At the high point of her career, Sally Kirkland enjoyed the lifestyle of your average A-list star. In 1988, after more than two decades working in the business, she earned a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Anna, an indie drama in which she played a former Czech film star who has relocated to New
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Video game creator and filmmaker Hideo Kojima has expressed his opinion on Joker: Folie à Deux. Kojima took to social media to predict that audiences will view Todd Phillips‘ film differently in the next decade or two. “Over the next 10 or 20 years, this film’s reputation will likely change along with the permeation of
The seventh edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival wrapped over the weekend with the $50,000 top prize going to French director Jonathan Millet’s Syrian drama Ghost Trail, and its star Adam Bessa winning Best Actor (see below for full awards list). Launched in 2017 by Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris in the Red Sea resort
Olivia Colman plays a singing nun. I’m almost prepared to say that’s all you need to know about Paddington in Peru: that Olivia Colman, living English treasure, gets her Julie Andrews on and leads a song-and-dance sequence on an alpine meadow that tells us that the hills are still very much alive. It’s not much
Quentin Tarantino is praising Todd Phillips and Joker: Folie à Deux after the Warner Bros. film bombed at the box office. The Kill Bill director gave his thoughts on the Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga-starring film and shared why he enjoyed the DC Comics-based movie. “I really, really liked it, really,” Tarantino said on the
Police detectives investigating Russell Brand regarding historic allegations of sex crimes have asked prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against the media personality, according to BBC. The decision by law enforcement stems from a September 2023 investigative report by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches, which includes testimony from four women who
Although the evolution of streaming remains a divisive topic in Hollywood, Paul Feig is not one to turn up his nose at opportunity. After his latest film Jackpot! premiered on Prime Video in August, the director recently called streaming platforms “a blessing for filmmakers who simply want to get their movies made” amid an ongoing
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that 3 Body Problem actress Eve Ridley has landed the part of Ruthye Mary Knolle in DC Studios and Warner Bros’ Craig Gillespie-directed Supergirl. The movie is based on Tom King’s 2022 comic book series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which Bilquis Evely illustrated. Ana Nogueira adapted the comic book for the big
Veteran actors Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes exchanged teary-eyed tributes as they picked up honorary career achievement awards this evening at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece. The veteran duo are two of the headline guests this year in Thessaloniki, and they were presented with the festival’s honorary Golden Alexander award for their respective bodies
EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill Entertainment, the producers behind box office horror hits Smile and Smile 2, and UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures, are teaming up on horror Monitor. Written and directed by Ryan Polly and Matt Black (I Bet You’re Wondering How I Got Here) for their feature debut, the film is based on their short
Scarlett Johansson made a call and assembled The Avengers to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election and vote for Kamala Harris. In a video shared by Mark Ruffalo, the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the actors expressed their support for Harris and Tim Walz in the home stretch of their presidential run.
