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Disney announced on Tuesday that Captain America: Brave New World, one of the latest films from Marvel Studios, will begin streaming exclusively on Disney+ on May 28. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s Anthony Mackie returns in the film as Sam Wilson, who now wields the shield of Captain America. After meeting with newly elected […]

Amélie Bonnin’s romantic dramedy Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) made history at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, becoming the first debut feature to ever open the event.  It also got a five-minute-plus ovation from the crowd. Leave One Day builds on Bonnin’s 2023 César-winning short film of the same name. The romantic musical revolves around rising […]

Along with Michael Shanks, the writer and director of upcoming body horror film Together, actor-producers Alison Brie and Dave Franco have been named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement. Other defendants in the suit, filed Tuesday, include WME, which reps Shanks, Brie and Franco, and the film’s distributor Neon, which snapped up rights […]

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin serving as the opening-night pic. This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard Linklater’s Paris-shot Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague, Jochim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia […]

Robert Benton, who co-wrote movies such as Bonnie & Clyde and directed films such as Kramer Vs. Kramer and Places in the Heart, died at his home in Manhattan on Sunday at age 92. His passing was confirmed to the New York Times by Marisa Forzano, his assistant and manager. Benton was born in during […]

Opening Cannes, like closing it, has traditionally been a poisoned chalice. The festival has tried a few moves to address the latter, mostly predicated on the fact that, by the end of nearly two exhausting weeks, nobody cares anymore. But first night is still a tough nut to crack, and with the selection of a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank) and Scoot McNairy (A Complete Unknown) are set to topline The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, a new prison break thriller written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson. Currently in production in Georgia, the film follows a teacher in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures swooped in and preemptively acquired film rights to Aftertaste, the breakout debut novel from rising literary talent Daria Lavelle. Doug Robinson is producing. Set to be published on May 20, 2025 by Simon & Schuster, Aftertaste has already been recognized as one of Apple Books’ Best Books of May and one of Goodreads’ and Barnes […]

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Dominique Thorne has inked with WME. Best known in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Riri Williams aka superhero Ironheart, Thorne’s character was introduced in the $859M-grossing, Oscar winning, Ryan Koogler directed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Thorne next stars in the Disney+/Marvel Studios series Ironheart which will hit the serve on June 24. She’ll […]

In a soiree intersection of media, labor and real politick, SAG-AFTRA wants to pull the home of Hollywood together to get Tinseltown working again. “Revitalizing California’s most recognizable industry isn’t just about making things better for show business, it’s about making things better for everyone,” proclaimed Joely Fisher last week at a literal and figurative […]

Amazon MGM Studios announced during its Upfronts presentation on Monday that its holiday comedy Oh. What. Fun., teaming The Idea of You filmmaker Michael Showalter with star Michelle Pfeiffer, is set to begin streaming on Prime Video on December 3rd. They also unveiled a sneak peak, which you can view above. An adaptation of the […]

Michael B. Jordan, appearing at the Amazon upfront Monday to tout his work on what he called the “Creed-verse,” began with a shout-out to Sinners. Drawing one of the biggest ovations of any star walking the Beacon Theatre stage, Jordan said, “I want to say thank you to everyone who’s been supporting Sinners in theaters […]

After Arnold Schwarzenegger’s self-described “speech” about Christmas movie The Man with the Bag ran on a bit at the Amazon upfront Monday, Jamie Lee Curtis came to the rescue. Schwarzenegger plugged the movie (repeatedly misidentifying it as The Man in the Bag) in his customary machine-like fashion. After initially wowing the crowd and earning the […]

Ari Aster’s fourth film, Eddington is on the horizon. The Western thriller and black comedy film follows Aster’s Beau Is Afraid (2023) starring Joaquin Phoenix, who has reteamed with the director on his latest project. Aster was also behind films like the Florence Pugh-starring Midsommar (2019) and Hereditary (2018) and C’est La Vie (2016). For […]

Samuel French, an actor who has appeared in Killers of the Flower Moon and Fear the Walking Dead, has died. He was 45. According to French’s friend and collaborator Paul Sinacore, who directed his final performance in the upcoming film Towpath, French died on May 9. Sinacore remembered French as a “dear friend and an […]

Jamie Lee Curtis has succeeded in having Meta remove an AI-generated ad featuring her likeness. The Oscar winner took to Instagram on Monday to publicly “shame” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into taking down a “totally AI fake commercial” on his social media platform. “It’s come to this @zuck,” she started in the caption. “Hi. We […]

More than 350 film world figures, including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem, have published an open letter on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival condemning “silence” over the deadly impact of Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza. The letter, published on the website of France’s Libération newspaper on Monday evening, was headed […]

Following reports of behind-the-scenes drama with his role as star and co-creator of HBO‘s The Idol, Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye took a less hands-on approach to his latest project. The Hurry Up Tomorrow star praised director Trey Edward Shults for taking the helm and letting him “just focus on performing” in the upcoming musical psychological […]

Following reports that Vincent Gallo would star alongside Karla Sofía Gascón in director Stefania Rossella Grassi’s The Life Lift, the actor has denied his involvement in the film and initiated a he-said, she-said back-and-forth. The Brown Bunny star recently claimed Grassi “knowingly, without my permission, leaked a false rumor” of his casting to the press […]

EXCLUSIVE: Upgrade is launching international sales in Cannes on comedy The Escort from Wedding Crashers and Shanghai Knights helmer David Dobkin, and starring in-demand stand-up comedian Matt Rife. Written by Justin Adler with revisions by David Dobkin, the Black List script is a character-driven feature that follows “a reckless, flirtatious flight attendant on the brink of losing everything, who is […]

EXCLUSIVE: Colton Dunn (The Recruit), Hayley Magnus (Loot), and Andrew Lopez (Platonic) are new additions to the cast of Judgment Day, writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s new comedy for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Will Ferrell and Zac Efron. Character details are under wraps. The news comes just ahead of Amazon’s annual upfront presentation. Judgment Day follows a […]

Tony Todd‘s death in November left an indelible mark on the horror community, which makes one of his last onscreen appearances in Final Destination: Bloodlines all the more emotional. Ahead of the sixth installment’s premiere in theaters on May 16, franchise producer Craig Perry spoke to Deadline about working with Todd one last time as […]

Greg Cannom, the four-time Oscar-winning makeup and prosthetics artist behind such seminal films as Dracula, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Vice, has died at the age of 73. Rick Baker, a longtime colleague and frequent collaborator, announced the news yesterday on Instagram, writing, “I just heard the sad news of the […]

More than six years into the journey of bringing Candy Darling’s life story to the big screen, Hari Nef has taken matters into her own hands. After Deadline reported in 2022 that the actress signed on to portray the LGBTQ pioneer and Andy Warhol superstar, Nef recently gave an update on the project, which she […]