Movies

Top Gun: Maverick is an even bigger movie than most people thought it would be. The film is an absolute smash due to its incredible practical action sequences with fighter jets, and also due to its surprisingly emotional story, but I feel like there’s one thing about Top Gun: Maverick that not enough people are

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first teaser for Mali Elfman’s feature directorial debut, Next Exit—a darkly humorous ghost story, which is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. In the genre-bender written and directed by Elfman, a research scientist makes national news by proving she can track people into the afterlife. It’s at

Florida-born actress Arielle Kebbel was just 21 years old when she was cast as Carrie — the beautiful, smart and overachieving high school student plotting against the popular boy — in the 2006 teen romantic comedy film “John Tucker Must Die.” Arielle shared the big screen with Jesse Metcalfe as the attractive jock who can

The forthcoming Deadpool 3 marks the first film in the franchise that will be produced after Disney bought 20th Century Fox. Fans have expressed concern that the R-rated Merc with a Mouth might become just another kid-friendly jokester under the new ownership. Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick eased those fears in a recent interview

It’s summer and the sheer amount of cash being generated on a non-holiday weekday is clearly showing that. In the wake of scoring the best Memorial Day opening of all time at the domestic box office with $160.5M, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick didn’t let up yesterday grossing $15.8M. While that’s the third best Tuesday in May stateside

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today released the eligibility requirements for the undated 2023 Golden Globe Awards. The updated rules now allow a hybrid approach of in-person, DVD or online screenings of eligible films in English and other languages, effective June 15, 2022. “With the current relaxation of restrictions by federal, state, and local health

Ever since it was released, Jared Leto’s Morbius has been receiving an unusual amount of attention in the form of social media memes. Sometimes, the stem from Matt Smith’s bizarre dances in the film (one of which he performs after turning into a vampire). Other times, the lean into the idea of Morbin Time, a

Covid Puts Paid To Shanghai Fest At Eleventh Hour At the eleventh hour, the organizers of the Shanghai Film Festival have cancelled this year’s event due to the pandemic, which continues to ravage parts of Asia. The festival — China’s most prestigious — was due to kick off later this month. Organizers said: “Given the

Step into Owen Wilson‘s shoes for just a moment, and imagine how it feels to walk out of your home to this scene — your luxurious Tesla, freshly stripped by thieves! 😬 We got this shot of Owen’s Tesla gently placed on blocks, after the crooks made off with all 4 tires and rims —

Chloe Okuno’s feature debut Watcher recorded the biggest opening weekend grosses ever for IFC Films and its IFC Midnight/Shudder label on 764 U.S. screens — also one of the distributor’s widest ever releases. The genre thriller that world premiered at Sundance then SXSW reported an estimated weekend gross of $815,000 and a PSA of $1,067.

Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick, as projected yesterday, has flown past $500M worldwide, with $548.6M through its first two frames. The offshore weekend is estimated at $81.7M, an incredible hold of -20%, to lift the international box office cume to $257M in 64 markets. This does not include big Tom Cruise hub Korea

Michael B. Jordan and Lori Harvey have been one of those couples who are so adorable that it hurts. However, after one year of dating, there are now rumors circulating that the sweet cute couple has split. As for what happened between the two, it seems that the truth is more complicated than we think,

Hundreds of pro filmmakers will join forces in New York City this summer to create six short films, as part of the fifth Women’s Weekend Film Challenge. A grassroots initiative founded in 2017 by filmmakers Katrina Medoff and Tracy Sayre, WWFC aims to address the lack of women and nonbinary people behind the camera and on

Amber Heard says she’s buried under legal bills — including the $8.3 mil she owes Johnny Depp — but during the trial, she spared no expense to keep herself and her family in the lap of luxury. TMZ has learned Amber made this 13,000-square-foot Virginia mansion her home away from home — it’s about 25

3-2-1 GO! Universal Studios Hollywood today offered the first look at Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge, which will be the signature ride for its forthcoming all-new immersive land: Super Nintendo World. Like its counterpart in Japan, Universal’s first stateside Super Nintendo World will feature Bowser’s Castle, the dungeon of which will house the Mario Kart ride.

