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EXCLUSIVE: After a breakout year that included starring roles in HBO’s The White Lotus and Euphoria, Sydney Sweeney is now ready to jump into Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters. Sources tell Deadline that she has joined Dakota Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web. S.J. Clarkson is on board to direct the pic. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless
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Under the new hours-watched weekly metric charts implemented by Netflix back in November, the Shawn Levy-Ryan Reynolds re-team, The Adam Project, exploded with 92.4 million hours watched by the streamer’s subscribers for the week ending March 13. The figure includes all hours watched for the movie, both those who’ve watched the movie once and multiple times.
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Sister, the firm founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider, has taken a minority stake in UK production company Dorothy Street Pictures, we can reveal. Dorothy Street is the non-fiction company whose slate includes Netflix’s recently announced tell-all Pamela Anderson documentary which has buy-in from the former Baywatch star. According to the companies,
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The Cannes Film Festival has added a new official partner ahead of this year’s festival: China-owned social media platform TikTok. In a press release, the social media company said the partnership would allow the platform to give its users an inside look at the festival, and to help Cannes reach new audiences. The deal will
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A group of theater owners from giant Regal to independent cinemas have signed on to screen Ukrainian director Oles Sanin’s 2014 feature film The Guide starting Friday with proceeds going to relief efforts for the war ravaged country. The expanding list of national and regional chains that have agreed to show the film include Regal,
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Lady Gaga isn’t just a pop star, entrepreneur and Academy Award-nominated actress – she’s also, apparently, a superhero. The lauded songstress was on hand at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, and she couldn’t help but rush to the rescue when West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler ran into a wardrobe malfunction. Rachel Zegler attended the
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The Universal Orlando resort has seen quite a few refurbishments in the past couple of months, closing attractions like Jurassic Park River Adventure to freshen them up for eager parkgoers. While Revenge of The Mummy is still closed, with a lot of changes rumored for its next form, another long-closed attraction has finally reopened. After
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There are popular franchises, and then there’s Harry Potter. The Wizarding World has enthralled the public for decades, especially the eight-film movie franchise. Said movies made the young stars into household names, like Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton. He recently shared a reunion photo with Harry Potter Dad Jason Isaacs, but jokes it looks like
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Sometimes the saying “It’s a small world” is pretty apt. For example, back in January, Fifty Shades of Grey’s Jamie Dornan talked about how back in 2008, he was lived with fellow actors Robert Pattinson, Eddie Redmayne, Andrew Garfield and Charlie Cox, all of whom joined him in hitting the big time. Pattinson has since
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A day after Disney announced it was suspending its business in Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine, Sony Pictures Entertainment has made it known that it is doing the same. This goes beyond the standard theatrical releases which both studios earlier halted. Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra sent an email to staff
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After years of feuding, Selling Sunset stars Chrishell Stause and Christine Quinn are showing signs of rekindling their friendship. Chrishell recently highlighted her colleagues at the Oppenheim Group for International Women’s Day. Despite their rocky history, Chrishell made sure to include Christine in the shout-out. Now that more time has passed, it looks like the
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Where to begin with Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan (The Daniels) new film Everything Everywhere All At Once. Having its world premiere at SXSW 2022, it certainly lives up to its name. It’s an ADHD-fueled acid trip that takes up every bit of space during its 2:30 minute runtime. The Daniels create a vast world around the
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Neon said Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton will begin its tour of U.S. cinemas starting April 1. The distributor announced last year that the film — which opened in late Dec. for a one-week Oscar qualifying engagement at NYC’s IFC Center — planned to pursue an unusual release strategy it calls a “cinemas only…forever”
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UK training body ScreenSkills is actioning one of the key recommendations from Jack Thorne’s report into disability in TV by funding the training of Accessibility Co-ordinators. Similar to Intimacy and Covid Co-ordinators, the role will support TV productions in hiring and working with disabled talent and crew and support disabled professionals to work well, safely
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UPDATED: We’ve heard that a number of these movies, which are VFX heavy, are being pushed due to the logjam many post-prod effects houses are facing as productions ramped up during Covid. The Flash alone has 2,500 VFX shots, we understand. The upside here is that it doesn’t put all of Warner’s DC event titles
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