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EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Brit Stuart Ford has operated at the sharp end of international film sales and movie financing for more than two decades. The AGC Studios boss and former IM Global chief has produced or distributed films with directors and actors including Martin Scorsese, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Tom

‘Barbie’ has been beaten out for the second weekend in a row — but not by much … if anything, her competitors are barely squeaking by — which says a lot about this juggernaut. The box office numbers are in, and the latest big movie to hit theaters this weekend was “Gran Turismo” — the

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris is heading to the Telluride Film Festival for the world premiere of his new documentary The Pigeon Tunnel, a gripping portrait of the spy-turned-novelist David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré. The Telluride lineup was announced just minutes ago, but you don’t have to wait for touch down in

Several multiplexes in Florida are seeing their final shows tonight before Hurricane Idalia hits the state in what’s expected to be a category 3 storm with surges of 15 feet on the state’s Gulf Coast side. Deadline hears that at least 24 cinemas are closing in Florida tonight including but not limited to AMC locations

“Freddie was a hoarder, he didn’t throw anything away,” said Thomas Williams, a Sotheby’s director who is running an auction of Queen icon Freddie Mercury’s lifetime accumulations. “His possessions give us an extraordinary 360-degree view of the man, from his childhood until his death.” “Freddie Mercury, A World of His Own” is the name of

Jay-Z is back on his social media grind, but he’s sticking to his pattern of only returning when he’s got product to push … this time it’s his new feature film. The elusive rap legend rebooted his account on Tuesday, revealing the official trailer for “The Book of Clarence” … the upcoming theatrical release he

Neon said Tuesday that it has hired Sierra/Affinity veteran Kristen Figeroid as President of International Sales and Distribution. She starts this week. Figeroid, who will also handle sales on third-party projects, is bringing with her to the indie distributor a team of foreign sales execs including Laurel Charnetsky as VP International Acquisitions & Operations and

Good Night, Oscar, the Oscar Levant bio-play starring Sean Hayes, and El Mago Pop, the Broadway debut of Spanish illusionist Antonio Díaz, ended their limited Broadway engagements on upswings last week, with the former selling out for its best week take of $1,147,057 and the magician conjuring a big $2,717,000 to break the house record

EXCLUSIVE: The documentary Full Circle, on athletes in search of reinvention following traumatic injuries to the spine, has firmed up North American release plans with Abramorama. Directed by Josh Berman of the production company Level 1, the film will hit NYC’s Village East by Angelika on October 20, expanding to L.A.’s Laemmle theaters and across

Irina Shayk seems to be full of surprises. The supermodel was apparently hanging out with ex-boyfriend Bradley Cooper on a recent vacation … this after she was filmed cozying up to Tom Brady. Shayk posted a series of photos on Instagram … showing herself scantily clad while posing on a large rocky formation. Another image

EXCLUSIVE: Samba TV reports that the Live+5 day viewership for the first episode of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s new series Ahsoka drew 1.2M households. Disney+ dropped the first two episodes of the Dave Filoni-created series on Tuesday, August 22. The second episode clocked 956 U.S. households. Ahsoka is a live-action sequel series to EP Filoni’s Lucasfilm animated series

National Cinema Day did 8.5 million admissions we hear off of a Sunday total day box office that’s estimated around $34M. All tickets for all movies and showtimes were $4 vs. last year’s $3. Note this figure could go up later today once final numbers are tabulated. Last year’s National Cinema Day drew 8.1M. The

The 2023 film festival season has wound its way from Sundance and SXSW to Cannes, Tribeca and Taormina and is reaching its busy point this week when Venice and Telluride kick off, followed by the Toronto Film Festival which begins September 7. Still to watch for this fall: Both Sundance’s Festival Favorite Award winner Radical

Play video content TMZ.com Jason Momoa‘s status as a loyal and rockin’ Metallica fan is secure with this video showing the dude taking on a hectic mosh pit with a swarm of other fans at the band’s L.A. concerts. Check out the clip, obtained by TMZ — the “Aquaman” star was in the mix with

