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A woman makes a dramatic life change in Tereza37, the official International Feature Film Oscar entry from Croatia. Screenwriter Lana Barić plays married Tereza (37), who has been going the traditional route to try for a baby for years without success. She considers other options when her gynecologist jokes she should try to conceive with a different partner. Taking

The upcoming movie Black Adam could be the first major step for the DCEU setting up the Legion of Doom. The Legion of Doom is a supervillain team in the DC Comics universe, and a wide variety of villains from Joker to Black Manta have at some point been part of the collective. Black Adam holds a special place

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to Kyle Thomas’ drama Range Roads, along with North American rights to Dylan Reid’s semi-autobiographical film, By the Grace of…The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios will release the former title written and directed by Thomas across internet, cable and satellite platforms on

Disney’s animated movie Encanto received a $1.5 million start Tuesday off showtimes starting at 6 p.m., as the pic opens today in 3,980 theaters. The movie, which features a soundtrack from Emmy-, Grammy- and Tony-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, is expected to make $35M-$40M over the next five days. So far, Encanto is 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes off 67

Of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s five children, two have followed in his acting footsteps: Patrick Schwarzenegger and Joseph Baena. Regarding the latter, you might recall that five years back, Baena recreated one of his father’s most memorable scenes from 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Now, on the set of his new movie, Baena is once again totally

UPDATED with WHO news: The U.K. added six African countries to its travel quarantine list on Thursday after a new, potentially more-transmissible variant of Covid-19 was identified there. The BBC said the countries are South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini. Twenty-two positive cases of the variant, which is being called B.1.1.529, have been

Play video content @therock / Instagram Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is spreading some holiday cheer — and jokes — this Thanksgiving, surprising an unsuspecting group of fans with a funny warning. The WWE superstar turned Hollywood megastar posted a video Thursday of himself driving up on a Hollywood tour bus. You can see, the passengers

In the wake of Rust producers being hit with two lawsuits stemming from the fatal shooting of that film’s DP Halyna Hutchins, Variety reports this morning that producer Ryan Donnell Smith is co-financing a Dustin Hoffman–Sissy Spacek movie entitled Sam & Kate.  Deadline has reached out to the Rust producer’s reps for comment. We will update the story should

Those who have been playing Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl will likely have had occasions where their Pokémon have demanded to be petted by the player, something that develops from the remakes’ friendship mechanics. BDSP welcomed players back to the Sinnoh region 15 years after the original Diamond and Pearl were released, but this time, players were met with

EXCLUSIVE: By this weekend, Warner Bros/Legendary’s Dune will cross $100M, making it the second movie from the studio this year to clear the century mark stateside off their controversial day-and-date theatrical HBO Max pandemic strategy. But with the Denis Villeneuve-directed adaptation of the Frank Herbert exclusively available in theaters now in its second month of release, sans

Wardpark Film and Television Studios, one of the largest production facilities in Scotland, has been acquired by U.S. companies Hackman Capital Partners and partner Square Mile Capital Management. Located in Cumbernauld, Scotland, the site is roughly 20 minutes from both Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is a 14-acre campus offering 200,000 square feet of studio space,

It’s been a month since Denis Villeneuve’s Dune hit HBO Max and theaters, and the new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel can seemingly do no wrong. The film quickly made a name for itself as a masterful work of art, and the Dune we all deserve. While high praise is coming

A new book co-authored by Deadline business editor Dade Hayes will be the first to explore the media and tech sectors’ headlong rush into streaming. Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix will be published April 19 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. Hayes, who is based in New York,

Matthew McConaughey could win the Texas governorship if the election were held today — according to a new poll — and he hasn’t even said he wants the gig. So, here’s the breakdown … Governor Greg Abbott vs. Matt — Abbott 35%, Matt 43% Beto O’Rourke vs. Matt — Beto 27%, Matt 49% Now weirdly,

The first official trailer for Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming DC League of Super-Pets starring and produced by Dwayne Johnson finds one (Super)man’s best friend his only hope. After Superman (John Krasinski) is sidelined by Lex Luthor, the Man of Steel’s faithful companion, Krypto, sets out to save the day. While Superman has Batman, Wonder Woman

