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SUNDAY AM, Refresh for updates and chart: Focus Features/Amblin’s PG-13 horror movie Come Play came in much better than expected, seeing a boost on Halloween night (as opposed to expected drop) with $1.3M, +18% over Friday+preview’s $1.1M. This puts the pic’s opening weekend at $3.15M in No. 1 spot. One industry insider tells me about the boost,

Refresh for latest…: Asia continues to power international box office with local titles atop the charts. This is a trend we can expect to carry on as the Hollywood studios have widely vacated the rest of 2020, and as Europe begins a re-closing process amid coronavirus spikes. In just the last week, France shuttered its

The roasts never stop between these two! Kevin Hart slapped some fake blood on his face to jokingly talk about his own gym head injury from “45-pound dumbbells” after “clanging and banging” during his own workout. The bit gets crazier once the comedian gets into how he thinks he might have a concussion and then

The CW has given us the first full look at Javicia Leslie in the brand new, redesigned Batwoman suit — and she came to slay. On Monday, the network released not one but two looks at Leslie in the new suit. Some noticeable features of the new suit are the cowl that features natural, curly hair

Kendall Jenner‘s here to get you in the mood (to vote) just before the election — and she’s doing it with a ’90s throwback that’s sure to get your mouth watering … again, all to vote. The supermodel debuted her Halloween costume Saturday on the ‘Gram, showing that she got all dolled up as Pamela

England is set to enter a second national lockdown next week in the face of surging coronavirus numbers, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this evening. Everything except essential shops and education settings will be closed from Thursday November 5 until December 2. “From Thursday until the start of December you must stay at

The beta test for the updated implementation of Halo 4 coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection is well underway and will go for another full week. Halo 4 is the final game missing from the PC release of Master Chief Collection, and its debut was initially timed to coincide with the launch of Halo Infinite. With Master Chief’s latest adventure delayed

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 John Carpenter, the

Focus Features has set a June 25, 2021 theatrical release for Justin Chon’s drama Blue Bayou which the label picked up global rights to last spring during the Cannes virtual market. The pic, which also stars Chon, tells the timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean

With the COVID-19 pandemic having wreaked havoc on production, the CW’s “fall” season is being winterized. The strangest TV season in memory will continue in January and February with the network setting premiere dates for 11 returning series and three new ones: Walker, Superman & Lois and Canadian pickup Trickster. The CW in May announced that its

The Craft: Legacy also shows more of an evolution of powers. The witches in this movie can do a lot more than we saw with the original Craft film. They can shapeshift (eventually), read auras, use elements as weapons, telepathically communicate, and freeze time. We also see an expansion of the Craft magic and universe,

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based management firm Grandview has promoted Erick Mendoza to manager. Mendoza first joined the company as an assistant in 2018, and before that he was at UTA. His roster of writer clients include Alex Russell (FX’s Dave); Josh Levine (Hulu’s Pen15); Rebecca Hoobler (Fox’s Duncanville); Walter Thompson-Hernández, author of The Compton Cowboys: The New

Play video content @candigirl74/Tik Tok The only thing this Michael Myers is cutting is a rug … and he got the kid across the street to accept his challenge for a scary good dance-off. Some neighbors are just cooler than others … and a guy who dresses up like the notorious killer from the ‘Halloween’

Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday unveiled a new $120 million, 134,000 sq. foot coronavirus testing facility in Valencia, north of L.A. Newsom announced the plan to increase capacity with a corporate partner — PerkinElmer, which is a leader in testing — in late August. The facility was supposed to open by November 1. With the

Lifetime’s reality series Married At First Sight just wrapped season 11. And due to some incredibly unfortunate circumstances, it was a season like no other. The pandemic forced the Decision Day to be put off for a few weeks. And the couples were really put to the test when they had to quarantine together. Inevitably, the stress

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Steve Agee, who stars in James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie, is making the jump to the pic’s HBO Max spinoff series Peacemaker starring John Cena. I hear that Agee will reprise one of two of his Suicide Squad roles, that of John Economos. The character is a warden of Belle Reve

Shares in IMAX were down in pre-market trading this morning after the company announced its Q3 results, which included a loss of $47.2M on revenues of $37.3M. As of 10AM ET, they were down 4.92%. CEO Rich Gelfond, however, remains bullish on the theatrical business and the company’s future health. “Our financial position gives us

Although the 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers opted to showcase four films that were part of the 2020 Official Selection from Tuesday through Thursday this week, calling it “Spécial Cannes.” It also got in just under the wire as France imposed another nationwide lockdown beginning

The horror renaissance has been going strong for years, with plenty of the biggest hits coming out of Blumhouse. The studio brought David Gordon Green’s Halloween to theaters in 2018, which broke records while serving as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 original. Two more movis are coming starting with Halloween Kills, which was

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in negotiations to pick up the screenplay Ruby, a female assassin action feature by Kat Wood which I hear is going for around six figures. 87North is coming aboard to produce Ruby with the label’s Kelly McCormick, Annie Marter and David Leitch producing.  The story, I hear, is in the spirit of the

English actress Veronica Cartwright was only 13 years old when she was cast as the birthday girl Cathy Brenner — who narrowly escapes the throngs of ferocious fowl in the small town of Bodega Bay — in Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic 1963 horror film, “The Birds.” Cartwright shared the silver screen with Rod Taylor as the

American Gods, old and new, are coming back to life in the new year, at least on the small screen. It’s timely too, because “the struggles of the gods and the people in Season 3 of American Gods are the struggles of America,” according to author Neil Gaiman. The series starring Ricky Whittle and Ian

Niantic has made a special free item box available to all trainers in the Pokémon GO store following an error, that the creators have now fixed, which kept Shiny Shadow Pokémon from appearing in the game. The limited-time package will be filled with useful, if somewhat common, items and is offered alongside Niantic’s apologies for

EXCLUSIVE: Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), James Nesbitt (The Missing), Richard Armitage (The Stranger) and Sarah Parish (Bancroft) have been set as cast in the series adaptation of Harlan Coben’s New York Times bestselling novel Stay Close at Netflix. Nicola Shindler is exec producing the project for Studiocanal-owned Red Production Company, alongside Coben, Danny Brocklehurst and

Studio Movie Grill, the in-theater dining chain with seven California locations has filed for bankruptcy, one of the first leading exhibitors to officially buckle under pandemic-related financial stress. The Dallas-based company filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. It will continue to operate but reorganize with the protections

EXCLUSIVE: Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry is set to join the ensemble of the Sony action-thriller Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt. Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Andrew Koji are also on board. Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch will direct and also supervise the script, which will be written by Zak Olkewicz. The film

Can you even imagine the perfect terror that he experienced at that moment? His blood must have turned ice cold in an instant. Not only was the fate of Borat 2‘s big climax at stake, but he also had to feel responsibility for the safety of the young woman who plays his daughter, actress Maria

EXCLUSIVE: Clash helmer Mohamed Diab has been tapped to direct Moon Knight, the Marvel series for Disney+ based on the comic book hero, Deadline has learned. Nobody is commenting, but we hear that the Egyptian filmmaker has boarded the drama starring Oscar Isaac as the title character Moon Knight, aka Marc Spector, a mercenary who

Breaking News Colin Kaepernick has found his younger self … with “The Get Down” star Jaden Michael landing the role of teen Kap in the upcoming Netflix series based on the QB’s early life. Kap and Emmy winner Ava DuVernay have teamed up to create a 6-episode limited series based on the QB/social activist’s early