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A24 has now confirmed what’s been rumored for weeks — that Alex Garland will write and direct a live-action Elden Ring film for A24 and video game company Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. This comes following the release of Warfare, his A24 Iraq war pic directed with Ray Mendoza, which has grossed over $32 million since […]

Arguably the worst film in competition in Cannes this year is a strong candidate for the festival’s Best Director prize, and rightfully so. The follow-up to 2018’s Un Certain Regard entry Long Day’s Journey into Night — which asked viewers to don 3D glasses for its spectacular climax, an unbroken, hourlong tracking shot — Resurrection […]

UPDATE with more news on Michael: Lionsgate film chief Adam Fogelson confirmed the company is exploring splitting its Michael Jackson biopic into two films. “At the end, when you look at the music library, when you look at what Michael Jackson was able to deliver in terms of music and contributions to art, whether or […]

Cici Cooper might be dead, but Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s hopes of reprising her Scream 2 role for the upcoming installment are alive and well. Despite shutting down hopes of a resurrection for her I Know You Did Last Summer character, the Golden Globe nominee expressed interest in returning to the Scream franchise for the upcoming […]

The newly solo Lionsgate Studios swung to a profit last quarter as motion picture revenue surged. The numbers are its first since splitting with Starz. Net income of $21.9 million for Lionsgate’s fiscal fourth quarter ended in March compares with a $47 million loss the year earlier. Total revenue popped to $1.1 billion from $880 […]

This weekend’s Lilo & Stitch follows a long line of Disney live-action remakes, starting with Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland (2010). Several Disney princesses have been brought to life by actresses such as Lily James, Emma Watson, Naomi Scott, Halle Bailey and Rachel Zegler. Still other classic cartoon stories like The Jungle Book […]

TITLE: PEAK EVERYTHING (Amour apocalypse) Section: Directors’ Fortnight Director: Anne Émond Logline: Adam (Patrick Hivon) is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. To help combat his eco-anxiety, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier’s technical support line, he meets Tina (Piper Perabo), a woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries. This unexpected encounter changes […]

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cristin Milioti are in talks to star in The Backrooms, A24’s sci-fi horror flick based on the viral series of found-footage videos from Kane Parsons, Deadline can confirm. Reps for the studio declined to comment. No word on the roles to be played by the duo, and their deals may not make […]

Mario Martone’s Cannes Film Festival Competition title Fuori had its world premiere Tuesday night at the Lumière Theater, earning a 7 1/2–minute ovation. From a script by Ippolita Di Majo and Martone, and starring Valeria Golino as writer Goliarda Sapienza, Fuori is inspired by Sapienza’s 1983 autobiography L’Università di Rebibbia (The University of Rebibbia) and […]

Literary biopics are hard to pull off, and even harder to market (1995’s Total Eclipse missed a trick with “Leonardo DiCaprio IS Arthur Rimbaud!”). Even well-known U.S. writers tend to be the domain of the indie world, resulting in films as respectable but hardly lucrative as Capote (2005), Kill Your Darlings (2013) and Shirley (2020). […]

Refresh for more…At a 78th Cannes Film Festival that’s attempting to course correct its complicity in #MeToo, down over by the Carlton Beach tonight The Better World Fund Gala handed out its Award for Excellence in Film and Television to 2x Oscar winner Kevin Spacey. Last year, Juliette Binoche, this year’s Cannes Jury President, was […]

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Unified Pictures and Current Entertainment’s Tin Soldier, a new action thriller starring Scott Eastwood, Jamie Foxx and Robert De Niro. Directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer), who wrote the script with Jess Fuerst, the film will be released sometime this year. WME Independent is […]

EXCLUSIVE: Corbin Bernsen (Your Friends and Neighbors) has signed on to star in Laura Louise, an indie thriller directed by Duane Edwards. Laura Louise follows Edward Brannock (Bernsen), a retired postal worker thrust into the center of a reopened missing person’s case. When new evidence surfaces decades after a teenage girl vanished, Brannock faces intense […]

Millennium Docs Against Gravity just wrapped the in-person edition of the nonfiction festival, which takes place simultaneously in seven cities in Poland (the online edition runs today until June 2). The Grand Prix – the Bank Millennium Award – went to Yintah, directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano. The award automatically qualifies Yintah for Academy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle’s next film looks to have its sights sets on some serious star power as Deadline is hearing Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in negotiations to star in the new, currently untitled pic from the Oscar-winning director. Chazelle will direct and has written the script and will also produce alongside Olivia Hamilton […]

EXCLUSIVE: Production is currently underway on the indie feature Otra in Atlanta and Puerto Rico with Rome Flynn (Godfather of Harlem, How to Get Away with Murder), María Gabriela de Faría (The Moodys), Flor Delis Alicea and Aria Celeste Castillo (Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living, NCIS: New Orleans) leading the cast. From longtime Tyler Perry collaborator […]

Carey Mulligan (Maestro) is is in negotiations to join Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie for Netflix, based on the bestselling fantasy novels by C.S. Lewis, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Netflix declined to comment. Mulligan will play the mother of Digory, one of the film’s young protagonists. As previously announced, others in the cast will include […]

Conan O’Brien is set for the role of Smarty Pants in Toy Story 5, Disney and Pixar announced on Monday, during the Consumer Products section of Disney’s Licensing Expo presentation. “Isn’t that crazy? Legendary franchise,” said O’Brien in a video Instagram message celebrating the news. “These films are amazing. I can’t believe this!” Admittedly, O’Brien […]

We kick off the 2025 summer season of the Crew Call podcast with a candid, wide-ranging conversation with Pulitzer-winning playwright and two-time Oscar nominee David Mamet. Mamet has directed a new movie, Henry Johnson, his first in 12 years, based on his 2023 play that premiered in Venice, CA. The pic, which is self-distributed and […]

Fortnite underestimates SAG-AFTRA‘s power, it would appear after the online gaming platform used conversational AI to replicate James Earl Jones‘ voice as Star Wars‘ Darth Vader. On Monday, the guild announced an unfair labor practice filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Llama Productions over Fortnite’s agreement with Jones’ estate to use his […]

Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau is back on the Croisette, debuting her latest Cannes Film Festival Competition entry Alpha. Inside the Palais late Monday local time, the genre-bending movie received a 12-minute ovation. The response came after a disruption mid-screening, when some people in the audience in the gallery […]

Following Malia Obama’s short film debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the budding filmmaker is accused of lifting heavy inspiration from a fellow director. Natalie Jasmine Harris, whose short Grace competed alongside Obama’s The Heart at last year’s festival, said she saw “a lot of similarities” between her title and the former first daughter’s […]

Once again, French director Julia Ducournau takes us into the lower depths. Four years after winning the Palme d’Or with her extraordinary Titane – in which humans and cars fused with grinding, crunching erotic energy – she returns to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Alpha, a film just as likely as Titane to divide […]

Ketchup Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the thriller Misdirection, starring Frank Grillo (Superman), Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion), and Oliver Trevena (Plane), slating it for release later this year. Directed by Kevin Lewis, the filmmaker best known for his Nicolas Cage-led genre-bender Willy’s Wonderland, Misdirection follows a couple driven to carry out a series of […]