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With the 28 Days Later franchise resuming after nearly two decades, Ralph Fiennes is preparing fans to return to the zombie apocalypse. Ahead of the June 20, 2025 premiere of 28 Years Later, the 2x Oscar nominee revealed some new plot details and an update on the status of the new trilogy, kicking off with […]

EXCLUSIVE: A decade after the last major overhaul of California’s film and TV tax credits program, Gov. Gavin Newsom today will unveil a massive increase in the incentives to jump start work and production in the home of Hollywood. In an announcement this afternoon at Raleigh Studios, the Governor will reveal that he aims to […]

As Venom: The Last Dance continues to devour the international box office, leading the franchise to $1.5 billion overall, star Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel confirmed that they always envisioned the Sony Marvel movies to conclude as a trilogy. “We knew it would be three,” Marcel, who is credited as writer on all three […]

Though Gladiator II finds star Paul Mescal courageously fighting rhinos in the Colosseum, he had to work to summon up that fearlessness to meet Denzel Washington, his Academy Award-winning co-star in the Ridley Scott follow-up. During a Friday appearance on The Graham Norton Show, alongside Saoirse Ronan and Eddie Redmayne, the Normal People star discussed […]

After 30 years, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright slipped right back into their onscreen chemistry for Here. During the Robert Zemeckis film’s Friday premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Hanks opened up about reuniting with Wright for the century-spanning epic drama after starring together in Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning Forrest Gump (1994). “Everybody was [saying], ‘Oh, […]

For generations, people have come to Hot Springs, Arkansas to enjoy its thermal springs and elegant bathhouses. But around this time of year, they’re drawn to the historic spa town for another attraction – the longest running documentary film festival in North America. The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival wraps up its 33rd edition this […]

Luke Evans is surprised there aren’t more gay actors performing the kind of macho screen roles that have made him a Hollywood star. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, the Welsh actor shared that he first realised he had broken through one of Hollywood’s glass ceilings when he was cast in macho roles including […]

Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard says it was a simple decision for him to cast a trans woman in the title role of his award-winning film.  Audiard, whose film picked up a Best Actress award shared between the female cast at Cannes Film Festival this summer, cast Spanish trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón in the role […]

Paul Mescal has revealed that he won his role in Gladiator II after one 30-minute Zoom call with director Ridley Scott.  The Irish actor stars alongside Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen in the sequel to Scott’s 2000 Gladiator, due for release in November.  Mescal spoke about his brief audition process during an interview […]

Robert Zemeckis clearly has a thing for time — past, present and Back to the Future. With a filmography that also includes films like The Polar Express and especially his Oscar-winning Best Picture Forrest Gump, the director loves mixing the newest filmmaking technologies with relatable stories that play with our perceptions of life as time […]

Sujo, Mexico’s Oscar submission, topped the Morelia International Film Festival with three wins across Best Screenplay, Direction and overall Fiction Feature film. It’s a good start to the international film contender, following up its nabbing of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema. From filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, the drama […]

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Your Monster. In Melissa Barrera‘s new fairytail-esque musical horror comedy, she plays a beauty who embraces her inner beast. Ahead of Your Monster‘s Friday premiere in theaters, the actress told Deadline she was inspired to take the role in writer/director Caroline Lindy‘s feature debut because the character ultimately […]

Indie releases from limited (Memoir of a Snail) to wide (Conclave) are testing an increasingly lively specialty box office heading into awards season with a handful of decorated documentaries this week including Dahomey, Black Box Diaries, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock and Another Kind of Wilderness and some notable expansions. Also hitting theaters this weekend, […]

Just a few days ago, Andrew Garfield praised his Hacksaw Ridge director Mel Gibson for the “beautiful healing with himself” the controversial Oscar winner has done over the years. Based on comments Gibson made today at LAX about the Vice President of the United States, the We Live In Time actor might want to reconsider […]

Patrick Dempsey is teasing that he might be involved in Scream 7 and will reprise his role in the slasher film. Dempsey originated the role of Mark Kincaid in 2000’s Scream 3, playing a detective investigating the most recent Ghostface murders. With a seventh installment of the Scream franchise underway, Dempsey confirmed he is in […]

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival got underway on Thursday amid calls for peace in the region as well as claims of censorship after an Egyptian short work with a Palestine-related subtext was pulled as the opening film at the eleventh hour without reason. Abdelwahab Shawky’s short film The Last Miracle was to have opened El […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following the box office success of Sony’s It Ends With Us, Brandon Sklenar has found his next high-profile adaptation to star in. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to join Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the Lionsgate adaptation of The Housemaid. Paul Feig is set to direct the Hidden Pictures/ Feigco Entertainment […]

Apple TV+’s Girls State and HBO’s Ren Faire scored three nominations apiece to lead all broadcast nominees announced Thursday for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors. The group, which recognizes the year’s outstanding nonfiction and documentary films and TV series, also revealed the 16-film longlist for its annual Audience Choice Prize, won last year by National […]

Nearly 40 years later, St. Elmo’s Fire is continuing to burn bright for its stars. After first teasing a sequel in July, Rob Lowe recently gave an update that the followup to the 1985 coming-of-age film is “moving along” as he and co-star Demi Moore are in contact about the film. “We’re very much in […]

As the final stretch of October sets in, there is still plenty of time to catch favorite flicks, spooky, witchy, scary or cozy in the season of pumpkins, monsters and more. Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween has several classic films airing all month long such as Casper (1995), Arachnophobia, Goosebumps, Edward Scissorhands, etc. More recent […]

The International Documentary Association today released its shortlist of contenders for Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary, a possible harbinger of Oscar success. Among the features making the list is No Other Land, a documentary by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers that has yet to secure U.S. distribution. It has won awards […]

EXCLUSIVE: John Magaro (Past Lives) has closed a deal to star opposite Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim in writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s next film, The Mastermind. Magaro comes to the project after collaborating with Reichardt on her A24 films First Cow and Showing Up, having earned a Gotham Award nomination for Best Actor for his work […]

Teens are much more interested in seeing storylines about friendship and platonic relationships and less focus on sex in movies and TV shows, according to a UCLA study. That’s one of the key findings in the latest installment of the university’s “Teens and Screens” report — which surveyed some 1,500 young people across the U.S. aged 10 […]

Uma Thurman is clearing up who the intended audience for 1997’s Batman & Robin was for. In a recent interview, Thurman recalled her role in the DC Comics film, playing Poison Ivy. While visiting The Kelly Clarkson Show, Thurman told the talk show’s host that her “kids are obsessed with Batman & Robin,” adding, “They […]