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Filmmakers and festival attendees are in Austin for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival to celebrate the convergence of the tech, film and music industries across a variety of programming formats and special events. The fest runs March 7-14. Celebrating its 31st year, SXSW promises a dynamic blend of tech, film, and music, featuring […]

EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting an exclusive first look at Sonam Choekyi, Ben Ayers and Andrew Lynch’s film Snow Leopard Sisters, which premieres today at the SXSW Film Festival. “For centuries, our culture has been in harmony with nature,” local snow leopard conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama says in the clip, followed by a shot of the magnificent […]

The Deadline photo studio is hosting talent at the SXSW Film and Television Festival festival, with cast members of SXSW-premiering films and television stopping by. The Deadline Studio at SXSW will run from March 7-10, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival […]

THE THREESOMESection: Narrative SpotlightDirector: Chad HartiganScreenwriter: Ethan OgilbyLogline: One fateful night, the stars seemingly align for Connor — a kind and unassuming young man — as his long-time crush — the electric and irreverent Olivia — steers them into a threesome with a sweet, alluring stranger Jenny. The encounter sparks a relationship between Connor and […]

CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, is returning with their third annual Radiance gala for Women’s History Month, which celebrates women and non-binary trailblazers in Hollywood.  Actor and comedian Kiran Deol is hosting with a featured musical performance by Luna Li. The celebratory gala honors Asian and Pacific Islander women and non-binary artists, cultural […]

The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival kicked off Friday, March 7 in Austin with world and North American premieres of movies in 11 sections, TV shows in three sections and several short film and virtual reality programs. This year’s festival kicks off with opening-night film Another Simple Favor reteaming Paul Feig, Blake Lively and […]

Disney’s famous flywheel came to life for the general public Saturday as studio executives, Imagineers and talent gathered on a SXSW stage to illustrate world building of beloved franchises as they move from TV and film to theme parks and back. Robert Downey Jr., aka Tony Stark, joined Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Bruce […]

UPDATED, 5:30 PM: Some 17 months after unionizing, production management staffers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have ratified their first labor contract. The vote conducted by IATSE’s Animation Guild was 93% in favor of sealing the deal, with 96% of eligible voters casting ballots. The contract provides for production workers to receive protections including pension […]

EXCLUSIVE: Universal/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has crossed the $100M mark at the international box office. The return of Renée Zellweger as the titular heroine swept past the milestone with Wednesday’s numbers included, reaching $101.3M through yesterday. Whereas this is a direct-to-Peacock play domestically, Universal is releasing theatrically overseas. In 75 Uni […]

Picture This, now streaming on Prime Video, adds another story to the wedding-set romantic comedy. Based on the Australian film Five First Dates, the Prarthana Mohan-directed film stars Simone Ashley (Bridgerton, Sex Education) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) as two former flames who reignite at Pia’s younger sister Sonal’s (Anoushka […]

True/False is celebrating a successful 22nd edition of the all-documentary festival in Columbia, MO. The event which wrapped on Sunday drew an attendance of more than 31,000 to film screenings and music showcases, according to organizers. “The 2025 edition of True/False felt like a much-needed moment of joy and togetherness for our community,” Artistic Director […]

A change is Bruin in Westwood. Celine Parreñas Shimizu has been named the new dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television. She’ll take up the post July 1. A UCLA alum, Shimizu since 2021 has been dean of the division of arts at UC Santa Cruz, where she also is a professor […]

Whenever you get veteran stars on the level of John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush in leading roles on screen, attention must be paid. This teaming, and opportunity for Lithgow (79) and Rush (73) in an industry that doesn’t often offer this kind of chance for its veteran stars. is rare. But in director James Ashcroft’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Walsh (Blue Bloods), Seth Green (Family Guy) and Charlie Weber (How To Get Away With Murder) are set to star in thriller The Highest Stakes from Steven Paul’s SP Media Group. In The Highest Stakes, five strangers are invited to a high-stakes poker game, but as the night unfolds and buried secrets come […]

Simone Ashley of Bridgerton fame has embarked upon her next romantic project, a romantic comedy for Prime Video, which she executive produced. She also stars int he film Picture This, inspired by the Australian film Five Blind Dates. Ashley stars as Pia Jaswani, a headstrong older sister on the brink of 30 years old, whose […]

EXCLUSIVE: Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has boarded Lionsgate’s action thriller Karoshi from 87Eleven. She will star in the movie alongside Teo Yoo (Past Lives, The Recruit) and Isabel May (1883), as Deadline previously scooped. 87Eleven Entertainment’s Chad Stahelski, Alex Young and Jason Spitz are producing Karoshi through their deal with Lionsgate. The film will begin […]

After taking home his second Best Actor Oscar on Sunday night, Adrien Brody quickly is becoming the town’s most popular, and what he might do next is slowly starting to take shape. While noting that discussions are extremely early, sources tell Deadline that Damien Chazelle and Brody have had discussions about a role in Evel […]

EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) has been cast in the Catherine Hardwicke-directed movie Street Smart. The drama feature heralds Hardwicke’s return to her storytelling roots from such past work as Lords of Dogtown and Thirteen, while revisiting her exploration of found-family dynamics in Twilight. She co-wrote Street Smart with New York […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following an extensive auditioning process, rising star Austin Abrams has landed the lead role in 20th Century’s adaptation of the Daniel Kraus novel Whalefall, with Brian Duffield directing. Duffield will co-write the script with Kraus. The film is described as The Martian meets 127 Hours, centering on a scuba diver in search of his […]

Veteran film producer Eric Groth and writer-director Andrew Hyatt of Sacred Arthouse are teaming with Zach Dasher and Korie Robertson on Forever and Ever, Amen, a biopic about the life of country music legend Randy Travis. Hyatt will direct off of his own script. The Grand Ole Opry played host to the announcement of the […]

Amazon’s Prime Video has launched a pilot program using AI tools to dub select movies and series into English and Latin American Spanish. The initiative, which launched Wednesday, is intended to make the streaming service’s “vast streaming library accessible to even more customers,” the company wrote in a blog post. The AI-assisted dubbing will be […]

The Russo Brothers are assembling the Avengers again for Avengers: Doomsday and recruited Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. As the Marvel Studios production ramps up filming, all eyes will be on them, especially at locations where paparazzi could snap photos and leak spoilers. However, the filmmakers recently revealed in an interview that they had […]

More than 15 years later, Jennifer Check is ready for a resurrection. Although Amanda Seyfried stopped short of confirming a sequel to her 2009 horror comedy Jennifer’s Body is in the works, she certainly gave fans of the Diablo Cody-written, Karyn Kusama-directed cult classic some hope. “I think we’re making another one,” Seyfried told Bloody […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actor Kathryn Newton is getting in on the bloody fun, and is joining the cast of Radio Silence’s follow-up to its near $58 million global-grossing 2019 cult Searchlight hit Ready or Not. The casting marks Newton’s second collaboration with Radio Silence after last year’s Universal horror movie Abigail. Newton […]