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Jeremy Strong has chimed in on the long-running discourse around casting straight actors in gay roles. After portraying Donald Trump‘s gay mentor Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, premiering Oct. 11 in theaters, the Golden Globe winner said he thinks LGBTQ actors should be “given more weight” when it comes to casting LGBTQ roles. “Yes, it’s […]

Months after its release, Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn‘s Daddio recently had a captive audience. Qantas Airways apologized to passengers on a recent flight from Sydney to Japan after playing the R-rated Christy Hall drama, which one traveler described as “40 minutes of penis and boobs.” “The movie was clearly not suitable to play for […]

With access to more creative outlets for LGBTQ+ filmmakers comes great progressive storytelling. At least, this is the case for writer-director Beck Williams, who aims to push the needle in Hollywood for a more nuanced representation of the trans experience onscreen. Recently premiering at the Oscar-qualifying film festival Out on Film in Atlanta, Pace, an […]

When it comes to stretching a production dollar, Warner Bros., which just went through the exercise of spending $190 million+ on Joker: Folie à Deux, might want to have a conversation with filmmaker Brady Corbet, who shot his 3 1/2 hour Venice Film Festival-winning epic The Brutalist for between $6 million-$8 million. The original post-World […]

Sam Mendes doubts he will director another James Bond movie after helming 2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre. In HBO’s The Franchise, the filmmaker spoofs the process of making big-budget franchises and, in a new interview, explains why he doesn’t think he’ll direct another James Bond film. “They don’t want people who have a big track […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Old Man) has been cast in Kathryn Bigelow‘s new Netflix film. The film’s title and plot remain under wraps, though sources tell Deadline it will be set at the White House as a national crisis unfolds. The untitled thriller also stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso, Anthony […]

Ed Wheeler, a veteran actor who appeared in Law & Order, Blue Bloods, Broadcast News, Mickey Blue Eyes and many other films, TV shows, stage productions and commercials, has died. He was 88. His wife, Messeret Stroman Wheeler, told Deadline that he died August 21 at Englewood (NJ) Hospital of respiratory failure due to pneumonia […]

EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios will release Brave The Dark in theaters on January 24, 2025 on a minimum of 1,000 screens. Based on a true story, the film by Damian Harris portrays the transformation of a 1980s small-town drama teacher Stan Deen — played by BAFTA winner and Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Jared Harris — drawn into […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominated actress, Moses Ingram, has signed with Linden Entertainment. Ingram was most recently seen starring in AppleTV+’s limited series Lady In The Lake opposite Natalie Portman as well as Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt for A24. Later this year, Ingram will be seen in Joshua Oppenheimer’s feature debut The End […]

Matthew Lillard is hyping up the Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel and teasing that he’s already read the script. In a new interview, Lillard noted that he was getting ready to start filming the sequel to the horror film this fall. “So this morning, I got a text with my dates. So, my dates are […]

The creative team behind BTS’ RM’s RM: Right People, Wrong Place introduced the documentary onstage before its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), with RM absent due to military service commitments. “I remember when I first met RM, he shared with me a Korean phrase which translates to ‘every meeting must part, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Sloan Gilbertson is set to join the ensemble cast of Deliver Me From Nowhere, the upcoming Bruce Springsteen movie from 20th Century. While not confirmed, sources say he will be playing Springsteen’s lifelong friend. Jeremy Allen White is set to play Springsteen and Scott Cooper is directing the biopic, which tells the story of the making of the […]

French actor Michel Blanc, best known for his roles in Le Splendid troupe comedy films like the 1978 cult classic Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation) and its subsequent 1979 and 2006 sequels, died early Oct. 4 at 72 of a heart attack following anaphylactic shock, per the Agence France-Presse. A fixture in French cinema, his […]

Four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan is pretty sure she’ll be in Greta Gerwig’s Netflix reimagining of The Chronicles of Narnia — sort of, kind of, maybe. During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Outrun star discussed everything from her latest indie project, now out in theaters, to her losing streak at the Academy […]

Rachel McAdams is in talks to star in Sam Raimi’s Send Help, the horror-thriller from 20th Century Studios, which he is producing and directing. Sources tell us that these negotiations are in early stages, and nothing is definite at this point. The news follows Deadline’s exclusive earlier in July, which broke the news that Raimi […]

Keanu Reeves had no trouble keeping his car above the 50 mph mark in his professional auto racing debut at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Speed star competed in the first race of the Toyota GR Cup alongside Cody Jones from the sports and comedy group Dude Perfect, briefly spinning out on the track […]

A week after Maggie Smith‘s death, best friend Dame Judi Dench is at a loss for words. When asked about Smith’s death at age 89, as well as the death of friend and collaborator Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Dench broke down into tears during a conversation on Saturday at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. “I suppose the energy […]

Will Ferrell and Harper Steele‘s visit to the Lone Star State was not met with southern hospitality. While discussing their Netflix documentary Will & Harper, the longtime friends recounted an “intense” moment of transphobic microaggression at Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, which didn’t make it into the final cut. “We gave a little […]

Josh Hutcherson is treating fans to a second serving at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. As he prepares to enter production on the upcoming sequel in New Orleans, the Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 star said that “fans are gonna flip” for the follow-up to director Emma Tammi‘s 2023 feature adaptation of the popular horror video game […]

Four years later, Al Pacino is opening up about his near-death experience with COVID-19. The Academy Award winner revealed his “pulse was gone” after he had a bad reaction to steroids while being treated for a life-threatening Coronavirus infection back in 2020. “It was so — you’re here, you’re not,” he told The New York […]

Pharrell Williams is thankful someone took a risk on his brand of unconventional storytelling. At a recent screening of his new animated documentary Piece by Piece, the 13x Grammy winner expressed his gratitude to Lego‘s head of global entertainment Jill Wilfert for saying “yes” and collaborating on the film. “I don’t want to make it […]

How many indie movies make money? was one of the questions posed to top European film financiers and producers today at the Zurich Summit, which takes place during the Zurich Film Festival. Vincent Maraval, President Goodfellas / The Veterans; Christian Vesper, CEO of Global Drama and Film Fremantle; Elisabeth d’Arvieu, CEO Mediawan Pictures; Karl Spoerri, […]

The next instalment of Bridget Jones’s Diary will be “very, very sad,” as revealed by one of its stars, Hugh Grant.  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the fourth film in the series, is set for release on Valentine’s Day 2025, with Grant set to reprise his role of womaniser Daniel Cleaver, alongside Renee Zellweger […]

Rising star Minha Kim unveils her first lead performance since breaking out in AppleTV+’s prestige drama series Pachinko, playing a young woman accused of murdering a best-selling author in Chun Sun-young’s feature debut A Girl with Closed Eyes. Premiering at the Busan International Film Festival, the yarn unspools as a polished crime thriller bolstered by a raft […]