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The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie rights are going on sale this week in Hollywood. J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy novels are nearing the beginning of a new adaption on Amazon Prime Video with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series. The show comes after Peter Jackson brought the Lord of the Rings franchise

Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, The Loudest Voice) will star alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Marvel film Kraven the Hunter, from director J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year, Margin Call), Deadline can confirm. Details with regard to the film’s plot and the character Crowe is playing are being kept under wraps. But Kraven (Taylor-Johnson) is

Those theatrical motion picture studios earning Oscar Best Picture nominations today will put their best foot forward at the box office, and increase the cinema footprint of their contenders in an effort to capitalize on their success and raise the pics’ profiles. And while the box office has improved, natch, because of the reopening of

Douglas Trumbull, the legendary special effects master who helped create the worlds of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and Star Trek: The Motion Picture has died, according to a social media post from his daughter, Amy Trumbull. He was 79. Trumbull developed the slit-scan photography process that was

When The Color Purple arrived in theaters in 1985, it marked a change of pace from Steven Spielberg’s typical blockbusters. The period drama was based on the best-selling novel by renowned author Alice Walker, who served as a consultant and writer on the film. The film went on to become a critical and commercial hit,

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the virtual EFM buyers are circling rights to Tom Hanks comedy A Man Called Otto, which is among the most sought-after packages in the market. We understand there are multiple big offers for the project from streamers, studios and indie distributors, including an eight-figure offer that would mark a record

The key medic on “Rust” is now taking legal action against Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and Dave Halls … suing them over the fatal shooting that killed Halyna Hutchins. Cherlyn Schaefer filed suit against the movie’s armorer and assistant director — plus the production company and others — claiming the defendants’ alleged negligence caused her severe emotional

Is this finally the year Netflix’s dreams come true and it takes a Best Picture Oscar? On the basis of the showing for Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog with 12 nominations, a figure that surprised the best guesses of even those inside Netflix, you have to unequivocally proclaim this film as the front runner now. It is

A new tie-in novel for The Batman provides fans with some fascinating background details for Paul Dano’s version of the Riddler. An iconic member of Batman’s infamous rogues gallery, the Riddler was first created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang in 1948, and would go on to join the likes of the Joker as one

Robert Blalack, a towering figure in the world of visual effects, died on Wednesday. His wife Caroline Charron-Blalack confirmed the news to Deadline. He was 73. Blalack said he specialized in “solving the Visual Effects requirements of ‘can’t be done’ Motion Picture productions.” He proved the truth of that statement on his second film project,

Refresh for latest…: While Spider-Man: No Way Home continued to lead the international box office for studio films this weekend, weaving its way to a worldwide cume of $1.77B through Sunday, the biggest overseas action was out of (and limited to) China. The Lunar New Year kicked off last Tuesday and has come in at

EXCLUSIVE: Former 20th Television drama exec Albert Page has become President of Clickbait and The Capture producer Heyday Television U.S. Page is tasked with growing the Universal International Studios-backed indie’s scripted slate of high-end shows. Heyday EVP Jillian Share was previously heading up the U.S. operation before moving to eOne as Co-President of Film Production last

Keanu Reeves may play a bunch of serious characters, but he’s known for being a silly goose when the cameras aren’t rolling. The star of the Matrix franchise was just spotted filming reshoots for the upcoming John Wick 4, and Keanu Reeves took a moment out of his bust shooting schedule to have a little

EXCLUSIVE: J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the creator-EPs behind Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, have set up their 2017 Black List screenplay Escape with The Hideaway Entertainment (Cherry), tapping James Watkins (AMC+’s upcoming The Ipcress File, The Woman in Black) to direct. The action-adventure pic is inspired by the true

Tom Brady is the Greatest of All Time, and Kevin Bacon‘s here to make sure we all know it … with a little message that’s both literal and distracting! The legendary actor took to TikTok Sunday with a tune he made up on his trusty ukulele — performing it next to a bunch of his

Viral sensation Corpse Husband will be making his anime debut as Tribe Nine‘s antagonist in the English dub of the new series. Funimation announced the Japanese anime adaptation of the Tribe Nine multimedia franchise in September 2021, which began in 2020 as a concept trailer of a video game by Too Kyo Games and Kazutaka

