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No cause of death has been determined so far for Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, but New Mexico police say the situation “remains an open investigation.” With affidavits, search warrants and statements calling the death of the two-time Oscar winner, his wife and their dog late Wednesday “suspicious enough in nature,” the Santa Fe Sheriff’s […]

UPDATED, 1:30 PM: Nobody does it better when it comes to movie theme songs, and the Oscars know it. Sources tell Deadline that there will be a tribute to the music of the revered 007 franchise during 97th the Academy Awards on Sunday. Details are scarce, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tobin Babst, a veteran film and television literary manager, is leaving Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment (KPE) after 12 years to launch a new venture. He’ll launch Northstar Entertainment with several long-time clients including Jay Basu, Dave Callaham, Joby Harold, Christina Hodson, Eileen Jones, Darren Lemke, Ken Nolan, Matthew Plouffe, Jessica Sharzer, Jonathan Tropper and Jesse Wigutow. […]

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct an untitled feature film project centered on the life of Farah Pahlavi, the last Empress of Iran, who was married to the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for 20 years before he died in exile in Egypt in 1980. […]

The red carpet officially rolled out Wednesday at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood for the 97th Academy Awards, kicking off the final stretch of Oscar pre-parties and events as Hollywood gears up for Sunday, March 2. Today, the 18th ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards celebrated Black women’s excellence in TV and film on Thursday, […]

Will Amazon’s 007 franchise ever take center stage again? Thinking about this, I flashed back to a conversation with an actor friend telling me, “I’ve just been offered a big payday as the next James Bond but I can’t get over the feeling that his every line has been said before – and maybe better.” […]

The cause and manner of Michelle Trachtenberg’s death will remain undetermined, according to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Trachtenberg’s famly requested that no autopsy be conducted because of religious reasons. The medical examiner’s office would automatically do an autopsy if foul play or criminality was suspected, but there is none, […]

Roberto Orci died at his home in Los Angeles on February 25, and the tributes remembering the late writer-producer followed. After reports of Orci’s death due to kidney disease first surfaced, people like Joe Russo, Lucy Lawless, and Rob Liefeld have weighed in. Russo took to social media to pay tribute to Orci, calling him […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios, United Artists and Scott Stuber are in talks to reel in a big package: Conclave helmer Edward Berger is directing a film about Evan Gershkovich and the harrowing year the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent spent in a Russian prison on fabricated espionage charges after being arrested by the Federal Security […]

“We would like to convince all the major studios that they should keep movies in theaters longer,” the CEO of the nation’s largest exhibitor said today, noting that, yes, windows have shortened since Covid, but where they could ultimately wind up is is still “a very live debate right now.” As Hollywood experimented during and […]

Slamdance is nearing the final day of its 2025 edition, a historic one for the festival founded in 1995 as a scrappy alternative to Sundance. The cinematic showcase has made a new home for itself in Los Angeles after spending its first three decades in Park City, Utah, very much in the shadow of Robert […]

The very public clash between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has seen accusations of sexual harassment, smear campaigns, defamation, extortion and more being thrown about, with Ryan Reynolds, the New York Times, Taylor Swift and Disney being pulled in to the various lawsuits. Heading towards a trial starting next year, lawyers for the It Ends […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lincoln Child’s New York Times bestselling book series Jeremy Logan, is being put into feature development at Amazon MGM Studios with Safehouse Pictures producing. Jeremy Lott and Cory Goodman are writing the script. The film will follow Jeremy Logan who is a self-proclaimed “enigmatologist,” an investigator who works to debunk the paranormal and unexplained […]

The long awards season that began way back in May when the trio of eventual Oscar Best Picture nominees Emilia Pérez, Anora and The Substance took Cannes by storm hits its high point with the 97th Oscars, which take place Sunday, March 2, 2025 in Hollywood. Find all the details on how to watch and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Chavarria (Selena: The Series) is set to executive produce and star in Real Ones, an indie drama from director Nick Anderson, who wrote the script with Alma Leiva. In the film produced by Justin Nesbitt, the actor will play Joseph, a sharp-witted ex-con fighting to rebuild his life after prison while resisting the […]

The largest theater chain in the U.S. and the world, AMC Entertainment, saw revenue for the last three months of 2024 blow past estimates with revenue up 18+% to $1.3 billion. Highlights included Gladiator II, Wicked, Moana 2, Mufasa: The Lion King and more. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (ebitda), a key […]

EXCLUSIVE: Will Yun Lee (The Good Doctor), Abby Miller (Home Before Dark), Jon Huertas (This Is Us) and Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) are set to headline the indie feature California Scenario, co-written by Dara Resnik (Daredevil, Home Before Dark) and James Takata (This Is Us, The Company You Keep). California Scenario is a coming-of-middle-age […]

Much of world cinema’s lost works have been victims of either technology with poor materials like nitrate film or the ignorance of a limited and often bigoted industry. Thankfully for film fans, it is becoming increasingly difficult for either to deal a death blow to a film’s trajectory.  Social and technological advancements also continue to […]

The ever-elusive cult favorite Constantine is officially ready for the sequel treatment — and a treatment treatment, per star Keanu Reeves. The John Wick and The Matrix alum recently told Inverse that after years of attempts to make a follow-up to the gritty supernatural thriller, fans may soon see that vision come to fruition with […]

Currently underway live from the Pasadena Civic Center, this year’s NAACP Image Awards is putting a spotlight on Altadena residents who have experienced devastating loss following the Los Angeles wildfires in early January. “Homes were lost, stores destroyed, countless lives shattered and over two dozen souls gone forever, but what was not lost is the […]

It’s on to the Oscars for Anora. The sex-worker dramedy continued its awards-season run as the big winner at the 40th anniversary Film Independent Spirit Awards, which were handed out Saturday afternoon at the Santa Monica Pier. The Neon pic took Best Feature, Director for Sean Baker and gender-neutral Lead Performance for Mikey Madison. In […]

Hollywood is hitting the beach as the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards get underway at Santa Monica Pier, hosted by Aidy Bryant.

Anora Best Director Spirit Award winner Sean Baker championed indie cinema in his acceptance speech, exclaiming that it’s “struggling more than ever” with little pay for those who provide a cultural zeitgeist for Hollywood and cinema. Baker spoke about how it takes three years to make a feature and that a person needs to have […]

Refreshingly unexpected, Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) — the first Norwegian film to win the Berlinale’s Golden Bear — breathes new life into the often oversimplified genre of sexual awakening that seems to draw on his twinned career in both cinema and books. This headlong, hyper-nuanced account of a teenage girl’s first love fuses […]