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Jon M. Chu had a bit of a scheduling conflict with the Los Angeles premiere of his sweeping musical Wicked. Ahead of the the film’s West Coast debut, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Chu spoke to attendees, cast and crew in a recorded clip explaining that he was at the hospital awaiting the birth

James Gunn is shutting down rumors that a Joker series starring Barry Keoghan is in the works. The DC Studios co-head took to social media to debunk rumors of a spinoff series based on Matt Reeves’ The Batman. “Turn on threads and everyone is asking me about this. No there is absolutely no truth to

First Nations Australians have called for TV chef Jamie Oliver to withdraw his children’s book from sale, saying it includes a “damaging stereotype of First Nations people and experiences.”  The British TV chef and author has apologised for the offence he has  caused to indigenous Australians with his children’s book Billy and the Epic Escape. 

Nicholas Hoult was destined for the DC Universe, but before landing the role of Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman, he suffered an “emotional blow” when he found out he wasn’t going to star in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. In a new interview, the Skins alum opened up about discovering Robert Pattinson was landing the role

The UK government plans to examine ways of sustainably preserving linear television for older and underprivileged audiences amid the streaming revolution. Media minister Stephanie Peacock will oversee a forum of broadcasters and experts to consider the future of traditional TV so that all viewers can continue to access British content. The BBC, ITV, Channel 4,

Streaming platform Mubi has cancelled its long planned Mubi Fest Istanbul at the eleventh hour after the city governor banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s LGBTI+ themed movie Queer, which was to have been the opening film. The film festival, which ran in Istanbul for the first time in 2023 after editions in São Paulo,

EXCLUSIVE: Sports car biopic Maserati: The Brothers, which gets underway this month, has booked into Rome’s iconic Cinecittà studios. Filming will also take place in Modena and Bologna, and the production will use VR and VFX technology from Tuscany Film Studio. Michele Morrone, Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia and Jessica Alba are starring in the film about the

Nicholas Hoult is teasing his Superman role as Lex Luthor in the upcoming DC Studios film. During the AFI Fest, Hoult talked to Deadline about working on the superhero movie where he will play the villain. “I’m a fan of Superman and Lex Luthor as a character, so hopefully we’ve done something special with it

EXCLUSIVE: The life and career of the fascist Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen, best known in Holland as the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl, has been examined in the IDFA competition doc The Propagandist. We can share the first official trailer for the flick above.  The Propagandist was directed by Dutch filmmaker Luuk Bouwman and produced by Ilja

At the high point of her career, Sally Kirkland enjoyed the lifestyle of your average A-list star. In 1988, after more than two decades working in the business, she earned a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Anna, an indie drama in which she played a former Czech film star who has relocated to New

Video game creator and filmmaker Hideo Kojima has expressed his opinion on Joker: Folie à Deux. Kojima took to social media to predict that audiences will view Todd Phillips‘ film differently in the next decade or two. “Over the next 10 or 20 years, this film’s reputation will likely change along with the permeation of

The seventh edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival wrapped over the weekend with the $50,000 top prize going to French director Jonathan Millet’s Syrian drama Ghost Trail, and its star Adam Bessa winning Best Actor (see below for full awards list). Launched in 2017 by Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris in the Red Sea resort

Olivia Colman plays a singing nun. I’m almost prepared to say that’s all you need to know about Paddington in Peru: that Olivia Colman, living English treasure, gets her Julie Andrews on and leads a song-and-dance sequence on an alpine meadow that tells us that the hills are still very much alive. It’s not much

Quentin Tarantino is praising Todd Phillips and Joker: Folie à Deux after the Warner Bros. film bombed at the box office. The Kill Bill director gave his thoughts on the Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga-starring film and shared why he enjoyed the DC Comics-based movie. “I really, really liked it, really,” Tarantino said on the

Police detectives investigating Russell Brand regarding historic allegations of sex crimes have asked prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against the media personality, according to BBC. The decision by law enforcement stems from a September 2023 investigative report by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches, which includes testimony from four women who

