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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 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Joshua Coates has secured rights to the life story of Abraham Bolden, the subject of the 2008 autobiography The Echo of Dealey Plaza. Bolden made history as the first Black U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail, where he guarded President John F. Kennedy who had personally appointed him in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Regé-Jean Page is continuing to build on an already busy slate as we are hearing he has signed on to star and produce The Count Of Monte Cristo from Department M, the independent production studio founded by industry-leading producers Mike Larocca and Michael Schaefer. Page will produce alongside his producing partner Emily Brown throgh […]

Jonathan Majors is open to returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after playing Kang the Conqueror in 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The actor is promoting his latest film, Magazine Dreams, and said if Marvel called him to reprise his role in the MCU, he would accept. “Yeah, of course I say yes. Disney, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter J S Mayank has been tapped by producers Kate Cohen, Alexander Vesely and Tony Robbins to join Oscar nominee and Bafta winner Lesley Paterson (All Quiet on the Western Front) in writing the feature adaptation of Viktor Frankl‘s classic treatise, Man’s Search for Meaning. Paterson had been writing the script with her husband […]

Miami Beach city commission meetings typically don’t generate national and international news, but that could happen Wednesday. The commission is due to take up a resolution spearheaded by Mayor Steven Meiner that would cancel the city’s lease with a movie theater showing the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. The mayor declared the film, which shows […]

With Timothée Chalamet’s next big film A Complete Unknown which arrived in theaters Christmas Day, many may be curious about the actors work and preparation for portraying musician Bob Dylan in the film as well as the film’s story parameters. An ensemble cast will accompany Chalamet and portray musicians and other important figures in Bob […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Colleen Hoover business isn’t slowing down following the success of the feature adaptation of her book It Ends With Us. Sources tell Deadline Maika Monroe is set to star in Universal’s adaptation of Hoover’s novel Reminders of Him. Vanessa Caswill will direct the film. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Hoover, Reminders of Him will […]

American Cinematheque’s This Is Not A Fiction Festival is returning for its second season. The festival launched last year with screenings of Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story, featuring a Jon Bon Jovi Q&A and Morgan Neville’s Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces. It is now returning with a slew of new […]

Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t know about intimacy coordinators while filming A24’s Marty Supreme alongside Timothée Chalamet and told them to “step a little bit back.” In a new interview, the Goop founder opened up about her sex scenes with Chalamet in the film directed by Josh Safdie. Paltrow told Vanity Fair she was approached by an […]

Village Roadshow Entertainment hit Delaware court today after filing for Chapter 11 amid a sea of red ink, legal costs and debt that’s been ratcheting up financial pressure on the indie producer and financier. A lawyer for the company told a judge at a hearing that the company is “open to all bids” for its […]

Claiming that Justin Baldoni has nothing but “clickbait” falsehoods and “hurt feelings” on him, Ryan Reynolds wants out of the It Ends With Us star’s $400 million defamation and extortion suit against the Deadpool leading man, Blake Lively, the New York Times and Vision PR’s Leslie Sloane. “The entirety of Plaintiffs’ defamation claim appears to […]

Although LGBTQ representation was few and far in between among the headliners at this year’s SXSW, several indie darlings broke the industry’s cis-heteronormative mold to stand out. From Special Jury Award winner Fucktoys, multi-hyphenate Annapurna Sriram’s bold celluloid fever dream of a feature debut, to The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick, co-writer/director […]

EXCLUSIVE: Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole have named Tiffany Graddick, Stephanie Myer and Raymond Tambe to the firm’s partnership group. They join colleagues Matt Johnson, P.J. Shapiro, Greg Slewett, Tara Kole, Wendy Kirk, Patrick Ragen and Deb Lintz in the group. Since joining JSSK, Graddick has worked with high-profile firm clients including Emma Stone, Jamie […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mariana di Girolamo, Oscar nominee Tom Waits, Ailín Salas and Paola Giannini are boarding Martin McDonagh’s massive ensemble for Wild Horse Nine, opposite previously announced Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, Parker Posey and Steve Buscemi. The dark comedic drama, which we first told you about, reunites McDonagh with Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures, and Film4, following […]

Multi-hyphenate Salma Hayek has evolved throughout her nearly four-decade career, never wanting to be boxed into certain roles as an actress whether on screen or off. In a sprawling cover story for Marie Claire, the star/producer discussed adding another facet to her repertoire: writing her first feature. “It’s meaningful. It has a great rhythm. It’s […]