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Sofia takes a picture of Ingrid, her summer friend, at her sewing table. “Your August in Almeria…” murmurs Ingrid (a wonderfully feline Vicky Krieps) as she takes pliant Sofia (Emma Mackey) in her arms. But Almeria doesn’t look much of a romantic idyll here, at least wherever Sofia chooses to go: it’s all industrial sites, mean […]

Netflix has been quiet since the social media past of its Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón surfaced in late January, forcing changes to and awkward conversations for her castmates on the awards campaign trail for Jacques Audiard’s ambitious Spanish-language drug cartel musical. But on Thursday, Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria was asked what […]

Captain America: Brave New Soldier follows in the footsteps of three installments for Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers and four Avengers films when Rogers recruited Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor, The Incredible Hulk and more to combat threats to the world and universe. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Steve Rogers passed on the […]

Not only is stop motion one of the most complicated forms of animation, it’s also reliant on having some of the most talented, and patient, craftspeople in the business. That’s something Aardman Animations, the studio behind Oscar-nominated film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, is certainly known for. Deadline spoke with six key craftspeople – editor […]

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Michael Abbott Jr. (Fallout) and Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) have wrapped on Appofeniacs, an indie horror film from writer-director Chris Marrs Piliero. Appofeniacs is a riff on the term “apophenia” which is the tendency to find connections or patterns in things that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Red-hot comic Nate Bargatze is in negotiations to star in Christmas in Paradise, a holiday family comedy from Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists’ Scott Stuber that’s in the early stages of development. The film will have him playing a beloved small-town doctor (Bargatze) who finds himself with a unique bounty on his head […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lucien Laviscount has joined the cast of the Sky and Future Artists Entertainment holiday film Tinsel Town. He joins a cast that includes Rebel Wilson and Kiefer Sutherland. Chris Foggin is directing. Films follows Bradley Mack (Sutherland), a Hollywood action star with a bloated ego, who is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is […]

EXCLUSIVE: One of the prime opening directing assignments in town right now is DC’s Clayface, which is rearing and ready to go with a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and a target theatrical release date of September 11, 2026. We hear that DC brass will be hearing pitches from potential filmmakers next week, with some of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Elijah Wood signs with Gersh for representation. Wood is best known for playing the beloved hobbit Frodo Baggins in the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy of films The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. He will next […]

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Pattinson has said that filming on Matt Reeves’ The Batman Part II is due to start at the end of 2025. Speaking to Deadline on the London red carpet for his new movie Mickey 17, Pattinson said he couldn’t reveal plot details about the anticipated film but claimed “it’s cool, though, it’s cool.” […]

The Oscar-nominated short documentary Incident begins with closed-circuit video shot from a utility pole along a Chicago street. The camera shows storefronts on one side of the road, and closer to the camera, two sets of train tracks. The scene looks placid, but within moments the camera will capture the last moments of a Black […]

Art The Clown exploded the latest quarter for Cineverse as the company’s revenue shot higher to $40.7 million in the last three months of 2024 from $13.3 million the year earlier. Net income swing to $7.2 million (38 cents a share) from a loss of $2.9 million, (22 cents). “The Company is now in an […]

As DEI buckles under President Donald Trump, Amazon Studios — along with its parent company, the broader tech industry, and much of corporate America — has discontinued its Inclusion Policy and Playbook unveiled in the summer of 2021 to codify its existing diversity, equity and inclusion practices with the aim, it said then, of creating content […]

As Harrison Ford makes his MCU debut in Captain America: Brave New World, he has some big shoes to fill. During the red carpet for Tuesday’s world premiere in Hollywood, the Oscar nominee opened up to Deadline about stepping into the role of President Thaddeus Ross (aka Red Hulk), which was already “grounded in the […]

Sony’s It Ends With Us adapted Colleen Hoover’s powerful story about domestic violence and a resilient woman, but drama between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni behind the scenes and afterwards has lingered beyond the film’s release in theaters. Arriving to the big screen last August and later heading to streaming on Netflix in December […]

If Justin Baldoni thought his version of what went on during the making of It Ends With Us and the messy fallout from the film was going to go unchallenged, today Blake Lively gave her former co-star a lesson in hardcore lawyering. Sending out a series of subpoenas to cell carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emily the Criminal Independent Spirit Best Supporting nominee Theo Rossi is set to star in Vincent Grashaw’s biopic, Bruton, about Bryan Bruton, who was sentenced to a decade in a Florida prison for an unintended crime. Bruton was charged in the early 2000s for a manslaughter conviction from a fatal hit and run in […]

This is unquestionably Demi Moore’s year. After a superstar career and iconic movies like Ghost, G.I. Jane, Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, A Few Good Men, St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night and countless others, she has finally received her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress for The Substance, which also won her lead actress prizes so […]

Francis Lawrence, director of Constantine, is sharing an update on where he’s at with the film’s sequel. In a new interview, the filmmaker teased that a follow-up to the 2005 superhero horror film starring Keanu Reeves was “closer than ever.” “I will say we are closer than ever to being able to do a sequel, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Max Beesley, Douglas Hodge, JJ Feild and Betty Gabriel have joined John Krasinski in the cast of the new Jack Ryan movie at Amazon MGM Studios. Also on board are Sienna Miller and Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly, returning cast from Amazon’s Prime Video series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Gabriel also appeared in the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lea Salonga (Mulan, Aladdin, Miss Saigon) is set to star in The Vale – Origins, a hybrid live-action and animated short film that will precede the forthcoming middle grade novel of the same name by Abigail Hing Wen. Wen’s novel will release Sept. 16, 2025 through AAPI publishing house Third State Books, founded by […]

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce are in final talks to join Jacob Elordi in Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars at 20th Century Studios. This follows Scott’s massive global hit Gladiator II, one of the biggest grossing films in the filmmaker’s career with grosses just short of $500 million. The Revenant scribe Mark […]

On James Mangold’s Searchlight drama A Complete Unknown, the sound team faced a monumental task: bringing the vibrant, raw atmosphere of Bob Dylan’s early years to life. With Timothée Chalamet stepping into Dylan’s shoes, performing live throughout the film, each of his dozens of musical numbers needed to feel as raw, authentic and spontaneous as […]

Editors note: Since solidifying its place on the Oscar shortlist and being nominated for Best Live Action Short Film, Anjua is now streaming on Netflix. Check out Deadline’s interview with writer-director Adam J. Graves that originally published in December 2024. In Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai’s Anuja, resilience in the face of hardship is the […]