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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 […]