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EXCLUSIVE: Amid a surfeit of horror projects heading to next week’s American Film Market, here instead comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller in the shape of James Gray’s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway. This is the type of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Mia Healey is set to join Djimon Hounsou in the horror-thriller The Monster, which will be directed by the Saw franchise’s Darren Lynn Bousman. From a screenplay by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer (Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane), the pic was developed and is being produced by Lee Nelson and David Tish of Envision Media Arts (The Ice Road) alongside Saw franchise […]

It’s suddenly been, if not an embarrassment, then for sure a nice flush of riches in the indie film space as high-profile festival and well-reviewed fare continues releasing into awards season. This week we’ve got a return guest with wide re-release of Godzilla Minus One. Emilia Perez is hitting 125 theaters, quite a few for […]

EXCLUSIVE: Danny Ramirez, the fast-rising star soon to be seen in Captain America: Brave New World, will make his feature directorial debut with Baton, a sports drama that he’ll star in and also wrote. Baton follows a soccer player, relentlessly pursuing his dream of playing professionally, who threatens his relationship with his sister after he […]

After 20 years, Matthew Lillard has come back from the critical and box office fizzle of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. The actor recently recalled the fallout from reprising his role as Shaggy Rogers in the 2004 live-action sequel as he opened up about the ups and downs in his acting career and how he’s found […]

Tom Cruise is in early talks with Paramount Pictures about returning to star in a sequel to his 1990 NASCAR drama Days of Thunder, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Paramount couldn’t be reached for comment, and details as to the creative direction that might be taken are under wraps for now. No other creative attachments […]

EXCLUSIVE: Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) and Betty Gabriel (Get Out) have been set to star in Twilight of the Dead, the next feature from The Call and The Machinist director Brad Anderson. The George A. Romero estate is teaming up with L.A.-based financier-producer Roundtable on the “seventh and final installment” of the seminal Living Dead franchise. Horror […]

The Wire actor Wendell Pierce was decidedly not among the fans celebrating the Los Angeles Dodgers’ turnaround victory against the New York Yankees in the World Series Game 5. Despite being a self-described supporter of both teams, he left the Yankees Stadium matchup early due to “unruly, obnoxious” fans who he said ruined his experience. […]

Women In Film has named its Board of Directors EVP Syrinthia Studer as president, the organization announced today. Her tenure, which will commence next year, picks up following Amy Baer’s 9-year term as leader of WIF’s board of directors. “I’m now thrilled to pass the baton to an extraordinary woman, executive, and a friend, WIF’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios just won a battle for Love of Your Life, a spec by Nyad scribe Julia Cox, Deadline hears. Love of Your Life has been the talk of town this Halloween, and sources said the result is one of the biggest spec script deals in recent memory, landing in the $2 million […]

Scarlett Johansson made a call and assembled The Avengers to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election and vote for Kamala Harris. In a video shared by Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the actors expressed their support for VP Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the homestretch […]

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures has taken global rights to apocalypse horror movie Monsters starring Ella Balinska. Voltage will launch global sales for the film at the American Film Market, which runs November 5-10 in Las Vegas. Monsters follows a mother (Balinska) as she fights to lead her two young daughters to safety across 20 miles of unforgiving terrain in a […]

A movie extending the Game of Thrones franchise, based on the hugely popular fantasy books by George R.R. Martin, is in very early development at Warner Bros., sources have confirmed to Deadline. Warner Bros declined to comment. From what we hear, there have only been preliminary discussions on the subject of a Game of Thrones […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has laid off about 16 employees, all of whom worked in the Oscar organization’s collecting and preservations departments. That amounts to about 2% of the Academy’s workforce of almost 800. We hear the layoffs took place Wednesday. The moves are the latest amid the Academy’s broader restructuring under […]

EXCLUSIVE: Almost 25 years after Russell Crowe waged war on the Roman Empire — and won an Oscar for his trouble — in Gladiator, the actor is once again set to stir the warrior within for The Last Druid. The movie will tell the story of a Roman Emperor who discovers a secluded Druid stronghold […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle is coming on to write and direct a live-action adaptation of Gundam, which has been co-developed between Legendary and Bandai Namco Filmworks. Mickle will also produce with his partner Linda Moran through their company Nightshade. One of the most revered animé, Gundam is thought of as the Star Wars […]

EXCLUSIVE: After creating and writing the first many seasons of the long-running animated series Ninjago for The Lego Group, brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman have been enlisted to script a new live-action film in the Lego Ninjago franchise for Universal Pictures. News of the new Ninjago comes following word that Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Johnny Depp has just come off a brief European festival run with his latest directorial effort Modi – Three Days On The Wing Of Madness, for which we can share the first official trailer above.  Modi – Three Days On The Wing Of Madness debuted as a headline gala at Spain’s San Sebastian […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Lego Group under its deal with Universal Pictures is making three live-action movies with directors Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and Attack the Block filmmaker Joe Cornish. The plots of all yet-untitled three movies are under wraps. Jill Wilfert and Ryan Christians from The Lego Group are producing all three projects. Universal’s EVP Production Development […]

More than 20 years after originating the onstage role of Glinda in Wicked, Kristin Chenoweth is praising her big-screen successors. After noting she “cannot confirm or deny” a cameo in the long-awaited feature adaptation, which premieres Nov. 22 in theaters, the Tony winner shared a rave review for director Jon M. Chu‘s feature adaptation of […]

Netflix’s latest YA film, a slasher in multiple senses of the word, has arrived just in time for Halloween. The spooky film stars Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia) and Madison Bailey (Outer Banks) as the Field sisters separated by time and space — twenty years of it. The film begins with Lucy (Madison Bailey) living […]

On the shortlist of the world’s most popular artists, Frida Kahlo takes a place of honor alongside Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, Matisse and a handful of others. The Oscar-contending documentary Frida, directed by Carla Gutiérrez, celebrates the Mexican painter’s iconic work, exploring the artist not simply as a mythic figure but a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that cameras are rolling on the set of the Amazon MGM Orion Pictures’ feature take of the 3x Obie-winning play, Is God Is with I’m a Virgo‘s Kara Young and Kindred‘s Mallori Johnson playing outcast twin sisters. Also starring are Oscar nominee and 3x Primetime Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown, Kill Bill‘s […]

Faith-based Pinnacle Peak Pictures, previously Pure Flix Entertainment, is adding two new theatrical films to its international sales slate for AFM 2024, The Last Supper and Between Borders. There’s been no lagging of interest in faith-based films, which have the potential to hit big. (Angel Studios Sound Of Freedom grossed $120 million globally.) The Last […]