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Lackawanna Blues, the solo Broadway show written, performed, and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, has canceled its performances for tonight and over the weekend due to an off-stage back injury suffered by the star. Santiago-Hudson is expected to return to the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, though the canceled previews have bumped the play’s official
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Deadline has confirmed that a Jon Watts-directed thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is being bid upon by an array of studios including Sony, Lionsgate, Annapurna, MGM, Universal and Warner Bros on the theatrical side and streamers Apple and Netflix. Watts is set to write, direct and produce with Clooney producing through Smokehouse Pictures
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“I wanted to do Captain America meets West Wing more than anything,” reveals What If… executive producer and head writer A.C. Bradley today on Deadline’s Hero Nation. You can listen to our intriguing conversation with Bradley here: “I wanted the walk-and-talks, the full Aaron Sorkin treatment,” Bradley tells us, “It was literally who would be the Josh
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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has just heard that A24 had set theatrical release dates for their fall film festival critically acclaimed titles, C’mon C’mon from Mike Mills on Nov. 19, and Sean Baker’s Red Rocket on Dec. 3. C’mon C’mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a radio journalist who embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew (Woody Norman), made its world
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Johnny Depp went on the record today saying that he is a victim of cancel culture and that “no one is safe” from the movement, calling on people to “stand up” for people facing “injustice”. “It can be seen as an event in history that lasted for however long it lasted, this cancel culture, this
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Coincidentally this morning at Goldman Sachs 30th Annual Communacopia Conference, Disney CEO Bob Chapek was asked a question about the compensation of Hollywood talent in the wake of long-standing distribution models being upended, and the advantages the studio has in terms of being a place that talent wants to work in a direct-to-consumer marketplace. This
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The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has picked Irish-Language feature Foscadh (Shelter) as this year’s entry for the International Oscar race. Written and directed by Seán Breathnach, the pic stars Dónall Ó Héalai (Arracht), Fionnuala Flaherty (An Klondike), and Cillian O’Gairbhí (Blood) in a story based on characters in Donal Ryan’s novel The Thing
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Marvel’s Black Widow introduces Taskmaster as a character capable of mimicking other fighting styles, and in doing so, the movie may have also included a connection to Blade. In Black Widow, Marvel reveals some of Natasha Romanoff’s (Scarlett Johansson) backstory, showing the character once tried to assassinate Dreykov (Ray Winstone), the overseer of the Red Room. Unfortunately, Dreykov’s
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The initial findings of an anticipated study into the effectiveness of the Pfizer–BioNTech Covid vaccine on children ages of 5-11 were released today, and the first results are promising. In the second of three phases, the pharmaceutical giants enlisted 2,268 participants ages 5-11 in the United States, Finland, Poland and Spain. While those ages 12
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Warner Bros’ Clint Eastwood western movie Cry Macho wasn’t tough at the box office this weekend, opening to $4.4M at 3,967 theaters in 3rd place, nor did the pic have any grit in homes on HBO Max pulling in only 693k households stateside over the weekend according to Samba TV. In a year of day-and-date theatrical-streaming
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EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Sanders has joined the cast of the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon, Whitney Houston. Sanders will play Bobby Brown and sources also tell Deadline that Black Label Media is coming on board to co-finance the film with Compelling Pictures and Primary Wave Music. Naomi
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Play video content @tylerperry / Instagram Tyler Perry is full of Bullwinkle. It’s pretty shocking … a GIGANTIC moose somehow made its way into Tyler’s backyard, and it’s both a glorious and frightening sight. A moose can be super dangerous, but when you stand back and watch … well, it’s awesome. It’s unclear where the
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