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Cineverse, and its horror division Bloody Disgusting, have settled on Iconic Events Releasing as the theatrical distribution partner for the August 29 unrated wide release of The Toxic Avenger. The studio and distributor worked together on the highly successful rollouts of the last two Terrifier films. The Toxic Avenger comedic horror film directed by Macon Blair and […]

After over 40 years, the Sundance Film Festival is leaving Park City for a new and lucrative home in Boulder, Colorado. As Deadline has been telling you for months, the Rocky Mountain metropolis has been in pole position over the United Utah bid and the efforts of Cincinnati, Ohio since the Robert Redford founded cinema […]

Ben Affleck holds forth on the highs and lows of his career in a lengthy new interview. Among the lows is shooting Justice League, to which he admits he didn’t bring his best self. Among the highs is his Internet-famous DVD commentary for the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon. “That is one of the achievements of my […]

Gwyneth Paltrow is answering questions and is opening up about her future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how often she talks to her Iron Man co-star Robert Downey Jr., and rumors about a feud with Meghan Markle. Paltrow took to Instagram and opened herself up to answer fan questions. One of her followers asked her […]

Ben Affleck has been open about his struggles with alcohol and challenges being under the cowl in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016). Justice League (2017) and The Flash (2023). But it wasn’t all bad. “I loved Batman v Superman. And I liked my brief stints on The Flash that I did and when I […]

It’s been a day of dramatic developments for No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary about life for Palestinian residents in the rural West Bank area of Yasafer Matta. Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who joined two Israeli directors to make the film, was released from custody by Israeli authorities Tuesday after prominent members of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Morrison has come aboard to direct Love of Your Life for Amazon MGM Studios. Julia Cox wrote the script, and Ryan Gosling and Jessie Henderson are producing. Plot details are under wraps. Deadline was first to report the major script sale in October after an intense bidding war. Numerous bids were proffered when […]

What we first told you on Sunday is now official: Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment have officially picked up North American on the Bill Condon directed, Jennifer Lopez starring feature musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, which was one of the most buzzed about titles at this year’s Sundance. A fall wide theatrical release […]

UPDATE: Amazon has made it absolute that Amy Pascal and David Heyman are running point as producers for the next 007 movie. Pascal will produce the film via Pascal Pictures, and Heyman will produce via Heyday Films. “We are approaching every creative decision with James Bond, which Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have so […]

EXCLUSIVE: Haliey Welch, the young woman who became famous overnight after the release of the viral “hawk tuah” video, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary. Emmy-winning production company Bungalow Media + Entertainment (Cyber Sleuths: The Idaho Murders for Paramount+; Little Richard: I Am Everything for CNN Films/Max; Serving the Hamptons for Max; Surviving […]

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. Will host the 85th Peabody Awards, set for June 1 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Peabodys, the program based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, honors content from emerging voices that reflects the pressing social issues of the day. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American distribution rights to Unicorns, the cross-cultural romance that debuted at Toronto 2023 and went on to play at London, Palm Springs, Sydney and other festivals. The film stars Ben Hardy as Luke, a single father from Essex, England, who works as an auto mechanic and is forced to rethink his sexual identity […]

As Hollywood finds its footing in a post-strike world, indies like The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick are shattering the industry’s arbitrary rules of filmmaking. Following the film’s SXSW premiere this month, the film’s star and co-writer Zoë Chao told Deadline she felt “really baked into this film” thanks to co-writer/director Pete […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gentlemen – or make that, kids – start your engines. Imagine Documentaries is developing a docuseries on the BabyRace Driver Academy, “the prestigious Italian go-karting program that serves as the first step for exceptional young drivers aiming for Formula 1 stardom.” Emmy winner Miloš Balać (Welcome to Wrexham) will serve as showrunner on Baby […]

Tony and Emmy winner Nathan Lane is best known for The Producers, The Lion King and The Birdcage, but there were also roles he did not get — and for the wrong reasons. Asked in a recent interview with Vanity Fair if homophobia limited his opportunities, Lane equivocated a bit and then offered one specific […]

Producer Will Packer is teasing the Girls Trip sequel and recently revealed he has a script for a follow-up film. While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Packer said that a sequel to the 2017 comedy is in the works. “We actually are looking at doing an exotic locale — I can’t reveal it […]

Theo Kingma, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association from 2013 to 2015, died unexpectedly Friday, March 21, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 58. His death was confirmed by a spokeswoman for Golden Globe Foundation. Born in Amsterdam on February 25, 1967, Kingma began his professional film career as a projectionist […]

Ari Emanuel, the new executive chairman of WME Group, is taking out $175.8 million in cash as Endeavor is acquired by Silver Lake Partners. The transaction announced this morning creates a private company its new owner valued at $25 billion. Endeavor stakeholders are rolling chunks of their current ownership into the new private entity, but […]

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers close to his West Bank village on Monday and then arrested by soldiers, according to the documentary’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham. In a post on X, Abraham reported: “A group of settlers just lynched […]

EXCLUSIVE: After wrapping production this month in Hawaii, Deadline can reveal the final members of the Halloween Store cast. Lindy Booth, Sydney Park, Grace Van Dien, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Drew Ray Tanner complete the ensemble of the upcoming camp horror comedy, joining the previously announced Simon Rex, Natalie Lind, Kai Caster, Anthony Michael Hall, […]

Skating even deeper into Canadian politics, Wayne’s World star Mike Myers today officially endorsed incumbent Prime Minister Mark Carney, bodychecked Conservative Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre & robustly flew the Maple Leaf flag in the face of Donald Trump. In the second campaign ad in just over as many days with a Team Canada hockey jersey […]

EXCLUSIVE: David Leitch’s next high-profile action thriller is gaining some serious star power as sources tell Deadline Nicholas Hoult is set to star in the Amazon MGM Studios, Imagine Entertainment and 87North’s untitled bank heist pic that Leitch is directing. The film will be released in theaters from a script by Mark Bianculli. Plot details […]

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Grammy winner Lizzo will be taking up the guitar to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel singer who was one of the first to appeal to rock ‘n’ roll and R&B audiences, in Amazon MGM Studios’ Rosetta. The project is in development with Lizzo, Kevin Beisler, Significant Productions’ Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Kevin Hart are continuing their strong relationship as sources tell Deadline that Hart is set to star in the comedy 72 Hours with Tim Story directing. Hartbeat, Davis Entertainment, Counterbalance and Will Packer are producing from a script by Matt Mider & Kevin Burrows, Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg, who penned the script ten […]