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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni‘s behind-the-scenes drama seems to have been referenced in another hit film from 2024. The This Ends with Us director and co-star’s attorney Bryan Freedman accused Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds of taking a jab at his client with the Deadpool & Wolverine character Nicepool, which audiences have speculated was inspired by […]

Selena Gomez has conquered show business in seemingly every way in her young career, with 16 Guinness World Records along the way including being the “most followed woman on Instagram” (423 million, in case you are counting). Her musical career — more than 38 billion streams — is full of highlights. Her earliest years in […]

The awards gods continue to giveth, then taketh away for Wicked today. It led the field for its actors at the SAG Awards nominations, and then two and a half hours later saw its director Jon M. Chu snubbed in the DGA Awards nominations (more on that further down). Today, with Oscar ballots now live, […]

A brutal windstorm caused several fires to break out in the greater Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, with a big blaze in the Pacific Palisades forcing families to evacuate and putting Santa Monica on evacuation notice. Another fire broke out in the east of the city in Eaton Canyon near Pasadena. The Hurst fire […]

Just as the holiday season was going into full-blown commercial overdrive last month, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters launched a nationwide strike against Amazon, primarily among its delivery drivers, that ended on Christmas Eve. Arguably, the roots of this labor dispute against the multi-trillion-dollar goliath can be traced back to 2021, when workers at the […]

Theodore Farnsworth, the former CEO of MoviePass parent Helios & Matheson Analytics, pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding and conspiring to defraud investors in two public companies, including lying about artificial intelligence capabilities that it didn’t have. The company is now owned and run by original founder Stacy Spikes, who acquired it out of bankruptcy in […]

UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures EVP of Production and Development Palak Patel is leaving the Culver City lot for a new gig as Chief Content Officer at Namit Malhotra’s Prime Focus Studios. Prime Focus Studios recently co-produced The Garfield Movie with Alcon Entertainment for Sony Pictures, which grossed over $257M worldwide. Prime Focus Studios was founded […]

Denis Villeneuve has taken issue with the Academy Awards‘ decision to make Hans Zimmer‘s Dune: Part Two score ineligible. The 3x Oscar nominee commented on the sequel’s disqualification from the Best Original Score category after the Academy determined it featured too much music from Villeneuve’s original 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s novel. “I am absolutely […]

“I am ready to go. I am ready, Warden.” These were the last words of death row inmate John Henry Ramirez shortly before his execution in the Polunsky Unit of the Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas. This final statement became the foundation for filmmaker Smriti Mundhra’s documentary — and the title of the […]

When a filmmaker’s first-ever feature directorial credit makes $1.7 billion at the global box office, you should pay attention. Many may still not know the name Kelsey Mann, yet he steadily moved up the Pixar ladder and was finally given the reins to do the sequel to Disney/Pixar’s Oscar-winning box office smash Inside Out — […]

Actress and producer Aubrey Plaza has responded to the unexpected death of her husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena. “This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support,” said Plaza and members of the Baena and Stern families in a joint statement released Monday. “Please respect our privacy during this time.” […]

Roger Pratt, an Oscar-nominated British cinematographer who worked on two Harry Potter films and with such top directors as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Leigh, Lasse Hallström, Neil Jordan, Wolfgang Petersen and Richard Attenborough, has died. He was 77. The British Society of Cinematographers said he died in late 2024 but did not […]

Although Kieran Culkin won a Golden Globe for his performance in A Real Pain, he almost dropped out of the role. Jesse Eisenberg recently explained how producer Emma Stone “blackmailed” his co-star to stop him from quitting the film with two weeks to spare before production kicked off in New York City and Poland. “[Kieran] […]

Although the awards show tends to overlook the horror genre, Coralie Fargeat hopes to catch the Academy‘s attention. After earning three nominations at last night’s Golden Globes for The Substance, the writer and director shared her “wish” that the Oscars will be just as receptive to the horror film when nominations are announced on Friday, […]

Jon M. Chu is set to direct the Britney Spears biopic based on her 2023 memoir The Woman In Me. At the Golden Globes, the Wicked director shared an update on the film and how much the pop star will be involved in the film. “She’s going to be very involved,” Chu told Entertainment Tonight […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following its surprise three Golden Globe wins Sunday including Best Feature – Drama, The Brutalist from Brady Corbet and A24 is heading into the top 15 regional markets after playing in nine theaters last weekend. The Adrien Brody-starring movie, which saw the actor win his first Golden Globe last night for Best Actor – […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scrips behind the buzziest awards-season movies continues with Hard Truths, the newest film from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh that reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste. After its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Bleecker Street gave Hard Truths a New York qualifying […]

Trigger warning: This article includes mention of suicide that readers may find disturbing. A cause of death for Jeff Baena, the indie writer/filmmaker known for Life After Beth and The Little Hours, has been revealed, per a report by the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner. The screenwriter and director, who married actress/producer Aubrey Plaza […]

Jake Lloyd, who rose to fame as young Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace, is opening up about his mental health struggles and the schizophrenia diagnosis that contributed to his leaving Hollywood shortly after the film’s release. In a new interview with Star Wars: Timelines co-author Clayton Sandell, Jake […]

One year shy of its diamond anniversary, the National Society of Film Critics has announced its winners. On Saturday, the NSFC held its 59th voting meeting in which they awarded Nickel Boys the Best Film of 2024, with acting honors for Colman Domingo, Kieran Culkin, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, as well Best Director for […]

The Palm Spring International Film Awards Gala is always fun, and always BIG with a captial ‘B’. This year’s 36th edition, the 20th hosted by indefatigable Mary Hart, who keeps it rolling along — no break for chat and dinner because once it starts you just eat while you applaud the many stars and equally […]

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Mel Brooks blessed Star Wars fans with the ultimate parody… but he hasn’t kept up with the franchise since. Josh Gad, who is developing a sequel to Brooks’ Spaceballs (1987), revealed that he had to explain the latest Star Wars installments when pitching his […]

Those actors scurrying around at the festival in Palm Springs would have been better served witnessing masterclasses in artistry from Viola Davis and Ted Danson, the recipients of Golden Globes honors on Friday night. Not only that, there was Mary Steenburgen and Meryl Streep, too.  And Carol Burnett and Jane Fonda! Streep spoke of her first meeting with […]

Film marketing maven Chris Pula was laid to rest this morning at a funeral held in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. A memorial for his Hollywood friends is being arranged for down the road by friends who worked alongside him in the heyday years at New Line. When Deadline revealed the marketing maven‘s passing in a New Year’s […]