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 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

Succession’s Jeremy Strong says he was very nearly cast as Captain America. Well, Captain America’s pre-serum scrawny body anyway. The ideas was that it would be Chris Evans’ head audiences saw, digitally plopped onto Strong’s body. “They told me there was a top-secret film about Captain America,” Strong told The Times U.K. of the for

The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced the 2022 Film Competition Jury and Audience Award winners alongside the Screenplay Competition winners. In the festival, writers are recognized for their contribution to film, television, theatre and new media. The competitions received over 5,000 film submissions and over 10,000 script submissions. FILM JURY AWARDS Narrative Feature: Welcome,

In anticipation of its release this coming week, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued its promotional tour with a historic premiere in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday evening. This was a major event — and the first time a Marvel movie has held a premiere locally — with a large group of talent, filmmakers and press

Has there ever been such a joyless film awards season? I mean, other than 2020, when Covid closed the theaters, or 2001, after the terror attacks. Personally, I can’t remember one. Abortion clinics are promoting Call Jane. Weinstein trial jurors are warned not to watch the She Said trailer, lest angry movie-think taint their judgment.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first trailer for Verdi Productions and VMI Worldwide’s My Father Muhammad Ali, the documentary highlighting the life of Muhammad Ali Jr., son of the world’s most iconic boxer. The movie offers a unique insight into Muhammad Ali – aka “the greatest” – through the eyes of his biological son, Muhammad Ali Jr.