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What a treat. The most heartwarming part of the Superman trailer back in December got an extended look Tuesday night at CinemaCon, that being the Man of Steel and his dog Krypto. In the footage for audiences at CinemaCon, Superman dropped to Earth bloodied near the Fortress of Solitude. He whistles for Krypto, who jumps […]

“See you at the Oscars,” Richard Brener, President & Chief Creative Officer of New Line Cinema, joked Tuesday at CinemaCon, where Warner Bros showed an extended seven-minute look at Final Destination: Bloodlines. “Two brother think they have to figure out a way to thwart Death,” Brener said. “What could go wrong?” Oscar maybe not, but […]

Apple Original Films might be looking at its first blockbuster in F1 coming out via Warner Bros on June 27. We’ve been hearing that the movie has been testing well, and even if there’s a bit of hurdle in U.S. audiences not being fans of the sport, the bet is that F1 rallies overseas. From […]

Rumors raced around Hollywood today that the script Quentin Tarantino planned to make his last film but abandoned will see the light of day. It started with a wild report about a Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood sequel that originated in The Playlist. Being this is April Fool’s Day, it required some vetting. So here […]

The $100 million feature take The Bride from Maggie Gyllenhaal showed off its first footage at CinemaCon on Tuesday, with the filmmaker and star Jessie Buckley in attendance. Logline: In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as The Bride, sparking romance, police interest […]

What is Zach Cregger’s Weapons about? We finally found out. “It’s a twisty, turny movie,” said Cregger onstage during Warner Bros’ CinemaCon presentation Tuesday in Las Vegas. “If you saw Barbarian, it’s pandering, it worked a little bit,” he added. Praising the wonder of horror films, Cregger said: “There’s an undeniable amplification when you go […]

Warner Bros kicked off its CinemaCon presentation Tuesday with its two biggest swings yet: Paul Thomas Anderson’s $140M rebel Leonardo DiCaprio feature One Battle After Another and following that with a look at Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! It was a smart and shrewd move by Warner Bros motion picture co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam […]

Wicked made Universal in the neighborhood of $100 million on PVOD, cash it can use to make more movies, which will ultimately help exhibition, said Peter Levinsohn, Chairman, Global Distribution, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios as the debate over exclusive theatrical windows dominates CinemaCon. “We are a theatrical first company,” he said at at an industry panel […]

The scene shocked the world: President Donald Trump inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Oval Office on February 28, only to verbally attack him in front of the media and accuse him of fomenting World War III. Vice President J.D. Vance, eager to please his boss, dressed down Zelensky over what he considered his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Hollowell, the Sundance-winning multihyphenate creator, is coming on board to direct Something Murdered for Amblin Entertainment. The project is an original idea written by Liz Benham that Amblin picked up last year. Hollowell will rewrite to direct as a feature. Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham, Tyler Gillett and Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin […]

Lionsgate saved the best for last — Jenna Ortega and The Weeknd — to tubthump their May 16 movie Hurry Up Tomorrow from Trey Edward Schults. The Weeknd lit Caesars Colosseum ablaze with a performance of two songs from the movie, “Cry for Me” and “Open Hearts,” as well as his classic “Blinding Lights,” and […]

CinemaCon is currently underway, with presentations from Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Paramount, Universal/Focus, Disney, Angel, and Neon highlighting their upcoming film releases. Lionsgate’s presentation today kicked off with an extended look at Ballerina from director Len Wiseman starring Ana de Armas. Francis Lawrence and Mark Hamill teased the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long […]

Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio took the stage at CinemaCon with an extended look at Karate Kid: L.egends from Sony Pictures, out May 30. The film features young Wang with the legendary Jackie Chan and Macchio, the original Karate Kid. After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Wang) is uprooted from his home in Beijing […]

CinemaCon attendees got a first look at a trailer for the Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell-starring event pic A Big Bold Beautiful Journey during Sony’s presentation on Monday evening here in Las Vegas. The romance drama is billed as an original tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them. The footage […]

A sexy high-gloss sizzle reel for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie turned up the heat during Sony’s CinemaCon show in Las Vegas this evening. The follow-up to the 1997 hit features returning cast members as well as new players. Jennifer Love Hewitt is back alongside former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. while […]

Leave it to Tom Rothman to tee up CinemaCon, ever the philosopher, with the ultimate sermon that waves the flag for moviegoing. Acknowledging the elephant in the room at this year’s confab — windows — Rothman told the Caesars Palace full of exhibs, “Cost and windows can work for us or against us. Theatrical needs […]

Sian Barbara Allen, a Golden Globe-nominated TV actress who appeared in such hits as The Waltons and L.A. Law, died today at the age of 78 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s Disease. A prolific television performer of the ’70s and ’80s, Allen was born on July 12, 1946 in Reading, […]

