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Following Deadline’s scoop earlier this month that Apple Original Films was in talks for untitled UFO-disclosure package from Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, the studio officially has confirmed it had closed a deal for the package. The film will reunite Kosinski and Bruckheimer, who worked together on Top Gun: Maverick and the upcoming F1. To […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has cast Jack Reynor as the Atomic Monster/Blumhouse production for New Line is set to begin filming in Ireland and Spain. Cronin’s Doppelgängers banner is also producing. I’m told Reynor is not getting wrapped up in the title role. The film, which is still keeping its logline under wraps (get it, see […]

Following controversy around The Brutalist‘s usage of AI, David Cronenberg is coming to the Best Picture Oscar nominee’s defense. During a conversation with longtime collaborator Howard Shore at the London Soundtrack Festival, the director theorized there was a “campaign against” the Brady Corbet-helmed film, noting that AI is used “all the time” in filmmaking. “I […]

As Jennifer’s Body plots a resurrection, Amanda Seyfried still has nothing but praise for the original. With the growing possibility of a sequel to the 2009 film, the Oscar nominee slammed the marketing team after they “cheapened” and “ruined” the Diablo Cody-written, Karyn Kusama-directed comedy horror that co-starred Megan Fox. “I can’t critique this movie. […]

Amanda Seyfried is forever indebted to Mean Girls. In an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Seyfried reflected on the 2004 teen comedy and the “unadulterated fun” she had while making the film when she was 17. Host Josh Horowitz reminded Seyfried how loved the film is to this day. “Until the day you […]

Samuel L. Jackson recalled some priceless advice he received from Bruce Willis while they were shooting Die Hard With A Vengeance in 1994. “He told me, ‘Hopefully you’ll be able to find a character that, when you make bad movies and they don’t make any money, you can always go back to this character everybody […]

While Jennifer Coolidge knows how to knock a comedic performance out of the park, it’s the humanity of her characters that continues shine through. Discussing her new movie Riff Raff, now available on demand, the Golden Globe winner told Deadline she could “really relate” to her heartbreaking and “self-destructive” character Ruth in the crime comedy […]

UPDATE, 4:24 PM: Extraction producer David Guillod is not going to be charged with sexual assault, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said today.  “After an extensive review of the evidence by the Sex Crimes Division, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has determined that the Office is unable to prove sexual assault […]

Eiza González got a big endorsement from Natalie Portman to play the titled role in the film adaptation of the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. While promoting her latest film, Ash, González appeared on E! News’ The Rundown, where host Erin Lim said she was fan-casting her as Evelyn Hugo. “I love the […]

Jack Lilley, whose showbiz career spanned more than seven decades as an actor, stuntman, animal coordinator and other roles and included Little House on the Prairie, Blazing Saddles, John Ford films and TV Westerns, has died. He was 91. His family posted the news on Instagram but did not provide a date or cause of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Studios and filmmakers are knocking on Verve’s door as the agency is sitting on bloody good IP that they’re looking to take on the town: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Verve has repped the rights for the slasher series created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel since 2017. At a time when horror and franchises […]

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Michael Hall, Thomas Dekker and Nicholas Hamilton are clocking in for Halloween Store. The trio has joined the cast of the upcoming camp horror comedy, which wrapped filming this month in Hawaii and previously announced Simon Rex, Natalie Lind and Kai Caster among its ensemble. From writers Chad Law, Josh Ridgway and director […]

SZA made her film acting debut opposite Keke Palmer in One of Them Days and is looking ahead at a dream role she would like to play. While guest-starring on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the rapper revealed that she would like to take on the role of Storm, the powerful comic book character mutant and […]

Wolfs actor Austin Abrams is in early talks to star in Zach Cregger’s reboot of the Constantin-Sony feature take of the Capcom videogame, Resident Evil. The WME-repped Abrams is also known for playing Ethan Lewis on HBO’s Euphoria. Sony had no comment. The latest iteration of Resident Evil, which pays homage to the original horror […]

More than 23 years after David Lynch facilitated her big break, Naomi Watts was ready to serve as the auteur’s muse once again. Following Lynch’s death at age 78 in January, the 2x Oscar-nominated actress recounted her last time seeing the Twin Peaks creator during a lunch in late November with him and fellow Lynch […]

You would not be crazy if you confused Steven Knight’s 2013 man-confined-in-a-car movie, Locke with director David Yarovesky’s new thriller, Locked, which has Bill Skarsgard trapped in a nightmare car with no way out. The former had Tom Hardy as a troubled guy named Locke watching his life unravel during a feature-length road trip. This […]

We’ve confirmed that the Jason Bourne franchise is on the block, and leaving its original home of Universal. WME is repping the estate of late author Robert Ludlum and overseeing the sale with Skydance, Apple and Netflix kicking the tires. Producer Captivate Entertainment manages the pic’s rights for the Ludlum estate. Ludlum published The Bourne […]

EXCLUSIVE: Momentum on the next installment in the Meet the Parents franchise is building as sources tell Deadline that John Hamburg is set to direct the fourth film in the Universal series. As Deadline first reported, the original cast that includes Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are returning to star, […]

Here’s a cool one in the works at Warner Bros: Sydney Sweeney is attached to star in and produce I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, via her Fifty-Fifty Films. The movie project is based on a Reddit short story by Joe Cote. Fifty-Fifty notched Oscar-winning Forrest Gump and Dune scribe Eric Roth to adapt […]

In the fall of 2023, Disney announced plans to double its investment in theme parks to $60 billion over 10 years. Today, CEO Bob Iger spent a big chunk of time sharing “some of what we’ve been up to” with shareholders at the company’s annual meeting, touting new lands and attractions from Cars, Avatar, The […]

In a splashy 20-minute segment at Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, CEO Bob Iger touted a handful of high-priority film and TV projects as the company looks to maintain its recent studio momentum. Avatar: Fire and Ash, Lilo & Stitch and Alien: Earth were three titles given a spotlight, with new footage of the latter two […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures’ feature adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2019 novel, Regretting You, has finaled its cast adding Sam Morelos (Summer of 69, That ‘90s Show), Clancy Brown (Shawshank Redemption, Highlander, and John Wick: Chapter 4), and Ethan Samuel Costanilla (Oh. What. Fun). The movie will open in theaters on Oct. 24. The group joins previously announced Allison Williams, Dave […]

EXCLUSIVE: Loretta Ramos has been named Senior Director of Blumhouse and K Period Media’s Screamwriting Fellowship program. Ramos previously served as interim head of the Sundance Institute’s Women of Sundance program. In her role, she will be responsible for overseeing the program for the two companies, which is run in partnership with the Sundance Institute. […]

Disney CEO Bob Iger just revealed during the studio’s annual shareholder meeting that Coco 2 is happening. A 2029 release has been set. “While the film is just in the initial stages, we know it will be full of humor, heart and adventure,” said Iger. “And we can’t wait to share more soon.” The sequel […]