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EXCLUSIVE: Indonesian animated feature Jumbo has become the highest-grossing Southeast Asian animation of all time. Produced by Visinema Studios, the film has earned over $8M at the Indonesian box office since its March 31 release, surpassing the record previously held by Malaysia’s Mechamato Movie, which grossed approximately $7.68 million in 2022. Jumbo has racked up […]

On the 25th anniversary of American Psycho, director Mary Harron reflected on the darkly satirical film’s legacy in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidency and how misunderstood the movie remains even amid enduring popularity. The filmmaker sat down with Leterboxd Journal, unpacking the movie’s continued relevancy and how it’s been embraced by young women […]

Maryse Legagneur’s drama The Last Meal (Le Dernier Repas) has earned the top prize at the Miami Film Festival, winning the $15,000 Marimbas Award in international competition. The award, chosen by a jury, goes to a narrative feature film that “best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.” “After 20 years of silence, a dying […]

With two Oscars in tow over the course of her 30-year-plus career — where she has played everyone from Queen Elizabeth I to fantasy heroes to an embattled maestro — Cate Blanchett said she is “serious” about stepping away from her craft one day. The reveal came during a new interview with the U.K.’s Radio […]

Following her emotional and Oscar-nominated directorial debut Past Lives starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, Celine Song will return to the big screen with a sophomore feature film starring quite the trifecta of big names. Materialists, also hailing from A24, will feature another love story and triangle of sorts. Read on for everything we know […]

Anthony Mackie is set to reprise his superhero role in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. The actor most recently played Sam Wilson in Captain America: Brave New World, and teased the upcoming Marvel movie in a new interview. “We’re supposed to go out this week, and we’ll be out there doing it,” Mackie said in an […]

Ali Afshar’s ESX Entertainment has started production on their second film in Nevada, High Stakes Holiday starring the M3GAN actress Violet McGraw and Black Phone‘s Madeleine McGraw. In addition, Brynne Kurland has joined the cast which also includes Andew Koji, Azizi Donnelly, Jack Griffo and Struggle Jennings. In High Stakes Holiday, two sharp-witted sisters (Madeleine […]

EXCLUSIVE:  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star Xochitl Gomez and Latin Grammy-nominated Rebelde star Maite Perroni are set to lead No Te Olvides, an original musical film from producers Tony Estrada (The Mother, Menacer and Me) and Kristina Rivera (The Mule, Sully). High School Musical: The Musical: The Series helmer Kimberly McCullough is directing. Production is […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actress Vera Farmiga is boarding Walden Media’s Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy opposite Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey. Cameras are about to roll. Adapted from the acclaimed book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, Billion Dollar Spy follows Adolf Tolkachev (Crowe), who in real life risked everything to pass thousands of […]

The wildfires that ravaged the Los Angeles area in January also took a toll on the already-distressed local film and TV production sector. FilmLA reported today that overall shoot days in Greater L.A. were down by 22.4% during the first quarter, continuing a disturbing trend. The city and county film-permitting office said that all of […]

Apple has landed global rights to Come See Me in the Good Light, the latest documentary from three-time Emmy nominee Ryan White (Pamela, A Love Story) that won the Festival Favorite Award in its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Produced by White along with Jessica Hargrave (Pamela, A Love Story, The Keepers), comedian […]

EXCLUSIVE: Severance star Britt Lower will star alongside David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding) and Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl) in Sender, a new psychological horror film produced by the latter. Marking the directorial debut of Russell Goldman, the film is based on Return to Sender, his award-winning […]

More on the death of Nicky Katt. Waiting on cause of death for an actor who faded from view around the time of the pandemic. His bio information was furnished by his family, and Deadline can follow with some quotes by the directors he worked with most often. Katt was born on May 11, 1970, […]

Don’t you forget about them. For the first time in four decades and just a little past the 1985 classic film’s 40th anniversary, all five stars of John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club reunited. Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy all took the stage during a panel conversation celebrating the […]

Three faith-based films from two independent distributors hit the top ten, a pair of Indian pics popped and traditional indies flexed at a rapidly improving box office. Angel Studios’ The King Of Kings is looking at a $19 million weekend on 3,200 screens, its widest opening yet and the highest grossing debut of a faith-based […]

Jean Marsh, the Emmy-winning actress and co-creator behind the acclaimed ’70s ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, has died at the age of 90. Her cause of death was a result of complications from dementia, her close friend Michael Lindsay-Hogg, told the New York Times, which first reported the news. Before there was Downton Abbey, the seminal […]

