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After some quiet on the East Coast court docket front, once again, the battle royale between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and the It Ends With Us’ director’s inner circle has become a she said, they said in the federal courts. Specifically this time it has to do with the emotional distress claims that the […]

A Happy Gilmore sequel is coming thanks to Netflix, Adam Sandler and others. Sandler posted a teaser of the film on Christmas. The actor, who will reprise his role as the titular former hockey player-turned-golfer, also has hinted at several special guest stars who may appear in the sequel film. Christopher McDonald, who played antagonist […]

Ryan Coogler has no plans for a Sinners sequel, which is by design. In a resurfaced interview posted before the Michael B. Jordan-starring film was released in theaters, the filmmaker said he thought of Sinners as a “full meal.” “I’ve been in a space of making franchise films for a bit, so I wanted to […]

Benoit Blanc’s next mystery is afoot. Daniel Craig will reprise the role of the famous detective who drove Rian Johnson’s two previous installments, Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Johnson will helm the third film in the mystery series, which recently received its title and timeline for release. Following the original 2019 […]

Steven Flynn, a longtime for Focus Features, Gramercy Pictures, Orion Pictures and other companies, has died. He was 70. His longtime partner Timothy Kraus confirmed to Deadline that Flynn died May 23 at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica after a four-year battle with renal cancer. Flynn was born on November 19, 1954, and grew […]

EXCLUSIVE: Creditors of indie outfit Yale Entertainment are out more than $50 million following a failed attempt at restructuring the company in the lead-up to its collapse, according to multiple sources. The company’s co-founders, Jordan Beckerman and Jordan Yale Levine, copped to the losses over the course of a nearly three-hour private Zoom meeting for […]

Clint Eastwood wanted Deadline to get out the word that a recent interview purportedly done with him is absolutely bogus. Published in the German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier, Eastwood is quoted assailing film remakes, franchises and a general lack of original ideas. While the newspaper only has a circulation around 100,000, the post spread virally. Unfortunately, […]

At one point, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers worried aloud that their ailing client wouldn’t make it through his New York rape retrial alive. Now they’ve decided the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer will conclude the case without saying a word in his own defense. “He wanted to testify, and we respect that instinct,” Weinstein’s longtime spokesperson Juda […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Andrew Scott has joined Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar Jones in Chloe Domont’s legal thriller A Place in Hell. MRC is financing the film with T-Street producing. Written and directed by Domont, the film follows two women at a high profile criminal law firm Scott next will be seen in Wake Up Dead […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is finalizing a deal to acquire Split Fiction, a hot feature package based on the video game of the same name, which is set to team Wicked helmer Jon M. Chu and actress Sydney Sweeney, sources tell Deadline. We’re told the deal is coming in at north of $2 million. We […]

More than 100 celebrities from across the entertainment industry have signed a letter calling for the protection of funding for a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBTQ+ youth considering suicide. The Trevor Project said today that it is at risk of losing $25 million in funding for its 988 Suicide & Crisis […]

Focus Features has finally unleased the first real look at Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and final film in the movie series based on the PBS period drama created by Julian Fellowes. The film hits theaters September 12. With some of the same footage shown to exhibitors during Focus’ presentation at CinemaCon earlier […]

In the short film drama Bodies, written and directed by Luca Bueno, two LAPD officers respond to a disturbance call at a home located in a neighborhood that has a majority of immigrants and minorities. As the officers investigate the situation, Officer Alvarez (Alonso Garcia) notices cultural clues that suggest something larger is at play. […]

The full trailer for Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 has arrived. In the new film, arriving July 25, the former hockey player turned golfer played by Adam Sandler returns to the green alongside Julie Bowen as Virginia Venit, Christopher McDonald as Shooter McGavin with newcomers Bad Bunny and more. Check out the video above. Kansas City […]

Netflix on Saturday unveiled the first teaser trailer for Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s long-in-the works adaptation of the 1818 literary classic from Mary Shelley, which is slated for release this November. In the upcoming film, Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life […]

Tonight at Tudum, Netflix unveiled the premiere date for their upcoming crime pic The RIP starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Co-starring Teyana Taylor and Sasha Calle, the film will be released on January 16, 2026. The streamer also debuted a sneak peek, though it was for the room only. Written and directed by Joe […]

Netflix revealed the premiere date for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery at the Tudum promotional event Saturday evening. The film will arrive on the streamer on December 12. The news came as part of a teaser of sorts, which you can view above. Rian Johnson helms the third film in the mystery […]

Renée Victor, the actress best known for her voice role as Abuelita in the beloved animated film Coco and arc as Lupita on Showtime’s Weeds, died surrounded by her family at her Sherman Oaks, Calif. home last night, her agency told Deadline. Her cause of death was lymphoma. She was 86. “Renee is perhaps best […]

