Deadline has confirmed that employees at Amazon Studios are now expected to return to office on Jan. 3, 2022. That’s in line with the rest of the Amazon’s corporate employees in the U.S. and some foreign countries. Originally, Amazon employees were looking to return the week of Sept. 7 after working remotely from home. Even
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UPDATED with TIFF exit: Clifford the Big Red Dog, Paramount’s CG/live-action movie that was unset from its planned September 17 release, will also not world premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. It had been set as a Gala Presentation via the pic’s Canadian rightsholder eOne, which confirmed the news today that it was removing
Alongside Bryce Dallas Howard being named up top with Henry Cavill, Argylle also stars Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Catherine O’Hara and John Cena. The movie will also feature Grammy-winning singer Dua Lipa in her first acting project, along with the artist providing the music for the spy film. All the way around,
Effective next year, Walt Disney Animation Studios is throwing the doors open to a new facility in Vancouver, BC that will focus on long-form series and special projects for Disney+. The first in the pipeline is the anticipated, feature-quality musical series Moana. Animation veteran Amir Nasrabadi will serve as head of Walt Disney Animation Studios,
The Weeknd hoped to surprise fans with a really BIG screen showing of his new music video … but safety concerns for viewers with epilepsy got the project pulled. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Abel’s video for his new track, “Take My Breath,” was scheduled to play on IMAX screens that are
Ballots for the upcoming SAG-AFTRA election are in the mail, and once again, national board candidate Shaan Sharma has come under fire from members of the union’s Unite for Strength ruling faction. Two years ago, a fellow L.A. Local board member and Unite for Strength stalwart referred to him in an email as a “brown
The legendary master of horror, Stephen King, has added his voice to the campaign to save Manifest, with a tweet containing the hashtag #savemanifest. The TV show, which ran for three seasons until it was canceled by NBC a few months ago, has legions of fans worldwide who are doing all they can to get
Sara Bareilles won’t be the only Waitress cast member with prior stage-diner experience when the musical reopens on Broadway in September: Producers announced today that Waitress vets Eric Anderson, Charity Angel Dawson, Christopher Fitzgerald, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews and Joe Tippett will be back for at least part of the show’s limited engagement. Producers Barry
Is nature conspiring against the Tokyo Olympics? First the event was postponed by the Covid pandemic. Then, as the games went on despite a widespread resurgence of the virus, a typhoon hit the Japanese capital last week. Temperatures and humidity have been uncomfortably high, and today the region was hit by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake
Norwegian rocker known for his virtuosic guitar skills and power vocals will play the lead character in the upcoming Rockin’ In Time feature film. Following an arduous worldwide hunt for a “diamond in the rough,” ― as described by casting director R. Scott Leisk ― Rockin’ In Time has snagged Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, Rocky Kramer, who
During “Overheated,” Billie Eilish sings “All these other inanimate bitches, it’s none of my business/Don’t you get sick of posing for pictures with that plastic body?” The song also speaks head on to the issue with the lyrics “Is it news? News to who? That I really just look like the rest of you.” Eilish’s
One to hit the market that is creating the sniff of an auction for film and TV rights: The Last Kilo: Willie Falcon And The Cocaine Era That Seduced America. Book proposal is about to hit the market through Verve, and it is written by TJ English. His last work, The Corporation: The Epic Story
Matt Damon‘s homophobic f-slur controversy is drawing a firm response from a leading voice in the LGBT community, and its response is simple … everyone should get the word out of their vocabulary, period. GLAAD has spoken out on all the chatter this week about how and when Damon ever used it, and whether he’s
Cinco has revealed the main reason why he initially broke up with Cashay Proudfoot and re-coupled with Trina Njoroge on Love Island USA season 3. When Cinco was introduced to Love Island USA, he came in alongside Will Moncada after the day-one coupling had already taken place. At that point in time, Cash had coupled up with Christian
UPDATED with latest schedule changes: Simone Biles will return to competition early Tuesday after bowing out of five events at the Tokyo Olympics. The Balance Beam finals are Biles’ last shot at an individual gold medal during the Tokyo Games. One of Biles’ balance beam skills is a double-twisting double backflip dismount which, given her
