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Demián Bichir paid tribute to his late wife Stefanie Sherk with a touching Instagram post shared on the actress’ birthday. “On your birthday and every day we all love you and miss your pretty blue smile, deeply. You are much needed in these extraordinary times,” the Hateful Eight and The Midnight Sky actor captioned a

Nate Bolotin from XYZ Films says he was simply “blown away” by Jallikattu, this year’s International Feature Oscar entry from India, when he first encountered the movie as it was being submitted to festivals in 2019. The company quickly moved to board the project as an executive producer and took its North American rights. “We’ve

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. A little less than four months to the Oscars. Are you counting the days, folks? You actually have to wonder how the astounding and constantly unfolding events in America and the world are going to impact Hollywood’s favorite guessing game: who will win at the

Netflix is out with the first trailer for its $30 million Toronto pickup Malcolm & Marie, starring Euphoria Emmy winner Zendaya and Tenet and BlacKKKlansman star John David Washington. Check it out above. The romantic drama comes from writer-director Sam Levinson, who broke out with 2018’s Assassination Nation and went on to create the Zendaya-led HBO series Euphoria. Malcolm &

Disney CEO Bob Chapek condemned the violent act of rioters at the U.S. Capitol, noting that Wednesday’s unprecedented fatal events marked “a sad and tragic day for our country, one unlike any other in our history.” “What we saw was an egregious and inexcusable assault on America’s most revered institution and our democracy,” the Disney

Jumping at the chance to collaborate with Oscar winner Regina King on her debut feature, One Night in Miami, cinematographer Tami Reiker then looked to bring style to its powerful and timely story. Scripted by Kemp Powers, based on his play of the same name, the critically acclaimed drama examines a night in 1964 marked by

“The rate of new cases this month is translating into a disastrous increase in the number of people with severe COVID-19 symptoms being sent to our local hospitals,” said a statement from the Los Angeles County Public Health Department on Wednesday. That point was clear in the numbers released by the department. They showed that,

EXCLUSIVE: With his FX limited series Devs behind him, Alex Garland has sets his sights on his next feature film setting his next project, Men, with A24 and tapping Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear to star. Sources add Buckley’s deal is not closed yet but is headed in right direction. Besides directing, Garland penned the script

Sundance Film Festival has cancelled its 2021 drive-in screenings in Southern California as the region continues to see a record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases. “Due to the terrible situation with the pandemic in Los Angeles, we have made the difficult decision to cancel our drive-ins in LA. We will be evaluating our other satellite screens

Wolfe Releasing has picked up the North American distribution rights to The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, the drama that premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and will get a theatrical and digital release on February 26. Ali LeRoi directed the film from a screenplay by Stanley Kalu. 13 Reasons Why actor Steven Silver

“We’re going to start seeing more rapid distribution of vaccines, I can assure you of that,” promised California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday. “That said, it’s gone too slowly, I know, for many of us. All of us, I think, we want to see 100% of what’s received immediately administered in people’s arms.” That has

Barbara Shelley, a renowned British horror movie actress and Doctor Who star, has died at the age of 88 after contracting coronavirus. Shelley was best known for her work in horror films made by British production outfit Hammer. She starred alongside Christopher Lee in 1966’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness, while other notable films included Rasputin:

The specialty box office space entered 2021 with two fresh titles and one under-the-radar pic with Vertical Entertainment’s Shadow In The Cloud, Netflix’s Pieces of a Woman and Amazon Studios’ Herself. In general, reporting on box office numbers has been tricky ground considering circumstances and that will continue in 2021 — especially with the specialty box

As 2021 dawned, China shot straight out of the box office gate with a new record. On Friday, the market hit a milestone for New Year’s Day. Estimates are coming in for January 1 at about RMB 600M ($92M), besting the same day in all previous years. The big result was generated largely by new

Los Angeles County ended 2020 breaking Covid-19 records and brought in the new year doing just the same. On Saturday Los Angeles Public Health officials reported that L.A. County has surpassed 800,000 total coronavirus cases – with nearly half of the cases being reported in the last month. To date Los Angeles County has confirmed

Mike Fenton, casting director on hundreds of films and TV shows including classics such as Chinatown, American Graffiti, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Bad News Bears, Norma Rae, The Godfather: Part 2, The Goonies, E.T., Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc, Blade Runner, Back to the Future and Chaplin has

The number of daily new Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles County had been falling for two weeks. From an all-time high of 21,411 on December 16, new cases had settled at between 13,000 and 15,000. While deaths remained punishingly high, there was some hope that a plateau in cases meant that transmission of the virus

Following the continuing success of its long-running Contenders events during Oscar and Emmy seasons, Deadline is making new additions to the franchise with Contenders Documentary, focusing on the year’s most noteworthy non-fiction films, and Contenders International, with its eye on a great lineup of foreign-language entries. Both of these events, designed to put the spotlight

A word for stocks in 2020: epic — as in monumental, as a bona fide crash in the spring alternated thereafter with convulsions of angst and optimism reflecting a world turned upside down by the first global pandemic in a century. Major indexes from the Dow Jones to the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Russell 3000

The specialty box office and streaming space is ringing in 2021 with a peppering of new titles starting with Shadow in the Cloud starring Chloë Grace Moretz, which opens in select theaters and drops on VOD and digital starting January 1, 2021. Directed by Roseanne Liang who co-wrote the script with Max Landis, Shadow in the