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A pair of ruby slippers Judy Garland wrote during the filming of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz were auctioned off and fetched $28 million. Heritage Auctions handled the sale, and with the buyer’s premium, the slippers sold for $32.5 million. “There is simply no comparison between Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers and any other piece of Hollywood memorabilia,” […]

Selena Gomez is defending herself from Eugenio Derbez’s criticism of her work on Emilia Pérez. Derbez was a guest on the Hablando de Cine podcast, where he said that Gomez’s acting was “indefensible.” Gomez plays the role of Jessi del Monte in the Jacques Audiard musical crime comedy film. The Wizards of Waverly Place alum […]

As I approached her Friday night at her table where well-wishers were congratulating her on being this year’s recipient of the 38th American Cinematheque Award, Jessica Chastain caught my eye and immediately grabbed me and exclaimed, “Can you believe this? Can you believe this?, I am so stressed out tonight. I have never been so […]

Barry Keoghan has deactivated his Instagram account amid fans’ response to his reported split with Sabrina Carpenter. The Oscar nominee explained his decision in a statement after Carpenter fans were “crossing a line,” even showing up outside his family’s homes while spreading “disgusting commentary” about him online. “I can only sit and take so much. […]

Eva Longoria says that after she “went hard back into acting” following her feature directing debut, 2023’s Flamin Hot, she’s “itching” to return behind the camera. During her first visit to the Red Sea Film Festival, the multi-hyphenate stopped by the Deadline Studio to talk about her love of wearing many hats, and discoveries made […]

Red Sea Film Festival honoree Emily Blunt stopped by the Deadline Studio here in Jeddah this week after receiving an award in recognition of her career and lasting impact on the film industry.  This is the Oppenheimer Oscar nominee’s first time at the festival, and getting the award (which she jokes in the video above is […]

Renowned Hong Kong director and producer Soi Cheang is repping his country for the first time in the International Feature Oscar category, with this year’s box office hit Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. The film has made over $111 million globally since it first premiered locally in early May, and then went on to […]

Household names at home but working under the moniker of Filip och Fredrik, Swedish TV hosts and journalists Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson are now in the international spotlight with their documentary The Last Journey, Sweden’s Oscar entry.  The movie follows a road trip they organize for Hammar’s elderly father, retired French teacher Lars, taking him […]

More than 25 years later, Mike Myers is breaking down the basis for one of his most quotable characters. Although he admitted Lorne Michaels provided some inspiration, the Saturday Night Live alum revealed that the Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil was originally based on another more specific character reference. “No, it was Donald Pleasence forever,” […]

Tunisian Oscar entry Take My Breath explores the clash between desire and identity as the life of 23-year-old seamstress Shams (Amina Ben Ismail) is overturned when their intersex identity is exposed. Targeted by an obsessive attacker, Shams escapes to the capital city and lives in the shadows, shunned by true love and rejected by society’s […]

Although it has been the subject of many acclaimed documentaries, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has yielded very little in the way of fiction. Damian Kocur’s Under the Volcano, which has been chosen as Poland’s official submission for this year’s Best International Feature Oscar, is unusual in that it takes place entirely on the […]

Spain’s International Feature Oscar entry Saturn Return centers on real-life Granada indie rock group Los Planetas. However, says director Isaki Lacuesta during Deadline’s Contenders Film: International event, “It’s not a classical biopic. We didn’t want to make a monument.” In the late 1990s, Los Planetas found itself at a delicate moment in the band’s then-young […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman says she was smitten the moment filmmaker and writer Halina Reijn revealed the name of a movie she was writing. “I love the title. So, I was like, ‘Oh! I’d like to be a Babygirl!'” The Oscar-winner says that when she read the script, she was “completely sort of hypnotized” by its “very modern […]

EXCLUSIVE: On Friday night, producer Charles Roven receives the 2024 Power of Cinema Award from the American Cinematheque for 40 years worth of films that have moved the cultural needle. That includes Oppenheimer, for which Roven accepted the Best Picture Oscar along with Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas. His list is long with films that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Barrera is no longer with WME. The actress signed on with talent agency around 2019 as her feature career was taking off with a big role in Jon M. Chu and Warner Bros’ feature take of Broadway musical In the Heights. The actress remains represented Sugar 23 management, ImPRint and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and WIF’s ReFrame and WIF on Thursday released their 2025 ReFrame & WIF Oscars Voter Guide, the second year the groups have teamed to create a list of the awards season’s Academy Award-eligible women, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming, and trans people of all genders. WIF has been running a gender equality campaign for […]

