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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ publicist Leslie Sloane is standing strongly with her clients against Justin Baldoni’s alleged “bizarre and abusive practices,” but the Vision PR boss wants herself and her company dropped from the legal battle between the It Ends With Us stars. “The Wayfarer Parties dragged Leslie Sloane and Vision PR, Inc. into […]

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish screenwriter Javier Gullón has been tapped to adapt Final Boarding, a horror film for Sony’s Screem Gems, based on a short story by Clarence Hammond. Plot details for the film are under wraps. Screen Gems President Ashley Brucks optioned the story from Hammond, a former colleague from her time at Paramount Players, who […]

Ayo Edebiri, Keke Palmer and Jamie Foxx’s stand-up special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was were among the winners on the first night of the 56th NAACP Image Awards. The awards, which honor the year’s best in Black achievement and excellence, will be handed out in two pre-show nights continuing Thursday, and a Creative Arts […]

Judd Apatow and Ben Stiller are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Heavyweights, a Disney film released in 1995. The comedy, directed by Steven Brill, who co-wrote it with Apatow, was released on February 17, 1995, which 2025 is 30 years since it premiered. “Somehow I don’t think this will be at the head of the […]

Following collaborations on smash hit Paramount sequel Top Gun: Maverick and the forthcoming Formula 1 pic F1 for Apple and Warner Bros, director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are eyeing a reteam on a hot new package out to the town. We’re told that the as-yet-untitled project is akin to a UFO disclosure-themed take […]

John Malkovich will be starring in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps this summer and recently opened up about why it took him this long to act in one. In a new interview, Malkovich revealed the real reason he had not appeared in the MCU until now was due to pay. “The reason I didn’t […]

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Chon (Blue Bayou) is in talks to direct Capsule, a new sci-fi film for 20th Century Studios. The film’s current draft is by Elijah Bynum of Magazine Dreams fame and follows a young tech entrepreneur whose life is turned upside down when he mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Disney/Pixar veteran Michael Agulnek has joined Sony Pictures as EVP Global Publicity, where he will report to Danielle Misher, Co-Head of Theatrical Marketing. In addition, Rose Phillips has been promoted to EVP Global Digital Marketing and Social Media. Reporting to Elias Plishner in the Global Marketing department, Phillips will continue to work across […]

Julius Onah is the director behind Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World, and in the “Special Thanks” credits, there was a shoutout to Octavia Spencer. Moviegoers had to watch all the credits to see the end-credit scene of the Anthony Mackie-starring film. Close to the end, Onah included the Oscar-winning actress in the credits despite Spencer not […]

“Guy, you need to grow up. You are not a victim.” That was Kevin Spacey’s response in a video posted online to Guy Pearce’s statements about Spacey’s behavior on the set of L.A. Confidential in 1997. “Grow up. Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot L.A. Confidential […]

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Vlamis (Roswell, New Mexico) and Iddo Goldberg (Snowpiercer) have joined Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, sources tell Deadline. Character details are under wraps, as nearly all parts have been kept so far. Matt Damon leads the ensemble as Odysseus, King of Ithaca, whose perilous journey home after the Trojan War is at […]

If there is a cinematic equivalent of the theatre of cruelty, it must be the reigning spirit of Austrian cinema. Films by Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz and Jessica Hausner may be very different from each other, but are similarly unflinching as they roam threatening spaces, find the sinister in the everyday and delve […]

The Masters of the Universe are preparing to master the big screen in 2026 as production has recently gotten underway on the Travis Knight-helmed Amazon MGM Studios/Mattel live-action film. After Deadline reported his casting in the role of Malcolm/Fisto, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson gave us an update on the production while walking the red carpet at […]

Refresh for latest…: Super busy weekend at the international box office with Marvel/Disney’s Captain America: Brave New World and Universal/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy both making their debuts while Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 keeps zooming along — and also hit North America this session. Captain America came in pretty much bang […]

The BAFTAs didn’t quite ignora Anora, the current Oscar frontrunner, but the British Academy, which has hundreds of voters in common with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, decided to shake things up. During its film awards Sunday, it split some big prizes, between their nominations leader Conclave winning four including Best Film, […]

Tennis pro Tom lives in a mellow paradise teaching tourists at a hotel in the Canary Islands. “Permanent sun, permanent fun,” as one client puts it. But why does it also look a bit like Groundhog Day: every day, Tom gets up, coaches people on hitting the ball, visits his friend who has a farm […]

As the Trump administration wages a crusade against children’s books, Julianne Moore has found her own work on a banned list. On Sunday, the Oscar winner revealed her 2007 book Freckleface Strawberry was banned by the U.S. Department of Defense in a recent purge of books tied to race, gender and sexuality, following President Donald […]

Anora star Mikey Madison paid tribute to sex workers after winning Best Leading Actress at the BAFTA Film Awards. In the Neon film, Madison plays a sex worker from Brooklyn who meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. She beat others including Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, and Saoirse Ronan to the acting […]

Warwick Davis, the British actor who has played various roles in the Star Wars franchise, got a tribute from Luke Skywalker himself as he was garlanded with BAFTA’s highest honor. Mark Hamill described Davis as “one of the hardest working men in showbusiness” as he received the Fellowship prize at the BAFTA Film Awards on […]

The BBC cut some of David Tennant’s opening jokes about Donald Trump from its BAFTA coverage. The BBC show, which started two hours after the awards began at 7 p.m. GMT (11 a.m. PT) and is edited to a two-hour length, did not feature some of the material Tennant had used in the live show […]

Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards. The Wicked star, an accomplished jazz pianist with three albums to his name, played As Time Goes By in tribute to stars including David Lynch and Maggie Smith. Blue Velvet director Lynch and Smith, star of Harry Potter and […]

Ne Zha 2, the fantasy epic that’s been setting records in China, opened to $7.2 million on 660 screens, according to Comscore, for the no. 5 spot at a domestic box office being trounced by Captain America: Brave New World. The animated film from CMC Pictures, see Deadline review, takes up where the 2019 original […]

What is it with Lucile Hadzihalilovic and ice? In her last film, Earwig, her central character was a browbeaten little girl without teeth who had to submit to wearing ice dentures, suspended from a cruel metal frame, all day. Her new film turns up the freezing unit to 11 in a long riff on Hans […]

Karla Sofía Gascón was thanked by Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard after the film won Best Film Not in the English Language at the BAFTA Awards. Speaking through an interpreter Audiard thanked, “My dear Zoe [Saldaña], my dear Selena [Gomez]… and also you my dear Karla Sofía, to whom I send a kiss.” He added […]