The new Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMSC) is to continue the work of the previous one in attempting to revamp British film and high-end TV via what it has described as a “sequel” to the previous inquiry. The previous inquiry was responsible for pushing for the new 40% indie film tax relief along with
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that cameras are rolling on the set of the Amazon MGM Orion Pictures’ feature take of the 3x Obie-winning play, Is God Is with I’m a Virgo‘s Kara Young and Kindred‘s Mallori Johnson playing outcast twin sisters. Also starring are Oscar nominee and 3x Primetime Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown, Kill Bill‘s
EXCLUSIVE: “Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path,” states Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus to Keanu Reeve’s character in the Lilly Wachowski’s co-penned and co-helmed The Matrix. Almost 30 years after the genre and culturally defining Matrix first came out,
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has hit back against a report that accused the British broadcaster of showing a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel in its coverage of conflict in the Middle East. Undertaken by British attorney Trevor Asserson, the September study claimed that the BBC breached editorial rules on impartiality more than 1,500 times
The world’s six top content giants will hit a major spending landmark this year, according to research from Ampere Analysis. Disney, Comcast, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Netflix and Paramount will spend a forecast $126B on the content landscape this year, Ampere said. For the first time, this will account for more than half (50.6%)
Joaquin Phoenix had his turn at playing the Joker in the Todd Phillips Joker films, but the actor could have played the DC Comics villain in The Dark Knight. In a new interview, Phoenix revealed he had talked to director Christopher Nolan about giving life to Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime. “I remember I talked
Replica Michael Parkinson To Host “World First” AI Podcast An AI replica of iconic TV presenter Michael Parkinson is to host a podcast. Parkinson is leading Virtually Parkinson, which will be a completely unscripted conversation between a guest and the late TV host – a “world first,” according to its creators. Producer Deep Fusion Films
It has been 19 long years between the first Wallace & Gromit feature in 2005 and now the second in 2024, but it is an understatement to say it was well worth the wait. Nick Park‘s and Aardman‘s delightful buddy movie, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is an animated film noir merged with the
Good things come to those who wait, and when it comes to the future story of Daisy Ridley‘s Rey following Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, it’s going to be awhile as the latest scribe, Steven Knight, has exited, Deadline has confirmed. The search for a new screenwriter is underway, according to
The next locale for The Real Housewives franchise is London, NBCUniversal streamer Hayu announced at its inaugural FanFest event held Saturday. The series, set for a late 2025 release, will mark the platform’s first original, available in 45 markets outside the U.S. “Breaking news from #HayuFanFest: Hayu will bring you The Real Housewives of London in
Robert Zemeckis clearly has a thing for time – past, present, and Back To The Future. With a filmography that also includes films like Polar Express and especially his Oscar winning Best Picture Forrest Gump, the director loves mixing the newest filmmaking technologies with relatable stories that play with our perceptions of life as time
The new untitled Spider-Man movie has been added to the release calendar for July 24, 2026, with Tom Holland returning as the webslinger and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton directing. No other movies are dated on that weekend. The fourth installment opens in the wake of a
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has elevated its scripted and unscripted bosses in EMEA. Rivals commissioner Lee Mason becomes Executive Director of Scripted Originals, EMEA Disney+, while Sean Doyle has been given the same title on the unscripted side. Their roles remain similar and they have not been given additional responsibilities. The pair of commissioners in Diego Londono’s
EXCLUSIVE: Following the box office success of Sony’s It Ends With Us, Brandon Sklenar has found his next high-profile adaptation to star in. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to join Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the Lionsgate adaptation of The Housemaid. Paul Feig is set to direct the Hidden Pictures/ Feigco Entertainment
Unless there is a shift in the legal Force or a big-bucks settlement, the Disney and Gina Carano will go head-to-head at trial next year over the former mixed martial artist’s 2021 firing from The Mandalorian. That trial will start September 29, 2025, to be specific. After having beaten the Mouse House and its Daniel
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a teaser trailer for Black Snow Season 2, the Travis Fimmel detective drama drama. Additionally, Aussie streamer Stan has set a January 1, 2025, launch date on the return, and we have some new first-look images below. The drama will also return to U.S. audiences via AMC Networks streamer Sundance Now next year, and
EXCLUSIVE: The Exchange has boarded world sales on Australian horror-thriller In Vitro, starring Talia Zucker (Lake Mungo), Will Howarth (Beast) and Ashley Zukerman (Succession). Directed by Tom McKeith and Howarth, the film marks the follow-up after their debut feature Beast, which was nominated for Best First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. After a
“Is anyone here new to the Lord of the Rings or Tolkein?” Stephen Colbert joked with the audience on Friday during New York Comic Con’s preview panel for Warner Bros Animation’s Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. The Late Show host and Lord of the Rings super-fan, serving as the panel’s moderator,
Disney EMEA bosses gave MIPCOM attendees a ‘window’ into their thinking over a new era of flexibility in the international TV market this morning. Far from holding back all original content for its own platform, EMEA content chief Diego Londono said “we are open to different models” and are “more flexible in terms of the