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From facial wars to a penguin friend, wandering surfers and Haitian immigrants in Miami, the independent film market is fun, thoughtful, varied and contending with a faster cadence of high performing studio wide releases. That’s exhilarating on one hand but, indie distribution executives say, is making it increasingly difficult to date their films after having […]

Roadside Attractions said Friday that it has acquired rights to Bob Trevino Likes It, the news coming off the indie comedy drama’s premiere at SXSW where it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Award. The pic, written and directed by Tracie Laymon, stars Euphoria‘s Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo, French Stewart, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer and […]

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency and Maximum Effort are teaming on a feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel Eight Perfect Murders, having recently acquired rights to the Peter Swanson novel, attaching Harry Bradbeer to direct. The novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. “I’m delighted to be working with Maximum Effort and […]

Halle Berry is leaving the door open to reprising her Catwoman role, which she portrayed in the 2004 film directed by Pitof. The star of The Union hinted that there’s one way to get her to wear the catsuit again. “Maybe, if I could direct it,” Berry told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show after […]

Osgood Perkins’ breakout horror film Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and an unrecognizable Nicolas Cage, has hit a major benchmark in crossing $100 million globally, the studio announced on Friday. With a current cumulative gross of $72M in the U.S. and Canada, Longlegs is now Neon’s highest grossing film ever, not to mention this year. Pic […]

EXCLUSIVE: After tapping Emily Bunt to star in May, Steven Spielberg looks to have found another A-lister for his next event film as Deadline is hearing Colin Firth is in early talks to join the cast. The Amblin and Universal pic is based on a story by Spielberg and has the filmmaker’s longtime collaborator David […]

Yellowstone star Kevin Costner will return to the Western genre with his film series Horizon: An American Saga, the first part of which is set to arrive in theaters June 28. The first film in a planned four-arc installment premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival to an 11-minute 40-second standing ovation, which brought the actor to tears. Costner, who […]

Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine has added to its list of records, now becoming the highest-grossing U.S. R-rated movie ever on a global basis. Through Thursday, the Merc with a Mouth and the adamantium-clawed X-Man have grossed  $1,085.6 million (or $1.086 billion) worldwide. The breakdown is $516.8M from the domestic box office and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law has got a bounty on his head. Hong Kong authorities, under the thumb of China, consider him a fugitive from justice for helping lead the Umbrella Movement that dared to assert the people’s right to political freedoms.   His story is told in the documentary Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?, […]

In Really Good Driver, which debuted at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, an Asian American mom (Keiko Agena) teaches her grown-up child (Alex Song-Xia) how to drive, forcing both of them to confront the slightly dangerous task at hand while resurfacing tensions between them in the past. Song-Xia, who wrote, directed and stars in the […]

Gena Rowlands, whose captivating work as the elder and dementia-ridden Allie in The Notebook moved moviegoers, has died at 94. Rowlands died this afternoon at her home in Indian Wells, CA, where she was surrounded by family. No cause of death was given, but the retired actress had been battling Alzheimer’s disease, ironic in light […]

Winsome Sinclair, a veteran casting professional who worked on scores of films and TV shows — many as casting director — including Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, the Gabrielle Union series Being Mary Jane and a dozen Spike Lee movies, died August 12 of colon cancer on Long Island. She was […]

Peggy Moffitt, the iconic ’60s model who was also a contract player at Paramount and who appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, died at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday from complications of dementia. Her son, Christopher Claxton, confirmed the news to the New York Times. She was 86. Moffitt’s wide-ranging influence can be traced to […]

Picturehouse has acquired North American rights to Porcelain War, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The film directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev will be released in theaters throughout North America in the fall, in advance of an expected Oscar run. “Porcelain War is the story […]

One would think after Ridley Scott’s planned prequel of Alien petered out with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, there’d be no where left in space for the final woman standing franchise to go. However, Don’t Breathe horror-meister Fede Alvarez has proven with Alien: Romulus, opening this coming weekend, that many can still hear you scream in space. […]

Mark Duplass has really been, with his brother Jay, the king of the indie film scene for many years. Wikipedia defines him as a “filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, producer, director,” and that list probably even has more components. But he joins me on this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at California’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The film, winner of the Festival Favorite Award as well as the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, centers […]

The seventh instalment in the increasingly aimless Alien franchise is better than it has any right to be, a genuinely thoughtful reimagining that pays stylish homage to the one-two punch packed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron in 1979 and 1986 but adds in some inventively nasty surprises of its own. Sigourney Weaver is nowhere […]

Halle Berry was seemingly game to reprise her X-Men role of Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine but was not approached by Ryan Reynolds. In a new interview, Berry says she was asked by Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively if she would bring the Mistress of the Elements back to life, but she never got a formal […]

The New Orleans Film Society has appointed Carroll Morton as its new Executive Director. Morton joins NOFS with an impressive background in the New Orleans film industry – she has served as the director of the City of New Orleans Film Office since 2018. As Executive Director of NOFS, Morton will continue to expand the […]

EXCLUSIVE: It may sound hard to believe, but John Lennon and Yoko Ono became daytime talk show hosts more than 50 years ago – the Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson or Drew Barrymore of their time. For one week only. The new documentary Daytime Revolution, directed by Erik Nelson, chronicles that pop culture moment in February […]

Paul Feig knows a thing or two about comedy. Heck, his movies have grossed well over $1.4 billion at the box office. Then why aren’t studios making more comedies? Especially with the billion-dollar success of Deadpool & Wolverine? Some studio executives believe it’s because of the politically charged times we live in; others point to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following his breakout role in the Oscar-winning dramedy The Holdovers, Dominic Sessa looks to have found his next high-profile project as sources tell Deadline he is attached to star as the late chef Anthony Bourdain in the biopic Tony from Oscar-nominated production company Star Thrower Entertainment. Sources also tell Deadline that A24 is in […]

Colleen Hoover’s popular thriller Verity is in the works for a feature film adaptation with Amazon MGM Studios, and another of her books Regretting You has just been picked up for an indie adaptation with stars already attached. It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was just the beginning of the author’s […]