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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 […]