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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Vlamis (Roswell, New Mexico) and Iddo Goldberg (Snowpiercer) have joined Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, sources tell Deadline. Character details are under wraps, as nearly all parts have been kept so far. Matt Damon leads the ensemble as Odysseus, King of Ithaca, whose perilous journey home after the Trojan War is at […]

If there is a cinematic equivalent of the theatre of cruelty, it must be the reigning spirit of Austrian cinema. Films by Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz and Jessica Hausner may be very different from each other, but are similarly unflinching as they roam threatening spaces, find the sinister in the everyday and delve […]

The Masters of the Universe are preparing to master the big screen in 2026 as production has recently gotten underway on the Travis Knight-helmed Amazon MGM Studios/Mattel live-action film. After Deadline reported his casting in the role of Malcolm/Fisto, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson gave us an update on the production while walking the red carpet at […]

Refresh for latest…: Super busy weekend at the international box office with Marvel/Disney’s Captain America: Brave New World and Universal/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy both making their debuts while Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 keeps zooming along — and also hit North America this session. Captain America came in pretty much bang […]

The BAFTAs didn’t quite ignora Anora, the current Oscar frontrunner, but the British Academy, which has hundreds of voters in common with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, decided to shake things up. During its film awards Sunday, it split some big prizes, between their nominations leader Conclave winning four including Best Film, […]

Tennis pro Tom lives in a mellow paradise teaching tourists at a hotel in the Canary Islands. “Permanent sun, permanent fun,” as one client puts it. But why does it also look a bit like Groundhog Day: every day, Tom gets up, coaches people on hitting the ball, visits his friend who has a farm […]

As the Trump administration wages a crusade against children’s books, Julianne Moore has found her own work on a banned list. On Sunday, the Oscar winner revealed her 2007 book Freckleface Strawberry was banned by the U.S. Department of Defense in a recent purge of books tied to race, gender and sexuality, following President Donald […]

Anora star Mikey Madison paid tribute to sex workers after winning Best Leading Actress at the BAFTA Film Awards. In the Neon film, Madison plays a sex worker from Brooklyn who meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. She beat others including Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, and Saoirse Ronan to the acting […]

Warwick Davis, the British actor who has played various roles in the Star Wars franchise, got a tribute from Luke Skywalker himself as he was garlanded with BAFTA’s highest honor. Mark Hamill described Davis as “one of the hardest working men in showbusiness” as he received the Fellowship prize at the BAFTA Film Awards on […]

The BBC cut some of David Tennant’s opening jokes about Donald Trump from its BAFTA coverage. The BBC show, which started two hours after the awards began at 7 p.m. GMT (11 a.m. PT) and is edited to a two-hour length, did not feature some of the material Tennant had used in the live show […]

Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards. The Wicked star, an accomplished jazz pianist with three albums to his name, played As Time Goes By in tribute to stars including David Lynch and Maggie Smith. Blue Velvet director Lynch and Smith, star of Harry Potter and […]

Ne Zha 2, the fantasy epic that’s been setting records in China, opened to $7.2 million on 660 screens, according to Comscore, for the no. 5 spot at a domestic box office being trounced by Captain America: Brave New World. The animated film from CMC Pictures, see Deadline review, takes up where the 2019 original […]

What is it with Lucile Hadzihalilovic and ice? In her last film, Earwig, her central character was a browbeaten little girl without teeth who had to submit to wearing ice dentures, suspended from a cruel metal frame, all day. Her new film turns up the freezing unit to 11 in a long riff on Hans […]

Karla Sofía Gascón was thanked by Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard after the film won Best Film Not in the English Language at the BAFTA Awards. Speaking through an interpreter Audiard thanked, “My dear Zoe [Saldaña], my dear Selena [Gomez]… and also you my dear Karla Sofía, to whom I send a kiss.” He added […]

For This Time Next Year author Sophie Cousens’ first go at adapting one of her books into a film, the most challenging part was capturing the internal dialogue of her “spiky” protagonist” Minnie Cooper (Sophie Cookson). The story, set over multiple New Year’s Eves and New Year’s Days, follows Minnie as she meets and confronts […]

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer’s politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century. It starts 11 days of debuts including for movies starring Jessica Chastain, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, […]

We may be getting round 2 of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In a wide-ranging career tribute and conversation Thursday night in front of a packed crowd at the 2000-seat Arlington Theatre ahead of their receiving the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Cinema Vanguard Award, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Guy Pearce, on […]

Thanks to A24 and writer-director Mark Anthony Green, John Malkovich is officially in his pop girly era. In the newly-released single from the Opus soundtrack, ‘Dina, Simone’, the 2x Oscar nominee channels his inner pop icon as Moretti for a song produced by Nile Rodgers and The Dream, which is reminiscent of George Michaels, Depeche […]

Chinese box office phenom Ne Zha 2 begins with a helpful recap for new viewers, and those already familiar with the franchise, to keep track of the elaborate tale. The animated sequel, which has been on a record-breaking spree since releasing in China during the Lunar New Year holiday and reaches North America today, expands on the […]

UPDATE: London’s Chiltern Firehouse, which was due to host Netflix’s well-attended BAFTA Film Awards party on Sunday night, has closed its doors until further notice after a blaze on Friday. The building was evacuated and no one was harmed. Andre Balazs, owner of Chiltern Firehouse, said in a statement: “Earlier this evening, a fire broke […]

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for Universal Pictures is growing by three more as Nick Tarabay (Spartacus, The Expanse), Jimmy Gonzales (Busboys, Mayans M.C.) and Maurice Compte (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Mayans M.C.) have joined the cast in unspecified roles, sources tell Deadline. Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot with new Imax cameras, is […]

Gene “Groove” Allen, a New York City rapper of the 1980s-’90s trio Groove B. Chill who went on to appear in the 1990 movie House Party and 1993’s What’s Love Got To Do With It, died Wednesday at his home in Maryland. The news was announced by family members to TMZ, which reported his age […]

“I think about the film as a place to do, as I like to say, make an experiential monument,” says Nickel Boys director/co-writer RaMell Ross of the Oscar-nominated the Florida-set Jim Crow-era drama adapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. “To elevate your schoolboy story to a place of historical […]

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival rolled out the red carpet yesterday for the opening film and the world premiere of Das Licht (The Light), directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Lars Eidinger, Nicolette Krebitz, and Michael Ihnow at the Berlinale Palast. The Berlinale launched with a festive opening ceremony led by Festival Director Tricia […]