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EXCLUSIVE: Nadia Fall, a noted artistic theatre director — she’s just moved from the Theatre Royal, Stratford East to run the mighty Young Vic — has directed her first feature film. It’s called Brides and is about two Muslim schoolgirls who leave their disruptive homes to travel via Turkey to Syria, where they join the Islamic state and […]

Thursday’s unveiling of nominations for the 97th Oscars by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott was about as seamless an affair as we’ve seen in a long time. Until, that is, they got to naming the 10 Best Picture nominees. That’s the moment where producers who actually made the movie see their names broadcast globally. Only, […]

TITLE: It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Section: Premieres Director: Amy Berg Logline: Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Now, never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from those closest to him offer a portrait of the captivating singer. Amy Berg returns to Sundance with her fifth film as […]

Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s latest feature takes audiences on a tense journey of motherhood that almost never lets up. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You stars Rose Byrne as Linda, a mom attempting to find a treatment for her daughter’s mysterious illness while dealing with an absentee husband, a missing therapy patient and a giant […]

Just miles from Hollywood, nestled in the San Gabriel Valley, lies the town of Altadena, which was decimated by the Eaton Fire. Among the thousands of structures burnt down were a number of historic buildings used in movies and TV series. As the area reopened two weeks after the disaster hit, Deadline was able to […]

EXCLUSIVE: No final decision has been made on whether the Sundance Film Festival will stay in Utah or move to either Boulder, CO or Cincinnati in 2027, but for attendees gathering this year a big change on Park City’s Main Street has received a full thumbs-up so far. “I love it, bumping into people I […]

Day 2 of the Sundance Film Festival is in full swing with buzzy premiering films today from director Mary Bronstein’s feature, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Rashad Frett’s film Ricky, Evan Twohy’s debut feature, Bubble & Squeak, and Rabbit Trap from director Bryn Chainey. The cast and crew of A24’s latest film, If […]

Despite the fast-tracking of Shawn Levy’s standalone Star Wars movie with Ryan Gosling in talks to star, the Daisy Ridley Rise of Skywalker sequel is getting another pass, this time by writer George Nolfi. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy still is attached to direct the story about Rey Skywalker, set 15 years after the events of 2019’s The Rise of […]

Documentaries about Liza Minnelli and Supercross, fan favorites with different fans, a Steven Soderbergh horror, a spy thriller with Phoebe Dynevor and Angel Studios’ latest starring Jared Harris are new on screens. It’s a quieter moment for new releases as Oscar contenders flood theaters and the fresh crop of 2025 independent films are just starting […]

EXCLUSIVE: In the first major sale of the year, Lionsgate has pre-emptively purchased the big concept earthquake short story After Shock for a sum in the mid-six-figure purchase-price range. At the center of all this is Brandon Sklenar, poised to headline movies after a breakout turn in It Ends With Us and the imminent second […]

EXCLUSIVE: John Lithgow, who played Winston Churchill in The Crown and scores of major roles on stage and screen, is having the time of his life. He has a hit play on the London stage transferring into the West End in April — and to Broadway in 2026 — and now he’s starring alongside Olivia Colman in the Sundance opening-day […]

The Sundance Film Festival 2025, beloved by independent film enthusiasts, opens the film festival circuit with thought-provoking panels, and red-carpet premieres. Despite the cancellation of other awards season events, the film festival has decided to proceed as planned in the wake of the devastating fires that have ravaged Los Angeles, causing the destruction of 15,798 […]

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far. Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking […]

On Thursday, documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross scored his first feature film nomination—Ross was previously nominated in 2018 for his documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening—for Nickel Boys in Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. The historical drama, based on Colson Whitehead’s book of the same name, chronicles the deep friendship between two teenagers […]

Cynthia Erivo was flying high, defying the societal norms of airplane culture, when she openly wept after finding out about her Best Actress nomination. While en route to Sundance, where Erivo is being honored with the festival’s Visionary Award, she caught the eye of the flight attendant onboard who brought her tissues. “It’s fine,” Erivo […]

The first time Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson had a film at the Sundance Film Festival, The Roots co-founder never got to share it with a live audience due to the Covid lockdown that saw the 2021 gathering go virtual-only. So on Thursday, with the 9:30 p.m. MT premiere of Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black […]

Director and co-writer (with Matthew Cormack) Sophie Hyde takes inspiration from her own life as daughter of a gay man and mother of a trans nonbinary teenager to tell the moving story of an Australian family on a visit to Amsterdam to spend time with the father and grandfather known affectionately as Jimpa. Hyde most […]

Kicking off the Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition this year is Omaha, an increasingly bleak road trip with a recently widowed father, his two kids and their dog. Set against the 2008 financial crisis, Omaha begins with a dad (John Magaro) facing foreclosure on his house after losing what appears to be everything professionally as […]

Disney CEO Bob Iger saw his total pay package rise to $41.1 million in fiscal 2024, up 30% from $31.6 million in the previous year. The compensation details were disclosed Thursday in the company’s annual proxy report, which is landing as the succession process at Disney is gearing up ahead of the December 31, 2026 […]

The only surprise today with Nosferatu’s four Oscar nominations is that four of the six nominees have somehow never been nominated before. Though if you ask the nominees, every film they’ve worked on together is just a way to hone their skills for the next project. “Film by film, starting with The Witch moving through The Lighthouse into The Northman and Nosferatu, as […]

UPDATED with latest: The Oscar nominations announcement took place this morning with Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) plus Rachel Sennott (Bottoms, Shiva Baby) have paired up to deliver the news. The duo announced all 23 Academy Award categories live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Thursday via global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s digital platforms. […]

Naomi Watts remembers David Lynch and how “instrumental” he was in her Hollywood career. In a new interview, the Mulholland Drive star revealed how the filmmaker kept her from quitting acting. “[Lynch] was very instrumental to me even being in America,” Watts said on Live with Kelly and Mark. “I wouldn’t have stayed had I […]

In two days the Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City with a robust slate of nonfiction films (we leave it to others to cover the fiction slate!). Opening day/night alone features several world-premiere documentaries including the latest from two Oscar winners: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) and Mstyslav […]

Once again, Blake Lively and her team have made it very clear they understand that timing is a big part of everything in Hollywood, on and off camera, and especially when lawyers are involved. Very quickly after Justin Baldoni dropped footage today from the filming of It Ends With Us to counter his co-star’s claims […]