After more than 20 years, Anna Wintour has enough distance from The Devil Wears Prada to enjoy an evening at the theater. While attending a gala performance for the West End musical version of the 2006 film, the Vogue editrix addressed comparisons between herself and the character Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep) from the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Asa Germann, a cast member on Prime Video’s The Boys and college spin-off Gen V, is the newest addition to the cast of Scream 7. Character details are under wraps. Germann joins an ensemble that also includes the returning Neve Campbell, who stars across the franchise as final girl Sidney Prescott, as well as […]

Ben Stiller is looking back at Zoolander 2 and still doesn’t understand why it didn’t match the first film’s success. In an appearance on Hot Ones on December 5, Stiller opened up about the Zoolander sequel after host Sean Evans asked which of his movies “was most misunderstood or treated unfairly by critics.” “It’s very hard to analyze why […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series that shines a spotlight on the scripts for this year’s buzziest films is now pointing the viewfinder on Saturday Night, the Jason Reitman-directed film that tells the origin story of NBC’s venerable late-night franchise by focusing on the 90 minutes leading up to its TV debut. The flick written by Reitman and Gil […]

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has acquired film rights to The Strange, the 2023 sci-fi thriller novel by Nathan Ballingrud, enlisting Aisha Porter-Christie (Amazon MGM’s Citizen) to adapt the screenplay and J.D. Dillard (Devotion) to direct. The project reunites Dillard with Black Label Media on the heels of Devotion, his historical war epic for Columbia Pictures, […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with Steve McQueen’s Blitz, a searing period action drama that imagines one story of a million during The Blitz, when Nazi Germany bombed the UK for eight straight months during World War II. Written and directed by the Oscar-winning McQueen, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Participant and Conduit Films have teamed to produce a documentary on the iconic doll line American Girl created by Pleasant Rowland, who has granted film rights to her story and a behind-the-scenes look at the popular characters she created for the first time. Directed by Conduit Films’ founder Christy Wegener, All American Girls features […]

Casey Bloys was questioned by press this evening at a rare Max showcase in London as a small number of attendees were treated to sneak peeks of The White Lotus, The Last of Us and Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. A trio of the streamer’s most anticipated shows were unveiled […]

Édith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier and their four children have many stamps in their passports. Many, many stamps. From Namibia, Zambia, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Turkey, Egypt, Ecuador, Colombia and more. The family from Montreal punched their ticket to see the world not simply for the thrill of it, but with a very specific […]

After 50 years, Francis Ford Coppola has one regret about making what is largely considered the best sequel of all time. According to the 5x Oscar winner, Hollywood’s ever-growing obsession with continuations is the result of his petty demands for making The Godfather Part II (1974), for which he fought Paramount Pictures on returning the […]

If the Swifties have anything to say about it, Amy Adams might just have her next role lined up. After a fan theorized Adams “would win an Oscar” for her portrayal of Taylor Swift‘s publicist Tree Paine in a potential biopic, the 6x Academy Award nominee reacted to a petition for the fantasy casting. “That […]

Kate Winslet is not someone shy to awards ceremonies. She has an Oscar for The Reader and seven nominations overall. She has two Emmys for Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown. She even has a Grammy for a spoken-word children’s recording, along with five Golden Globes and five BAFTA Awards. That leaves her just one […]

Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso) has landed a role alongside John Cena and Jessica Biel in Apple’s live-action Matchbox film from Skydance and Mattel Films. While the film is inspired by Mattel’s iconic real-world die-cast toy vehicle line of the same name, there’s no word yet on who Richardson is playing. The Matchbox brand was invented […]

From director Simon Otto, the animated feature That Christmas is based on a trilogy of books by the writer of Notting Hill, Love, Actually and more — Richard Curtis. The title recalls a particularly memorable Christmas for Santa Claus (voiced by Brian Cox) as he recalls having to brave a blizzard with only one of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher) has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. Gugino was most recently seen in the Max Original drama series The Girls on the Bus, opposite Melissa Benoist, Christina Elmore, Natasha Behnam, Brandon Scott, and Scott Foley. Last year she starred in Netflix’s The Fall […]

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting scripts from the year’s most talked-about movies continues with The Substance, Mubi’s satirical horror from writer-director Coralie Fargeat. Demi Moore stars as Elisabeth Sparkle, a once famous actress and now a fading fitness celebrity who decides to use a black market drug that creates a young, better version of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton has boarded In the Garden of Tulips, an Oscar-qualified live-action short written by and starring Ava Lalezarzadeh, as executive producer. The project reunites Cretton with director Julia Elihu, with whom he initially connected nearly a decade ago as one of the founders of the film program at her high school, […]

