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Pete Docter took the stage at D23 on Friday to introduce a clip about a new Pixar pic Hoppers. It’s about a human and a beaver who exchange brains and it keeps in the spirit of Pixar getting into the sensitive sides of both. A clip showed two female scientists telling a young man that […]

Jamie Lee Curtis spoke with her Borderlands co-star Kevin Hart on his SiriusXM podcast Gold Minds about how she asks film crews to wear name tags. The idea is an effort to be “equitable,” as “there isn’t hierarchy in art.” “There’s something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this […]

Avatar 3 is officially titled Avatar: Fire and Ash. James Cameron and stars Zoe Saldaña and Sam Worthington took the stage Friday at D23 to show off concept art, not footage, with a look at the fire Na’Vi people. “I came 7,000 miles from New Zealand for this,” Cameron told to the full house at […]

If Dwayne Johnson didn’t have any plans to show up at Disney’s D23, well then, they should have just shut down the whole fan confab. Of course the voice of Maui in Moana 2 would put in some facetime to excite the 15,000 fans in the Honda Center who gave him a standing ovation Friday. […]

Allison Williams (M3GAN) has signed on to star in Regretting You, an indie adaptation of the 2019 novel from It Ends with Us scribe Colleen Hoover, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes amid the theatrical release of Sony’s It Ends With Us adaptation, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, which is expected to be a […]

SPOILER ALERT: For those who haven’t read the book, this piece spoils the plot of It Ends With Us. Seven years after his Ted Talk about toxic masculinity, Jane the Virgin star and Five Feet Apart director Justin Baldoni combined directing and acting for the highly anticipated film adaptation of It Ends With Us, in […]

Mitzi McCall, whose five-decade resume in entertainment included 11 films, 14 TV shows and many animated series voice-overs, died August 8 at her home in Studio City, CA, at age 91. No details on cause were immediately available. Her husband and comedy partner, Charlie Brill, confirmed her death in a Facebook post. “I lost my […]

Blake Lively, star and executive producer of It Ends With Us, got her husband Ryan Reynolds involved in the film adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel. Lively recently revealed that Reynolds contributed dialogue to the rooftop scene in the movie, which screenwriter Christy Hall wasn’t even aware of initially. “The iconic rooftop scene, my husband […]

On the 10th anniversary of Robin Williams death, friends and colleagues of the late star spoke to Vanity Fair about how he would try to make anyone laugh. However, there was another side of Williams, whose incredible empathy helped his Mrs. Doubtfire costar Sally Field when she experienced tragedy. “I never shared this story before,” […]

Producer Stacey Sher gave Deadline the latest update along what has been the very winding road to adapting Erik Larson’s bestselling non-fiction classic, The Devil in the White City, for the screen. The project has been in various stages of development since before Deadline revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio had bought the film rights to the book in 2010. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple has pivoted on the Jon Watts-directed George Clooney & Brad Pitt starrer Wolfs, which makes its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival. Apple Original Films has made a deal with Watts to write, direct and produce a sequel vehicle for Clooney and Pitt. At the same time, Apple has changed its […]

Warner Bros. Discovery is taking a hefty non-cash impairment charge, or write-down, of $9.1 billion at its networks division to align the book value of its linear television business with the reality of uncertain advertising and sports rights renewals as the NBA is set to move on. The value of the linear assets when Discovery […]

EXCLUSIVE: Convexity Films, the production company of filmmaker Richard Dewey (Radical Wolfe), has optioned the Michael Lewis book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story for development as a narrative feature. The deal came together following Dewey’s collaboration with Lewis on his feature documentary Radical Wolfe, about author and journalist Tom Wolfe, which adapted […]

Ahead of its exclusive streaming premiere on Paramount+ planned for this fall, the documentary We Will Dance Again examining Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel has been slated for a two-day theatrical run nationwide in partnership with Iconic Events Releasing. The film will first open at Laemmle Encino in Los Angeles for a week-long […]

Connie Chiume, the South African actor known for her role as tribal leader Zawavari in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther and 2022 sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, died Tuesday at a Johannesburg hospital. She was 72. Her family announced the death on social media. A cause has not been disclosed. The South African government paid tribute […]

Deadpool & Wolverine is nearing the $900 million global box office mark as it enters its third week of worldwide play. With Tuesday’s grosses included, the current total on the Shawn Levy-directed smash is $879.2M, of which $421M comes from domestic and $458.2M from the international box office. When today’s figures are tallied, the global […]

Neon on Wednesday rolled out the first teaser for Presence, the psychological thriller from director Steven Soderbergh, which the company snapped up out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Slated for release on January 17, the film watches as a family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone, but rather surrounded […]

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish actress Ester Expósito, best known for her starring role in Netflix’s international hit series Elite, has signed with Brillstein Entertainment for management in all areas. Expósito portrayed Carla Roson for three seasons on Elite, which recently wrapped its eight-season run and remains one of Netflix’s most-watched international series. Most recently, she starred in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Duhamel (Shotgun Wedding) and Lukas Gage (Road House) have signed on to star in Full Throttle Mindset, a darkly comedic crime thriller from director Patrick Brice (Creep) and XYZ Films. Based on an article in the St. Louis Riverfront Times by journalist Doyle Murphy, the film tells the wild true story of young […]

 EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham on Wednesday unveiled the programming you can expect from this year’s edition of Gotham Week, taking place in Brooklyn and Manhattan from September 30 – October 4. Gotham Week will feature the third-annual Gotham Week Expo and a reimagined Project Market, which will showcase narrative and documentary features, as well as additional […]

The special prosecutor in Alec Baldwin’s dismissed involuntary manslaughter trial isn’t taking the case being tossed out last month over suppressed evidence quietly. In a July 31 filing made public today, Kari Morrissey says Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer was determined to end Baldwin’s trial for the 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and flawed in […]

Although Deadpool & Wolverine is stacked with star-studded cameos, one piece of fan casting never quite made it to the big screen. Director Shawn Levy has finally addressed the speculation that star Ryan Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively‘s close pal Taylor Swift would make a cameo as Ali Blaire (aka Dazzler) in the MCU […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following the acclaim of his most recent film Dream Scenario, director Kristoffer Borgli is reuniting with A24 and looks to have landed two of the town’s biggest names to star in his next film. Sources tell Deadline that A24 is set to finance and produce Borgli’s The Drama, with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in […]

David Lynch has taken to X to clarify his comments in a recent interview about his battle with emphysema and isolation for fear of Covid. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” Lynch writes, “Yes, I have emphysema from my many years of smoking. I have to say that I enjoyed smoking very much, and I do love tobacco – […]