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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest film continues with Nickel Boys, the feature directing debut of Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening filmmaker RaMell Ross, who with longtime collaborator Joslyn Barnes adapted Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-wining 2019 novel. Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios debuted the film at the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Minted, the newly minted documentary about the volatile market for NFTs, will make its debut on the PBS series Independent Lens on Monday, January 6. The film directed by Nicholas Bruckman (Not Going Quietly) explores the stratospheric rise of non-fungible tokens – NFTs — “one of a kind” digital creations that went at breakneck […]

The year is 2732. The body of Nasar Ghafoor, a man who lived in the 21st century, thaws after a long, long, long cryonic sleep. Medical personnel, leveraging technology unknown in our present times, make the necessary preparations to bring him back to life. Hey, it could happen. You never know. Ghafoor, the focus of […]

The Golden Globes hosted its press preview on Thursday, 3rd January, of the Annual Golden Globe Awards, which kicked off with the official rollout of the red carpet by Globes host Nikki Glaser marking the beginning of award season parties and events.  Friday evening festivities will begin with a W Magazine party at the Chateau […]

EXCLUSIVE: Renowned Danish producer Kim Magnusson has boarded I’m Not a Robot, the Oscar-shortlisted live-action short from rising Dutch filmmaker Victoria Warmerdam, as an executive producer, with plans to help Magnusson adapt the film for the big screen. As we were first to report, Eric Martin, head writer and executive producer for Loki Season 2, […]

In a New Year greeting, Jeremy Renner expressed gratitude on the second anniversary of a snowplow accident that nearly claimed his life. “Ringing in my second ‘ReBirthday’ today I send out my love, respect, and gratitude for the army of people that it took to put me back together again,” Renner wrote on Instagram Wednesday […]

Never think for a second that anything like New Year’s Eve could get in the way of some old-fashioned Hollywood legal fireworks. Eleven days after Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint with California’s Civil Rights department against Justin Baldoni and his team over what went down during production of It Ends With […]

UPDATED with statement from Blake Lively’s lawyers: In a move straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, Justin Baldoni and his publicists have sued the New York Times for millions because of the paper’s explosive story on his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively’s claims of sexual harassment and a smear campaign from the […]

George Folsey Jr, the veteran film editor and producer who worked closely with John Landis on movies including Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America and the ill-fated Twilight Zone: The Movie as well as the iconic music video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” has died. He was 85. The news was confirmed Wednesday by […]

Even a casual market watcher knows that 2024 on Wall Street was defined by a spectacular rise in tech stock valuations. Tech also helped the entertainment sector overcome many of its challenges, dominating the list of the calendar year’s biggest percentage gainers. Reddit, Spotify and Netflix may not be in the “Magnificent 7” alongside Apple, […]

Chris Pula, the gregarious movie marketing executive who served stints at New Line, Warner Bros, Fox and Disney and created groundbreaking campaigns for movies from Se7en to The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and many others, has died according to numerous sources. We are awaiting formal word about planned memorials for Pula, but didn’t want to […]

As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline’s film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline’s Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic […]

Angus MacInnes, a Canadian actor who appeared in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, died Dec. 23, per a family statement. He was 77. No cause of death was provided. “To all Angus’ fans around the world, with breaking hearts we write this: Angus […]

Jon M. Chu’s Wicked Part One is set to defy gravity when it comes to theaters just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The first part of the musical film adaptation will compete against Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, which arrives in theaters on the same date for a combination much like the summer of 2023’s Barbenheimer. […]

Abigail Breslin penned an emotional letter on social media regarding the double standard and harassment faced by women who deign to speak up about experiences of sexism or injustice in Hollywood, recalling a lawsuit filed by her employer after she addressed a male co-star’s “unprofessional behavior” on set. The Little Miss Sunshine actress heavily implied […]

Apple will offer streaming service Apple TV+ for free during the first weekend of January in a global promotion. The streaming service will be free January 3 to 5 on any device where Apple TV+ is available, to anyone with an Apple ID. The service normally costs $9.99 a month on a stand-alone basis, and […]

In the A24 erotic workplace thriller Babygirl, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson use a few moves that would make human resources blush. Writer and director Halina Reijn recently explained that the presence of intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot allowed them to achieve “way more risky” sex scenes in the film, which is now playing in theaters. […]

Kieran Turner, the documentary filmmaker behind Jobriath A.D. (2012), has died. He was 56. According to his rep, the Eight Track Tape Productions founder and 2021 CNN Docuseries Fellow died from cancer on Monday, Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. A celebration of life is planned for January. His 2012 documentary Jobriath A.D. detailed the rise […]

Tributes poured in from all spheres of politics, entertainment and culture as notable figures honored Jimmy Carter and his legacy as the 39th President of the United States, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and longtime climate and human rights advocate, following his death this afternoon in Plains, Ga. At 100, Carter — who was born […]

Robert Eggers Nosferatu from Focus Features sank its teeth into the Christmas box office. With James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown – Searchlight Pictures’ top-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney in 2019 – they ushered in a heady post-Covid moment for indie films at no. 3 and 5 at the domestic box office. Yes, […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Flow, Janus Films and Sideshow’s dream-like animated feature from director Gints Zilbalodis. Matīss Kaža and Zilbalodis crafted a 35-page cinematic script featuring no dialogue, solely comprised of directorial instructions. The acclaimed Cannes Film Festival darling, Latvia’s submission for this […]

Refresh for latest…: Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is off and running overseas, where the threequel officially began rollout on Wednesday after last week’s sizable previews. Through Sunday, and with previews included, the little critter has amassed $74M from 52 offshore markets. That lifts the global tally to $211.5M; recall that Sonic started domestically last […]

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, “I’m dying.” Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their attire in preparation for a daddy-daughter dance behind bars. A drag performance artist walks through Moscow streets, duct-taped in the colors of the Russian […]