impressive background in the New Orleans film industry – she has served as the director of the City of New Orleans Film Office since 2018. As Executive Director of NOFS, Morton will continue to expand the […]

EXCLUSIVE: It may sound hard to believe, but John Lennon and Yoko Ono became daytime talk show hosts more than 50 years ago – the Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson or Drew Barrymore of their time. For one week only. The new documentary Daytime Revolution, directed by Erik Nelson, chronicles that pop culture moment in February […]

Paul Feig knows a thing or two about comedy. Heck, his movies have grossed well over $1.4 billion at the box office. Then why aren’t studios making more comedies? Especially with the billion-dollar success of Deadpool & Wolverine? Some studio executives believe it’s because of the politically charged times we live in; others point to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following his breakout role in the Oscar-winning dramedy The Holdovers, Dominic Sessa looks to have found his next high-profile project as sources tell Deadline he is attached to star as the late chef Anthony Bourdain in the biopic Tony from Oscar-nominated production company Star Thrower Entertainment. Sources also tell Deadline that A24 is in […]

Colleen Hoover’s popular thriller Verity is in the works for a feature film adaptation with Amazon MGM Studios, and another of her books Regretting You has just been picked up for an indie adaptation with stars already attached. It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was just the beginning of the author’s […]

Walt Disney Studios announced several new projects in the works over the weekend at D23 2024 in addition to giving updates on titles it has in the works. Films that are still in the early stages of development include Toy Story 5, Frozen 3 and Incredibles 3. Other projects further along that received major updates […]

Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, the animated film that had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to win four trophies at the Annecy animation festival, has been selected to represent Latvia in the 2025 Oscars International Feature Film race. Zilbalodis (Away) co-wrote and directed the film, which follows a courageous cat after his home […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amid the theatrical release of their horror pic Cuckoo, starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Waypoint Entertainment has announced the launch of new genre label Cweature Features. Helmed by industry veterans Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum, the label will offer a collaborative sanctuary for filmmakers to create horrifying auteur content, supported by the expertise […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Saulnier has signed with Grandview for representation. Saulnier, whose credits include directing the first two episodes of True Detective Season 3 and features including Green Room, currently serves as director, writer, producer, and editor on the feature film Rebel Ridge, starring Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb and Don Johnson. The high-velocity thriller follows a […]

Dave Franco (Love Lies Bleeding) has been tapped for a role opposite Allison Williams and Mckenna Grace in Regretting You, the upcoming adaptation of the 2019 novel from It Ends with Us scribe Colleen Hoover, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes amid the successful theatrical release of Sony’s It Ends With Us adaptation, starring Blake […]

Anne Chaisson, executive director of Hamptons Film Festival presenting organization HamptonsFilm, will step down from her post after this fall’s edition of the fest. After initially connecting with HamptonsFilm as a producer of films screened during the festival, Chaisson co-founded and co-chaired the organization’s advisory board in 2002. She became executive director in 2012. Randy […]

In what would mark the first film James Wan would direct since merging his Atomic Monster banner with Blumhouse, Deadline has learned he is in early talks to potentially helm The Creature From the Black Lagoon for Atomic Monster and Universal Pictures. Wan is developing a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror while […]

EXCLUSIVE: Alexandra Shipp (Anyone But You), Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka) and Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) will topline Midnight, a new action thriller from first-time feature filmmaker Joshua Otis Miller and Yale Productions. Dawson is also a producer on the pic, which has wrapped production in Connecticut. Written by Lamont Magee and Jeff Byrd, Midnight follows a […]

Neon on Monday debuted the first teaser for The Monkey, the anticipated Stephen King adaptation reteaming the studio with Longlegs helmer Osgood Perkins, which is slated to hit theaters on February 21, 2025. The horror teaser drop comes following the record-breaking release of the Maika Monroe-Nicolas Cage supernatural horror pic Longlegs, which is the highest-grossing […]

“Stay tuned, we’re only getting started.” Those were the prophetic words of Moana franchise star Auli’i Cravalho at D23 today in a sit-down chat about the upcoming sequel Moana 2. While there was no specific chatter today out of two Moana panels about an animated threequel per se, it wouldn’t be a shocker if Moana […]

After Joaquin Phoenix‘s abrupt exit from Todd Haynes‘ gay romance resulted in the film’s unraveling, one of its producers has addressed the fallout. Christine Vachon of Killer Films shared an article to Facebook about the actor dropping out five days before production, while responding to speculation that Phoenix’s sudden departure had to do with the […]