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Bill Rosemann’s words to Den Of Geek show an effort to modernize Mary Jane to bring more realistic female characters – especially to a video game landscape that has famously over sexualized its female characters. Marvel Games is currently hard at work on Marvel’s Avengers, an ambitious project that will star the likes of Captain

As weeks look to turn into months of lockdown around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, Starz is seeing a surge of sign-ups to its digital platforms and more as viewers seek more Power and Outlander. Data reveals a 45% jump in audience on the Starz App in the March 14-23 period compared to

Exclusive “Juwanna Mann” star Miguel A. Nunez Jr. really didn’t want to pay for hundreds of dollars of groceries … at least according to cops, who say he gave himself the ole five-finger discount. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the actor was checking out at an L.A. Ralphs supermarket this week when his credit

The Hollywood Support Staff COVID-19 Relief Fund has raised more than $500,000 to help assistants, coordinators, PAs and other industry support staffers who have been laid off or whose hours have been cut due to the coronavirus shutdown. The fund was created by the #PayUpHollywood organization, the ScriptNotes podcast and the nonprofit YEA! The first

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard‘s Season 1 Finale The Star Trek: Picard season 1 finale ended with the death of Commander Data (Brent Spiner), which was especially shocking since Data had already died in Star Trek: Nemesis. In Star Trek: Picard, the emotional scars left behind by Data’s demise was a driving factor in

Warner Bros. is pushing its forthcoming summer theatrical releases until the coronavirus crisis calms down and exhibition makes a full-steam comeback. Despite reports that Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 was headed to streaming, the movie is in fact still going theatrical, and that was always the plan. Wonder Woman 1984 is now moving from its June 5

Focus Features’ latest title Never Rarely Sometimes Always, will be available at home on-demand for $19.99 48-hour viewing period starting Friday, April 3. The Eliza Hittman directed and written teenage drama, which has 99% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, faced the unfortunate circumstance of opening in New York and Los Angeles during the weekend when

Some of the last holdouts in Asia are joining the raft of global markets to see cinema closures, even as the picture in China was beginning to look brighter, before taking a turn today. At this point, all major international box office markets (along with domestic) are essentially closed. Even in places where turnstiles are

As the Marvel star has detailed on her Instagram today, she has been social distancing in her home alongside her family since March 18 – two days after her controversial words. She said that at the time of her first post, her community had much looser directives, only asking people to not gather in groups

From Saturday, a first batch of 205 cinemas will re-open for business in Shanghai. This follows last weekend’s opening of 500+ theaters in other China provinces, though Shanghai becomes the first tier one city to turn the lights back on as the coronavirus reportedly abates in the Middle Kingdom. The Shanghai municipal government made the

Mark Blum, famous for starring in “Desperately Seeking Susan” and “Crocodile Dundee” … has died as a result of complications from the coronavirus. Mark, who also starred as Mr. Mooney in the hit series, “You,” and acted on Broadway, was a true working actor. Blum played Gary Glass in 1985’s ‘DSS’ … and he played

Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access’ series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All Access and hosted by Deadline’s Senior Editor Dominic Patten. “He

Disney’s Frozen 2 revealed a surprising twist about Queen Elsa’s ice powers as the fifth spirit, which the first Frozen barely teased. Whereas the 2013 original was all about Elsa learning to control her powers so she could live happily ever after with her sister, Anna, Frozen 2 explores the backstory and mythology of the

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

In advance of the Senate’s passage of the $2 trillion relief bill, The National Association of Theatre Owners already is celebrating the agreement as a big win for movie theaters, particularly the $454B loan guarantee fund which will help cinemas get by on their fixed costs as local and state governments force a shutdown out of

Leaders of the DGA said tonight that the major studios “have committed to two weeks of pay” for many non-director members who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus shutdown of film and television production, and that the guild has been “fast-tracking residuals” payments worth “tens of millions of dollars so you would have this

The musical is a personal project for Lin-Manuel Miranda because it was filmed in his home neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York. It’s an important film for the Latino community, who do not often get their own story told on the big screen. As Miranda explains in his note, he cannot wait to share

Two days before the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard, Patrick Stewart is offering fans new and old a gift while stuck at home during the coronavirus outbreak. With video cameos from Star Trek: Discovery’s Sonequa Martin-Green, Anson Mount and Michelle Yeoh, Stewart, who plays the onetime U.S.S. Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard on the

Georgia-born actor Harrison Page may be best known for his role as the surly supervisor, Captain Trunk — who kept Detective Dori Doreau (played by Anne-Marie Martin) and Inspector Sledge Hammer (played by David Rasche) in line — on the ’80s ABC cop comedy, “Sledge Hammer!” Harrison Page has an impressively long line of credits

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms is closing a high seven-figure multi-territory pre-buy for the Scott Cooper-directed psychological horror A Head Full of Ghosts, which will star Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). STX will distribute in the U.S. and UK and, like it did on Gunpowder Milkshake last month, teamed with its output partners in Latin

A new video of a concept model from Avengers: Infinity War shows 360 degrees of Thanos. Thanos made his grand appearance in The Avengers when he appeared during the mid-credits scene. He then had a slightly bigger role in Guardians of the Galaxy, before appearing again in the mid-credits scene for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Marvel built up the character for 10

Well, it’s certainly no Crash. But that 2004 Oscar-winning Best Picture has a cult of haters it has collected in ensuing years, so hearing the new film Human Capital is not quite up to snuff with that Paul Haggis movie might make them actually think better of it. I liked Crash with its multi-story structure and

With the closure of movie theaters nationwide out of safety during the coronavirus, layoffs have been rampant, with the Big Three exhibitors contending with these atrocious times in varying degrees of severity. Word began to spread last week among distribution folks that Regal had been the most acerbic out of the three chains in the

AMC said on Tuesday that the Season 10 finale of The Walking Dead will not air at its scheduled time, with post-production delayed due to the coronavirus shutdown. “Current events have unfortunately made it impossible to complete post-production of The Walking Dead Season 10 finale, so the current season will end with its 15th episode

The obvious joke of a Costa Rican start up would seem to reference InGen, a genetic engineering start up that was prevalent in the Jurassic movie. But Bernard and Stubbs are very much in the future, and the timeline wouldn’t line up with the work funded by billionaire John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough) in the

Singapore, which has registered a contextually minimal impact from the global coronavirus pandemic to date, has opted to follow much of the world by introducing stricter social distancing measures. The country’s government announced today that entertainment venues including all cinemas and bars will be closed. Gatherings outside of work or school will be limited to

Exclusive Details Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus … TMZ has confirmed. Sources tell us that the incarcerated former movie mogul has, indeed, been confirmed as one of two inmates at the Wende Correctional Facility in New York to have the viral infection. He was moved to the prison recently after being taken to

Negotiations scheduled to begin today for a new WGA film and TV contract have been postponed because of the industry’s coronavirus shutdown. The guild and management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have been talking about when and how they can move forward, even though film and TV production has ground to a halt

Teresa Giudice of The Real Housewives of New Jersey fame revealed that she has considered freezing her eggs to have a baby boy. The housewife has four daughters and is thinking of possibly trying for a son. She and Joe Giudice were married for 20 years after dating as childhood sweethearts. After Joe got in trouble

As the number of new cases of the coronavirus shows signs of abating in China, a smattering of cinemas re-opened in a handful of provinces across the country this weekend. On Friday, there were 486 movie theaters back at work, while Saturday the total was upped to 507, local reports say. This reps just 4.5%