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IDIOTKASection: Narrative SpotlightScreenwriter-Director: Nastasya PopovLogline: In West Hollywood’s Russian immigrant district, Margarita lives out the American Dream: competing on a reality show. Will she slay, serve, or survive?Panelists: Nastasya Popov, Anna Baryshnikov, Camila MendesSales Agent: CAAPremiered: March 12, 2025Key Quote: “Being the child of Russian-Jewish immigrants from St. Petersburg, my grandmother always played such an important […]

Coexistence, My Ass!, a film about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi who dares to advocate for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, won the Golden Alexander Sunday at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, TiDF’s top award. Shuster-Eliassi attended the awards ceremony in the Greek port city, along with director Amber Fares and fellow members of the […]

Jon M. Chu, at the halfway point of directing back-to-back Wicked movies, will deliver the keynote address at USC’s 142nd commencement ceremony in May. Chu, whose credits also include Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights, graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2003. He will receive an honorary degree as part of the […]

As 2025 kicks off, several book to movie adaptations can be expected to move forward to completion, some with release dates already slated for the quarter century marker. Mickey17, directed by Bong Joon Ho, arrived in theaters in early March. Netflix released it’s big-budget sci-fi film The Electric State, which is based on a graphic […]

An action-packed adventure with a 90’s backbone awaits viewers in Netflix’s The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. The film also features the voice work of Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate and more. Based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag, the film watches Michelle (Brown) and Keats (Pratt) […]

Anthony and Joe Russo’s The Electric State hit Netflix March 14, taking viewers into a world where robots rebelled against humans and set the world on a drastic collision course. Based on Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel, the film follows Millie Bobby Brown’s Michelle as she reluctantly teams up with Chris Pratt’s Keats, a smuggler who […]

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all worldwide rights to Oh, Hi!, written and directed by Sophie Brooks (The Boy Downstairs). The film, Brooks’ sophomore feature, stars Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, and John Reynolds. It premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Oh, Hi! is produced by David Brooks, Dan Clifton, Julie Waters, Sophie […]

In a survey of nearly 100 studios focused on using artificial intelligence to get stories to screens, consulting firm FBRC.ai found they are increasingly focused more on the quality of stories than on gee-whiz tech. Rachel Joy Victor, who wrote the report, emphasized how significantly the marketplace has changed over the past two years. In […]

One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme indie New York City-centric movies that find a manic energy and rhythm that lets them exist on their own breathless cloud, with a cast of wacky characters moving in and out of […]

Deadline has confirmed that a new Starship Troopers is happening at Sony, with District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp writing and directing. The new movie will go back to the 1959 source material by Robert A. Heinlein and not be based on the 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie. That original movie was something of a misfire at […]

Dynamic onscreen mother and daughter duo Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan will return for more shenanigans in a Freaky Friday sequel loaded with both returning and new guest stars. Spring of 2023 first hinted at the follow-up film to the 2003 body swap comedy when the New York Times did a 20th-anniversary piece for […]

Scott Foley teased his return to the Scream franchise for the seventh installment despite his character’s death. Foley’s first film credit was in 2000’s Scream 3 where he played the role of Roman Bridger, who turns out to be the serial killer and is killed off in the end. The actor returns for Scream VII […]

EXCLUSIVE: Strange Darling actress Willa Fitzgerald is joining Paramount Pictures’ feature adaptation of the Colleen Hoover 2019 novel Regretting You. The Fault in Our Stars’ Josh Boone is helming and wrote the latest draft off Susan McMartin’s version (After). This movie hits theaters on October 24. In Regretting You, a shocking car wreck takes the lives […]

The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals tonight announced its 2025 Jury and Special Award winners. Amy Wang’s Slanted, which the jury called an “unflinching satirical thriller” about identity, won the Narrative Feature competition. Special Jury awards went to director/writer/actress Annapurna Sriram for Fucktoys and actress Amanda Peet for Fantasy Life. Shuffle directed by Benjamin Flaherty won the […]

Warner Bros. is offering guests a one-day, Superman-themed tour of its Burbank studio on April 18 in celebration of Superman Day, the studio announced today. The Superman tour will take guests across the historic 110-acre lot, offering a look at iconic sets, the creative process behind bringing DC’s storytelling to life and a chance for […]

EXCLUSIVE: By the end of April, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival should be public knowledge with the Salt Lake City/Park City combo, Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati bid picked as the host for the next decade. However, a bill heading toward Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk that would ban the Pride flag in […]

EXCLUSIVE: While it is super early in the dealmaking process, sources tell Deadline that Netflix and director Greta Gerwig are aiming high for their next piece of casting on their Chronicles of Narnia movie, as Daniel Craig has an offer to join the cast. Sources stress that it is unknown whether Craig will ultimately come […]

EXCLUSIVE: T.J. Miller is now starring in the techno thriller A.I. Heart You, written and directed by Jason Cook. The stand-up comedian and Silicon Valley alum joins an ensemble that includes Zach Gilford, Heather Morris, Kayla Compton and Jonathan Kite. Miller takes on the role of Marco, an eccentric AI tech partner, in the film’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi are set to star in Kornél Mundruczó’s feature drama Place to Be. Written by Mundruczó’s frequent collaborator Kata Wéber, Place to Be follows the unlikely friendship of an elderly woman (Burstyn) and middle-aged man (Waititi) as they travel from Chicago to New York to return a lost […]

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, the documentary from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald that has been on the festival circuit since bowing at last year’s Venice Film Festival. It is set to premiere exclusively on Imax screens April 11 before a wide release the next week. The feature-length […]

Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company have set Arielle Kebbel, Joshua Bassett, Sophie Skelton and Sammy Dell to star opposite Milo Ventimiglia and returning cast members John Finley, Trace Adkins and Dennis Quaid in I Can Only Imagine 2. The faith-based film continues the inspirational true story of Bart Millard (Finley), the lead singer of the Christian […]

Coming off an original-film heavy February, Netflix has a mix of classics, theatrical releases and original projects arriving in March 2025. Those seeking action-packed installments that will get adrenaline going can tune in for The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt arriving March 14 to the streamer or Den of Thieves 2: […]

EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures are making the Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy, with Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Industry’s Harry Lawtey set to headline. Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana) wrote the most recent draft, revising a script penned by Ben August. The screenplay is adapted from the bestselling […]

THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE Section: Documentary SpotlightDirector: Dan FarahLogline: An unprecedented and revelatory documentary –featuring 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community– that reveals an 80-year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin. The film exposes the profound impact […]