EXCLUSIVE: In the splashiest launch of the AFM so far, Guy Ritchie and Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer have enlisted Superman Henry Cavill and Baby Driver star Eiza González to lead their World War II action spy movie The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which Black Bear International has arranged financing on and is launching […]
Three films opening this weekend highlight women’s rights, class and racism — nothing ripped from today’s headlines exactly, but features with a distinctive moment and point of view that appear particularly relevant today. Call Jane, Holy Spider and Armageddon Time join Tár, Till, The Banshees of Inisherin and others already in theaters as it gets […]
EXCLUSIVE: Shelley Duvall (The Shining) is gearing up to return to screens via The Forest Hills — an indie horror-thriller from writer-director Scott Goldberg, which marks her first project in 20 years. (The first behind-the-scenes still featuring the actor can be found above.) Also starring Edward Furlong, Chiko Mendez and Dee Wallace, The Forest Hills […]
Elon Musk, who just took over Twitter in a $44 billion leveraged buyout, sought to allay fears about the direction of the social media company by saying it is forming a content moderation council. “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted. “No major content decisions or […]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the latest to join Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in the cast of Universal’s The Fall Guy, which has a March 1, 2024 release date. Production for the film is set to begin in Australia this fall. The feature film from Universal, 87North and Entertainment 360, is inspired by the 1980s series […]
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Dune: Part Two) is set to lead the psychological thriller The Pack, we can reveal. Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) is set direct and co-star in the film, which will be one of the hottest packages at next week’s American Film Market. The film, which begins shooting in March, follows a group […]
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zovatto is set to co-star opposite Anna Kendrick in the true crime thriller The Dating Game, which Kendrick is also directing. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is behind the film with Kendrick also producing. Denis O’Hare, Kathryn Gallaghe, Nicolette Robinson, Kelley Jakle and Autumn Best. Production is currently under way in Vancouver. The script is […]
Jerry Lee Lewis, one of rock ‘n roll’s pioneers and a Hall of Fame member in several genres, died Friday morning at 87. Lewis died at a home in Memphis, TN, his publicist Zach Farnum said in a release. Nicknamed “The Killer,” Lewis’s work as a singer, songwriter, and pianist was marked by a frenetic […]
EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has set Lexi Tannenholtz (Booger), Robert Colom (Mountains), Aya Hamdan (Out of Water), Shao Min Chew Chia (The Plutonians), Sabrina Stoll (Tiny Birds with Broken Brains) and Pin-Chun Liu (Wonderland) as the participants and projects for its annual Producing Lab, now in its 22nd year. Film Independent’s Producing Lab is an intensive that looks to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Eugenio Derbez and Ben Odell’s 3Pas Studios (Acapulco) has signed a multi-year first-look deal with ABC Signature for English-language TV content. As part of the deal, 3Pas will develop and produce English-language projects for the studio. Reporting to Derbez and Odell, Sonia Gambaro, the VP of 3Pas’ English-language TV division, will oversee development, identify […]
CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and Janet Yang Productions announced the second year of the Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge for Asian American and Pacific Islander Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers. The Challenge’s sophomore year kicks off with a Nov. 1st premiere, sponsored by AMC Theatres, where the four short films by year one’s winning filmmakers […]
New Line/DC’s Black Adam ends its first week with $83.4M, which is slightly ahead of what Dwayne Johnson’s Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw did in its first week at $83.1M. That’s impressive considering that this is a deeper universe DC character, and the other was connected to a long-established franchise, not to mention […]
CNN is scaling back on original series and films and is looking to move to in-house production, citing costs as the network looks to cuts in division budgets. The CNN Original Series and CNN Films units, led by Amy Entelis, have been behind such popular shows as Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy and the recent […]
NFL quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen confirmed they are filing for divorce, ending a 13-year marriage that spanned football and fashion. In a statement, Brady said the couple “arrived at this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together. We are blessed with beautiful and wonderful children who will continue […]
EXCLUSIVE: The trailer to Rachel Lears’ new documentary To the End debuts on over one thousand screens in theaters today, but we’ve got your first look at it here. Lears’ follow-up to her breakthrough film Knock Down the House documents young progressive activists and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in their relentless effort to engineer major action […]
EXCLUSIVE: After writing and producing the first two Venom films, Kelly Marcel is ready to make the jump into the director’s chair as sources tell Deadline she is set to direct Marvel and Sony Pictures’ Venom 3 starring Tom Hardy. Marcel and Hardy will also produce with Marcel writing the screenplay from a story by […]
EXCLUSIVE: Timothy Scott Bogart’s movie Spinning Gold about his music producer father, Neil Bogart, and the iconic label he built, Casablanca Records, will hit theaters on Friday, March 31, 2023. The release and distribution will be handled by Hero Partners in partnership with Howling Wolf Films, with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment distributing across transactional home entertainment. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Head (Ted Lasso), Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Rachel Matthews (Do Revenge), Andrew Schulz (White Men Can’t Jump), Grégory Montel (Call My Agent!) and Thomas Kretschmann (Westworld) have signed on for roles in the romantic comedy Upgraded, which Carlson Young is directing for Gulfstream Pictures, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Tempo Productions. The actors join an […]
Lucianne Goldberg, a literary agent who advised her friend Linda Tripp to secretly tape conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, has died at age 87 at her home. No cause of death was given by her son, political commentator and author Jonah Goldberg. Lucianne Goldberg was a conservative activist whose agency specialized in right-wing […]
Prime Video will collaborate with the Emmy-winning show Uninterrupted The Shop to introduce yet another Thursday Night Football (TNF) alternate stream offering. Titled “TNF in The Shop,” executive producers LeBron James and Maverick Carter and cocreator Paul Rivera will welcome special guests when Prime Video presents live coverage of Thursday Night Football on November 17, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Wittenstein has left the Hyperion Talent Agency. According to multiple sources, it all came down quickly this week. I hear a client of his approached the leadership of Hyperion, launched and run by former UTA agent Ryan Bartlett, with a complaint about Wittenstein’s behavior. Details are sketchy but according to sources, whatever Wittenstein […]
Tomorrow, we hear is Courtenay Valenti’s last day as Warner Bros. President of Production and Development after we told you first that she was exiting the Burbank, CA lot after a 33-year run. She is a free agent, with no strings attached to Warner Discovery, I hear, and given her development track record in the […]
“There are no small roles,” said famed acting teacher Konstantin Stanislavski. Did he foresee the future of William Jackson Harper, whose addition to the cast of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been confirmed by Disney sources? What that role is for Harper is being kept under wraps for now. Harper is best known for […]
A dancer who was a body double in the 2004 Harvey Weinstein-produced film Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights took the stand Thursday in Weinstein’s Los Angeles sexual assault trial. A so-called “prior bad acts” witness, Ashley M. gave a harrowing account of an hotel encounter with Weinstein during the Miramax film’s 2003 production in Puerto Rico […]
Leslie Jordan was honored with a touching tribute during Thursday night’s episode of Fox‘s Call Me Kat, after the actor and comedian died in a single-car crash in Hollywood at the age of 67 on Monday. The tribute featured some of Jordan’s most memorable scenes from the sitcom, as well as his appearances on several […]
