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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Hardy and Mia Tomlinson have joined Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in New Line’s The Conjuring: Last Rites. Wilson and Farmiga are reprising their roles as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the Michael Chaves directed sequel. Chaves previously directed The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and The Nun II. […]

Iris Apatow has signed with Sugar23 for representation following a highly competitive pursuit. Next up, Apatow stars alongside Douglas Booth and Alison Pill in Young Werther, an adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Classic The Sorrows of Young Werther for director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço, which premiered at TIFF 2024. Apatow is currently in […]

In some of his first pubic comments since the acquisition of Alamo Drafthouse, Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra said the theater chain may be small, but its customer loyalty is mighty. “It’s not going to be a massive business, but it’s going to grow a little bit,” the exec said Thursday at the FT […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actors with credits for the likes of Deadloch, Heartbreak High and The Artful Dodger are among the six finalists competing for the Heath Ledger Scholarship 2024. Andrea Solonge (Time Bandits, Prosper), Charles Wu (Doctor, Doctor, Harrow), Taj Aldeeb (Four Years Later, The Fall), Kartanya Maynard (Heartbreak High, Deadloch), Will McDonald (Home and Away, Heartbreak […]

EXCLUSIVE: Noah Centineo and Ivanna Sakhno are set to star in the animated short film, Meta, from award winning Prime Render Studios. The short film is under the banner of Centineo’s Arkhum Productions. Bozo Balov, Milivoj Popovic and Veljko Popovic will direct. Popovic penned the pic Centineo will produce alongside Arkhum’s Head of Production Enzo […]

It’s Amy Ryan who opens the action in Wolfs, Apple Original Films’ George Clooney-Brad Pitt reunion that sees those longtime co-stars go head-to-head as rival criminal underworld ‘fixers’. In an extraordinary scene that spanned some 30 pages of script and took several weeks to shoot, Ryan stars in Jon Watts’ crime comedy-thriller as a powerful […]

EXCLUSIVE: 3000 Pictures’ biopic on the Long Beach band Sublime is gaining serious traction and some major talent as sources tell Deadline that KJ Apa is attached to star as Bradley Nowell in the film, with Justin Chon on board to direct. Chon is also writing the screenplay with Bobby Hundreds, based on Chris Mundy’s original […]

While some may just be getting in the fall and spooky season spirit, Hallmark has planned past the pumpkins and even Thanksgiving turkey for its Christmas slate. The network’s annual “Countdown to Christmas” lineup has been organized, with 47 all-new original movies across the Hallmark Channel, streamer Hallmark+’s “The Very Merry Holiday Collection” and Hallmark […]

For her fifth feature as director, Angelina Jolie has gone so far back to basics that Without Blood could quite easily be her debut. That isn’t a criticism, rather an observation about how hard it is, even for A-list talent, to make films about the brutality of war, even though many are raging all around […]

French director Alexandre Aja has been known as a member of the horror helming fraternity called the “Splat Pack,” named for the extreme violence in their films. Certainly, many of his pictures, from the 2003 breakthrough Haute Tension, to the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, to his exceptional, and most successful film to […]

Donald Glover, who will soon be spearheading the Disney and Lucasfilm venture Lando, wants to inject the Star Wars universe with “fun,” saying the franchise can be “way too serious” at times. “I just want it to be fun,” the actor-rapper told the Wall Street Journal in a recent video interview. “As a Star Wars […]

The 20th Camden International Film Festival has wrapped the in-person portion of the event in coastal Maine with the announcement of awards in several categories, including one that will launch a filmmaker into the Oscar race. Kix, a documentary shot in Budapest, Hungary, won CIFF’s prestigious Harrell Award. Bálint Révész and Dávid Mikulán directed the […]

While Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is one of Warner Bros’ biggest theatrical success stories of the year, at over $264 million in worldwide grosses and counting, there was a period in the decade-plus the studio was mulling the sequel in which execs advocated for the film to go straight to streaming on Max. However, “that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg isn’t done adding to the A-list ensemble for his next event film as sources tell Deadline Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo is in early talks to join the untitled film from Spielberg, Amblin and Universal. Domingo joins a cast that includes Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson. The pic is based on […]

Recording artist Tyler, The Creator is boarding the Josh Safdie directed movie, Marty Supreme, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothée Chalamet. The pic reps the multi-hyphenate’s on-screen feature film debut. Plot details are under wraps, but the movie is reportedly inspired by pro ping pong player Marty Reisman. Ronald Bronstein and Safdie wrote the screenplay, with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic box office hit Touch has been chosen as the country’s International Feature Oscar entry. This marks the fifth time that the filmmaker is repping Iceland in the category. Touch is based on the Icelandic bestselling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafssonand and the script is co-written by Ólafsson and Kormákur.  Focus Features has rights in […]

EXCLUSIVE: When Francis Ford Coppola sits for a conversation about his new film Megalopolis before it plays the New York Film Festival on September 23, the master filmmaker will be interrogated by two Gotham film fixtures. That will be Robert De Niro, whom Coppola directed to his first Academy Award in The Godfather Part II, […]

Universal Pictures’ two-part Wicked has become a highly anticipated film for the holiday seasons of 2024 and 2025. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the movie musical will star Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba with several other famous faces taking on iconic roles in the land of Oz. Wicked Part One has […]

All too often, a Toronto Film Festival premiere is seen as an audition for a U.S. release, when the end result is more like sending a manned space flight into the sun. The Penguin Lessons is a case in point, being a peculiarly British movie that takes a very traditional trope — man becomes attached […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s forthcoming book Ghosts of Hiroshima. Cameron has committed to use that, and the 2015 Pellegrino book Last Train From Hiroshima, as the basis for a film he will shoot as soon as Avatar production permits. Cameron shared with Deadline that […]

Two-time Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White teased his forthcoming role as Bruce Springsteen in the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. Speaking to Deadline during the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, White said he was reluctant to discuss the film until he got to work on it but has been grateful for the direction and support he’s […]

More than a year after Paul Reubens‘ death, thousands of the actor’s loyal fans gathered at his final resting place to celebrate his most beloved character. Cinespia concluded its Summer 2024 season on Saturday at Hollywood Forever Cemetery with a special tribute screening of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), featuring surprise appearances from Reubens’ co-stars Diane […]

As Trap surpasses the $80 million mark at the global box office, M. Night Shyamalan is getting to work on his next title. The Academy Award nominee thanked audiences of his latest thriller on social media as he got to work on his upcoming 17th feature film, sharing a photo of the bright red notebook […]

A conservative and a faith-based film landed at nos. 4 and 10 at the domestic box office this weekend, with a solid showing for anime Dan Dan Dan: First Encounter and a nice limited opening for My Old Ass. Am I Racist?, the first theatrical release from Jeremy Boreing and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire, […]