Movies

At Comic-Con@Home on Friday, Netflix unveiled a never-before-seen blooper reel for its acclaimed horror trilogy, Fear Street. The three-parter directed by Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) is based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series of the same name, taking place in the years 1994, 1978 and 1666. Part One picks up in ’94, watching as a group

Since hitting screens in 2004, the romantic tearjerker The Notebook has had many imitators, but none has quite made audiences, mostly female, swoon quite like that one did. The litmus test for this type of film, generally from some sort of connection to author Nicholas Sparks, is still that Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams box office hit. The latest

EXCLUSIVE: The Chi’s Cory Hardrict is set to star in the indie thriller Die Like a Man. Eric Nazarian is writing and directing the pic which is the first part of a street trilogy revolving around themes of masculinity, violence, and gentrification in 21st century America. Hardrict portrays a recently paroled west side gangster who after serving a

EXCLUSIVE: Following its well-received debut in Cannes Film Festival’s inaugural Premieres section, Andrea Arnold’s latest feature, Cow, is recording brisk business for Paris-based Mk2 Films. Streaming service and theatrical distributor Mubi has boarded the movie for Italy, Germany, Austria and Latin America, adding to the deal it did for UK, Ireland and Turkey pre-festival. Pic

The National Association of Latino Independent Producers has partnered with Disney, Amblin Partners, Starz and the MPA to launch Latino Lens, an industrywide incubator designed to mold and cultivate the next generation of executive producers. NALIP’s program will accept up to 12 participants in its first year. It will offers eight weeks worth of active,

HBO and HBO Max added 2.8 million subscribers in the second quarter, reaching 47 million in the U.S. and helping parent AT&T beat Wall Street forecasts. Total AT&T revenue of $44 billion rose almost 8% from the year-earlier period and topped analysts’ consensus estimate of $42.6 billion. Earnings per share went up 7% to 89

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy winner Merritt Wever is boarding Midday Black Midnight Blue, the upcoming feature debut from Samantha Soule (The Queen’s Gambit, Outer Banks, Godless) and Daniel Talbott (The Conners, The Mist). Actors Dale Soules (Orange is the New Black) and Shane McRae (Sneaky Pete) have also signed on to the previously announced cast, which

Mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations on film and TV productions will now be allowed, on a restricted basis, under a new agreement reached tonight between Hollywood’s unions and the major companies. The new protocols, they said in a joint statement, will give producers “the option to implement mandatory vaccination policies for casts and crew in Zone A

EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino has long taken his encyclopedic cinematic influences, including genres and actors from the past, and blended them through his filter to create wildly inventive films that have influenced many up and coming filmmakers. Now, he has done a similar thing that I bet will not be copied by other filmmakers. After steeping

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales company Bankside Film has inked a development overhead deal with Sydney-based production company Causeway Films, which has credits including Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale. The agreement will see Bankside provide development finance in exchange for a first look on international sales rights and production finance. The companies have worked previously

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions has acquired Hard Luck Love Song, with plans to release the crime thriller exclusively in theaters on October 15. Justin Corsbie’s debut feature was inspired by the song “Just Like Old Times” by acclaimed singer/songwriter Todd Snider. The gritty, modern-day love story follows Jesse (Michael Dorman), a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of

French-Greek filmmaker Romain Gavras, whose credits include the 2018 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection The World Is Yours and 2020 Toronto premiere Our Day Will Come, is underway on his new film, this time with Netflix. The streamer is keeping title, plot and genre underwraps on the mysterious movie, which is now in production in France.

Arthouse bounced higher this weekend as Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain hit $1.9 million — the strongest specialty opening this year and the best yet for Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) His documentary is No. 8 at the U.S. box office. Pig starring Nicolas Cage hit No.

On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 11 new deaths from Covid-19, as well as 1827 new positive cases and 462 hospitalizations. Today’s numbers bring L.A. County to a total of 24,579 deaths from the coronavirus, and 1,266,227 confirmed cases. Test results have now been made available to nearly 7,170,000 people, with

It just may turn out to be that the one, maybe only, thing the 73rd Annual Cannes Film Festival may have in common with the Oscars is that it is most remembered for screwing up the presentation of the big winner. As you recall, in 2017 Best Picture winners Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed

After a Covid-induced break last year, the annual amFAR Gala Cannes supporting AIDS research returned to Cap d’Antibes on Friday night, and with it, host Sharon Stone who had been absent from the Cannes Film Festival-adjacent event for several years. The venue was new this year, with the Villa Eilenroc standing in for the Hotel

SAG-AFTRA’s upcoming election is taking shape, with the union’s ruling party – headed by presidential candidate Fran Drescher – today unveiling its full slate of candidates. Yvette Nicole Brown is running for president of the Los Angeles local, and Ezra Knight is running for president of the union’s New York local – each as part

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm breakout Maria Bakalova takes the lead in Women Do Cry from her native Bulgaria, debuting at Cannes. And during a visit to Deadline’s studio at the festival, she said some aspects of this latest project are actually in line with Borat‘s themes. “It’s been amazing,” she said, “because I can say there

“The U.S. criminal justice system: Once you fall in, it’s almost impossible to get out. But what if you could beat the system at its own game?” Here is the first trailer for Naked Singularity, a heist thriller starring Star Wars’ John Boyega and Ready Player One’s Olivia Cooke from executive producers Ridley Scott and Dick Wolf. Check it out above.

The eclectic veteran French director Jacques Audiard shifts gears yet again (his last feature was 2018’s unusual western, The Sisters Brothers) with Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades), an adaptation of stories by the American comic book writer and artist Adrian Tomine. It’s an oddly segmented affair that involves a great deal of sex — quite