Wikileaks, the whistleblower website set up by Julian Assange, hasn’t published any original documents in over five years. That may represent a victory for governments that prefer to keep their inner workings secret, but it’s a loss for transparency and for democracy in the opinion of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki. He premiered his new film The […]

Frances Doel, neé Frances Margaret Doel, writer-producer-executive known for her work with indie film legend Roger Corman, died May 26 after a long illness. She was 83. Doel first connected with Corman when she saw a posting for an assistant on a jobs board at Oxford University, where she was a graduating scholarship student of St. […]

Viewers will get an early look at Mountainhead, Jesse Armstrong’s follow-up project to his hit series Succession. The HBO original film,, which was set to debut on May 31 at 8 pm ET/PT across HBO and Max, will now be available for viewers to watch beginning at 12:01 a.m. PT/3:01 a.m. ET, HBO announced Friday. […]

Marvel will not need a spot in San Diego Comic-Con’s cavernous Hall H this year, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes as Disney and Marvel last week pushed the release date of its next big Marvel movie, Avengers: Doomsday, to a December 2026 release, meaning the studio will have Comic-Con 2026 to rev up fans. […]

Focus Features has done a full takeover of the Angelika Film Center with The Phoenician Scheme on all six screens for filmmaker Wes Anderson’s latest. There’s a lobby and café redesign for full immersion, a jazz band, custom cocktails, t-shirts and totes as the film, which clocked a lengthy standing ovation at its recent Cannes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Barratt, star of Danny and Michael Philippou’s grippingly intense, dark and twisted Bring Her Back, was able to get into the mood for horror by being locked alone in a room, he reveals. Brit actor Barratt, 17, who also plays Casper Morrow, one of the few humans able to communicate with the alien invaders in […]

Studios celebrate their box office hits — unless it’s Paramount, where even success becomes opaque. Tom Cruise’s $400 million Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was produced by Skydance Films for Paramount, but Skydance also wants to acquire Paramount, an ambition mired in layers of Trumpian and dynastic complexity. Indeed, the intrigues are reminiscent of those […]

Crew members in Kentucky have walked off the set of the low-budget film Cipher, starring Terrence Howard, in protest after the production declined to secure a union contract with IATSE. Deadline understands that the production was recently put on notice, because crew felt they were “treated as less than” by being classified as independent contractors […]

The highly-anticipated Elden Ring movie at A24 and video game company Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.is gaining momentum as director Alex Garland may be zeroing on a familiar face to lead the epic adaptation. While it is unknown where things stand in negotiations or if a formal offer has been offered, sources tell Deadline the director […]

EXCLUSIVE: Director Drew Denny (Wander Women) has set six to star in her ensemble comedy, Love & Chaos. The list includes Bebe Wood (Mean Girls), Christine Taylor (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story), Lux Pascal (Narcos), Anna Akana (Jupiter’s Legacy), Rio Mangini (Wolf Pack) and Warren Egypt Franklin (American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez). In the indie […]

BAFTA Award nominee Ruth Madeley (Don’t Take My Baby) is set to portray famed disability activist Judy Heumann in Apple Original Films’ Being Heumann, an adaptation of Heumann’s bestselling memoir from CODA Oscar winner Siân Heder. Being Heumann follows Heumann as she leads over a hundred disabled people to take over the San Francisco Federal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deal points still are being worked out, but Lionsgate Motion Picture Group President Nathan Kahane is expected to leave his post by end of the year when his contract expires, transitioning to a producing deal with the studio, sources familiar with the situation tell Deadline. Reps for Lionsgate declined to comment. Sources said that […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a six-against seven figure deal, Miramax won an auction for Supermax, a high-concept spec script written by David Weil & David J. Rosen, best known for their work on the TV series Hunters and Invasion. The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona will produce the film. Supermax is a propulsive and twist-laden action thriller that follows two FBI agents investigating […]

EXCLUSIVE: Graphic novel Swat Man, about a crooked cop turned reluctant superhero, is being adapted to the big screen as an action-comedy. Gary Michael Walters (Drive, Nightcrawler) at Walters Media Group banner is producing the adaptation alongside the comic book’s creator Jack Roberts, under his Lesnik Entertainment banner. Kristen and Drake Dowd of Dowd Films have […]

EXCLUSIVE: After helping relaunch the Jurassic World franchise at Universal, director Colin Trevorrow has set his sights on his next project revolving around another infamous location featuring creatures not of this world. Trevorrow is set to direct and produce an untitled conspiracy thriller at Paramount Pictures with Maximum Effort also on board to produce, sources […]