Updated: The Chicken Jockey has galloped past the half-century mark at the global box office, with A Minecraft Movie at an estimated $550.6M worldwide through today. Of that, $269.6M is from overseas. During the sophomore session, the Warner Bros/Legendary hit added $79.6M from 76 international box office markets for a -42% hold excluding China. Despite […]

Pedro Pascal is no stranger to stepping into genre entertainment and franchise-spanning worlds, but he admitted his latest foray — the forthcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps — was “really intimidating.” The latest MCU entry, due in theaters July 25 and helmed by three-time Emmy nominee Matt Shakman, marks the fourth attempt to translate the […]

For a documentary filmmaker, there’s no greater compliment than to hear the words, “Your film made an impact.” For that reason, it was particularly significant this week for Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams to earn the Impact Award from the Miami Film Festival. “It means so much now in this day and age when everything […]

Ally fans rejoiced as Lady Gaga reprised her hit song from A Star Is Born (2018) for the first night of Coachella 2025. Following some tracks from her latest album Mayhem, as well as some of her other bops, Gaga performed her Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning song ‘Shallow‘, which she originally sang with co-star […]

Still working to get official confirmation and cause of death, but I can report from sources that veteran actor Nicky Katt has passed away, at age 54. Katt will quickly to mind for his memorable turn as the high school Texan tough Clint Bruno, who picks a fight with Adam Goldberg’s Mike Newhouse, gets a […]

British actor Nick Moran’s friend has asked fans to send prayers after the Harry Potter star was rushed to hospital for surgery with a condition described as “life-threatening.” Moran was seen lying in a hospital bed in intensive care in a photo previously shared to social media (but later deleted) by his friend Terry Stone, […]

Warfare, cowritten and codirected by Alex Garland (Civil War) and Ray Mendoza, is based on the memories of two operations of American Navy SEALs who conducted a mission in Iraq controlled by Al Qaeda in November 2006. The team was divided into three groups, or operations, in the Ramadi Province with the goal of embedding […]

Bella Thorne has taken to social media to detail her experience working with Mickey Rourke on the set of the 2020 film Girl. The former Disney Channel star was reacting to news that Rourke was given a formal warning on Celebrity Big Brother UK after directing homophobic remarks to fellow housemate JoJo Siwa. “This f***ing […]

As Joseph Quinn joins the MCU, he has a more evolved take on his character, who debuted in 1961. The Fantastic Four: First Steps star recently explained how his version of Johnny Storm contrasts from previous iterations of the Human Torch “as this womanizing, devil-may-care guy,” which he doesn’t find “sexy these days.” “He’s a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has just set plans to revamp The Bodyguard, the 1992 romantic drama thriller that teamed superstars Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The studio, which released the original, has set Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour director Sam Wrench to helm and script by Juror No. 2 writer Jonathan A. Abrams, Deadline has learned. […]

Ted Kotcheff, the versatile, two-time Palme d’Or nominee who directed more than two dozen movies including First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s, Fun with Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty and Wake in Fright and exec produced hundreds of episodes of Law & Order: SVU during a six-decade career, died Thursday. He was 94. Family members […]

The South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles has released its programming lineup ahead of the event’s 20th anniversary. SEEfest, running April 30-May 7, opens with the L.A. premiere of The New Year That Never Came, directed by Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Mureșanu, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and Best Film in the Orizzonti program […]

EXCLUSIVE: If you focus on snarky and largely unsubstantiated reports, you might figure Warner Bros Pictures co-chairman/CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy would spend this weekend boxing up their belongings. Using a couple flops and risky upcoming films as fodder, several reports with scant backup say their Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav is […]

The King of Kings will be Angel Studios’ top opening since juggernaut Sound of Freedom in 2023 and may well beat the reigning champ for highest-grossing faith-based animated debut, besting DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt from 1998. Deadline asks distribution chief Brandon Purdie about the response from audiences and theaters. Michael Angarano, writer, director and […]

On April 29, Jayson Dumenigo will get the recognition he and his fellow stunt performers have been wanting for decades from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — but he had to set fire to a bunch of people to get it. Dumenigo will receive an Academy plaque for developing a hydrogel that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of his new Max series Duster‘s May premiere, Josh Holloway has inked a deal to star in Flint, an adaptation of the Western novel by Louis L’Amour, which is due to begin production in New Mexico later this year. Written and to be directed by Ryan Whitaker, the film has Holloway taking on […]

New Line’s sci-fi thriller Companion, starring Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) and Jack Quaid (The Boys), will begin streaming globally on Max on Friday, April 18, debuting on HBO linear on Saturday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET.  In Companion, written and directed by Drew Hancock (My Dead Ex), Thatcher plays Iris, who joins her boyfriend Josh (Quaid) and […]

