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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning Up composer Michael Giacchino will be making his big screen directing debut with a brand new reboot of the 1954 sci-fi man-eating monster movie Them! at Warner Bros. Giacchino is currently meeting with writers in hopes of getting the production up quite soon. In the original Gordon Douglas directed film, which was

Banijay Takes Full Control Of Beyond And Prepares For Rebrand Banijay has taken full control of Mythbusters firm Beyond International and intends to rename and rebrand the Australian outfit as the “necessary integration process” kicks off. The circa-$30M acquisition was first revealed in October last year, giving the acquisitive French powerhouse control of an 8,000-hour

UPDATED with Renner posting on Instagram: The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in a press conference Tuesday revealed further information about Jeremy Renner’s New Year’s Day snow-plowing accident near his home in Reno, which saw the two-time Oscar nominee suffering chest trauma and orthopedic injuries, per his reps. The press conference started mere minutes after the

Exhibition giant Cineworld, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. last September, has said it will not sell off any of its assets individually, and has clarified that neither it nor its advisors have participated in discussions with AMC regarding the sale of any of its cinemas. This comes about two weeks after

Deadline has an update on Jeremy Renner, whom we revealed yesterday was airlifted to a hospital in Reno yesterday in “critical but stable condition with injuries suffered after experiencing a weather related accident while plowing snow.” We are now told that Renner had surgery today, and in recovery but still in critical condition., Also that

China’s box office in 2022 dropped 36% versus 2021, reaching a little over RMB 30B ($4.35B). According to Chinese state media, citing figures from the China Film Administration, 85% of the 2022 revenue was generated by local movies, led by The Battle at Lake Changjin II with RMB 4.07B ($636M at historical rates, per comScore).

Sony’s A Man Called Otto began the first phase of a three-step rollout this weekend in an exclusive run at four LA and NY theaters, grossing $60k, for a $15k per screen average, over the three-day weekend. The four-day estimated gross is $75K, or an $18.7k PSA. The test for the remake of the Swedish film

This Deadline feature, now in its third year, seeks to spotlight the work of the buzziest new British writers in the business. This eclectic bunch may have different voices, but they all share something in common: They made their mark 2022 and there is the promise of much more to come. They will soon boast

Unlike his most famous film character, Anthony Hopkins won’t celebrate with a nice Chianti. Hopkins extolled his 47 years of sobriety on Thursday with an Instagram message urging people to seek help with alcohol and other substances if they need it. The Oscar-winning actor turns 85 today, and said getting sober saved his life. “I’m

U.S. stocks just wrapped their worst year since 2008 with media and tech leading the downward spiral. Streaming got messy, linear TV declined, a theatrical recovery sputtered, inflation, interest rates, unemployment and geopolitics turned ugly, recession jitters hit advertising, and M&A mostly ground to a halt. When it didn’t, it probably should have (i.e., Elon

Neil Jimenez, who won three Indie Spirit Awards for writing River’s Edge and writing and co-directing The Waterdance, has died. He was 62. His sister, Kathleen Serio, said Jimenez died December 11 of heart failure in Arroyo Grande, CA. Jimenez won his first Spirit Award in 1988 for his screenplay to River’s Edge, the Tim

EXCLUSIVE: South Asian-focused streamer ZEE5 Global will roll out Sooraj R. Barjatya’s first feature in seven years on January 6, 2023. ZEE5 snapped up streaming rights to the film, which stars Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan among others, in November. It is already in cinemas in India and will roll out in 190+ territories on ZEE5 Global

Courtney Love is airing out old grievances involving Fight Club star Brad Pitt.  The actress and Grammy-nominated musician has asserted that she was set for the David Fincher film’s key role of Marla Singer — eventually to be played by Helena Bonham Carter — before Pitt intervened and got her “fired.” Love says that this

Today would have been Marvel Comics leader Stan Lee’s 100th birthday. To celebrate, Disney+ has announced that an original documentary on the man will arrive at some time in 2023. Lee died at age 95 in 2018. He was the cocreator of Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four, among many

Controversial comedian Bill Cosby is hoping to put his legal troubles aside and get back on the road next year, he revealed today in a radio interview. “WGH Talk” host Scott Spears asked Cosby if he would return to comedy in the coming year, and was told “Yes.” “When I come out of this, I

Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist featured in the Navalny documentary, has been put on Russia’s “wanted” list. According to the Russian Interior Ministry’s website, via CNN, Grozev is “wanted under an article of the Criminal Code,” but doesn’t further cite the article. Grozev took to Twitter and said, “I have no idea on what grounds

“I had a bit of a crisis of faith as we were cutting the movie together,” admitted James Cameron of his billion-dollar-grossing Avatar: The Way of Water. “It was too violent. I wanted a balance between the beauty, the epiphany, the kind of spiritual aspect of the film, with the action, and I felt it

Rian Johnson is opening up about the creation of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and said he lamented the film having Knives Out in its title. Johnson tried hard to make a sequel to his 2019 hit Knives Out that would be its own standalone story with only detective Benoit Blanc crossing over from

A producer and aspiring actor, as well as a production company with which he is a principal, are suing a second producer and his firm in a dispute over alleged unpaid commissions and other promises concerning financing of three films with the likes of Chris Pine, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Anna Kendrick and Kate Beckinsale.

Kate Hudson and Jamie Lee Curtis are the latest Hollywood actors to weigh in on the topic of the “nepo baby,” a topic rekindled this month by a New York magazine cover story (and much more devoted to the topic) about the phenomena of the children of famous actors who follow in their parents’ footsteps.