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Abigail Breslin penned an emotional letter on social media regarding the double standard and harassment faced by women who deign to speak up about experiences of sexism or injustice in Hollywood, recalling a lawsuit filed by her employer after she addressed a male co-star’s “unprofessional behavior” on set. The Little Miss Sunshine actress heavily implied […]

Apple will offer streaming service Apple TV+ for free during the first weekend of January in a global promotion. The streaming service will be free January 3 to 5 on any device where Apple TV+ is available, to anyone with an Apple ID. The service normally costs $9.99 a month on a stand-alone basis, and […]

In the A24 erotic workplace thriller Babygirl, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson use a few moves that would make human resources blush. Writer and director Halina Reijn recently explained that the presence of intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot allowed them to achieve “way more risky” sex scenes in the film, which is now playing in theaters. […]

Kieran Turner, the documentary filmmaker behind Jobriath A.D. (2012), has died. He was 56. According to his rep, the Eight Track Tape Productions founder and 2021 CNN Docuseries Fellow died from cancer on Monday, Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. A celebration of life is planned for January. His 2012 documentary Jobriath A.D. detailed the rise […]

Tributes poured in from all spheres of politics, entertainment and culture as notable figures honored Jimmy Carter and his legacy as the 39th President of the United States, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and longtime climate and human rights advocate, following his death this afternoon in Plains, Ga. At 100, Carter — who was born […]

Robert Eggers Nosferatu from Focus Features sank its teeth into the Christmas box office. With James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown – Searchlight Pictures’ top-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney in 2019 – they ushered in a heady post-Covid moment for indie films at no. 3 and 5 at the domestic box office. Yes, […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Flow, Janus Films and Sideshow’s dream-like animated feature from director Gints Zilbalodis. Matīss Kaža and Zilbalodis crafted a 35-page cinematic script featuring no dialogue, solely comprised of directorial instructions. The acclaimed Cannes Film Festival darling, Latvia’s submission for this […]

Refresh for latest…: Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is off and running overseas, where the threequel officially began rollout on Wednesday after last week’s sizable previews. Through Sunday, and with previews included, the little critter has amassed $74M from 52 offshore markets. That lifts the global tally to $211.5M; recall that Sonic started domestically last […]

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, “I’m dying.” Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their attire in preparation for a daddy-daughter dance behind bars. A drag performance artist walks through Moscow streets, duct-taped in the colors of the Russian […]

For The Room Next Door, production designer Inbal Weinberg says her main focus was maintaining a realistic New York look while incorporating director Pedro Almodóvar’s visual style. “Pedro has his own very strong aesthetic style and visual language that he has developed over 40 years of filmmaking,” she says, “but this was sort of his first […]

Universal’s Wicked has overtaken the studio’s own Mamma Mia! to become the biggest stage musical adaptation of all time worldwide. The global cume through Sunday is an estimated $634.4M, of which $424.2M is from domestic and $210.2M from the international box office. Overseas, the current weekend brought in another $13.7M from 81 markets. The Jon […]

Nearly 20 years later, James Mangold is still finding inspiration in the musical biopic genre, despite previous jabs at his work. The 2x Oscar nominee, who co-wrote and directed the 2005 Johnny Cash pic Walk the Line, has not been scared off from paying cinematic tribute to other legendary musicians after the parody Walk Hard: […]

Following Blake Lively‘s allegations against It Ends with Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni, Kaitlin Olson is the latest to express her support for the actress. On Thursday, the 3x Emmy nominee called Lively “a kind, lovely, honest and generous person (and an incredible mom) FYI” as she shared an article to her Instagram Story […]

When night falls in the Australian Outback, the hunt begins. The prey: kangaroos roaming – hopping – in the wild. Rifle shots ring out, killing them by the millions, including hundreds of thousands of female roos, some with tiny joeys in their pouches. This is the stark reality explored in the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Chasing Roo, […]

Olivia Hussey Eisley, the actress who shot to fame as one of the star-crossed lovers in Franco Zeffirelli’s controversial Romeo and Juliet in 1968, died peacefully today at home surrounded by her loved ones, according to a post on her Instagram page. She was 73.  Hussey’s credits also include Death on the Nile opposite Peter […]

A couple days after a portion of the pier featured in The Lost Boys collapsed into the ocean, a scene reminiscent of Chinatown played out along the coast a few hundred miles south. The same massive winter swells that sundered the wharf in Santa Cruz pushed ashore a portion of a severed human leg in […]

Cannes premiering Santosh from Metrograph Pictures joins Neon’s 2073 in limited release with comedy horror Bloody Axe Wound from RLJ Entertainment/Shudder on several hundred screens for the last weekend of the year. Some of the highest profile films from Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown to Focus Features’ Nosferatu and A24’s Babygirl and more arrived in […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Fire Inside, the boxing drama directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison in her feature helming debut from a script from Oscar-winning Moonlight screenwriter Barry Jenkins. The Amazon MGM Studios movie hit theaters on Christmas Day after having its world premiere at the […]

Tim Allen is again lending his voice to Buzz Lightyear for Toy Story 5 and teasing the upcoming animated film. The Shifting Gears star said in a recent interview that he had just completed recording his first session for the film, which is set to focus mainly on his character. “Well, I don’t know what I’m supposed to […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest movies continues with Thelma, starring June Squibb doing most of her own stunts in a action comedy that marks Josh Margolin’s featuring directing debut and his first screenplay. Magnolia Pictures beat out other bidders to acquire Thelma after its world premiere at the […]

Don’t expect Denis Villeneuve to take a call while making Dune Messiah, and not because the signal is weak on Arrakis. The 3x Oscar nominee recently revealed that phones are “absolutely” banned from his sets as they’re “addictive,” noting that he’s “very tempted to disconnect myself” from screens altogether as well. “Cinema is an act […]

Downton Abbey 3 will pay homage to the “end of an era” with the loss of the Dowager Countess, which has now taken on greater significance following the death of Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith, executive producer Gareth Neame said. Speaking to TVLine in a recent interview, Neame said the film — due in theaters Sept. […]

Geoffrey Deuel, best known for portraying famed outlaw Billy the Kid in the 1970 John Wayne vehicle Chisum, died Dec. 22 at age 81, per an official obituary. The news was additionally confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by wife Jacqueline Deuel. The performer, younger brother to Peter Duel (who became known for portraying Hannibal Heyes/Joshua […]

Fallout has continued over the holidays for Justin Baldoni as more speak out in support of Blake Lively, following her filing of a complaint alleging a targeted smear campaign in retaliation against her addressing of sexual harassment on the set of their film It Ends With Us. Among those stepping up for Lively include her […]