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Kiefer Sutherland actually hung up on William Friedkin when the Oscar winning legendary director phoned him to ask if he might be interested in playing Lt. Commander Phillip Queeg (the role immortalized by Humphrey Bogart) in his television adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Being a huge fan of Friedkin he thought this must

The Roundup: Punishment, the fourth film in the blockbuster Korean franchise, has set a new all-time opening day presales record in its home market. Releasing there today, the crime actioner that stars and is executive produced by Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee), had amassed over 834,000 ticket reservations as of Wednesday morning local time, accounting

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Boustany has joined the cast as one of the leads in Hello, Beautiful, which is based on the Christine Handy novel Walk Beside Me. Handy is producing along with Michael Espinosa, and Ziad H. Hamzeh–who will also serve as director. The film revolves around Willow, a successful model, struggling with the facade of a

Jerry Seinfeld is making some statements about the movie industry as he makes his feature directorial debut in Netflix’s Unfrosted, the comedy about the creation of Pop-Tarts. In a new interview, the stand-up comedian reflects on his experience in filmmaking at this point in his career. “It was totally new to me. I thought I

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Rios (Snowfall, Breaking Bad), Louis Ferreira (S.W.A.T., Breaking Bad), and Bonnie Root (Cruel Hearts, The Movie, Cold Case) will star in the new independent horror-thriller feature film, Don’t Let Them Out. Led by screenwriter Lila McLaughlin, who makes her directorial debut and penned the script, Don’t Let Them Out centers on a struggling

Idris Elba is reacting to news that Keanu Reeves is joining the Sonic the Hedgehog universe as the voice of Shadow for the third installment of the film saga. Elba voices Knuckles the Echidna and, during the red carpet premiere of the upcoming Paramount+ series Knuckles, shared his thoughts on Reeves. “I’m a big fan

Kevin Costner enjoyed John Mulaney’s Field of Dreams bit at the 2024 Oscars. Costner told People the comedian’s explanation of the movie’s plot was “amazing.” “I couldn’t believe that guy. Amazing. I watched it a second time,” Costner said. “What a chance, because there’s always people in the Oscars trying to rush you,” he said.

It’s been 40 years since was released, and Kevin Bacon returned to the high school where the musical drama was filmed. “Go Lions! Here we are on this beautiful, beautiful spot on this beautiful, beautiful day,” Bacon said, according to ABC4. “It’s been a long time – 40 years – that just blows my mind,

Iconic actor Danny Trejo is set to receive one of the biggest honors of his career. The star of Machete, From Dusk Til Dawn, Spy Kids, Con Air, Heat, and hundreds of other films and television series will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Thursday, the festival’s

Ania Trzebiatowska has compiled an eclectic selection of fiction and non-fiction titles for the third annual Sands International Film Festival, which kicked off Friday evening in St Andrews, Scotland.  Mounted across this weekend in the ancient university town, Trzebiatowska — also a full-time programmer at Sundance — runs the festival with an impressive gang of

EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Coen has rounded out the cast for his comedy Honey Don’t! for Focus Features and Working Title, on which we were first to report. Newcomers include Charlie Day (Fool’s Paradise), Billy Eichner (Bros), Lera Abova (Anna), Jacnier (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory National Tour), Gabby Beans (Presumed Innocent), Talia Ryder (Dumb Money), Kristin

Chris Pratt is off to a rough start on his latest film. “Mercy filming day 4,” he wrote on IG Thursday next to a photo of his elevated ankle wrapped in an ice pack. “I have such a great stunt team! AND I sometimes try to get in there and do some of my own

IFC Films announced that Ghostlight, acquired by the studio out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it made its world premiere, will open in New York City and Chicago on Friday, June 14, 2024 before expanding nationwide the following week.  The film is co-directed by Chicagoans Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan and written by

Michael Douglas wanted to have a “serious” death scene in 2023’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and requested his character be killed off. As the actor promoted his Apple TV+ series Franklin, Douglas opened up about the Marvel film in which he played Dr. Hank Pym. Ahead of the third film in the Ant-Man saga,

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award winning playwright and screenwriter Itamar Moses has signed with Grandview for management. Itamar’s play The Ally recently premiered at The Public Theater, directed by Lila Neugebauer and starring Josh Radnor. His new musical Dead Outlaw ran simultaneously off-Broadway with Audible Theater at the Minetta Lane. In television, Itamar has written on HBO’s

Zendaya not only stars in Luca Guadagnino‘s Challengers but is also a producer in the film written by Justin Kuritzkes. At the LA premiere, the film’s star talked to Deadline about working with Guadagnino in the movie, which she co-stars in with Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. “Luca is brilliant. I think he has such

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has preemptively acquired an untitled erotic thriller pitch from Emily Siegel, Deadline can exclusively reveal. Chernin had no comment and the logline for the film is being kept under wraps. Siegel’s first feature script, the thriller Story, was named to the 2020 Black List. Most recently, she was enlisted to adapt the

Chris Hemsworth wanted to play a role in a film project directed by Kevin Costner. However, the Thor actor soon discovered he had lost the part to Costner himself. “There was a movie, a script that I’d read and loved and was like, ‘I want to get that,’ and then someone said, ‘Kevin Costner has

Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced just now to 18 months behind bars over the October 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Santa Fe set of the Alec Baldwin starring indie Western. “You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” said Judge Mary Marlow Sommer in her sentencing Monday after rejecting defense

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction were the big film winners at the strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out Sunday in Los Angeles and New York. Jefferson — who also was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award — followed his Oscar win for Adapted Screenplay as the