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The bidding for film and TV rights is shaping up to be wild and wooly on an unwritten book about the stunning collapse of FTX cryptocurrency exchange titan Sam Bankman-Fried. Lewis, the master of channeling complicated financial and statistical data-based stories into hit films — The Big Short, The Blind Side and Moneyball to name

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has picked up North American rights to actor Mo McRae’s feature directorial debut, A Lot of Nothing — a satirical thriller starring Y’Ian Noel (Insecure), Cleopatra Coleman (The Last Man on Earth), Lex Scott Davis (Rebel), Shamier Anderson (Invasion) and Justin Hartley (This Is Us). AMC Networks’ business unit has slated the

On the evening of February 20, 2018, bride-to-be Martina Kušnírová was looking online at wedding dresses while at the home she shared with her fiancé, journalist Ján Kuciak. They would not survive the night. The documentary, directed by Matt Sarnecki, investigates the shocking murder of the young couple in the Galanta District of Slovakia, and finds evidence that

Lily Collins, Charlie McDowell and Alex Orlovsky have partnered to launch Case Study Films, a production company that will look to tell compelling and outside-of-the-box stories through a commercial eye in both film and television.   Case Study will develop material internally and with outside filmmakers and talent, discovering, supporting and giving voice to the next

One of the most anticipated presumed Oscar contenders, and one of the very few remaining to debut before year-end, dropped last night with the first screening of Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Paramount’s big Christmas release, and hopeful awards magnet chose the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre for

 Paramount Pictures announced today that it has entered an exclusive, multi-year production deal with Walter Hamada.  Under the deal, effective, Jan. 1, 2023, Hamada will spearhead building out the studio’s mainstream horror genre pod, with the goal of releasing several, low-to mid-budget films per year across theatrical and streaming.  “With his track record for groundbreaking success,

UPDATED, 5:06 PM: “He knew something was off when we were at the SAG Awards and the way Harvey looked at me,” Jennifer Siebel Newsom told defense lawyer Mark Werkman, jurors and onlookers Monday during her testimony at Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeels rape trial, discussing her husband and then California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s knowledge

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive clip from What Remains — a murder mystery thriller marking the final film completed by Anne Heche. The feature from writer-director Nathan Scoggins will be released in theaters and on digital by Gravitas Ventures on December 2nd. What Remains follows a recently paroled convict (Kellan Lutz) who returns to the

Saudi Arabia film and digital content production and finance company Telfaz11 celebrated its 11th anniversary on Friday by announcing the start of shoot for its 11th feature film, Night Courier by Ali Al Kalthami. Telfaz11, which was a leading player in Saudi Arabia’s YouTube space of the 2010s, has rapidly moved into feature film production

French filmmaker Leos Carax discussed the highs and lows of this 42-year career at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Sunday. He was candid about the setbacks and sense of doubt about his place on set in the early days of a shoot, across his eight feature directorial credits to date spanning Boy Meets Girl (1984),

IMAX CEO is opening up about how important the theatrical window is and how she thinks some streaming services are realizing it now. “The debate is over,” Richard Gelfond said in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live. “The argument that you can skip a theatrical window and make up for it on streaming just isn’t

SATURDAY UPDATE: Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever added seven material offshore markets on Friday, including the UK, Spain and Japan. Through yesterday, the international box office cume is $64.7M. Globally, including domestic’s strong performance out of the gate, the cume through Friday is $148.7M.  We are now eyeing an overseas launch weekend in the $140M

Just days before the Santa Fe District Attorney is expected to announced her intentions in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin last year, the actor Friday has slammed crew members of the indie Western with a negligence lawsuit. Filed on a day when Los Angeles Superior Court is closed for the Veterans

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the Australian drama Ocean Boy, starring Luke Hemsworth (Westworld). The Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company plans to release the pic formerly titled Bosch + Rockit in theaters and on demand on February 3, 2023. The feature directorial debut of Tyler Atkins is set along the Australian

The latest edition of Deadline’s Sound & Screen is officially underway Thursday night in Los Angeles, showcasing genre-defying and moving original music from some of the film industry’s most respected talents who are making waves during awards season. The program taking place at UCLA’s Royce Hall features composers from the films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

“A new day is dawning,” the Marquis de Gramont says. “New ideas, new rules, new management.” Check out the first trailer above and the poster below. Here’s your plotline: John Wick (Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy

Director Steven Spielberg hates the way streaming services – and HBO Max in particular – are treating filmmakers. Speaking to the New York Times, Spielberg said moving theatrical releases to streamers in the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 may have changed the film industry forever. “The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise

EXCLUSIVE: Mario Van Peebles (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) has wrapped production in Montana on Outlaws, a new Western that he wrote, directed and stars in for Quiver. Others joining Van Peebles in major roles include Whoopi Goldberg (Till), Cedric the Entertainer (The Neighborhood), Edward James Olmos (Mayans M.C.), John Carroll Lynch (Big Sky), William

Kumail Nanjiani is talking about the potential sequel to Eternals, the Marvel film directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao. During an appearance in a podcast, Nanjiani was asked about the superhero movie after his co-star Patton Oswalt hinted that a sequel was in the works. “I have no idea,” Nanjiani said on the Bingeworthy podcast

2018’s blockbuster Black Panther marked several milestones for Marvel and the whole MCU in ways they would be hard to follow, not least being its wide-ranging impact culturally, its groundbreaking game-changing opening for Black filmmakers in front of and behind the camera, its imprint on social issues, and certainly the fact that it became the