At the Gotham Awards last weekend, Timothée Chalamet called the five years he’s spent prepping to play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown “the greatest education a young artist could receive.” Chalamet’s Dune co-star Oscar Isaac put the stakes of the performance more succinctly. “I mean it’s Dylan — the Holy of Holies,” Isaac said […]

Universal’s feature take of the Broadway musical, Wicked, wasn’t only named Best Film of 2024 by the National Board of Review, but the movie was also named Best Director for Jon M. Chu, while its stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are receiving an NBR Spotlight Award for their creative collaboration. A24 after coming up […]

During a Q&A held at the Torino Film Festival, Sharon Stone reflected on her 1995 revisionist Western film The Quick and the Dead, during which she called out director Sam Raimi for his lack of “loyalty.” The iconic actress, who was in the northwest Italian city to receive a lifetime achievement award and present the […]

The Gotham Awards gave A24’s darkly comedic psychological thriller A Different Man its Best Feature award Monday in New York, with the ceremony as usual kicking off the movie awards season. A Different Man, written and directed by Aaron Schimberg, stars Sebastian Stan as Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical medical procedure to […]

Deadline Portrait Studio hosted talent on December 2 at the 34th edition of the Gotham Awards, held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Talent from films nominated stopped by including director C. Mason Wells from Between the Temples; Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, and Katherine Mallen Kupferer from Ghostlight, Pamela Anderson and Gia Coppola […]

Following up the arrival of Wicked Part One and Gladiator II at the box office right before Thanksgiving is a feat in and of itself, but following a beloved first feature installment gave Moana 2 even more of a wave to surmount. Directors Dana Ledoux Miller, Jason Hand and David G. Derrick Jr. navigated these […]

Tom Cruise is attached to star in Deeper, a supernatural thriller that Doug Liman has in early development, the filmmaker has revealed. Liman shared the news with Showbiz411’s Roger Friedman at a recent NYC screening of the documentary Gaucho Gaucho, expressing his interest in crafting a “scary” movie at this stage of his career. “I […]

Jesse Eisenberg appears determined to do it all. Best known as an actor in such movies as The Squid and the Whale, Now You See Me, Zombieland, Adventureland, Batman v Superman, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Eisenberg also is an established playwright and author who has contributed numerous stories […]

The 34th annual Gotham Awards kick off the fall awards season in New York City Monday night with 39 feature films and 25 performances nominated in ten award categories for outstanding and breakthrough performances and films, director, and screenplay. The gala is taking place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City and attendees and […]

In Japan, you can set your watch by the arrival of a train. “Delays” (if that’s the word) tend to be calculated in seconds – not minutes or hours. “This precision results from a combination of advanced technology, meticulous planning, and a deep-rooted cultural emphasis on punctuality and respect for others,” notes the website ScienceABC. […]

Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) is the newest addition to the cast of Scream 7, Deadline has learned. Details as to O’Connor’s role are under wraps. They’ll star alongside the returning Neve Campbell, as well as Isabel May, who has been tapped to play the daughter of Campbell’s final girl Sidney Prescott. While plot details […]

Kate Winslet recalled the body shaming she received after starring in Titanic and revealed that she encountered the people who made the vicious remarks. In a new interview, Winslet got emotional and teared up as she remembered the criticism about her weight after the success of the James Cameron film. “It was absolutely appalling,” Winslet […]

When George A. Romero first started work on 1968’s Night of the Living Dead he very nearly ended up making an apocalyptic vampire movie. Something wasn’t quite right, however: vampire movies were a little bit … obvious? Indeed, Hammer’s Dracula cycle was still in mid flow, and the poor Count had been reduced to fighting […]

Samuel L. Jackson wants to dispel a myth about the Academy Awards — namely the humility of creatives who say they are honored just by the reception of a nod. In a recent interview with the Associated Press promoting Netflix’s August Wilson adaptation The Piano Lesson, the MCU actor joked that he’s been in the […]

Demi Moore has a tried-and-true approach when choosing her next film roles — and it might not be what you think. The veteran actress appeared on a recent episode of Sean Evans’ popular Hot Ones video interview series, revealing that a certain degree of risk is crucial to the projects she takes on — including […]

Despite his latest film being censored, Luca Guadagnino remains cautiously optimistic about the power of filmmaking. After a screening of Queer was banned in Istanbul earlier this month, the Oscar-nominated director vowed to “fight any institution that wants to tarnish” cinema while speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival, where he presides over this year’s […]

As Wicked continues to fuel an online storm of memes, one cast member is drawing a line in regards to ableist comments. Marissa Bode, who stars in the Jon M. Chu-helmed adaptation of the Broadway musical as wheelchair-bound Nessarose Thropp, called out recent jokes about the character that have made her feel “deeply uncomfortable” as […]