Drew Barrymore and Courteney Cox have been pals for a pretty long time. Despite their eleven year age difference, the duo has been thick as thieves ever since they were cast in the original 1996 Scream. Drew Barrymore even felt comfortable enough to confide in Courteney Cox during a poster shoot for Scream, where she
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EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Brightburn producer The H Collective Films has formed a pact with Saudi Arabia’s Inqisam Studios to co-invest in and co-produce movies and TV with a focus on the Arabic-speaking market. The co-pro deal is one of the first to be announced between a Saudi and Hollywood production company. Inqisam is a new division of
Play video content TMZ.com Fans from all over the nation are gearing up for what would’ve been Betty White‘s 100th birthday … joining in on a challenge encouraging fans to spread the love to animals in need and donate to local orgs. Brittany Vizcarra from Paw Works joined us on TMZ live to pitch the
Belle is set to top $2 million Thurs.-Mon. on 1,326 screens, according to distributor GKIDS. With Saturday’s actuals, it said, the gross surpassed $1.2M, making it director Mamoru Hosoda’s highest grossing film in the U.S. That was previously 2018’s Mirai with $812K. Hosoda’s (The Boy and the Beast) latest film with Studio Chizu was also
Christine Brown of Sister Wives is proving she is one tough cookie, as fans praise her recent Instagram post. The mother of six is not letting her separation get the best of her in any way. While the current season is showing the deterioration of her marriage to Kody Brown, Christine is now living it up
Refresh for latest…: In its fifth weekend, Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home swung past the $900M mark at the international box office to weave a $926.3M running cume after a $33.4M session in 63 markets. The worldwide total through Sunday is an Electro-fying $1.625B. Notably during the frame, Spidey scaled new heights in Latin America,
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Eckhart has been set to lead Renny Harlin’s action-thriller movie The Bricklayer, which is due to get underway in March in Europe. The Expendables outfit Millennium Media is producing with Gerard Butler after both teamed up with Eckhart on the lucrative Has Fallen franchise. In The Bricklayer, someone is blackmailing the CIA by
It seems like many moons ago, but there was a time when Megan Fox was an it-couple with Beverly Hills, 90210’s Brian Austin Green. The pair shared a 15-year love story that led to marriage, parenting three children together and their eventual separation in late 2019. As it was announced earlier this week that Megan
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Lin-Manuel Miranda had three movies open in 2021, but only Encanto has brand new music by the Hamilton creator. In the Heights was based on his stage musical, while Tick Tick… Boom!
Brian Cox seems just like his character Logan Roy — in that the guy speaks his mind, even if it’s at the expense of Johnny Depp, whom he considers … eh, not that great. The “Succession” star let his thoughts about Depp (and others) fly in his new memoir, “Putting the Rabbit in the Hat,”
Warning! Spoilers ahead for X-Men #6 While Scott Summers’ Cyclops has been overruled by the X-Men’s Quiet Council about adding Captain Krakoa to his team of heroes, he may expose mutantkind’s greatest secret in response. While recent issues of Marvel Comics’ X-Men have seen the newest team operating in New York once more, enemies have been
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s subject is Asghar Farhadi, the
Fathom Events presents Betty White: A Celebration in 1,529 locations nationwide, a one-day-only special event on Monday honoring the actress who died Dec. 31 just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. The star-studded reflection on White’s life and career, which had already been set by filmmakers Steven Boettcher and Mike Trinklein to celebrate
The incoming superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District visited with administrators, staff and students at an Elysian Heights elementary school campus today, saying there is no end in sight to the difficulties Covid-19 will present for the district and students. “I’m one who believes in science, and we recognize that probably Covid-19 is here
Whether fans had an idea or not, Daniel Craig’s fate as James Bond was set in stone pretty much from the beginning. One of the best kept secrets in the nearly 60 year long legacy, the actor’s five film run flew by, with an ultimate endgame always in mind. In fact, you could say that
“When Wes (Craven) passed, I already said goodbye to it,” says original Scream franchise scribe Kevin Williamson today on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast. However, when the Dimension Films IP was snapped up by Spyglass Media, conversations began to bubble up of a revival. Williamson had a meeting with Spyglass Boss Gary Barber, however, the project was set
Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet are heading for a divorce after more than 4 years of marriage … they’re not using the word, but the message is clear … they are “parting ways in marriage,” and it sounds like COVID and all the craziness in America took its toll. The celeb couple announced the shocking
The program announcements continue for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, with the Series and Generation strands both unveiling today, as well as the line-up for the Co-Production Market. Scroll down for the lists of titles. The Berlinale Series selection, which is increasingly becoming a more high-profile part of the festival, again boasts several buzzy
Editor’s Note: A lawsuit has been filed against Activision Blizzard by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which alleges the company has engaged in abuse, discrimination, and retaliation against its female employees. Activision Blizzard has denied the allegations. The full details of the Activision Blizzard lawsuit (content warning: rape, suicide, abuse, harassment) are
Sam Adams, a literary agent whose career began in the postwar years at Warner Bros. and ended with the deal to bring The Handmaid’s Tale to the big screen, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 94. Adams’ client list included Handmaid’s author Margaret Atwood, the recently-deceased Peter Bogdanovich, Saturday Night Fever director John
2ND UPDATE, 1:45 PM: There will be a winter’s ball on Hollywood Boulevard after all. Performances of Hamilton at the Pantages Theatre will resume on February 9 after being dark since Christmas, but Broadway in Hollywood said today that the show’s vexed run must end March 20. Hamilton performances originally were set to begin in March 2020, just
As the long awaited release of legacyquel Jackass Forever gets closer to being realized, the stories about the massive falling out during production stay close to its side. With original cast member Bam Margera removed from the film early in its shooting, a key member of the past will be missing. Or at least we
The Berlin International Film Festival has made a series of additions to its 2022 program, including unveiling the Books At Berlinale industry event lineup and a selection of films for the Forum strand. As reported yesterday, the festival is slimming down the core days of its film program this year, with all premieres taking place
Hollywood execs and celebs who were planning to attend this year’s Sundance Film Festival are in for a rude awakening … because the event was canceled just days beforehand and now they stand to lose a boatload of cash. This year’s Sundance was scheduled for Jan 20-30 as a hybrid event with both in-person and
Brandon Murphy, the screenwriter who co-wrote last year’s action-comedy sequel Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, died January 9 in Los Angeles, friends told Deadline. He was 43. No cause of death was given. Murphy penned Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard with his younger brother, Phillip Murphy, and with Tom O’Connor, who wrote the original 2017 pic. Both starred Ryan
One of the most groundbreaking multiplayer games of the last decade, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, has officially gone free-to-play this week in a controversial move that has many hardcore players review bombing the title on Steam and demanding refunds. Five years after its release, developer and publisher KFATON revealed that PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS would be going free-to-play during The Game
Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to cede its No. 1 four-weekend run to Paramount and Spyglass Media’s Scream over the MLK four-day holiday, the latter eyeing a take that’s in the $20 million-plus range at 3,661 theaters. There’s a shot that Scream goes higher, but we’ll leave any lofty predictions in this funky pandemic, Spider-Man-dominated marketplace to what 18th
BAFTA has unveiled the longlists across all categories for its 2022 Film Awards. See them in full below. These lists have been compiled via Round One of BAFTA’s voting. Round Two, which determines the nominations, opens on January 14 and closes on January 27. The Rising Star Award nominations will be announced on 1 February
While she rose to prominence as a singer-songwriter, Lady Gaga has steadily been proving herself to be a formidable actor. On the small screen, she terrified fans with her work on American Horror Story: Hotel and, in 2018, she gave an Oscar-nominated performance in A Star is Born (which paired her with Bradley Cooper). Her
Thelma and Louise actress Geena Davis has been a staunch advocate for women, particularly aging women in Hollywood. In an interview with Allison Kugel on the Allison Interviews podcast, Davis discussed various run-ins she’s had with ageism in Hollywood revealing she was denied a role because the leading man said she was too old, even