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Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down the Boomerang streaming service and moving some of its programming, which includes many classic cartoon series, onto Max. The kids-and-family move is set for September 30, according to an email to subscribers. It comes in the same year as a similar strategic shift by Paramount Global, which shuttered Noggin […]

‘Kneecap’, the name of the Irish hip hop group, and the music biopic about — and starring — the groundbreaking trio, opens today on 700+ screens, following up a U.S. tour last fall and leading into another one.   The hybrid documentary, which was a buzzy Sundance title when Sony Pictures Classics nabbed it, recently […]

The boys are at it again, with yet another milestone crossed. Including Thursday’s numbers, Deadpool & Wolverine has licked the six-century global box office milestone, now counting $630.4M worldwide. Is it bittersweet that this means D&W has overtaken the lifetime of Hugh Jackman-starrer Logan’s $619M global (likewise an R-rated movie and one which is heavily referenced […]

EXCLUSIVE: Leah McKendrick is set to write and direct an Untitled Monster Project based in folklore for Atomic Monster and Universal Pictures. James Wan will produce the project with Michael Clear and Judson Scott executive producing. Alayna Glasthal is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster. Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Into the Wild actor is starring in the indie horror movie Woozy which starts shooting this month in New Jersey. Emile Hirsch will star in the Joey Bicicchi directed and written feature, which reps the filmmaker’s feature directorial debut. Woozy is billed as a movie that tells of unhealthy coping mechanisms and the […]

Vince Vaughn made his Hollywood bones in R-rated comedies like Wedding Crashers, Old School and Swingers. He had a hot take on why they’re no longer making them like that on the Hot Ones podcast. “They just overthink it,” Vaughn told host Sean Evans “And it’s like, it’s crazy, you get these rules, like, if […]

Deadpool is coming to the rescue of Jamie Lee Curtis, who kicked the hornets’ nest of Marvel fans with comments to MTV. Curtis mocked Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which she compared unfavorably to her film, the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once. She claimed Doctor Strange was missing “a dynamite dildo fight scene as well as […]

When it comes to M. Night Shyamalan, it is a career that is one of the most mixed bags in cinematic history. For every Sixth Sense, there is a Lady In The Water. For every Signs, there is a Happening. For every Unbreakable, there is an After Earth. For every Split, there is a Knock […]

Pauly Shore is questioning whether remarks attributed to Richard Simmons about not wanting a biopic were written by the fitness guru. Shore, who plans to star and executive produce a biopic about Simmons, told “Entertainment Tonight” that pre-death social media posts from Simmons critical of Shore taking on the role could have been fake. “I know […]

Sandy Bresler, who repped Jack Nicholson for more than 60 years and founded two talent agencies, died today after a brief illness, a rep for his family told Deadline. He was 87. Born on January 20, 1937, Bresler began his career as a secretary at William Morris in 1960 and founded the independent boutique agency […]

EXCLUSIVE: Wayfarer Studios is adapting for the big screen, the 2020 inspirational memoir by Sanford “Sandy” D. Greenberg, Hello Darkness My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life.  The project reteams the studio with scribe and producer, Tony Spiridakis, who wrote the recent indie […]

Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was kept a secret, and even other Avengers stars didn’t know about his new role. The Iron Man star was a surprise guest at San Diego’s Comic-Con and was confirmed to play Doctor Doom in upcoming Avengers films like Avengers: Secret Wars and Avengers: Doomsday. Renner, […]

In a election that was clearly less contentious than the current one for U.S. president, producer Janet Yang was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors. This will be her third consecutive term and comes as no surprise since AMPAS presidents generally are re-elected each […]

Apple saw iPhone sales dip again but showed gains across services and other devices led by iPad, where sales jumped 24% after the latest iPad Pro and iPad Air came to market in the June quarter. The tech giant saw revenue rise 5% to $85.8 billion, ahead of Wall Street forecasts and a record for […]

EXCLUSIVE: Laurie Metcalf has signed with CAA. Metcalf, who stars on ABC’s The Conners, is a four-time Emmy winner and two-time Tony winner. The signing comes at a time of impending change for the actor, with The Connors recently renewed for what will be its seventh and final season. Although a premiere date hasn’t been […]

My guest this week on 20 Questions on Deadline is Jamie Lee Curtis. Freshly Emmy-nominated for her guest star turn in Season 2 of The Bear, Curtis dropped into the Deadline studio on a break during shooting Freaky Friday 2. On the podcast, she reminisced about making the first Freaky Friday 21 years ago, with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Danny Ramirez is set to star in the pic Pursuit of Touch, which Ramirez also wrote with Slave Play creator Jeremy O. Harris producing. Ramirez, Niv Gafny and Tom Culliver will also produce through their Pinstripes banner as will Harris’ partner Josh Godfrey. They will produce through their bb² company. No director is attached […]

EXCLUSIVE: Our sister publication Variety last Friday published for clicks what it called an exclusive video of Francis Ford Coppola kissing Megalopolis extras, along with crew members who detailed what they called unprofessional behavior on set. The story did not get much traction, though it caused pain for the filmmaker: it broke and he found […]

Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan conducted an extensive series of interviews with the living cast, writers and crew of the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 11, 1975 on NBC and has been going ever since. The result of their efforts is Sony Pictures’ upcoming Saturday Night, a movie retelling the […]

The Scream franchise is going back to its roots with Scream VII, and that is how they were able to secure Neve Campbell’s return. Campbell’s Sidney will face Ghostface again in the seventh installment of the slasher saga. “We are going to follow Sidney,” Campbell told Entertainment Tonight. “They did pitch the concept to me, […]

Netflix has filed to sell $1.8 billion in debt, the first such offering since the company received an upgrade last year from credit ratings agencies Moody’s and S&P to investment-grade status. The move, telegraphed in its quarterly letter to shareholders released in its earnings report this month, is designed to make Netflix’s long-term debt of […]

Netflix has several television and film selections from which to choose as we enter the last full month of summer. Several animated films like Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024) and Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (2012) provide a way to hold onto the season, especially with their focus on the ocean, summer sun […]

The return of Chicken Run after a 20-year hiatus saw viewers flock to the movie, which was crowned the most-watched streamer title in the UK last year by Ofcom’s Media Nations report. Aardman’s sequel Dawn of the Nugget starring Bella Ramsey and Thandiwe Newton drew an average audience of 7.5 million within the first 28 […]

Freddie Prinze Jr. is open to reprising his I Know What You Did Last Summer role and is working on making it happen. The reboot, which will continue the 1997 slasher film, is set to be directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and is expected to open on July 18, 2025. “Nothing’s a lock until there’s […]