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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has just set plans to revamp The Bodyguard, the 1992 romantic drama thriller that teamed superstars Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The studio, which released the original, has set Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour director Sam Wrench to helm and script by Juror No. 2 writer Jonathan A. Abrams, Deadline has learned. […]

Ted Kotcheff, the versatile, two-time Palme d’Or nominee who directed more than two dozen movies including First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s, Fun with Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty and Wake in Fright and exec produced hundreds of episodes of Law & Order: SVU during a six-decade career, died Thursday. He was 94. Family members […]

The South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles has released its programming lineup ahead of the event’s 20th anniversary. SEEfest, running April 30-May 7, opens with the L.A. premiere of The New Year That Never Came, directed by Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Mureșanu, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and Best Film in the Orizzonti program […]

EXCLUSIVE: If you focus on snarky and largely unsubstantiated reports, you might figure Warner Bros Pictures co-chairman/CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy would spend this weekend boxing up their belongings. Using a couple flops and risky upcoming films as fodder, several reports with scant backup say their Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav is […]

The King of Kings will be Angel Studios’ top opening since juggernaut Sound of Freedom in 2023 and may well beat the reigning champ for highest-grossing faith-based animated debut, besting DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt from 1998. Deadline asks distribution chief Brandon Purdie about the response from audiences and theaters. Michael Angarano, writer, director and […]

On April 29, Jayson Dumenigo will get the recognition he and his fellow stunt performers have been wanting for decades from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — but he had to set fire to a bunch of people to get it. Dumenigo will receive an Academy plaque for developing a hydrogel that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of his new Max series Duster‘s May premiere, Josh Holloway has inked a deal to star in Flint, an adaptation of the Western novel by Louis L’Amour, which is due to begin production in New Mexico later this year. Written and to be directed by Ryan Whitaker, the film has Holloway taking on […]

New Line’s sci-fi thriller Companion, starring Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) and Jack Quaid (The Boys), will begin streaming globally on Max on Friday, April 18, debuting on HBO linear on Saturday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET.  In Companion, written and directed by Drew Hancock (My Dead Ex), Thatcher plays Iris, who joins her boyfriend Josh (Quaid) and […]

Katie Leclerc (Switched at Birth) and Ryan Carnes (General Hospital) have wrapped the Door County, Wisconsin shoot for A Cherry Pie Christmas (wt), a new holiday indie written and directed by John Stimpson of H9 Films. Pic tells the story of an ambitious pastry chef who returns to her small-town roots in Door County, and, […]

Not so long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Alfonso Cuarón was unintentionally influencing the future of the Star Wars franchise. Andor star Diego Luna recently recalled that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) director Gareth Edwards originally pitched him on the film by comparing his vision to Cuarón’s Y tu […]

More than 30 years after embarking on his Hollywood stunt career, Chad Stahelski is praising the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for finally recognizing the field. Following AMPAS’ announcement Thursday that Achievement in Stunt Design will become a new category at the 100th Oscars, the John Wick director told Deadline how much he […]

Val Kilmer died from pneumonia, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health has confirmed. The veteran actor died April 1 in L.A. at age 65. TMZ posted an image of Kilmer’s death certificate today. The beloved screen star was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and underwent two tracheotomy procedures but had recovered. The Juilliard-trained […]

The two shows represent a blast of contrast: Adolescence is gritty and minimalist. The Studio is noisily over the top. Yet both are dominating the conversation among critics and cinephiles and are impacting viewers worldwide. Adolescence is topping Netflix charts in 71 countries with its probe of the “male rage” lurking in a benign 13-year-old […]

The Oscars are finally recognizing stunts with a new category, something long desired by stunt people but never realized until now. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday that they are creating an annual competitive Academy Award for Achievement in Stunt Design, beginning with the 100th Academy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a project moving forward at Paramount: the Western Man of War starring Samuel L. Jackson, with Tim Story directing and producing. In Man of War, Jackson plays a newly retired and long-revered general who returns to his hometown in rural Georgia after the death of his wife to find it in the throes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society has optioned The House of Last Resort, the high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden, for feature development. Golden, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-winner who counts Hellboy: The Crooked Man amongst his screenwriting credits, will adapt the book for the screen. In […]

President Donald Trump responded to China’s decision to limit American film imports amid an escalating trade battle. “I think I’ve heard of worse things,” he said at a Cabinet meeting Thursday, to chuckles from his secretaries surrounding him. The China Film Administration said that it will reduce the number of films allowed into the country, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy films, How To Murder Your Husband), Jana Kramer (A Cowboy Christmas Romance, One Tree Hill), and Rachel Stubington (Shrinking) are set to lead the new Lifetime “ripped from the headlines” film Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story. Based on the true story of Robinson, who was abducted as […]

After 15 successful years together, the partners of Slate PR have decided to move forward on separate paths.  Ina Treciokas will soon announce her next venture, while Stephen Huvane, Simon Halls, Robin Baum and Andy Gelb — who joined Treciokas to form Slate in 2010 — will do the same.  The partners said in a short statement […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster has added three in Veronica Falcón, May Calamawy, and May Elghety. The trio joins previously announced cast members Jack Reynor and Laia Costa. Production is currently underway in Ireland and Spain on the Atomic Monster and Blumhouse film for New Line Cinema.  Cronin is also […]

Jack Huston finds the light in the darkness with his role in Konstantin Khudyakov’s upcoming film. In the first trailer for Gravitas Ventures’ I’m Beginning to See the Light, premiering May 2, Huston stars as Ezra Cooper, a once-famous, now-struggling trumpeter whose family is killed in a horrific car crash. “It was an accident. The […]

Alan Cumming is returning to the Marvel universe to reprise his Nightcrawler role in Avengers: Doomsday. In a new interview, the Traitors U.S. host teased that the makeup process has changed since starring in 2003’s X2, making it easier to play the character. “It’s 23 years since I was a superhero,” Cumming said recently during […]

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one description. But that’s an awfully academic way of putting it. The most important thing: Funk makes you want to dance. We Want the Funk!, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Coogler is 4-for-4. He’s written and directed four films, all heart and all winners: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He puts that streak on the line with Sinners, an original elevated horror film that takes his usual onscreen companion, Michael B. Jordan, on a decidedly different trip. Jordan […]