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The cause of death for lauded and experimental filmmaker David Lynch has been revealed. Lynch, who was behind such films as The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the seminal television series Twin Peaks, died as a result of cardiac arrest, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease listed as an underlying cause, per a report […]

The 24th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards are here, crowning the best movies and TV shows of the past year for audiences of a certain age. Hosted by Alan Cumming on Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Conclave and A Complete Unknown led the nominations at the awards show, which was created by and for […]

Refresh for latest: The Costume Designers Guild is handing out its 27th annual CDG Awards tonight at the Wilshire Ebell in Los Angeles, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are revealed. Focus Features’ Nosferatu scored the first CDG Award of the night for movies, taking Excellence in Period Film for costume designer […]

As Karla Sofía Gascón faces continued backlash for past comments, the Emilia Pérez actress is stepping back from the spotlight. The first-time Oscar nominee recently responded to writer-director Jacques Audiard‘s Deadline interview denouncing her actions, as she explained her reason for sitting out of campaigning this awards season. “Following Jacques interview that I understand, I […]

As the couple in Oh, Hi! struggles to fully commit, the Sundance Film Festival romantic comedy from Sophie Brooks also struggled to connect with its audience. Writer-director Brooks’ sophomore feature stars Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman as Iris and Isaac, a new couple who go on a romantic getaway that comes to a screeching halt […]

Netflix has canceled the release of a six-part docuseries about Prince amid a deal with the late musician’s estate. In a statement shared by Netflix and the Prince Estate, they announced a new documentary in development with exclusive content from the 7x Grammy winner’s archive, which forces the streamer to pull its project directed by […]

To say that Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, stars of The Apprentice, have been riding a rollercoaster together would be something of an understatement. From sleepless nights contemplating embodying a young Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, to a Cannes Film Festival premiere filled with high hopes, a cease and desist from Trump himself, […]

Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment are teaming to create a live-action film and television universe based on Magic: The Gathering, the trading card game marking Hasbro’s first $1 billion brand. The first project to emerge from the deal will be a film, with TV series and other content to be developed as well as the […]

UPDATED with separation details: Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer anticipates the long-pending separation of Lionsgate Studios and Starz won’t occur until this spring, April at the earliest. “We’re still in regulatory review of our joint proxy/registration statement with the SEC. Given this timing, we will need to update the proxy with financials as of December 31, 2024, […]

EXCLUSIVE: While it continues to stalk a U.S. buyer, Jennifer Lopez’ Sundance musical-drama Kiss Of The Spider Woman will be tempting international buyers at next week’s EFM for Stuart Ford’s AGC. AGC will screen the Bill Condon-produced film privately for buyers in Berlin where it’ll be among the bigger-budget projects available. WME and CAA Media […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey is to star in Paul Greengrass’ peasant revolt film The Rage (formerly known as The Hood), we can reveal. Oscar nominee Greengrass is also scripting the project, which FilmNation is selling for the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. The film is set to take place […]

Those of us who are hopeful for the comeback, or at least survival, of the theatrical motion picture are finding this Oscar season to be especially discomforting. If you’re lucky enough to identify a favorite, you also have to figure out how and where to see it. The Academy thus is understandably edgy about voter […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominees Maria Bakalova and David Strathairn, as well as Adam Pally, have a new movie, O Horizon, and it’s world premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival this Saturday at 6PM at the Riviera Theatre. The sci-fi comedy which is directed and written by Emmy Award winner Madeleine Rotzler follows a neuroscientist who […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about why he was ultimately not cast in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked. Jon M. Chu directed the movie musical, the filmmaker Miranda had worked with on the film version of In The Heights in 2021. “This has gotten blown away out of proportion,” Miranda told Stephen […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details of the film Memoir of a Snail. Adam Elliot never shies away from an opportunity to turn societal misfits into people worthy of love and acceptance on screen. Though his signature style places his characters through a series of unfortunate events, there is often a bit of levity and strength […]

EXCLUSIVE: Blake Lively is heading to SXSW next month in Austin for the debut of Another Simple Favor, but the actress’ lawyers are exiting Texas when it comes to her and Ryan Reynolds’ multifarious showdown with Justin Baldoni and his publicists over alleged sexual harassment during the making of It Ends With Us and the […]

“To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter.” In the heat of the 2020 movement against racism, Netflix felt compelled to write these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd. Five days after Karla Sofía Gascón’s racially insensitive social media history was excavated, Netflix has yet […]

In the wake of revelations about controversial past statements by Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star, has scaled back and shifted her awards-season appearances, according to multiple sources. From what we understand, Gascón won’t be at the Critics Choice Awards on Friday where she’s nominated for Best Actress. It is one of 10 noms […]

Filmmaker Cristina Costantini is leaving the Sundance Film Festival with an award and with distribution already secured for her documentary Sally, about the late astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. Costantini won the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, an award selected by a jury of film and science professionals and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel L. Jackson (The Piano Lesson) and Daveed Diggs (Nickel Boys) are set to star in a new hitman thriller from filmmaker Ernest Dickerson (Juice) and Gringo scribe Matthew Stone. Vincent Newman (Maggie Moore(s)) is producing the currently untitled project, which Contentious Media will finance.  WME Independent is handling international sales. Fifth Season, CAA Media Finance and Contentious Media will handle […]

There will be an opening-night film at SXSW, and it’s the Paul Feig-directed black comedy sequel Another Simple Favor from Amazon MGM Studios. The title, which reteams Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively and will have its world-premiere screening March 7, reps a return for Amazon MGM Studios to SXSW opening-night festivities; last year, the studio […]

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to family sci-fi adventure Xeno, produced by Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat. Lulu Wilson (Annabelle: Creation), Wrenn Schmidt (For All Mankind), Paul Schneider (Lars And The Real Girl) and Omari Hardwick (Power) star in the film written and directed by Matthew Loren Oates and produced by Kevin Hart, Bryan […]

EXCLUSIVE: One of 20th Century Studios’ classic Gregory Peck titles is getting a new retelling with one of the film’s biggest fans on board to help develop. Sources tell Deadline that Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke is on board to pen a new reimagining of the 1950 Peck western The Gunfighter for 20th Century Studios. Hawke […]

Lionsgate has released the trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the psychological thriller from Trey Edward Shults inspired by The Weeknd’s just-released album of the same name. Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan star in the pic, which hits theaters May 16. In the film, Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, in his first leading feature film […]