While many know Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks for his work on movies like Big, Forrest Gump, and the Toy Story franchise, he first got his start in the 1980 slasher flick He Knows You’re Alone. Hanks has since played a number of iconic roles. From starring as the eponymous lead in thriller-drama Captain Phillips to
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If you watched Cats on opening night, you may have seen a different version than others who saw it later in the weekend as sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures sent out a memo to theaters saying that they will be sending out a new version of the big-screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway musical
As we enter the holiday week, A24’s Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler has a solid weekend in its second limited weekend on five screens in New York and Los Angeles. The Safdie Brothers crime thriller was the biggest per-screen average opening ever for A24 and, despite dropping from its limited opening last week, the film earned an
Marvel’s Kingdom of Wakanda, home of Black Panther, is not a U.S. trading partner, despite anything you might have read this week on the U.S. Department of Agriculture website. When a New York software engineer named Francis Tseng was doing research for a fellowship application, he clicked on a drop-down menu at the website, finding listings
6 minutes ago Man, what a weird week for The Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani. “Weird” is the word he used for it, anyway. It started when he showed off his newly ripped/jacked/shredded body for the upcoming Marvel movie. That led to a strip club offering him $15,000 for his “services” — !!! — and now
Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker powered up its light sabers in 46 material offshore markets through Thursday, grossing $59.1M at the international box office. That includes China where the force is, unsurprisingly, not strong with this final installment. Elsewhere, Episode IX has seen launches above Star Wars: The Last Jedi in most majors.
It’s not officially the holidays until you’ve sat back with a tall glass of Ovaltine and a plate of smiling duck to take in the 1983 Xmas classic, “A Christmas Story.” You’ll say “Oh, Fudge” after you see what your favorite cast of 9-year-old troublemakers including the day-dreaming, Red Ryder Air Rifle lover, Ralphie, his
Just Mercy isn’t easy to watch at times, but it is an admirable film about one lawyer’s efforts to free prisoners on Alabama’s Death Row who have been served up a heap of injustice and an impending date with the grim reaper for crimes they didn’t commit. It is all the true story of Bryan
Alfred Pennyworth is the single best thing through the entire Batman franchise. It’s safe to say that the Batman movies have had their ups and downs, and in fact, have oscillated between the two extremes in a way seldom seen in most A-list series. 1997’s Batman and Robin nearly killed comic book movies altogether, while 2008’s The Dark Knight serves as
The knives have been out for Rian Johnson again as Star Wars fans react to the release of Disney-owned Fox’s The Rise of Skywalker by revisiting the debate over the space saga’s preceding installment, Johnson’s polarizing The Last Jedi from 2017. Today, Johnson defended himself and his version of the franchise’s central protagonist, Luke Skywalker. When a Twitter
EXCLUSIVE: The dark force from critics isn’t keeping Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker down with the Lucasfilm finale to the George Lucas-created saga seeing between $44M-$48M per Deadline sources tonight. At that level, Rise of Skywalker will wind up being either the third or fourth best preview night ever with the current top three being last
Sheffield Doc/Fest senior programmer Adam Cook has resigned from his role following allegations made on Twitter by his former fiancé. The festival, which investigated the matter this week, said today, “Sheffield Doc/Fest informs that as of yesterday, Adam Cook, our Senior Programmer, handed in his resignation, with immediate effect, which we accepted. “The artistic direction
5 minutes ago After a series best for the Mission: Impossible franchise when Fallout made $761 million worldwide last year, Christopher McQuarrie is gearing up to continue placing his stamp on the espionage action flicks by shooting 7 and 8 back-to-back. The writer/director has been assembling an impressive cast to join Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.