Sony Picture Classics and Neon fared well in their small releases this week with Nine Days and Ailey respectively, running across 6 total locations in New York, Los Angeles and Irvine – both notching heavy per screen averages with the former leading to its wider release next week. Nine Days hit NYC (Angelika, AMC Lincoln Square)
EXCLUSIVE: Lexi Perkel (John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch) has been cast as the lead in Nicholas Ma’s indie, Mabel. The 11-year-old actress will star alongside previously announced cast members Judy Greer (Kidding) and Christine Ko (Dave). The film scripted by Ma and Joy Goodwin centers on Callie (Perkel), whose only friends are the plants and trees
The age of heroes is upon us when Zack Snyder’s Justice League comes home on 4K, Blu-ray combo pack, and DVD on September 7, and we’re giving away 5 discs! Simply fill out the form below to enter for your chance to win. The giveaway is open to residents of the United States and Canada
Here’s another installment of Paul Rudd Is Benjamin Button — because the older he gets, the younger he looks … at least that’s what a new viral photo of him suggests on its face. The veteran comedy actor posed for a new snap this weekend that was posted by the owner of an Indian restaurant
UPDATED with schedule changes: NBCUniversal is airing programming from the Tokyo Olympic Games across a wide swath of its broadcast, cable and digital properties, the programming schedules for which are constantly shifting this year. Deadline is updating this list daily from multiple official sources. See schedule below for full event listings. NBCU’s Peacock streaming service
Though Angela Deem’s behavior on 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? has been grating on viewers’ nerves, it hasn’t always been that way, and many former Angela fans feel remorse for previously supporting her. The outspoken Georgia native has been offending viewers this season with her coarse nature and the way she treats her husband
Anna Gross, the film executive behind such acclaimed titles as Tootsie and The NeverEnding Story, died on July 23 at her home in Twentynine Palms, CA, following a long battle with cancer. She was 68. Gross was born in New York City on October 25, 1952. She spent the first eight years of her career working
Sunday AM Update: Refresh for chart and more analysis Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt kept its ship together at the box office over the weekend, and actually saw an uptick in Friday-to-Saturday grosses (when you back out Thursday previews of $2.7M) of +15% which puts the adventure film at $34.2M, an opening that’s not far
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 Winston Duke, whose latest
Annihilation (2018) (Amazon Rental) As the last item on this list, we take a look into the sci-fi world once again. In Annihilation, Natalie Portman portrays Lena, a scientist who leads a group of explorers into “The shimmer,” a mysterious quarantined zone that is filled with mutated plants and animals that were caused by an
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team is still alive in the Tokyo Olympics after a nervy penalty shootout victory over the Netherlands. Team icon Megan Rapinoe scored the winning spot kick as the USWNT triumphed 4-2 on pens following a dramatic encounter. The game finished 2-2 after the completion of an action-packed 90 minutes and
The father of the 18-year-old girl fatally shot this week is opening up about her excitement for her first date with a TikTok star … which ended with the tragic shooting as they watched the new ‘Purge’ movie. Rylee Goodrich‘s dad, David, said she curled her hair all pretty, and her night out with TikTok
The Corona Police Department reported that at approximately 11:45 p.m. on Monday night its officers responded to a call for service at The Regal Edwards Corona Crossings RPX theater. Upon arrival, officers located a male and female both suffering from gunshot wounds. The 19-year-old male, from Corona, was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening
After an attack in the opening of A Quiet Place Part II, Lee only tries to save his daughter Regan, and there’s an apparent reason for it. Ahead of the main action of A Quiet Place Part II, Lee Abbott (John Krasinski) returns in a flashback scene. In the opening, the Abbott family attends Marcus’ (Noah Jupe) baseball game, and
Paramount Pictures has curbed the planned September 17 release of Clifford the Big Red Dog, its CGI/live-action take on the beloved kidlit character. We hear that the studio is looking for a more family-friendly release date for the pic, which also had been announced as a Gala Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival in September. The title’s