EXCLUSIVE: A new holiday film is reuniting 90s big screen lovebirds Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie and the Pussycats) and Freddie Prinze Jr. (I Know What You Did Last Summer), more than two decades after starring alongside one another in She’s All That. The duo will also reunite with Jennifer Gibgot, co-producer of She’s All That, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Robert John Burke (The Last of Us) and Burn Gorman (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are new additions to the cast of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s untitled film for Warner Bros and Legendary, starring Tom Cruise. No word on the roles they’re playing. Slated for release on October 2, 2026, the film watches as the most powerful man […]

Kathy Bates is looking back at her career and recalling why director Garry Marshall didn’t cast her in the film adaptation of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a stage role she originated. In a new interview, Bates opened up about getting passed over for the lead role in 1991’s Frankie and Johnny, which ultimately […]

Kevin Costner and his Horizon: An American Saga franchise are already facing legal action from New Line over a cofinancing deal, and now the star/director of the Western series has been hit with a sexual harassment suit by a veteran stuntwoman over an unscheduled, unrehearsed “violent unscripted” rape scene. Costner’s longtime attorney Marty Singer has […]

Another glamorous Cannes Film Festival has ended, after an exciting fortnight on the Côte d’Azur that drew the likes of Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Pattinson, Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, Kristen Stewart, Bono and many others. Stars of documentaries also turned up: Shia LaBeouf, whose exploits as founder of a free […]

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and India for Cannes Caméra d’Or winner The President’s Cake by Iraqi director Hasan Hadi. The film, which debuted in Directors’ Fortnight, also proved a crowdpleaser in the Cannes parallel section, winning its People’s Choice audience award. Deadline critic […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Rozon (Schitt’s Creek), Colton Gobbo (Ginny & Georgia), and Jim Belushi (According to Jim) are set to topline Karate Ghost, a new martial arts comedy from director James Mark that has just recently entered production in Toronto. Set in a town ruled by absurd karate law, the film watches as a lonely teen […]

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Cornett (Summer of 69), Ramon Reed (Incoming), and Chris Klein (Fear Street: Prom Queen) are about to wrap on the North Carolina shoot for Bad Counselors, a new indie from director Chris Dowling (Where Hope Grows). The project is described as a fish-out-of-water comedy that follows two hard-partying fraternity brothers who pose as […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has optioned the short story “Morning Person” by Emily Ziff Griffin, enlisting the author to pen a feature adaptation. Exploring the high-wire act of modern womanhood, the story chronicles a day in the life of a sharp-witted supermom whose marriage abruptly falls apart, challenging her to return to the corporate world […]

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chad A. Verdi, LBI Entertainment’s Christopher Donelly and Gareth West have teamed to produce Carthage Must Be Destroyed, an action to be directed by Ocean’s Eleven scribe Ted Griffin. In the action thriller, a stranger happens upon a rust-belt city in decline, ruled by its criminal underworld. Using brain and […]

Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Bi Gan’s Resurrection, with the film winning the Special Jury prize at the recently-concluded Cannes Film Festival. Marking Bi’s third feature, Resurrection stars Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao and Li Gengxi. The deal was negotiated by Janus Films and Losange Films. Resurrection unfolds in six parts spanning […]

Julia Ducournau made history in 2021 when she won the Cannes Palme d’Or with Titane, as only the second woman to clinch the prize in the festival’s history after Jane Campion with Piano in 1993. The French director was back in Competition in Cannes this year with third feature Alpha, taking inspiration from the emergence […]

Texas is on the cusp of a sweeter deal for film and TV production, the latest state pushing to keep projects local. The Texas House officially passed Senate Bill 22 Monday in a move that would boost cash available to $300 million every two years for the next decade starting with the September 1 fiscal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Nicholas Arioli has wrapped on the New Mexico shoot for his debut feature, absurdist Western comedy The Stalemate, adding six to the cast. Newcomers include Jeremy Bobb (Them), three-time Emmy nominee Anthony Carrigan (Superman), Emmy nominee Paul Sparks (The Better Sister), Critics Choice nom Shea Whigham (American Primeval), Giorgia Whigham (Ted), and two-time […]

Goodness gracious — headway has been made on some upcoming collaborations between Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, the director shared. Among the films due to come is the sequel to 2022’s blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, which the Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning helmer said is “already in the bag,” adding that he “already know[s]” […]

Seeds is planting itself firmly in the hearts of critics around the country. Brittany Shyne’s documentary about Black farmers in the South won the Grand Jury Prize in Competition at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, the latest honor for a film that has won awards at Sundance, RiverRun in North Carolina, and the San […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has won out in a tug of war for Richard Linklater’s Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague after its Cannes Film Festival debut in the competition. We understand the deal has closed for a hefty $4 million, a record domestic outlay for a French-language movie. This is an interesting one. Breathless is viewed as a […]