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(Updated with statement from Pride flag ban co-sponsor Rep. Lee) Utah’s governor licked his wounds and moved on quickly from the news that the Sundance Film Festival is leaving the state for Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Just hours after the Robert Redford founded Park City-based shindig revealed it is pulling up stakes and heading to […]

UPDATED at 11:37 a.m. PT to reflect that more than 800 Academy members have now signed the letter, including actors Carey Mulligan, America Ferrera, Edward Norton, Jane Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Elizabeth Olsen; filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Michael Moore, Stephen Frears, Abigail Disney, Asif Kapadia, Jay Roach, and Todd Field; composer Carter Burwell; […]

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The document asserts there has been a “widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”  Claiming the Biden Administration fostered a “corrosive ideology,” Trump’s order asserts that, […]

Coming up as a TV and not a movie executive finally seems to have caught up to Jennifer Salke at Amazon MGM Studios. Her inability to mesh with the gatekeepers of the James Bond movies might well have sealed her fate. While her exit from the executive suites officially is being regarded as an exit […]

EXCLUSIVE: An eight-figure bidding war has broken out on the rights to a new thriller novel from the unlikely pairing of James Patterson and MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson. Deadline understands that Patterson, who is among the book world’s highest grossing authors, and YouTube’s biggest star, MrBeast, have jointly penned the novel, which has shades of […]

CPH:DOX, the internationally-renowned nonfiction film festival in Copenhagen, is confronting a dramatically altered geopolitical order, one that threatens the values of freedom of expression upon which the documentary field is founded. The theme of this year’s festival, decided several months ago, centers on “the state of human rights, civil liberties, and the international rule of […]

These aren’t fun times for billionaires, even though their number keeps proliferating along with their numbers — there are now at least 17 documented “super billionaires” with assets of more than $100 billion. Still, Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships are being torched, Jeff Bezos’ newspaper is under siege, and Mark Zuckerberg is trying to suppress a […]

EXCLUSIVE: James Van Der Beek (Pose) and Drew Ray Tanner (Riverdale), who starred in Tubi’s Sidelined: The QB and Me, are returning to reprise their roles in the sequel, now officially titled Sidelined 2: Intercepted. Also joining the cast, alongside stars Noah Beck and Siena Agudong, are Charlie Gillespie (Julie and the Phantoms) and Roan […]

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zovatto has signed with Gersh for representation. Zovatto can most recently be seen starring opposite Anna Kendrick in her directorial debut, Woman of ther Hour, for Netflix. He was also recently seen in The Pope’s Exorcist opposite Russell Crowe from director Julius Avery. Zovatto can be seen as “The Prophet” in the HBO Max series Station Eleven, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Strange Darling‘s Willa Fitzgerald is starring opposite Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey in Walden Media’s Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy, we can tell you first.   Fitzgerald will play Mae Lenihan, wife of CIA agent Tom Lenihan (Lawtey). Adapted from the book by David E. Hoffman and produced by Walden Media and Weed Road, the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Entertainment has hired Brian Worsley as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Creative Advertising. Worsley will report to Blair Rich, Legendary’s recently appointed Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer, with whom he has worked closely for many years, extending back to the duo’s collaboration within Warner Bros.’ worldwide marketing division. “Having worked with Brian […]

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Eichner has joined the cast of an untitled comedy from writer and director, Nicholas Stoller, for Amazon MGM Studios, alongside previously announced stars Will Ferrell, Zac Efron, Regina Hall, and Jimmy Tatro. Stoller will direct. The comedy follows a young convict fresh out of prison (Efron) who takes a reality TV courtroom hostage […]

Cineverse, and its horror division Bloody Disgusting, have settled on Iconic Events Releasing as the theatrical distribution partner for the August 29 unrated wide release of The Toxic Avenger. The studio and distributor worked together on the highly successful rollouts of the last two Terrifier films. The Toxic Avenger comedic horror film directed by Macon Blair and […]

After over 40 years, the Sundance Film Festival is leaving Park City for a new and lucrative home in Boulder, Colorado. As Deadline has been telling you for months, the Rocky Mountain metropolis has been in pole position over the United Utah bid and the efforts of Cincinnati, Ohio since the Robert Redford founded cinema […]

Ben Affleck holds forth on the highs and lows of his career in a lengthy new interview. Among the lows is shooting Justice League, to which he admits he didn’t bring his best self. Among the highs is his Internet-famous DVD commentary for the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon. “That is one of the achievements of my […]

Gwyneth Paltrow is answering questions and is opening up about her future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how often she talks to her Iron Man co-star Robert Downey Jr., and rumors about a feud with Meghan Markle. Paltrow took to Instagram and opened herself up to answer fan questions. One of her followers asked her […]

Ben Affleck has been open about his struggles with alcohol and challenges being under the cowl in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016). Justice League (2017) and The Flash (2023). But it wasn’t all bad. “I loved Batman v Superman. And I liked my brief stints on The Flash that I did and when I […]

It’s been a day of dramatic developments for No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary about life for Palestinian residents in the rural West Bank area of Yasafer Matta. Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who joined two Israeli directors to make the film, was released from custody by Israeli authorities Tuesday after prominent members of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Morrison has come aboard to direct Love of Your Life for Amazon MGM Studios. Julia Cox wrote the script, and Ryan Gosling and Jessie Henderson are producing. Plot details are under wraps. Deadline was first to report the major script sale in October after an intense bidding war. Numerous bids were proffered when […]

What we first told you on Sunday is now official: Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment have officially picked up North American on the Bill Condon directed, Jennifer Lopez starring feature musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, which was one of the most buzzed about titles at this year’s Sundance. A fall wide theatrical release […]

UPDATE: Amazon has made it absolute that Amy Pascal and David Heyman are running point as producers for the next 007 movie. Pascal will produce the film via Pascal Pictures, and Heyman will produce via Heyday Films. “We are approaching every creative decision with James Bond, which Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have so […]

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. Will host the 85th Peabody Awards, set for June 1 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Peabodys, the program based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, honors content from emerging voices that reflects the pressing social issues of the day. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Haliey Welch, the young woman who became famous overnight after the release of the viral “hawk tuah” video, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary. Emmy-winning production company Bungalow Media + Entertainment (Cyber Sleuths: The Idaho Murders for Paramount+; Little Richard: I Am Everything for CNN Films/Max; Serving the Hamptons for Max; Surviving […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American distribution rights to Unicorns, the cross-cultural romance that debuted at Toronto 2023 and went on to play at London, Palm Springs, Sydney and other festivals. The film stars Ben Hardy as Luke, a single father from Essex, England, who works as an auto mechanic and is forced to rethink his sexual identity […]