Katie Leclerc (Switched at Birth) and Ryan Carnes (General Hospital) have wrapped the Door County, Wisconsin shoot for A Cherry Pie Christmas (wt), a new holiday indie written and directed by John Stimpson of H9 Films. Pic tells the story of an ambitious pastry chef who returns to her small-town roots in Door County, and, […]

Not so long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Alfonso Cuarón was unintentionally influencing the future of the Star Wars franchise. Andor star Diego Luna recently recalled that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) director Gareth Edwards originally pitched him on the film by comparing his vision to Cuarón’s Y tu […]

More than 30 years after embarking on his Hollywood stunt career, Chad Stahelski is praising the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for finally recognizing the field. Following AMPAS’ announcement Thursday that Achievement in Stunt Design will become a new category at the 100th Oscars, the John Wick director told Deadline how much he […]

Val Kilmer died from pneumonia, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health has confirmed. The veteran actor died April 1 in L.A. at age 65. TMZ posted an image of Kilmer’s death certificate today. The beloved screen star was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and underwent two tracheotomy procedures but had recovered. The Juilliard-trained […]

The two shows represent a blast of contrast: Adolescence is gritty and minimalist. The Studio is noisily over the top. Yet both are dominating the conversation among critics and cinephiles and are impacting viewers worldwide. Adolescence is topping Netflix charts in 71 countries with its probe of the “male rage” lurking in a benign 13-year-old […]

The Oscars are finally recognizing stunts with a new category, something long desired by stunt people but never realized until now. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday that they are creating an annual competitive Academy Award for Achievement in Stunt Design, beginning with the 100th Academy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a project moving forward at Paramount: the Western Man of War starring Samuel L. Jackson, with Tim Story directing and producing. In Man of War, Jackson plays a newly retired and long-revered general who returns to his hometown in rural Georgia after the death of his wife to find it in the throes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society has optioned The House of Last Resort, the high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden, for feature development. Golden, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-winner who counts Hellboy: The Crooked Man amongst his screenwriting credits, will adapt the book for the screen. In […]

President Donald Trump responded to China’s decision to limit American film imports amid an escalating trade battle. “I think I’ve heard of worse things,” he said at a Cabinet meeting Thursday, to chuckles from his secretaries surrounding him. The China Film Administration said that it will reduce the number of films allowed into the country, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy films, How To Murder Your Husband), Jana Kramer (A Cowboy Christmas Romance, One Tree Hill), and Rachel Stubington (Shrinking) are set to lead the new Lifetime “ripped from the headlines” film Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story. Based on the true story of Robinson, who was abducted as […]

After 15 successful years together, the partners of Slate PR have decided to move forward on separate paths.  Ina Treciokas will soon announce her next venture, while Stephen Huvane, Simon Halls, Robin Baum and Andy Gelb — who joined Treciokas to form Slate in 2010 — will do the same.  The partners said in a short statement […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster has added three in Veronica Falcón, May Calamawy, and May Elghety. The trio joins previously announced cast members Jack Reynor and Laia Costa. Production is currently underway in Ireland and Spain on the Atomic Monster and Blumhouse film for New Line Cinema.  Cronin is also […]

Jack Huston finds the light in the darkness with his role in Konstantin Khudyakov’s upcoming film. In the first trailer for Gravitas Ventures’ I’m Beginning to See the Light, premiering May 2, Huston stars as Ezra Cooper, a once-famous, now-struggling trumpeter whose family is killed in a horrific car crash. “It was an accident. The […]

Alan Cumming is returning to the Marvel universe to reprise his Nightcrawler role in Avengers: Doomsday. In a new interview, the Traitors U.S. host teased that the makeup process has changed since starring in 2003’s X2, making it easier to play the character. “It’s 23 years since I was a superhero,” Cumming said recently during […]

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one description. But that’s an awfully academic way of putting it. The most important thing: Funk makes you want to dance. We Want the Funk!, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Coogler is 4-for-4. He’s written and directed four films, all heart and all winners: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He puts that streak on the line with Sinners, an original elevated horror film that takes his usual onscreen companion, Michael B. Jordan, on a decidedly different trip. Jordan […]

A lawsuit by Blade Runner 2049 production company Alcon Entertainment against Tesla and Warner Bros over the use of images from the film at a promotional event can proceed, a federal judge has ruled. The scope of the complaint, however, was narrowed in a ruling late Monday by Judge George Wu in the U.S. District […]