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog was the big winner at Sunday’s London Critics’ Circle Awards, scooping four prizes including Film of the Year. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The pic also won Director for Campion, Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee. Further winners included Driver My

Landmark Theatres has decided to close their Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco with the lease ending, and the chain citing “landlord-created conditions” which “challenged profitability” at the location. Landmark counts another cinema in the Bay area, the Opera Plaza, which was remodeled last year, as well as locations in San Francisco East Bay and

SAG-AFTRA Adopts Proposals For Commercials Contract: Talks Start Feb. 15 – Deadline You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content February 5, 2022 8:56pm SAG-AFTRA’s national board, meeting on Saturday, has approved proposals for a new commercials contract. Negotiations with the Joint Policy Committee of the advertising industry are

When it comes to Disney’s animated films, end credits scenes are a rarity, especially when compared to their sister productions at Marvel Studios. Once the screen fades to black and the credits start to roll, a movie is pretty much over. But the global hit Encanto almost marked a change of pace, as there was

Awkwafina has been accused of trying to pose as a Black person in the past — be it in song or on camera — and now … she’s sorta owning up to it, but stopping short of an apology. The actress/rapper/internet personality addressed a long-running criticism that’s been years in the making — acknowledging she’s

EXCLUSIVE: The Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie feature, Eileen, based on Ottessa Moshfegh bestseller, which just wrapped in New Jersey, is being sold at EFM by Endeavor Content and WME Independent. Deadline has learned that Marin Ireland (Hell or High Water, Homeland) and Owen Teague (It, Mrs. Fletcher) are also starring in the Endeavor Content, Likely Story,

An MCU fan imagines Iron Man surviving Avengers: Endgame and teaming up with the Eternals during the Emergence. Robert Downey Jr. wrapped up his foundational run as Tony Stark in the 2019 Joe and Anthony Russo-directed Endgame. Despite the poetic, albeit tragic way his story finished, many have continued to imagine what Phase 4 would

Paramount’s Jackass Forever counted $1.65M from 2,650 theaters from shows that began at 7 p.m. Thursday. The domestic box office weekend’s other wide opener, Lionsgate’s Roland Emmerich disaster epic Moonfall, started with $700,000 from about 2,300 locations. The Jackass take is higher than Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa which did $1.4M from 10PM showtimes in 2013, and just under

Jo Koy’s movie Easter Sunday, which was scheduled to open roughly two weeks before Easter weekend on April 1, is heading to August 5. We’re told that it’s a stronger weekend for the DreamWorks Pictures and Universal release. Koy recently moved his comedy tour, which was set to kick off on January 14, to this summer starting

Magic Mike 3, officially titled Magic Mike’s Last Dance, is the trilogy-capper movie fans were afraid we’d never get — mostly because franchise star Channing Tatum said we wouldn’t — so we’re ready to accept whatever magic happens when Tatum re-teams with Steven Soderbergh. Details about what to expect when the male strippers return for

EXCLUSIVE: The Vampire Diaries and xXx: Return Of Xander Cage star Nina Dobrev has joined Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) in action-thriller The Bricklayer, which will start next month in Europe. Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 filmmaker Renny Harlin is directing the movie, which The Expendables outfit Millennium Media is producing with Gerard Butler after both teamed up with Eckhart on

Play video content TMZ.com Kevin Smith says there were 2 main factors in his decision to stop consuming animal products … his near-fatal heart attack, and his daughter’s master plan. We got the director leaving Crossroads Kitchen in L.A. — one of the most famous vegan joints in town — and asked him if the

Bas van der Ree has been elected chairman of the Association of Film Commissioners International, becoming the first European to chair the organization in more than a decade. Van der Ree, who has been the Netherlands Film Commissioner since 2014 when the nation’s film production incentive was launched, previously served as AFCI’s 1st vice chair.

Celebrity Big Brother season 3 viewers are getting to know Cynthia Bailey and are wondering why she decided to leave The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2021 after being on the show for 10 seasons. Model and reality TV star Cynthia Bailey is now competing on CBB3 as one of the 11 celebrities on the show