Indie distributors, grabbing a frame between Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion, are out with a handful of decently wide releases for the specialty space including Neon’s Cannes title Crimes of the Future (127 screes), IFC Midnight thriller Watcher (764) and Roadside Attractions’ WWI period piece Benediction (87). Sony Pictures Classics launches Phantom of

The Producers Guild of America is out with the key dates for its 2022-23 PGA Awards season. The 34th annual gala will be held Saturday, February 25, at the Beverly Hilton, and the nominees will be revealed in three parts during December and January. Nominations for sports, children’s and shortform will be announced December 8,

To say that this was a massive week for Johnny Depp would be an understatement. For weeks, the actor has been locked in a defamation trial with former wife Amber Heard, and a verdict was finally reached. The jury found Heard guilty on three counts of defaming Depp, with the jury siding with the Oscar

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-filmmaker Cheryl Nichols (Doula) has signed with Stride Management. Nichols recently directed the comedy Doula, produced by Chris Pine’s company Barry Linen Motion Pictures, which Universal Pictures will release across digital and VOD platforms on June 28. Her third feature starring Troian Bellisario, Arron Shiver and Will Greenberg centers on Deb (Bellisario) and Silvio (Arron

GoFundMe is wasting no time in cracking down on pages trying to make money following the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial … removing a phony $1 million campaign claiming to be raising money for Amber to pay Johnny’s damages. Shortly after the verdict, a fundraiser, created by someone named Kimberly Moore, was set up

“It was probably my favorite episode to shot, because it was really a delight,” says Evil star Katja Herbers of the “S Is For Silence” from Season 2 of the Robert and Michelle King created supernatural drama. As you can see in the video above, Herbers was speaking this week during Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series

Moviegoers aren’t losing that loving feeling for Top Gun: Maverick this weekend as the movie is destined to become Tom Cruise’s top-grossing movie ever at the domestic box office with $273.6M. The 3x Oscar nominee’s previous high earning title was Steven Spielberg’s 2005 sci-fi title War of the Worlds at $234M. Top Gun 2 is expected to beat War of

Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has grossed $185M at the international box office through Thursday. This puts it on course to cross $200M today in offshore play. Couple that with domestic’s equally supersonic performance and Maverick will reach $400M+ global in less than two full frames of play. On Thursday, Tom Cruise’s return to the cockpit

Top Gun: Maverick has become the pre-summer blockbuster to see. Moviegoers have been posting all over social media about their cinematic experiences. Of course, Hollywood stars were no exception. One star had a special connection to one of the film’s stars. After watching the high-flying blockbuster, Shailene Woodley had to gush about her former co-star

Under current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, 13 of California’s 58 counties moved today into “high” levels of Covid and are supposed to require masks in indoor public spaces. They include some of the state’s most populous counties, like Santa Clara and Sacramento as well as some of its smallest, like Del Norte

Play video content Instagram / @trainwithquan A fitness trainer tried to do his best LeBron James impression at the King’s “Hustle” movie premiere on Wednesday — attempting to throw down a sweet dunk — but he came up just short on the landing, and broke his tooth on the hoop’s stanchion! Quan Bailey was on

“Happy Pride! So excited to celebrate with all my LGBTQIA+ friends and fans,” wrote the original TV Wonder Woman Lynda Carter yesterday. The actress, who has enjoyed the character’s resurgence in the past few years and her connection to it, wasn’t done with just one tweet. Happy Pride! So excited to celebrate with all my

Talk about a hold. Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick‘s Mach 10 momentum at the domestic box office continued into Wednesday with $14.8M, repping a 6% dip from Tuesday’s take; a great weekday take. The Tom Cruise movie’s cume now stands at $191.1M, having already bested the 1986 original film’s domestic box office ($180.2M), and Cruise’s Mission: Impossible ($180.9M).

Universal/Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion stormed into Mexico on Wednesday with $3M worth of previews. That’s the best opening preview performance in the rebooted franchise, overtaking 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by 53% and 2015’s Jurassic World by 81%. Both of the earlier films had sneaks on a holiday. As we noted yesterday, the Colin Trevorrow-directed Dominion is putting

Following yesterday’s verdict in the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, Savannah Guthrie sat down with the Aquaman 2 star’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft to ask her about the case and get her take. Bredehoft made it clear she feels like the verdict was a “setback” for women, also claiming that Heard has been “demonized”