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EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has set 26 filmmakers from 15 nations to participate in the 2023 edition of their Global Media Makers LA Residency, which is being held in person this month. A mentoring initiative and cultural exchange program that connects American filmmakers and industry pros with filmmakers spread across the globe, GMM sees Fellows participate

Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber will star in a new Broadway production next February of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable, with direction by Scott Ellis. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will begin performances in February 2024 at the American Airlines Theatre. Exact dates, remaining cast members, and design

EXCLUSIVE: Eve Hewson (Flora and Son) is set to join Tessa Thompson in Hedda, the new film to be directed for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B by Nia DaCosta, who is working from her own script. Details as to the role she’s playing haven’t been disclosed. Billed as an epic and visceral reimagination of

Pete Davidson getting his new dog from a pet store and not from an animal shelter comes as a disappointment to the folks over at PETA. Daphna Nachminovitch, the Senior VP of Cruelty Investigations over at PETA, tells TMZ … “It’s tragic that Pete didn’t seek out a borough-born mutt from a city animal shelter,

Barry Newman, who was behind the wheel of a “super-charged” Dodge Challenger in The Vanishing Point, a 1971 film featuring several breakneck police chases, and later starred as a defense attorney on the NBC series Petrocelli, has died. He was 92 and died May 11 in a New York hospital, with his death confirmed by social

Celine Song’s Past Lives from A24 is very much here and now, grossing $232k on four screens for over $58k per location, a nice number for Song’s debut film as the second-biggest limited opening of the year so far. A24 also had the highest in April with Beau Is Afraid at $80k per theater at

Disgraced British TV presenter Phillip Schofield has spent another week in the headlines, following his departure from ITV’s flagship daytime show This Morning and his admission that he had a secret relationship with a runner on the show 40 years his junior.  He’ll be relieved to read the words of fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who

Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good are going strong overseas … popping up in Morocco, where they’re shopping for pottery. TMZ obtained these photos of Jonathan and Meagan perusing a pottery shop in Fez, Morocco. Folks who were there tell us the couple stopped by a shop called Art Naji, where they appeared to take an

Oscar Isaac is already imagining the next Spider-Verse film and has a role for Pedro Pascal. The Moon Knight star joined the cast of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse voicing the role of Miguel O’Hara, also known as Spider-Man 2099, a Spider-Man from an alternate universe. When talking to British GQ, Isaac said that production of

Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Universe is casting its web in international box office markets with  $13.5M through Thursday. That’s 2.5x the original in like-for-likes.  Notable in early reporting, India broke the local all-time opening day record for an animated movie with $610K while releasing on a non-traditional Thursday. The launch day gross is higher than

Galyn Susman — the longtime Disney producer who’s credited with saving “Toy Story 2” — just got the boot alongside several other Pixar employees … and fans are pissed. The news came down Saturday from Reuters, which reported Susman was one of 75 Pixar workers who recently gotten the axe in mass layoffs. She was

Andrew Tate has called his interview with the BBC this week “a hit job” and taken to social media to bemoan his treatment.  The controversial influencer sat down with BBC journalist Lucy Williamson for what became an increasingly barbed encounter as Tate denied all claims of a culture of misogyny and emotional abuse, before the

A24 follows You Hurt My Feelings last weekend with dual-language romance Past Lives, starting a platform release on four screens in New York and LA including Q&As led by talent who have been champions of the film, including Steve Buscemi, Jodie Turner-Smith and Lulu Wang. Expanding this month. The Sundance premiering pic by Celine Song,

Miramax Presents 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 Jay

Kaley Cuoco is lookin’ to unload her gorgeous Los Angeles-area home a little over a year after picking it up … and it comes with a pretty steep price tag. The ‘Big Bang Theory’ actress has put her Agoura Hills pad on the market for a whopping $7 mil. She bought the place from Taylor

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that the George Clooney directed MGM title, The Boys in the Boat, is set to hit theaters on Monday, Dec. 25, as a wide release. The studio, I understand, were ecstatic over the test scores and landed on the pic’s release date in an effort to grab families. Pic is based on

EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James are joining forces to star in a scorching new play by Penelope Skinner, directed by Ian Rickson, that will open in London’s West End in the fall. Pretty hot names to have atop a theater marquee, that’s for sure. The drama, called Lyonesse, will open at the Harold Pinter

Play video content Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says he’s put aside his years-long beef with “Fast & Furious” star Vin Diesel … confirming his ass-kicking character, Hobbs, will be back in the driver’s seat. DJ let fans in on his big return Thursday, saying Vin’s been like a bro to him for a while —

Joe Gayton, a film and television writer-producer who co-created and executive produced the hit AMC series Hell on Wheels, died May 14 after a four-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 66. Gayton got off to a fast start in Hollywood with Uncommon Valor, which he wrote when he was 23. The script was made into

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is doing some serious business tonight according to box office sources, accumulating $16M off previews that began at 3PM at 3,562 theaters. That’s the second best preview night ever for an animated movie after Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($18.5M) from June 2018. Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4, with $12M, is

Netflix is headed to Japan for its next spin on the dating reality genre. The streamer is set to launch Is She the Wolf? on June 11 at 10pm in Japan, and has unveiled a trailer to build some hype. Globally, the series will launch in September. The format, developed in partnership with ABEMA, follows

Drake made a cherry-on-top cameo for the season finale of Lil Dicky‘s “Dave” series — an episode that also boasted Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams appearances!!! As fate would have it, Drake’s actually a superfan of the show — which just wrapped its third season — and he said exactly that to Dicky, in person.

EXCLUSIVE: Uninterrupted a brand within The SpringHill Company, founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, is partnering with the creators of The Game Changers documentary to produce its sequel. The original film — executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Chris Paul and Novak Djokovic – documented the dramatic rise of

Julie Benko, who has built a devoted following as the Funny Girl understudy and alternate Fanny Brice, will originate her first Broadway role this fall in the new musical Harmony by by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Benko will play the role of Ruth, producers Ken Davenport, Sandi Moran and Garry Kief announced today. The

Play video content Instagram / @citipupsnyc Pete Davidson has a new best friend, a super cute pup … and he was all smiles as he picked up his new buddy with girlfriend Chase Sui Wonders. They picked up the pooch in New York City, going to Citipups in Manhattan to get their furry friend …

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Foxtel is the latest to take on The Swarm. The pay-TV provider has acquired the eight-part eco-drama series from ZDF Studios, which co-distributes the show with German compatriot Beta. The series comes from Game of Thrones producer Frank Doelger. It will launch on Foxtel, which has 4.6 million subscribers in Australia, and streaming

Last night at the world premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse there was a huge sigh of relief from the mass of animators inside Westwood’s Regency Village Theater: the $100M budgeted sequel to the Oscar winning animated movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was done; having completed post-production literally just ten days ago after a five-year

EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Pictures has inked a deal out of Cannes with the Bulgarian production company Bazuka to exclusively develop and produce a narrative feature take on the cultural tradition spotlighted in Kukeri, their documentary short produced for The New Yorker which was just unveiled at the beginning of the month. (View it above.) Set to direct

Offset is back on dad duty for a big movie premiere — which is starting to become a cool family tradition — only this time, he was inspired by MJ‘s style. The rapper brought his 3 sons to the ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ premiere Tuesday night in L.A. — and from 20-month-old, Wave, whom he

Talk about legs — or, more appropriately, wings: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in Japanese cinemas a full year on from its debut. Continuing on from a stratospheric and super-leggy run, the sequel, on its 365th day of release, became Tom Cruise’s biggest film ever in the market. In doing so, it overtook