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Fearing they won’t be able to set casts for film packages to sell at key festival markets, indie film producers are appealing to SAG-AFTRA to fast-track interim casting agreements that are holding things up.   A number of projects have fallen away and others are at risk, a handful of producers told Deadline, for projects

David Ayer is furious about a fast one Hollywood has apparently pulled. In a recent interview on Jon Bernthal’s “Real Ones” podcast, the writer/director (Suicide Squad and End of Watch) said he has “nothing to show” for writing The Fast and the Furious, the first film in the long-running series. “Biggest franchise in Hollywood, and

Just hours after the studios and streamers made public their latest “comprehensive package” towards a deal with the striking WGA, the guild has responded – and its seems the AMPTP and top CEOs may have strategically overplayed their hand. In fact, 113 days into the scribes strike, talks may have broken down altogether — again.

Logan Paul’s initial review of Oppenheimer was not favorable to the Christopher Nolan film and had him walk out of the movie theater because it wasn’t as action-packed as he seemingly expected. “I walked out of Oppenheimer,” he said on the latest episode of ImPaulsive. “I didn’t know what they were trying [to do]. ‘What

Mubi has snapped up rights across multiple territories for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming feature Priscilla ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Under the deal, the global film distributor, production company and streaming service will retain all rights in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America, Benelux and Turkey.

Why did it take decades for a biopic to be made about Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir? Filmmaker Guy Nattiv, who boarded the “open assignment” project well before his live-action short Oscar win for Skin in 2019, tells us why, in addition to Golda‘s recent shepherding as a feature. Helen Mirren,

EXCLUSIVE: Troy Kotsur, the Oscar-winning star of CODA, will open the inaugural edition of the Little Venice Film Festival. The festival, which will be held in venues across West London this October, has been established “to enhance inclusivity and accessibility in the film industry,” event founder Marc Cameron told me. A festival program of indie features,

It’s been eight years since The Peanuts Movie was released and there’s been no official word if another movie will be produced. Ahead of the Apple TV+ special Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie, Charles Schulz’s son Craig Schulz said in an interview that he’s hopeful a new Peanuts movie would happen. “I could tell you, but

Michael Cera was one of the standouts on Barbie giving life to the only Allan in the Greta Gerwig-directed film. The Arrested Development alum is opening up about how he came to star opposite Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. “It was a kind of very last-minute casting,” Cera told GQ in an interview before the

SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles Local and the Writers Guild of America will hold a “National Day of Solidarity” rally on Tuesday outside Disney Studios. “SAG-AFTRA and WGA will join forces with the AFL-CIO and its affiliates from across the nation and across industries for a National Day of Solidarity,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement today. “In

Alice Cooper reveals he has only once ever brought up with his friend Johnny Depp the subject of the actor’s acrimonious divorce, which saw Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard embroiled in courtroom battles on either side of the Atlantic. Cooper, who has for eight years played in the band Hollywood Vampires with Depp, told

WGA and SAG-AFTRA pickets have been canceled in Los Angeles on Monday, August 21 due to Hurricane Hilary. We hear the decision was made out of an abundance of caution as the storm is expected to make landfall on Sunday. Further cancelations could be made depending on the gravity of the damage. It marks the

EXCLUSIVE: The meteoric rise of women’s soccer is continuing. The origins of the women’s game is to be explored in a feature from director Farren Blackburn and Free Turn Entertainment. Lily and the Rockets is set against the backdrop of World War I and is based on Rebecca Stevens’ novel of the same name. News

The Writers Guild and the AMPTP met Thursday for a third time this week in an attempt to hammer out a deal to end the ongoing writers’ strike. It remains uncertain whether they’ll meet again Friday, but Deadline has confirmed that the studios’ CEOs are planning to meet Friday to discuss where things now stand.

Talking Heads bandmates David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison will make a public appearance together next month in Toronto for the first time since their 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Bringing them together is the upcoming 40th anniversary of the group’s concert film, Stop Making Sense. A newly restored

Oppenheimer marked the sixth time Cillian Murphy starred in a film directed by Christopher Nolan following The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk. Out of the 13 films Nolan has directed, Murphy has been in close to half of them and there’s one particular title that the Irish actor would’ve liked to be a part

Police in South Korea today said that 69 officials from theater chains including CGV, Lotte and Megabox, and from 24 film distributors, have been referred without detention to the prosecutor on charges of obstruction of business, local media reports. This follows an investigation that began in June into suspicious box office numbers. Police claim the

EXCLUSIVE: After announcing new docs on NFL Hall of Famer Mel Blount and MLB icon Tommy John in Whatever It Takes and The Bionic Man, respectively, Winter State Entertainment has unveiled The Hitman: A Tommy Hearns Story as its latest sports documentary. The boxing pic directed by Winter State principals Hamid and Camille Torabpour, which

Sean is speaking out following the allegations made by Michael Oher claiming he was tricked into signing a conservatorship which the Tuohys used to profit off his name. Oher was the subject of the 2009 film The Blind Side, which in turn was based on a book by Michael Lewis. The John Lee Hancock-directed movie

Jessica Chastain has an idea for a sequel to The Help that would include reprising her role of Celia Foote and Octavia Spencer’s role of Minny Jackson. The 2011 film by Tate Taylor was based on the book by Kathryn Stockett about an aspiring young white journalist who writes a book from the point of