Movies

“This could easily have been set in Hollywood,” Emerald Fennell said of her new film Saltburn, during a post-screening Q&A at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The actual setting is, in fact, a long way from Hollywood. Fennell’s sophomore follow-up to her Oscar Best Picture-nominated, Best Screenplay-winner Promising Young Woman, Saltburn

UPDATED with latest additions: SAG-AFTRA, which launched a strike against Hollywood studios on July 14, launched its interim agreements program that allows independent productions with no direct ties to members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to continue filming. The guild has been adding to the list of projects granting waivers since

Gavin Newsom said in an interview today that he has been “deeply involved with talking” to both sides of the long-running Writers Guild strike and “we’re going to be meeting again later this week.” In an exclusive sit-down with Dana Bash, clips of which aired on CNN, the California governor responded to her question by

EXCLUSIVE: Angelique Cabral (Big Sky, Life in Pieces) is set to star in the Disney Animation feature Wish, Deadline has learned. She will voice Queen Amaya opposite Chris Pines who stars as King Magnifico, ruler of the magical kingdom of Rosas, where wishes really do come true.  Wish follows Asha (Oscar winner, Ariana DeBose), a sharp-witted

American Fiction Section: Special Presentation / People’s Choice Award Winner Director: Cord Jefferson  Writers: Cord Jefferson Logline: American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that

Bollywood’s Jawan and star Shah Ruhk Khan livened up a slow specialty market, grossing close to $2.5 million in 776 locations in week two for a cume close to $12.2 million. The Yash Raj actioner is no. 6 at the domestic box office. Its weekend split was $694,724k Fri.; $1.024m Sat,; $775k Sunday as Jawan

A new trend on the fall festival circuit this year is the biopic of the unknown hero, something that seems unthinkable now in the digital age. There’s One Life, about the Schindler-like achievements of Nicholas Winton, who saved nearly 700 Jewish children from certain death in German-occupied Prague. There’s Rustin, about the gay, Black activist

AGGRO DR1FT Section: Midnight Madness Director: Harmony Korine Screenwriter: Harmony Korine Logline: In a surreal, dystopian Miami, the world’s greatest assassin is pursued by a demonic crime lord. U.S. Sales Agent: CAA Panelists: Harmony Korine (director) First Screening: Sept. 12, 2023. Key Quote: “It’s a new kind of film for me. I was actually not even really wanting to make movies

Russell Brand has published a video across his social media channels in which he preemptively denies a “litany” of allegations about unspecified criminal behavior at the height of his celebrity. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star said two UK “mainstream media” publications had sent him notice of their intention to publish stories about his alleged misconduct.

Jonathan Majors’ trial on domestic violence charges once again has been delayed and may not happen until late this year now. In a rescheduled hearing in New York City today, Judge Michael Gaffey listened to arguments from both the actor’s defense team and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on the sharing of evidence and a

Depending on who you speak to, Aggro Dr1ft has either been a hideous blight on the fall festival circuit or… Well, currently, there’s not exactly a consensus on what there is to love about Harmony Korine’s in-your-face fantasia, a nightmare vision of Florida made all the more hellish by its refusal to resemble anything you

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has announced its acquisition of all North American rights to Helen’s Dead, a mystery comedy starring Dylan Gelula (Dream Scenario), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), Tyrese Gibson (Fast X), Annabelle Dexter-Jones (Succession), and Oliver Cooper (Red Oaks). Set to hit theaters in at least the top 10 markets, the film will open day-and-date

Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried are open to starring in Mamma Mia 3 and they recently opened up about what it would take for the film to become a reality. “I’m up for anything,” she told Vogue in an interview conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike. “I’ll have to schedule a knee-scoping before we film, but

THE NEW BOY Section: Gala Presentations Director: Warwick Thornton Writers: Warwick Thornton Logline: Starring Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, this spiritual drama from Warwick Thornton (TIFF ’17’s Sweet Country) hauntingly evokes Australia’s fraught colonial legacy through the story of one very special child. Sales Agent: The Veterans Premiere Date: Sept 14, 2023 Panelists: Warwick Thornton Key Quotes: “Christianity didn’t think that way about our [belief],

Kate Winslet is opening up about her upcoming film Lee and said she had to be “brave” in order to do a topless scene. “I had to be really fucking brave about letting my body be its softest version of itself and not hiding from that,” she told Vogue in an interview before the SAG-AFTRA

The Anti-Defamation League is launching a new offshoot in Hollywood, the Media & Entertainment Institute, to help battle stereotypes of Jews in movies and television that may fuel rising antisemitism. The center wants engage directly with industry leaders “to improve societal perceptions of Jewish people and understanding of antisemitism,” the group said today. “At a

At a Toronto International Film Festival that saw its wattage dimmed by a SAG-AFTRA strike; it took a Talking Heads reunion at the 40th Anniversary of Stop Making Sense to crank up the festival’s volume to an 11 in Spinal Tap-speak. The new A24 re-release of the Jonathan Demme concert film, which moderator Spike Lee

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Small has been set to direct the buddy comedy Happy V-Day and actioner The Raid, under a two-picture deal with Winter State Entertainment. Prep on both titles is underway, with production dates to be set upon the resolution of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The deal speaks to the move back into narrative features

A teaser trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was dropped on Sunday showing Jason Momoa back in the DC Universe in the sequel that’s dropping on December 20. The full trailer will be dropping in four days and you can watch the preview in the video posted above. James Wan returns to direct the

MOTHER, COUCH Director: Niclas LarssonScreenwriter: Niclas LarssonLogline: Three estranged children come together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store, in this film boasting all-star talent including Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, F. Murray Abraham, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Rhys Ifans. Panelists:  Niclas Larsson (director)First Screening: September 9, 2:30 p.m. EST,