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New Mexico’s case against Alex Baldwin may finally be over as of last month, but the Rust star isn’t finished with the state over its investigation and short-lived trial over the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the indie Western. “Defendants sought at every turn to scapegoat Baldwin for the acts and […]

It didn’t take long into a key Labor Innovation & Technology Summit panel before the prevailing sentiment among Hollywood workers was given voice. “The fear of replacement is very real at this moment and in this room,” said Linda Powell, EVP of SAG-AFTRA and moderator of the session, titled “Negotiating AI Contracts: How Unions Can […]

Fans will have to wait a little longer for Cillian Murphy‘s triumphant return to the 28 Days Later franchise. Although the Oscar winner is involved in the upcoming threequel as an executive producer, 28 Years Later producer Andrew Macdonald recently explained that Murphy “wanted to be involved” but won’t appear in the film, which premieres […]

Gerard Butler didn’t have the best time filming Den of Thieves 2: Pantera as he shot the movie “with a freshly torn ACL.” In a new interview, the actor revealed that he filmed the action-intense movie while injured. “This was a weird time for me at the beginning of this movie because I’d been through […]

EXCLUSIVE: Early one morning up in Haddon Hall, a grand Tudor hall in Derbyshire, England, this corpulent, menacing-looking man swathed in a richly brocaded tunic trimmed with fur shuffled over to have a chat with filmmaker Karim Aïnouz and the Oscar-winning actor Alicia Vikander. I had no idea who he was. We were on the set of Firebrand, […]

EXCLUSIVE: After tapping Glen Powell to play the titular role in their new Running Man movie, Paramount and director Edgar Wright now have the man who will be hosting the show. Sources tell Deadline that Colman Domingo is set to play the host of the world’s most dangerous game show. The new film, based on […]

As the Los Angeles fire tragedy continues to unfold, the American Society of Cinematographers has postponed today’s planned release of its 2025 ASC Awards nominations. The announcement now is set for Monday, January 13. The news comes as the Oscars, Writers Guild and Producers Guild postponed their nominations and the Critics Choice Awards ceremony was […]

A tall man with a warm smile ambles along rural byways, a backpack over his shoulders and a banjo around his neck, strumming as he strolls through Northern California. He does not speak, communicating with his instrument and a kind of self-created sign language. This was the unusual sight witnessed by residents of Point Reyes […]

Awards-season regulars A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Wicked, Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Substance are among the nominees revealed Thursday for the Art Directors Guild’s 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist, the latter coming off a Best Picture – Drama win at the Golden Globes […]

As James Mangold makes his mark on a galaxy far, far away with his upcoming Star Wars installment, he’s emphasizing the “long time ago” part of the setting. The 2x Oscar nominee, who is set to co-write and direct Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, recently teased that his prequel will aim to “find a […]

The Writers Guild said Wednesday that it is postponing the release of its annual WGA Awards nominations to next week in the wake of the wildfires that have wreaked havoc on Los Angeles this week. The guild said today it will now release its nominations on Monday, January 13. “With Los Angeles under a state […]

Having a close familial bond is a gift that can grow stronger with each shared moment—at least, this is the case for the slightly dysfunctional family at the center of How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. Directed and co-written by Pat Boonnitipat, the story follows a teenage slacker named M (played by popular singer-actor […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has moved the Oscar nominations announcement from Friday, January 17, to Sunday, January 19. It also extended the Oscars voting period, which started at 9 a.m. PT today, by two days to 5 p.m. PT January 14 at 5 p.m. PT. The changes also include timings of […]

When director Chris Sanders decided to take on The Wild Robot, the script had been at DreamWorks Animation for a few years. In what he deems to be a stroke of luck, Sanders came in at the perfect time when the studio had been developing tools to create an animation style that strays from the traditional […]

The AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, which were set to take place Saturday in Beverly Hills, has been postponed due to the wildfires burning across Los Angeles, organizers said Wednesday. It becomes the second awards show to make that call today, after the Critics Choice Awards said it was pushing its Sunday ceremony to later […]

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 […]