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Studios celebrate their box office hits — unless it’s Paramount, where even success becomes opaque. Tom Cruise’s $400 million Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was produced by Skydance Films for Paramount, but Skydance also wants to acquire Paramount, an ambition mired in layers of Trumpian and dynastic complexity. Indeed, the intrigues are reminiscent of those […]

Crew members in Kentucky have walked off the set of the low-budget film Cipher, starring Terrence Howard, in protest after the production declined to secure a union contract with IATSE. Deadline understands that the production was recently put on notice, because crew felt they were “treated as less than” by being classified as independent contractors […]

The highly-anticipated Elden Ring movie at A24 and video game company Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.is gaining momentum as director Alex Garland may be zeroing on a familiar face to lead the epic adaptation. While it is unknown where things stand in negotiations or if a formal offer has been offered, sources tell Deadline the director […]

EXCLUSIVE: Director Drew Denny (Wander Women) has set six to star in her ensemble comedy, Love & Chaos. The list includes Bebe Wood (Mean Girls), Christine Taylor (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story), Lux Pascal (Narcos), Anna Akana (Jupiter’s Legacy), Rio Mangini (Wolf Pack) and Warren Egypt Franklin (American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez). In the indie […]

BAFTA Award nominee Ruth Madeley (Don’t Take My Baby) is set to portray famed disability activist Judy Heumann in Apple Original Films’ Being Heumann, an adaptation of Heumann’s bestselling memoir from CODA Oscar winner Siân Heder. Being Heumann follows Heumann as she leads over a hundred disabled people to take over the San Francisco Federal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deal points still are being worked out, but Lionsgate Motion Picture Group President Nathan Kahane is expected to leave his post by end of the year when his contract expires, transitioning to a producing deal with the studio, sources familiar with the situation tell Deadline. Reps for Lionsgate declined to comment. Sources said that […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a six-against seven figure deal, Miramax won an auction for Supermax, a high-concept spec script written by David Weil & David J. Rosen, best known for their work on the TV series Hunters and Invasion. The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona will produce the film. Supermax is a propulsive and twist-laden action thriller that follows two FBI agents investigating […]

EXCLUSIVE: Graphic novel Swat Man, about a crooked cop turned reluctant superhero, is being adapted to the big screen as an action-comedy. Gary Michael Walters (Drive, Nightcrawler) at Walters Media Group banner is producing the adaptation alongside the comic book’s creator Jack Roberts, under his Lesnik Entertainment banner. Kristen and Drake Dowd of Dowd Films have […]

EXCLUSIVE: After helping relaunch the Jurassic World franchise at Universal, director Colin Trevorrow has set his sights on his next project revolving around another infamous location featuring creatures not of this world. Trevorrow is set to direct and produce an untitled conspiracy thriller at Paramount Pictures with Maximum Effort also on board to produce, sources […]

EXCLUSIVE: A new holiday film is reuniting 90s big screen lovebirds Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie and the Pussycats) and Freddie Prinze Jr. (I Know What You Did Last Summer), more than two decades after starring alongside one another in She’s All That. The duo will also reunite with Jennifer Gibgot, co-producer of She’s All That, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Robert John Burke (The Last of Us) and Burn Gorman (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are new additions to the cast of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s untitled film for Warner Bros and Legendary, starring Tom Cruise. No word on the roles they’re playing. Slated for release on October 2, 2026, the film watches as the most powerful man […]

Kathy Bates is looking back at her career and recalling why director Garry Marshall didn’t cast her in the film adaptation of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a stage role she originated. In a new interview, Bates opened up about getting passed over for the lead role in 1991’s Frankie and Johnny, which ultimately […]

Kevin Costner and his Horizon: An American Saga franchise are already facing legal action from New Line over a cofinancing deal, and now the star/director of the Western series has been hit with a sexual harassment suit by a veteran stuntwoman over an unscheduled, unrehearsed “violent unscripted” rape scene. Costner’s longtime attorney Marty Singer has […]

Another glamorous Cannes Film Festival has ended, after an exciting fortnight on the Côte d’Azur that drew the likes of Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Pattinson, Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, Kristen Stewart, Bono and many others. Stars of documentaries also turned up: Shia LaBeouf, whose exploits as founder of a free […]

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and India for Cannes Caméra d’Or winner The President’s Cake by Iraqi director Hasan Hadi. The film, which debuted in Directors’ Fortnight, also proved a crowdpleaser in the Cannes parallel section, winning its People’s Choice audience award. Deadline critic […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Rozon (Schitt’s Creek), Colton Gobbo (Ginny & Georgia), and Jim Belushi (According to Jim) are set to topline Karate Ghost, a new martial arts comedy from director James Mark that has just recently entered production in Toronto. Set in a town ruled by absurd karate law, the film watches as a lonely teen […]

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Cornett (Summer of 69), Ramon Reed (Incoming), and Chris Klein (Fear Street: Prom Queen) are about to wrap on the North Carolina shoot for Bad Counselors, a new indie from director Chris Dowling (Where Hope Grows). The project is described as a fish-out-of-water comedy that follows two hard-partying fraternity brothers who pose as […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has optioned the short story “Morning Person” by Emily Ziff Griffin, enlisting the author to pen a feature adaptation. Exploring the high-wire act of modern womanhood, the story chronicles a day in the life of a sharp-witted supermom whose marriage abruptly falls apart, challenging her to return to the corporate world […]

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chad A. Verdi, LBI Entertainment’s Christopher Donelly and Gareth West have teamed to produce Carthage Must Be Destroyed, an action to be directed by Ocean’s Eleven scribe Ted Griffin. In the action thriller, a stranger happens upon a rust-belt city in decline, ruled by its criminal underworld. Using brain and […]

Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Bi Gan’s Resurrection, with the film winning the Special Jury prize at the recently-concluded Cannes Film Festival. Marking Bi’s third feature, Resurrection stars Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao and Li Gengxi. The deal was negotiated by Janus Films and Losange Films. Resurrection unfolds in six parts spanning […]

Julia Ducournau made history in 2021 when she won the Cannes Palme d’Or with Titane, as only the second woman to clinch the prize in the festival’s history after Jane Campion with Piano in 1993. The French director was back in Competition in Cannes this year with third feature Alpha, taking inspiration from the emergence […]

Texas is on the cusp of a sweeter deal for film and TV production, the latest state pushing to keep projects local. The Texas House officially passed Senate Bill 22 Monday in a move that would boost cash available to $300 million every two years for the next decade starting with the September 1 fiscal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Nicholas Arioli has wrapped on the New Mexico shoot for his debut feature, absurdist Western comedy The Stalemate, adding six to the cast. Newcomers include Jeremy Bobb (Them), three-time Emmy nominee Anthony Carrigan (Superman), Emmy nominee Paul Sparks (The Better Sister), Critics Choice nom Shea Whigham (American Primeval), Giorgia Whigham (Ted), and two-time […]

Goodness gracious — headway has been made on some upcoming collaborations between Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, the director shared. Among the films due to come is the sequel to 2022’s blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, which the Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning helmer said is “already in the bag,” adding that he “already know[s]” […]