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After some quiet on the East Coast court docket front, once again, the battle royale between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and the It Ends With Us’ director’s inner circle has become a she said, they said in the federal courts. Specifically this time it has to do with the emotional distress claims that the […]

A Happy Gilmore sequel is coming thanks to Netflix, Adam Sandler and others. Sandler posted a teaser of the film on Christmas. The actor, who will reprise his role as the titular former hockey player-turned-golfer, also has hinted at several special guest stars who may appear in the sequel film. Christopher McDonald, who played antagonist […]

Ryan Coogler has no plans for a Sinners sequel, which is by design. In a resurfaced interview posted before the Michael B. Jordan-starring film was released in theaters, the filmmaker said he thought of Sinners as a “full meal.” “I’ve been in a space of making franchise films for a bit, so I wanted to […]

Benoit Blanc’s next mystery is afoot. Daniel Craig will reprise the role of the famous detective who drove Rian Johnson’s two previous installments, Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Johnson will helm the third film in the mystery series, which recently received its title and timeline for release. Following the original 2019 […]

Steven Flynn, a longtime for Focus Features, Gramercy Pictures, Orion Pictures and other companies, has died. He was 70. His longtime partner Timothy Kraus confirmed to Deadline that Flynn died May 23 at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica after a four-year battle with renal cancer. Flynn was born on November 19, 1954, and grew […]

EXCLUSIVE: Creditors of indie outfit Yale Entertainment are out more than $50 million following a failed attempt at restructuring the company in the lead-up to its collapse, according to multiple sources. The company’s co-founders, Jordan Beckerman and Jordan Yale Levine, copped to the losses over the course of a nearly three-hour private Zoom meeting for […]

Clint Eastwood wanted Deadline to get out the word that a recent interview purportedly done with him is absolutely bogus. Published in the German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier, Eastwood is quoted assailing film remakes, franchises and a general lack of original ideas. While the newspaper only has a circulation around 100,000, the post spread virally. Unfortunately, […]

At one point, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers worried aloud that their ailing client wouldn’t make it through his New York rape retrial alive. Now they’ve decided the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer will conclude the case without saying a word in his own defense. “He wanted to testify, and we respect that instinct,” Weinstein’s longtime spokesperson Juda […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Andrew Scott has joined Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar Jones in Chloe Domont’s legal thriller A Place in Hell. MRC is financing the film with T-Street producing. Written and directed by Domont, the film follows two women at a high profile criminal law firm Scott next will be seen in Wake Up Dead […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is finalizing a deal to acquire Split Fiction, a hot feature package based on the video game of the same name, which is set to team Wicked helmer Jon M. Chu and actress Sydney Sweeney, sources tell Deadline. We’re told the deal is coming in at north of $2 million. We […]

More than 100 celebrities from across the entertainment industry have signed a letter calling for the protection of funding for a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBTQ+ youth considering suicide. The Trevor Project said today that it is at risk of losing $25 million in funding for its 988 Suicide & Crisis […]

Focus Features has finally unleased the first real look at Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and final film in the movie series based on the PBS period drama created by Julian Fellowes. The film hits theaters September 12. With some of the same footage shown to exhibitors during Focus’ presentation at CinemaCon earlier […]

In the short film drama Bodies, written and directed by Luca Bueno, two LAPD officers respond to a disturbance call at a home located in a neighborhood that has a majority of immigrants and minorities. As the officers investigate the situation, Officer Alvarez (Alonso Garcia) notices cultural clues that suggest something larger is at play. […]

The full trailer for Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 has arrived. In the new film, arriving July 25, the former hockey player turned golfer played by Adam Sandler returns to the green alongside Julie Bowen as Virginia Venit, Christopher McDonald as Shooter McGavin with newcomers Bad Bunny and more. Check out the video above. Kansas City […]

Netflix on Saturday unveiled the first teaser trailer for Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s long-in-the works adaptation of the 1818 literary classic from Mary Shelley, which is slated for release this November. In the upcoming film, Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life […]

Tonight at Tudum, Netflix unveiled the premiere date for their upcoming crime pic The RIP starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Co-starring Teyana Taylor and Sasha Calle, the film will be released on January 16, 2026. The streamer also debuted a sneak peek, though it was for the room only. Written and directed by Joe […]

Netflix revealed the premiere date for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery at the Tudum promotional event Saturday evening. The film will arrive on the streamer on December 12. The news came as part of a teaser of sorts, which you can view above. Rian Johnson helms the third film in the mystery […]

Renée Victor, the actress best known for her voice role as Abuelita in the beloved animated film Coco and arc as Lupita on Showtime’s Weeds, died surrounded by her family at her Sherman Oaks, Calif. home last night, her agency told Deadline. Her cause of death was lymphoma. She was 86. “Renee is perhaps best […]

Wikileaks, the whistleblower website set up by Julian Assange, hasn’t published any original documents in over five years. That may represent a victory for governments that prefer to keep their inner workings secret, but it’s a loss for transparency and for democracy in the opinion of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki. He premiered his new film The […]

Frances Doel, neé Frances Margaret Doel, writer-producer-executive known for her work with indie film legend Roger Corman, died May 26 after a long illness. She was 83. Doel first connected with Corman when she saw a posting for an assistant on a jobs board at Oxford University, where she was a graduating scholarship student of St. […]

Viewers will get an early look at Mountainhead, Jesse Armstrong’s follow-up project to his hit series Succession. The HBO original film,, which was set to debut on May 31 at 8 pm ET/PT across HBO and Max, will now be available for viewers to watch beginning at 12:01 a.m. PT/3:01 a.m. ET, HBO announced Friday. […]

Marvel will not need a spot in San Diego Comic-Con’s cavernous Hall H this year, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes as Disney and Marvel last week pushed the release date of its next big Marvel movie, Avengers: Doomsday, to a December 2026 release, meaning the studio will have Comic-Con 2026 to rev up fans. […]

Focus Features has done a full takeover of the Angelika Film Center with The Phoenician Scheme on all six screens for filmmaker Wes Anderson’s latest. There’s a lobby and café redesign for full immersion, a jazz band, custom cocktails, t-shirts and totes as the film, which clocked a lengthy standing ovation at its recent Cannes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Barratt, star of Danny and Michael Philippou’s grippingly intense, dark and twisted Bring Her Back, was able to get into the mood for horror by being locked alone in a room, he reveals. Brit actor Barratt, 17, who also plays Casper Morrow, one of the few humans able to communicate with the alien invaders in […]