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Exclusive Damon Dash‘s pockets could be a tad lighter soon … cause he’s been ordered to cough up a cool $300k in a lawsuit over a mafia movie. The movie and music producer was just ordered to pay noted author Edwyna Brooks after he took an L in court. She sued him about a year

Cannes Film Festival finally has admitted that its 2020 edition, which had been moved from May to late June, won’t happen then either and is unlikely to go ahead “in its original form” due to the coronavirus outbreak. But that’s not the end of the matter. Organizers said today they still hope to salvage something

2021 will be the first year since 2011 with two new Marvel franchises launching: The Eternals and Shang-Chi. A number of movies have been delayed due to coronavirus, and the major Hollywood studios have all had to re-think their release slates for at least the coming year. This includes Marvel, who have delayed Black Widow from May

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has picked up North American rights to three movies from Concourse Media: board game doc Gamemaster, music film Find Your Groove and low-budget rom-com Daddy Issues. Gamemaster, currently set for a July release, dives into the world of the board game industry and hones in on five game designers who have had

Drive-ins continued to hang-on stateside as we weathered our fourth weekend of a coast-to-coast (let’s be honest, global), theatrical shutdown. About 25 drive-ins booked DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour, and among the grosses we could get our hands on (as Universal isn’t reporting numbers) the weekend looked to be north of $60K led by such drive-ins

With everything that Walt Disney Studios had planned for 2020, it’s unclear just how much people were waiting for Disney’s Jungle Cruise movie compared to everything else. If, however, you happened to be a huge fan of both Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, you spend a large portion of your time wishing you were at

French president Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation this evening, saying that in-home confinement spurred by the coronavirus crisis will be prolonged until May 11. While not specifically identifying the Cannes Film Festival, Macron also noted that festivals and other events drawing large crowds will not be allowed to go forward until at least mid-July. That

Play video content Exclusive TMZSports.com WWE’s newest champ Drew McIntyre is giving a sincere shoutout to The Rock for believing in his potential before he ever dreamed of getting a belt … and the video will hit you right in the feels. Let’s take you back to July 2019 when TMZ Sports posted a video

Alibaba Pictures, the entertainment arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has issued a profit warning, saying it expects losses for the financial year ended March 31, 2020 to range from RMB 1.1B-1.2B ($156M-$170M). That would be an increase of over 330% as compared to the previous year. The company cited “complicated difficulties in pursuing

The United Federation of Planets is a federal republic with a universal reach in the Star Trek universe. Starfleet is the wing of the Federation that covers exploration, scientific research, peacekeeping, and defense. Naturally, they would have to have an impressive fleet to maintain their interstellar reach. The following ships are the fastest that Starfleet

With theaters largely closed due to COVID-19 nationwide (except for a handful of drive-ins), there are many things that make sense financially for major studios when it comes to the distribution of their movies right now. It made sense that current theatrical releases such as Bloodshot, The Invisible Man, The Hunt, Onward, etc. would quickly

British comedian and actor Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 after contracting coronavirus. In a statement, his agent confirmed the news: “It is with great sadness that we announce Tim’s death early today from COVID-19. Joining [Cambridge University] Footlights in 1960 took him to providing a huge variety of splendid entertainment —

It’s a rather wild case, with Johnson claiming that he was driven to kill his landlord because of a demon living in the body of David Glatzel, an 11-year-old neighbor, and it’s noteworthy that the production has acst actors to play the roles of real individuals in the case. What we don’t know is how

Shailene Woodley has spoken out about a health scare that almost ended her career. The Big Little Lies actress, 28, told the New York Times in a Friday article that she became “very, very sick” while making the Divergent films. “I haven’t spoken much about this yet publicly, and I will one day, but I

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are still getting out for fresh air during the pandemic, but they’re making sure to follow proper face covering guidelines while their pups get some exercise. Ben and his new Hollywood girlfriend were spotted out for a stroll in L.A. again this week — in between rain showers —

The appeal of BBC America’s Killing Eve has been a mix of the creative energy Phoebe Waller-Bridge brought to season 1 and the electric charge generated by its two leads, Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, whenever they’re in the same room together. Both Oh and Comer have netted a few awards between them for playing

Longtime international distribution executive Tony Themistocleous passed away on Friday April 3 in London, Deadline has learned. He was 89. His family as well as former UIP colleagues confirmed the news. A cause of death was not specified, though his nephew, Redo Farah Themistocleous, a distributor and former Warner Bros exec based in Colombia, said

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi, who exhibition chain like the rest of the industry is shut down due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, earned $6.3 million in total compensation for 2019, up from $5.2 million the year before, the company said Friday in its annual proxy statement filed with the SEC. The year-over-year gain stemmed from

Whenever Paramount decides to reboot Jack Reacher, they may want to re-consider casting Dwayne Johnson in the lead role. The wrestler-turned-thespian took to Facebook tonight to answer fan’s questions, teasing Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw 2 and talking about the part that got away: the title role in Par’s feature adaptation of Lee Child’s series of novels about blue

Dazed And Confused Dazed and Confused follows different groups of high school students as they roam around aimlessly looking for something to do after the last day of school in 1976. The film’s cast includes Jason London, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams, and Mila Jovovich. Stream it here.

‘Harry Potter’ star Rupert Grint and his girlfriend have made some magic of their own happen … they’re having a baby!!! The English actor, best known for playing Ron Weasley in the fantasy film franchise, and his partner, Georgia Groome, were out in London Thursday picking up some groceries Now, the fact they were spotted

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that

Steve Rogers was always destined to become Captain America thanks to the Super-Solider Serum that transformed his body. But, what if that serum was destroyed and he became another hero instead? In one alt-universe tale, Steve became Iron Man after the serum is no more. Marvel’s 2007 Bullet Points storyline by J. Michael Straczynski and Tommy Lee Edwards

Director Taika Waititi hosted a live screening party on Instagram Live for his film Thor: Ragnarok and he teased that he was going to have a special guest and that guest was….Valkyrie herself Tessa Thompson, who hinted at some details about the sequel Thor: Love and Thunder. She said that there is a script for Thor:

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that

Kris Rey tells us that she hopes to have an announcement on the distribution plans for her comedy, I Used to Go Here, soon. We’ll report them as soon as we have them, as the movie – which stars Gillian Jacobs, Jemaine Clement, Kate Micucci and Jorma Taccone – is really funny, and is worth

Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an

New York-native Helen Slater‘s fame took flight in the early ’80s when she landed the role of Linda Lee — who uses the guise as Clark Kent’s cousin to blend in with the people of Earth while also defeating Selena as Supergirl — in the 1984 DC cinema spin-off, “Supergirl.” Slater shared the big screen

The Cannes Film Festival, not for the first time, is going against the grain. While major events across the summer call it quits due to the coronavirus crisis, the fest is holding out hope that it can still take place over revised dates, which we understand to be June 23 – July 04. For some,