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Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who is an EP on the current faith-based title Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, recently issued a statement on social, distancing herself from the movie’s conservative partners, The Daily Wire. Wright was reportedly getting dinged on social about being affiliated with the org, which claims was “not

EXCLUSIVE: Grandview has promoted Cooper McCary to Manager. His clients include Benjy Steinberg, who won the Sundance Episodic Fellowship Grant in 2023; Brett Haley, slated to direct the adaptation of Emily Henry’s New York Times Bestseller People We Meet on Vacation for 3000 Pictures and Temple Hill; Cambron Clark, whose spec screenplay Madden was recently

Add one of America’s most political filmmakers to the list of those calling for Joe Biden to step aside as the Democratic candidate for president. Oscar-winner Michael Moore published a piece on his website asking the president not to “let your enablers hound you into doing what your body is begging you not to do.”

Scarlett Johansson is on board for Jurassic World 4 and was surprised with a message from Jeff Goldblum. During an appearance on the Today show, Johansson was greeted with a message from Goldblum with some sound advice. “Dr. Johansson, this is Jeff Goldblum,” he said in a video message played by the NBC morning show.

If Top Gun: Maverick confirmed anything, it reminded Hollywood that Tom Cruise is a master at marketing movies. The busy Cruise recently put his promo powers — including his megawatt smile — to work in service of a former co-star in that film, showing up for the European premiere of the upcoming July 14 release

After scripting the beloved fashion-world dramedy The Devil Wears Prada, starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, which grossed over $326 million worldwide in its June 2006 debut, Aline Brosh McKenna has been tapped to script a sequel in early development at Disney, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Reps for the studio declined comment.

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator follow-up film will step into the box office arena at the end of 2024 with a stacked and strong-looking cast. The recent reset of Wicked’s release date has put Universal’s movie musical up against Gladiator II in a showdown, not unlike that of Barbievs. Oppenheimer. Wicked was previously set to compete with

Netflix has plenty of action films as well as summer ones in its July 2024 slate, such as the Back to the Future trilogy as well as the first two Bad Boys films. Toby Maguire’s take on the web-slinging Spider-Man will also be available to stream at the beginning of the month. Animated adventures, such

Nicolas Cage addresses his acting retirement timetable and clarifies his comments about his future in Hollywood. In an interview from 2023, Cage said he was “starting to cement” his plan about his acting retirement, telling Vanity Fair, “I may have three or four more movies left in me.” “I do feel I’ve said what I’ve

Scarlett Johansson says work is progressing on Just Cause, Amazon’s upcoming thriller limited series, based on John Katzenbach’s 1992 novel, in which she stars and executive produces. “It’s coming along…it’s being written,” she told Deadline at the New York City premiere of her new movie Fly Me To The Moon. “There was a little bit

Could The Boys be getting their own Avengers-style blockbuster moment? After showrunner Eric Kripke teased his plans for the upcoming fifth and final season, Mother’s Milk actor Laz Alonso revealed he’s been “unsuccessfully pitching” a feature film to wrap up the Prime Video series. “Like, make the last episode of season 5 a cliffhanger and

“There might have been other scenarios that could have played out in other ways, but this seems to be currently the scenario for the moment.” Those were Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman‘s thoughts tonight when Deadline asked him at the NYC premiere of Apple’s Fly Me to the Moon for his take on

Editor’s note: This review was originally published September 1, 2023 after the film’s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The movie was originally to be released in December 2023 by 20th Century Studios before being derailed by the Hollywood strikes. Focus Features is now distributing and released it in theaters Friday. Biker movies are

Sony announced on Friday that its new film Here, reuniting the director, writer, and stars of the classic Forrest Gump, will open wide via TriStar Pictures on November 15. Previously, the film had been scheduled for an exclusive run in Los Angeles in New York on the 15th, with a limited and wide release to

Bill Maher stumped tonight on Real Time for the U.S. release of The Apprentice, the Cannes Competition title starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong as Trump’s onetime firebrand lawyer, Roy Cohn. “It looks great,” said Maher before observing, “This is Trump’s origin story under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.” The Real

Justin Timberlake has spoken for the first time about his arrest and night in jail, addressing the crowd at a concert in Chicago Friday night. It was the first public outing for the singer since his DWI arrest in The Hamptons on June 18, and Timberlake told his fans, “It’s been a tough week.” He

The 1998 graduating class of Huntington Hillside High School is finally getting together for their 25th reunion… and it’s a musical! On Saturday, Can’t Hardly Wait co-writer/director Deborah Kaplan announced a stage musical in the works based on her and Harry Elfont‘s 1998 cult classic teen movie, which starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Lauren

Refresh for latest…: Wednesday was yet another joyous day for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 as the sequel set opening benchmarks in new overseas releasing markets. The full offshore day was $29M (22% of the weekend), lifting the international box office cume to $203.3M in 42 markets, and global to $438.7M. The half a billion worldwide

EXCLUSIVE: Here is a package that certainly will heat up the summer market. Deadline is hearing that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are attached to star in the thriller RIP, with Joe Carnahan writing and directing. Affleck and Damon’s company Artists Equity is producing with a plan to shoot this fall. Reps for Artists Equity

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and the GM Incubator Fund have set emerging filmmakers Christina YR Lim and Suhashini “Sushi” Krishnan as the recipients of grants through their Writer-Driven Shorts program. Each will now receive a $100,000 grant to shoot a short film based on their feature scripts. Both projects highlight communities that have been underrepresented