Cliff Twemlow is an obscure figure even by British B-movie standards, a handsome, no-nonsense former Manchester nightclub doorman who attempted to create a Hollywood of the north in the early ’80s and ’90s. Born in 1937, a fact he tried to cloud for many years, he was something of a renaissance man: He acted in

Emma Seligman’s Bottoms is looking at an estimated weekend gross of $516k on ten screens with a possible leading $51,625 per-theater average for the raunchy, teenage high school girl take on Fight Club. That’s a win for MGM, its Orion Pictures label and Brownstone Productions, producers on the modestly budgeted ($11.3 million) film written by

“You never want to rush to ER in the middle of the night and then have to stay in the hospital,” reads a cryptic message posted to Aquaman director James Wan’s Instagram Story yesterday. “It has been an extremely rough and scary couple of days and nights,” the missive reveals in text over a picture

Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie broke bread this weekend, and they did it with none other than their own respective children — showing these two are tied at the hip these days. The two actresses were dining at the Nice Guy Saturday in L.A., and they brought along their kids. In Salma’s case … her

The double-whammy success of Barbie and Oppenheimer – released on the same day July 21 – has propelled the UK box office to a height not seen since December 2019. The Guardian newspaper reports that cinema admissions for July have reached more than 17.6million, with predictions of figures reaching 13.5million for August. Between them, the

Time was, Hollywood filmmakers would regularly travel to China in support of their movies, attending premieres and holding Q&As to drum up buzz in the massive box office market. The pandemic halted that ritual — until this week when Christopher Nolan became the first major Hollywood filmmaker since Covid to stroll a red carpet in

John Wick: Chapter 4 and All Quiet on the Western Front were the top winners tonight at the 10th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards, which were handed out tonight in Santa Monica. TV winners recognized by the Location Managers Guild International included 1923, The White Lotus and The Last of Us. See the full

Barack Obama‘s kids are just like us — hitting the grocery store on their own to stock up on grub … which is exactly what Sasha Obama was doing this week. The ex-First Daughter — who’s 22 years old now — was spotted out in WeHo Friday doing a little supermarket pop-in at a Trader

In a just-released clip from his Peacock show Hart to Heart, Kevin Hart asks Dwayne Johnson why, given what Hart sees as a successful opening and “an appetite from your fan base,” Black Adam didn’t get a sequel. “I think that Black Adam got caught in a vortex of new leadership,” Johnson answers, adding that

It’s an unusual theatrical weekend as the second National Cinema Day rolls out Sunday with $4 tickets for all shows and formats at participating theaters — the bulk of the nation’s circuits big and small. The event was announced Monday with a dedicated clip of new openings, recent returning (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) and

Kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup may cost Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales his job. On Saturday, FIFA suspended Rubiales while its disciplinary committee investigates his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final. The move comes after Rubiales refused to resign, despite intense pressure from

Play video content Ex-NFL running back Stevan Ridley is finally sharing video of the race that ultimately put Kevin Hart in a wheelchair … and you can see the comedian came up injured just as the guys were about to cross the finish line. Per the vid, the race went down on a roadway somewhere

The U.S. premieres of the films Yoko, Ripple, and Tea Friends highlight the seventh Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (ACA) Cinema Project, which will spotlight “Emerging Japanese Films” in a series set to run Sept. 26-28 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The ACA is sponsoring the series as the cornerstone of

Box office analytics firm EntTelligence which is monitoring 13.5 million seats in over 100K showtimes for Sunday’s National Cinema Day is currently seeing that day’s presales outstripping Saturday by more than 700%. The second annual National Cinema Day will see all movies on Sunday selling for $4, for all showtimes and formats. Last year’s National

David Harbour has the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” in front of him, awaiting strike settlements before production begins. But he’s already looking at what comes next. “The first year of “Stranger Things,” I remember having a discussion with a publicist and her saying, ‘Maybe you don’t want to be associated with the

Dave Chappelle‘s 50th birthday party looked more like the Oscars or Grammys, as his A-list celebrity pals continued to pour into the bash. Dave and company were at The Comedy Cellar in NYC Thursday to celebrate. Among the guests — Chris Rock, Justin Timberlake, T.I., Chance the Rapper, Jon Hamm, Aziz Ansari, Jaleel White, Tisha