Although the evolution of streaming remains a divisive topic in Hollywood, Paul Feig is not one to turn up his nose at opportunity. After his latest film Jackpot! premiered on Prime Video in August, the director recently called streaming platforms “a blessing for filmmakers who simply want to get their movies made” amid an ongoing

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that 3 Body Problem actress Eve Ridley has landed the part of Ruthye Mary Knolle in DC Studios and Warner Bros’ Craig Gillespie-directed Supergirl. The movie is based on Tom King’s 2022 comic book series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which Bilquis Evely illustrated. Ana Nogueira adapted the comic book for the big

Veteran actors Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes exchanged teary-eyed tributes as they picked up honorary career achievement awards this evening at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.  The veteran duo are two of the headline guests this year in Thessaloniki, and they were presented with the festival’s honorary Golden Alexander award for their respective bodies

EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill Entertainment, the producers behind box office horror hits Smile and Smile 2, and UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures, are teaming up on horror Monitor. Written and directed by Ryan Polly and Matt Black (I Bet You’re Wondering How I Got Here) for their feature debut, the film is based on their short

Scarlett Johansson made a call and assembled The Avengers to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election and vote for Kamala Harris. In a video shared by Mark Ruffalo, the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the actors expressed their support for Harris and Tim Walz in the home stretch of their presidential run.

The new Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMSC) is to continue the work of the previous one in attempting to revamp British film and high-end TV via what it has described as a “sequel” to the previous inquiry. The previous inquiry was responsible for pushing for the new 40% indie film tax relief along with

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that cameras are rolling on the set of the Amazon MGM Orion Pictures’ feature take of the 3x Obie-winning play, Is God Is with I’m a Virgo‘s Kara Young and Kindred‘s Mallori Johnson playing outcast twin sisters. Also starring are Oscar nominee and 3x Primetime Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown, Kill Bill‘s

EXCLUSIVE: “Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path,” states Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus to Keanu Reeve’s character in the Lilly Wachowski’s co-penned and co-helmed The Matrix. Almost 30 years after the genre and culturally defining Matrix first came out,

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has hit back against a report that accused the British broadcaster of showing a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel in its coverage of conflict in the Middle East. Undertaken by British attorney Trevor Asserson, the September study claimed that the BBC breached editorial rules on impartiality more than 1,500 times

The world’s six top content giants will hit a major spending landmark this year, according to research from Ampere Analysis. Disney, Comcast, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Netflix and Paramount will spend a forecast $126B on the content landscape this year, Ampere said. For the first time, this will account for more than half (50.6%)

Joaquin Phoenix had his turn at playing the Joker in the Todd Phillips Joker films, but the actor could have played the DC Comics villain in The Dark Knight. In a new interview, Phoenix revealed he had talked to director Christopher Nolan about giving life to Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime. “I remember I talked

Replica Michael Parkinson To Host “World First” AI Podcast An AI replica of iconic TV presenter Michael Parkinson is to host a podcast. Parkinson is leading Virtually Parkinson, which will be a completely unscripted conversation between a guest and the late TV host – a “world first,” according to its creators. Producer Deep Fusion Films

It has been 19 long years between the first Wallace & Gromit feature in 2005 and now the second in 2024, but it is an understatement to say it was well worth the wait. Nick Park‘s and Aardman‘s delightful buddy movie, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is an animated film noir merged with the

Good things come to those who wait, and when it comes to the future story of Daisy Ridley‘s Rey following Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, it’s going to be awhile as the latest scribe, Steven Knight, has exited, Deadline has confirmed. The search for a new screenwriter is underway, according to

The next locale for The Real Housewives franchise is London, NBCUniversal streamer Hayu announced at its inaugural FanFest event held Saturday. The series, set for a late 2025 release, will mark the platform’s first original, available in 45 markets outside the U.S. “Breaking news from #HayuFanFest: Hayu will bring you The Real Housewives of London in