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The Brutalist is the third collaboration of director, producer and co-writer Brady Corbet and cinematographer Lol Crawley in the past decade, following 2018’s Vox Lux and 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader. So the duo know how to play off of each other. In their conversation for Deadline’s video series The Process, Corbet says: “All […]

The pulverized face of Steven Davis tells a terrifying story of conditions inside Alabama state prisons – his eyes swollen shut, his bruised flesh a deep purple. “They beat him so badly his head was misshapen,” his mother, Sandy Ray, said at the time. “He looked like an alien.” The “they” she referred to are […]

Following his performance as Trapper in last year’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Dan Stevens is in talks to return to the Monsterverse. Deadline confirms the actor is in negotiations with Legendary Pictures to reprise his role alongside recently announced star Kaitlyn Dever in the next theatrical film in the Monsterverse franchise, which will […]

Christopher Nolan’s next big epic at Universal, The Odyssey, has added Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton. For Patel, Page and Irwin, it’s a reteam with the 2x Oscar-winning filmmaker. Patel starred in Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Page in 2010’s Inception, and Irwin in 2014’s Interstellar. For 2x Oscar nominee Morton, it’s her first […]

The fallout from Emilia Pérez actor Karla Sofía Gascón’s past racist and Islamophobic tweets is ongoing, and Friday evening, one of her co-stars, Zoe Saldaña, coyly addressed the scandal for the first time during a Q&A session in London, though she didn’t directly mention Gascón or the controversial posts. “I’m still processing everything that has […]

The Society of Composers & Lyricists, whose members include many of the industry’s top songwriters and film composers, has asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reconsider its decision, announced the day before nominations were announced, of eliminating performances of the five nominated songs at this year’s Oscar ceremony. As Deadline reported, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Shortly after winning a Sundance Film Festival Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling, the Isabel Castro movie Selena y Los Dinos has been removed from the festival’s streaming site. We hear that die-hard fans were recording one- to three-minute pieces of the documentary and posting them on TikTok and Instagram. Sundance has never […]

Think back to The Stepford Wives (both versions). Add a layer of killer doll movie M3GAN. Throw in a bit of the whimsical 2013 Oscar-winning Her. Season with a bit of the brilliant German robot perfect-man comedy I’m Your Man. Sprinkle a bit of Pygmalion. Then add the unexpected horror turns of 2022’s sleeper Barbarian […]

No Other Land, Academy Award-nominated for Best Documentary Feature, opens today in New York at Film Forum from mTuckman Media/Cinetic Media with a limited theatrical expansion next weekend. The doc is written, directed, produced and edited by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists and filmmakers — Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell are boarding André Øvredal’s untitled horror movie for Paramount and Walter Hamada’s 18hz. Former Warner Bros production executive Hamada is producing the pic via his production company as part of his first-look deal with Paramount, alongside It screenwriter Gary Dauberman via Coin Operated. The screenplay is written by Zachary Donohue and […]

Mainland China stars Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reunite for a fourth round of high-stakes snooping in Detective Chinatown 1900. The twist this time is that they are playing ancestral versions of the characters they have portrayed in three previous blockbuster installments. Switching the action from contemporary diaspora districts to turn-of-the-century San Francisco, the film […]

The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most prestigious independent film festivals, where filmmakers have been premiering their movies and documentaries since 1984. The festival was founded in 1978 by Sterling Van Wagenen, the head of Robert Redford’s company Wildwood, and John Earle of the Utah Film Commission under the name Utah/US […]

Art the Clown is back for one last terrifying ride, which will provide horror fans closure on the murderous jester’s arc. Writer-director Damien Leone announced on Wednesday that Terrifier 4 is “in the works” after the third installment was released in September, sharing the cover page for the latest script in the franchise on X. […]

Sony Pictures on Wednesday said that it is pushing back the release date of its latest Insidious movie a year to August 2026, and in its place dating the Darren Aronofsky-directed Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler. The Sony/Blumhouse Insidious pic, to be released by Screen Gems, is the sixth entry in the horror franchise and […]

The American Film Market is set to return to Los Angeles this year following a poorly received 2024 edition in Las Vegas. AFM 2025 will run November 11-16 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, next to Beverly Hills. “Our return to LA holds special significance in the aftermath of the recent devastating fires,” […]

Karla Sofía Gascón is clearing up recently made comments involving fellow Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres. The Emilia Pérez star is nominated in the Best Actress category at the Academy Awards along with the I’m Still Here star Torres. Gascón claimed in an interview that people around Torres were trying to diminish her work but made […]

It cannot be denied: The Super Bowl generally translates into big box office. However, there are only three motion picture studios — Disney, Paramount and Universal — willing to pony up $7.5 million-$8 million for a 30-second spot on Fox before an audience that last year reached 123.7 million viewers across live linear and streaming. […]

TITLE: The Stringer Section: Premieres Director: Bao Nguyen Logline: A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.” An iconic image defines its time not only through the […]

OPUSSection: MidnightScreenwriter-Director: Mark Anthony GreenLogline: A young writer (Ayo Edebiri) is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star (John Malkovich) who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan.Panelists: Edebiri, Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, […]

TITLE: SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Section: Premieres Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Logline: An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while it sheds light on the unseen […]

Artists Equity, the studio launched in 2022 by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is shuffling key roles in its executive suite. Dillon West has been elevated to Chief Operating Officer, with current COO Michael Joe transitioning to a strategic advisory role but staying on the company’s board of directors. Andrew Gumpert, an industry veteran known […]

UPDATED with statement: Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated in an acting category for her work in Emilia Pérez. As the Academy Awards ceremony approaches, there seems to be some behind-the-scenes drama among the actors nominated in the Best Actress category. Gascón recently alleged that people […]

THE WEDDING RECEPTIONSection: PremieresScreenwriter-Director: Andrew AhnLogline: A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Plans evolve as Min’s grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.Panelists: Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung […]

Two years after Magazine Dreams premiered to huge buzz at the Sundance Film Festival, the first trailer for the film featuring Jonathan Majors’ breakout performance has finally been released. The trailer opens with Majors’ character saying in voiceover, “You have to do something big and important for people to remember you when you’re dead.” What […]