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A word to wise film producers: Start tracking the racial, gender and disability status of your employees now. The film Academy’s Aperture 2025 inclusion program is closer than you think. Because once again, an important point is tucked in the fine print. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its plan to

With presumed Western blockbusters such as Black Widow, No Time to Die, and The Eternals delayed until later this year, the rambunctious Detective Chinatown franchise has leaped into the void in a very, very big way. Few, if any movies have ever raked in so much coin in so little time. The figures speak for

Lee Daniels says the 1972 Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues, for which Diana Ross earned an Oscar nomination, was the beginning of his desire for a film career. The filmmaker says he’d never seen Black people portrayed in that manner before, and it affected him deeply. Still when Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Park’s

A male adult who was rappelling from a helicopter and fell near the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch was hospitalized on late Saturday afternoon. According to Los Angeles County Fire Department reports and radio station KHTS the person was conscious in stable condition when first responders arrived on the scene. Deadline reached out to the Blue

EXCLUSIVE: In a surprising turn, we have learned that Brett Ratner is lining up a directing comeback on his long-time passion project about pop duo Milli Vanilli. Millennium Media is teaming up with Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment on the project and is launching sales ahead of the upcoming virtual EFM. This would mark Ratner’s first feature

On Friday evening — the witching hour for bad news — California Secretary of State Shirley Weber reported that 1,094,457 signatures had been received in the effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. Of those signatures 668,202 had been verified by local election officials, a process which must take place before they can be counted. About

Sam Riley has boarded the cast of Alice Lowe’s Timestalker, starring alongside Lowe, Natasia Demetriou and Jacob Anderson in the romantic comedy chronicling one woman’s unrequited love across several centuries. This is Lowe’s second feature after 2016’s Prevenge, which was at Venice. Vaughan Sivell is producing for Western Edge Pictures. HanWay Films has picked up

Courtney Love, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role in The People vs. Larry Flynt, is reminiscing on her screen roles and has said “a bunch of #MeToos” were responsible for her exit. “I sure do miss acting sometimes. To the tune of a great director. One of the greatest experiences, as a

Netflix said Thursday that it is turning Sulwe, the bestselling children’s book by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, into an animated musical, the latest move by the streamer to bolster its feature animation slate that already includes Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure, Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild, Nora Twomey’s My Father’s Dragon and

In January, President Joe Biden promised to provide state and local health officials a three week window into how many vaccine doses were on the way. “Until now we’ve had to guess how much vaccine to expect for the next week, and that’s what the governors had to do: ‘How much am I getting next

Brilliant, bad and a little bit mad is Disney’s catchy description for that legendary wearer of fur Cruella de Vil in this new trailer for Cruella, the live-action backstory to the villainess first introduced in 1961’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Starring Emma Stone in the title role, Disney’s Cruella, the studio says, is “about the

California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked on Wednesday if he thinks the entire state might be out of the most restrictive purple tier of his Blueprint for a Safer Reopening by the first day of spring. “Yes,” said the governor, “based on trend lines.” Those trend lines include the numbers in the state’s largest county

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Whirlybird from A&E IndieFilms. The doc, which premiered at last year’s Sundance, is the feature debut of Matt Yoka. It follows a husband-and-wife news helicopter team who covered some of Los Angeles’ most historic events. Encompassing high-profile stories of the 1980s and 90s such as the L.A.

Salsa music pioneer and Fania Records co-founder Johnny Pacheco has died. Fania Records announced Pacheco’s death on Instagram Monday afternoon. He was 85. “He was much more than a musician, bandleader, writer, arranger and producer, he was a visionary,” the Instagram post read. “His music will live on eternally and we are forever grateful to

As the specialty box office space continues to navigate the digital VOD and day and date waters, numbers are trickling in but, again, they don’t necessarily give a solid reflection of a film’s box office performance as they did in the before-times (aka pre-Covid). On this President’s Day holiday weekend, award season faves like A24’s

Los Angeles County is slowly easing out of the holiday coronavirus surge as Public Health officials continue reporting fewer than 5,000 new daily cases of Covid-19. On Saturday Public Health counted 3,254 new confirmed coronavirus cases in Los Angeles, continuing the county’s sub-5000 new daily cases streak. While more than 3,000 new cases and nearly

Brandy showed TikTok followers that reprising the titular role in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella after more than 20 years is far from impossible. On Friday the star of the Emmy-winning musical put her own magical spin on a viral TikTok challenge to promote and celebrate the musical’s Disney+ premiere. Like most TikTok makeup brush challenge

The Lost City of D, starring Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock, is set for 2022 release. Paramount announced on Saturday that the romantic comedy from Adam and Aaron Nee received a wide release date for April 15, 2022. Described as a Romancing The Stone-style romantic comedy, The Lost City of D follows a reclusive romance novelist

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) today announced the nominees for its 10th AACTA International Awards with Searchlight’s Nomadland in the lead at six mentions including Best Film, Director, Actress, Screenplay and Supporting Actress and Actor. Also scoring several mentions are DreamWorks/Netflix’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Netflix’s Mank, Focus’ Promising

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo actually got nominated for an Academy Award with 2011’s Bridesmaids as Best Original Screenplay. That hilarious comedy also made a mint at the box office for Universal and sparked numerous imitators. Wiig, who also starred in it, steadfastly has resisted turning out a sequel, so I guess what we get with their