Kelsey Grammer would love to return as the X-Men character, Beast, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor is best known for his two decade-long portrayal of the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane, who was introduced during the third season of the NBC sitcom, Cheers, which was followed by his own spin-off show, Frasier. Grammer’s run as the radio psychiatrist

The Crown and Harry Potter star Helena Bonham Carter is to play the lead in an ITV biopic from It’s A Sin creator Russell T Davies, the debut project for Nicola Shindler’s ITV Studios-backed drama label Quay Street Productions. Nolly will tell the story of Noele Gordon (Bonham Carter), who played Meg Richardson in hit ITV soap Crossroads before being

Disney will continue to embrace the theatrical window over the Thanksgiving stretch with the Jared Bush/Byron Howard/Charise Castro Smith-directed Colombia-set animated musical Encanto which is looking to hook families with a $35M-$40M five-day domestic start and another $35M+ overseas as the movie debuts day-and-date in all offshore territories except China, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines and Vietnam.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Documentary, featuring all 25 panels from our Sunday event showcasing the filmmakers behind the buzziest nonfiction feature films of the awards season. The daylong virtual presentation featured participants including Edgar Wright, Liz Garbus, Todd Haynes, Sam Pollard, Selma Blair, Morgan Neville, Matthew Heineman, Betsy West and

It’s barely been over a month since director Ridley Scott’s last movie, The Last Duel, premiered in theaters, but now the filmmaker has another cinematic offering to deliver for the Thanksgiving holiday. House of Gucci delves into Patrizia Reggiani’s marriage to Maurizio Gucci and navigating the Gucci fashion empire, with its heavy-hitting cast includes Lady

Canadian actor Adam Beach has had a long and successful acting career over the last two decades that started with some epic movie roles like the snakes and sparklers salesman Kicking Wing in the 2001 redneck adventure film “Joe Dirt” and the Navajo Private Ben Yahzee in the 2002 war movie “Windtalkers.” “Joe Dirt” was

David Attenborough will choose his favorite recordings from the natural world that have revolutionized our understanding of song as part of a packed BBC Christmas slate on which he features twice. The majority of shows on the slate, one of the BBC’s largest of the year, have already been announced, and The Wonder of Song from

Peeves the Poltergeist was sadly cut from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but there are several details about the character’s discarded scenes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone kicked off the magical Warner Bros. franchise in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Harry Potter cast is reuniting for Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and several cast members from

The Casting Society of America has made the first callbacks for the 37th annual Artios Awards. The group today revealed its nominees for television, theater, short films and shortform series. Netflix leads with 11 noms, nearly double the haul for runners-up HBO and Hulu, which grabbed six apiece. Disney+ is next with four, followed Amazon

C’mon C’mon from A24 turned in the best per-screen average for a limited platform release since Covid at five theater in New York and LA as stellar critical response was met by strong exit polls ahead of a wider rollout into top markets over Thanksgiving and continued expansion thereafter. The Mike Mills’ awards contender led

It’s been less than a month since we learned that Gal Gadot will be taking on the role of one of Disney’s most iconic villains. While it may be a while before she actually gets on set for the live-action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it looks like she’s already searching for

Refresh for latest…: There was a lot of holdover play this session overseas with one new Hollywood addition in Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife which came in essentially on par with pre-weekend offshore projections at $16M in 31 international box office markets. However, with domestic’s overperformance, the Jason Reitman-directed sequel trapped a better-than-expected $60M global opening. In

A movie about Serena and Venus Williams — focusing on their dad teaching ’em tennis — is, apparently, getting blasted as sexist … even though they’re literally the ones behind it. Count this as the biggest bad hot take of the week … and Twitter mostly agrees — this person seems to be woefully misinformed

Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event, our virtual showcase of the year’s leading nonfiction, gets underway Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. PT. This year’s lineup of 25 movies reflects the growing availability of documentary content across a variety of platforms: Showtime and HBO, streamers HBO Max, Netflix, Discovery+, Hulu, Amazon Studios, and Apple TV+, as

Warning! Spoilers for DC: The New Frontier DC Comics’ classic Justice League origin story The New Frontier deserves spinoff titles. The late writer and artist Darwyn Cooke’s beloved tale has a lot of potential for expanded series which hasn’t been utilized. In recent years, DC has returned to hit comics that fans never expected they would see