While The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg might not want be involved in the same conversations as the Facebook founder, it seems Mark Zuckerberg, on whom the protagonist/antagonist is based, has no problem continuing the association. On a recent episode of The Colin and Samir Show, whose podcast includes interviews with tech CEOs and delves […]

Sydney Sweeney is in final negotiations to star in the live-action Gundam movie coming together at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Details as to the part Sweeney is playing are under wraps for now, as is the film’s plot. Reps for Legendary declined to comment. As we were first to tell you last fall, Sweet […]

In a 10-page comment directed to the White House Office of Science and Technology earlier this month, the Motion Picture Association said AI “can, and must, coexist with a copyright system that incentivizes the creation of original expression and protects the rights of copyright owners.” The trade group repping members Amazon Studios, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, […]

Warner Bros Discovery said Monday that it plans to add veteran tech investor Anton Levy as an independent director on its soon-to-expand board of directors. The company’s existing board, which consists of 13 directors, today approved an expansion to 14 timed to the annual shareholder meeting later this spring. The move follows a report in […]

UPDATE, 1:47 PM: A New Mexico judge has ruled that police bodycam footage or photographs of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s dead bodies shall remain out of the public sphere, but the couple’s autopsy reports and images of the couple’s home and animals will be released. After a hearing this morning in the Santa Fe […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hamdan Ballal and his fellow No Other Land filmmakers are thanking top members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for signing a letter that pushed AMPAS leadership to take a firmer stance condemning an attack on Ballal by Israeli settlers. Palestinian filmmakers Ballal and Basel Adra and Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham […]

The major story in Hollywood, says Jeff Goldstein, president of Global Distribution for Warner Bros. Pictures, is how expensive it’s getting to make movies and to market them to a fragmented audience even as technology sends first reactions to a film around the world in a “nanosecond.” “That’s the bigger story here,” he said on […]

Helen Mirren will soon reunite with former co-star Pierce Brosnan in Guy Ritchie’s MobLand, and though she’s a “huge fan of Pierce Brosnan, I mean massive fan,” she deemed the James Bond franchise in which he appears decidedly “not [her] thing” due to its portrayal of women. “I mean, oh my god. Obviously, he’s gorgeous […]

Bruce Glover, a prolific actor who appeared in films like Diamonds Are Forever and Chinatown and acted alongside Bette Davis and Anne Bancroft on Broadway, died at the age of 92, his son, Back to the Future actor Crispin Glover announced on Instagram. Crispin Glover shared a series of old and newer photos of his […]

Character actor Denis Arndt, who appeared in Basic Instinct, a slate of David E. Kelley shows and earned a Tony nomination for his role in Broadway’s two-hander Heisenberg, has died at the age of 86, his family announced in an obituary published Wednesday. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of […]

CPH:DOX has crowned winners at the latest edition of the renowned nonfiction film festival in Copenhagen. The DOX:Award, the festival’s top prize, went to Always, the directorial debut of Deming Chen. The film tells the story of a young poet, 8-year-old Youbin, who lives “deep in the lush mountains of Hunan province” in southern China. […]

Although Josh Hutcherson is preparing to survive another night at Freddy’s, he’s up for a return to his first major franchise. The Hunger Games alum recently gave fans hope that he might reprise his role as Peeta Mellark if author Suzanne Collins gives the character a worthy return in a future installment of her dystopian […]

The top brass at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued an apology today for not mentioning Oscar-winning No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballan or the film by name in its initial response to his West Bank attack and detention on Monday. The note from AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang […]

Although Bill Murray has plenty of hit films to his name, there’s one role he wishes he didn’t turn down. The Oscar nominee recently revealed “one of the few regrets” he has in his career after his attempt to work with Clint Eastwood in a film, following the success of his own 1981 army comedy […]

Ryan Coogler wants to work with Denzel Washington in Black Panther 3 and hopes to work out a deal. In a new interview, Coogler addressed rumors that Washington was in talks to star in the third installment of the Marvel movie. “I’m dying to work with Denzel and I’m hoping we can make that happen. […]

Alan Cumming is reprising his X-Men role of Nightcrawler for Marvel’s upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. After the cast reveal was made on a live stream, the Traitors US host took to social media to express his excitement about returning and share a video of himself practicing his Nightcrawler moves. “Never say never,” Cumming captioned the Instagram […]

This is a nifty indie weekend with a busier and higher profile limited release schedule than we’ve seen in some time. The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Friend, Grand Tour, Viet And Nam, Holy Cow and documentaries The Encampments, which is super timely, and Secret Mall Apartment are peppering theaters in major markets. Many have […]

(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 […]