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Taylor Swift has the highest-grossing concert tour of the year, and she’s about to conquer movie theaters, as well. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, opening Friday, October 13, has already sold more than $100 million in advance ticket sales in 8,500 theaters across 100 countries around the world. Will it have a world premiere? Yes.

Spend on Italian TV and film productions shot upwards by 28% to €1.8B ($1.9B) last year, the latest report into the country’s sector revealed today. Closing the MIA Market, the likes of Audiovisual Producers Association (APA)/Cinecittà President Chiara Sbarigia, Netflix Italy boss Tinny Andreatta and Ministry of Culture Undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni presented the APA research,

John Carpenter isn’t living in a Barbie world. He doesn’t even know who Allan is. The Halloween and The Thing director told the Los Angeles Times that while Margot Robbie was “fabulous,” most of the box office smash film went “right over my head.” The 75-year-old Carpenter admits he doesn’t get out much, and watches

Documentaries like Netflix’s Harry & Meghan are “almost in a different category,” the docs boss of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment said today. Responding to a question from Deadline at MIA Market, former HBO producer Sara Bernstein also said the “fees have raised in terms of what this access looks like and what

The Grove in Los Angeles hosted the world premiere of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on Wednesday, October 11. Invited fans gathered at the AMC The Grove 14 after the entire mall was shut down for the event. AMC devoted all 14 of the venue’s theaters to exclusively host the premiere of Swift’s concert film,

It’s not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel’s good news. The director’s spectacular Jesus in the hood movie, The Book of Clarence, starring a mighty fine LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black

John Chau’s death in 2018 made headlines around the world: an evangelical young man killed on an island in the Andaman Sea inhabited by an isolated Indigenous group. Chau came to North Sentinel Island bearing a waterproof Bible and dreams of converting the North Sentinelese to Christianity, but his ill-fated mission ended in a hail

There was no picketing Monday by SAG-AFTRA members due to the Indigenous Peoples Day holiday, but the leadership of the actors guild did return to the bargaining table with the studios and streamers. After wrapping up its latest negotiation session at SAG-AFTRA’s Wilshire Boulevard offices, chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and other guild leaders will meet

Dwayne Johnson is addressing the backlash he received earlier this year when he alongside Oprah Winfrey started a fund to aid victims of the Maui wildfires. “I get it and I completely understand, and I could have been better. And next time, I will be better,” Johnson said in a video he shared on Instagram

Anthony Hickox, the British director known for horrors such as Waxwork and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, has died aged 64. Hickox had spent his recent years in Romania, where police found him dead last week at his house in Bucharest after friends had reported not seeing him for some time, according to close friend

Refresh for latest…: Just as it came in lower than hoped for domestically, Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Believer didn’t fully convert overseas audiences, summoning a $17.9M international box office debut for $45.1M global. The R-rated David Gordon Green-directed reboot/sequel did see some of its 52 launch markets give it a No. 1 start, while in

Rasty and nasty with a cherry on top, Fast Charlie is a down-home Southern gangster yarn with a staggering body count but a sweet taste awaiting the survivors at the end of the day. This adaptation of Victor Gischler’s 2003 novel Gun Monkeys is an inelegant affair that gushes hot blood all over the place

EXCLUSIVE: Moving out of the documentary space with Nyad — the true but lightly fictionalized story of Diane Nyad, an athlete who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s — director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi came to Contenders London with producer Andrew Lazar and Bonnie Stoll, the real-life inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the movie, Diane’s friend

After sitting it out last year, Deadline’s Contenders film series returns to London today with a strong lineup featuring Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann among the panelists attending the awards-season event. Contenders London gets underway this morning at London’s Ham Yard Hotel and will feature panels on 13 of the year’s

EXCLUSIVE: Steelyard Pictures, the production company behind 2022 horror thriller The Inhabitant, has attached Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) to direct The Dire Wolf, a supernatural thriller to shoot in New Mexico, for release next year. No word yet on the casting front. But the film tells the story of Hank Whitmore, a sharp and

In a chat for Interview magazine with her Law & Order: Organized Crime costar, Christopher Meloni, Ellen Burstyn marveled at the amount of work she’s getting at her age. Now reprising a role she first did 50 years ago for the new film, The Exorcist: Believer, Burstyn termed the amount of work she’s doing is

UPDATED, 11:34 a.m.: Sony Pictures Classics has firmed up release plans for its drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, which charts the relationship between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis. Based on the stage play by Mark St. Germain, who wrote the script, the film opens in theaters in New

CAA had been silent all day Wednesday since Julia Ormond named the uber-agency and Disney in her sexual battery lawsuit against the imprisoned Harvey Weinstein, but tonight the Bryan Lourd-led company is calling its inclusion in the action “baseless.” In fact, CAA stopped just short of citing the claim of breach of fiduciary duty by

Wind gusts quivered the tree limbs, rainfall ricocheted off the roads, and in an instant, power cut off at the old Opera House on Elm Street in Camden, Maine, scuttling screenings there at the Camden International Film Festival. With that mid-September atmospheric outburst, Hurricane Lee did in the scheduled U.S. premiere of Alex Gibney’s new

This is Day 83 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.  The language was salty but the mood was upbeat at a union rally in Midtown Manhattan by striking actors and their supporters from the 150,000-member Transportation Workers Union.  With talks between the actors union and the production studios paused until Wednesday, the crowd at SAG-AFTRA’s solidarity picket with the