On Sunday, Yellowstone star and Oscar winner Kevin Costner will appear at a town hall event in Indianola, Iowa, to endorse Pete Buttigieg for president. Earlier this week, Donald Glover was announced as the “creative consultant” for Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, and he appeared with the candidate at a pop-up store of Yang merchandise. We
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Jason Derulo‘s got his claws out, pushing back against critics who ain’t feline fine about his new movie, “Cats” … saying they don’t know crap about making movies. We got Jason in New York City and asked how the “Cats” cast is handling all the negative reactions to the movie
Christopher Nolan took the Hollywood heist film into dreamland with the cerebral thriller Inception. Now, with Tenet, he might be introducing an espionage thriller where time itself is the ticking bomb. That’s one way to interpret the just-arrived trailer for the sleek Warner Bros film that hits theaters worldwide on July 17, though there’s little
Warning: Minor SPOILERS related to The Witcher‘s content ahead. Netflix’s The Witcher might be a fantasy series, but it’s not family-friendly. With plenty of violence, gore, strong language, sexual content and mature themes, the show is suitable only for adults and older teens. The Witcher stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, a monster-slayer who
EXCLUSIVE: The Black Film Critics Circle has voted Eddie Murphy-starrer Dolemite Is My Name as its Best Film of 2019. Murphy also scooped Best Actor, while Lupita Nyong’o took Best Actress for Us. And for the first time in the organization’s nine-year history, there was a tie for Best Director between Kasi Lemmons for Harriet
EXCLUSIVE: We understand that MarketCast has tapped Steve Buck as its SVP Theatrical. In his new role, Buck will drive commercial sales and new business efforts for MarketCast’s theatrical products and services, which counts every major Hollywood studio and many independent producers as clients. Buck will partner with MarketCast’s creative testing and analytics team to
As Apple looks to draw more viewers to its TV offerings — both original programming on Apple TV+ and third-party app gateway Apple TV — it has been having discussions with a wide range of potential partners. A Wall Street Journal report Thursday identified two disparate entities: MGM and the Pac-12 conference, with the latter
5 minutes ago If you’re going to play a super-powered humanoid being with near-immortality, it helps to look the part. Actor Kumail Nanjiani did just that. At this point we’ve all seen how shredded the Stuber and Silicon Valley actor got to play Kingo in the MCU’s Phase 4 film Eternals. Now we know part
The just-released trailer for A24’s Saint Maud is a holy terror. The eerily intense and dangerously devout Maud (Welsh actress Morfydd Clark) is a hospice care worker who is out to save souls but may take some lives in the process. The film is the debut effort by writer-director Rose Glass and the trailer’s unsettling energy and
Breaking News Alamy Legendary high school football coach Herman Boone — portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie “Remember the Titans” — has died at age 84, his school announced Wednesday. Boone was the head coach at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia where he led a group of integrated players to a 13-0 record
All3Media International has signed a content sales deal with HOOQ, the Southeast Asian streaming service launched in 2015 as a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros and Singapore telco Singtel. Under the deal, All3Media will sell HOOQ Originals internationally, unless the rights are retained by the production company or by HOOQ. To give
In the latest entry of our ongoing series, Screen Rant’s Ryan George reveals what (probably) happened in the pitch meeting for 2017 sequel Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Updating the beloved 1995 film for the 21st century, Welcome to the Jungle is about a mismatched group of teens who get put in detention together, and
This weekend Eddie Murphy is coming back to his roots by hosting Saturday Night Live, the show that launched his career. It isn’t the only thing Murphy is returning to, as I learned when he visited our Deadline Studios to tape this week’s edition of my video series, The Actor’s Side. We talk about everything in
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker advance ticket sales are pacing with 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the same point in time in their Fandango sales cycle. We heard from other exhibition sources that a $200M+ opening is within reach. Also working greatly in the favor of business this weekend are 15% K-12 schools out on
EXCLUSIVE: Baobab Studios will venture into the world of graphic novels with Intercats, a new brand the Emmy-winning animation house is now developing as a namesake interactive series with broader tentpole aspirations. First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, and Baobab are fast-tracking the publishing venture with plans for a 2020 release for the first
7 seconds ago Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker blasts into theaters this week, and with it, hopefully the answers to our most pressing questions. These questions don’t just pertain to the Sequel Trilogy either. This story has many loose ends that need tying up, from the Original Trilogy to the Prequels to the modern
EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shina India is lining up a web series based on Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy’s book Trial By Fire:The Tragic Tale Of The Uphaar Fire Tragedy. The book is an account of the Uphaar cinema fire in Delhi in 1997, which resulted in the deaths of 59 people and injured 100 more. Injured survivors