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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

THE NATURE OF LOVESection: Un Certain RegardDirector-screenwriter: Monia ChokriLogline: The nature of love is the story of Sophia, a philosophy professor who’s turning 40. She’s  been with her partner for 10 years, they have a good social life and a good relationship, but when the couple buy a house in the country, Sophia falls for the construction worker

Two of Gisele Bündchen‘s exes walk onto a yacht … There’s no joke here, but that’s exactly what went down in Sardinia over the weekend … with Tom Brady and Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out on a big boat together. As we previously reported, the “Departed” actor has been yacht hopping for about a week following

EXCLUSIVE: Indian mega-star Ranveer Singh has signed for representation with WME in all areas globally. Singh was launched onto the Indian cinema scene in 2010 by Yash Raj Film in the romantic comedy Band Baaja Baaraat, co-starring opposite Anushka Sharma in a breakthrough role. He has since racked up 20 feature credits with highlights including

Refresh for latest…: Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid is doing swimmingly at the domestic box office, with a three-day opening of $95.5M and a four-day projection of $117.5M. Factoring in the international box office bow of $68.3M, that makes for an estimated $163.8M global debut through Sunday. The offshore launch is lower than

Something about the new live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” isn’t sitting right with singer Paloma Faith … who says the movie’s plot is a really hard one to explain to her kiddos. Paloma took to social media over the weekend, first congratulating Halle Bailey for her performance in the new Disney flick — before

Whether it’s the flat white lighting and washed-out color grading that gives The Delinquents the look of a ‘70s TV serial, or the fact that much of it is set in a mountain swimming beach where people claim to see apparitions, there is an undercurrent of genuine oddity running beneath this long, complex film. Screening

Refresh for latest…: Apart from big new opener The Little Mermaid, which we detailed here, this weekend was notable for propelling Universal’s Fast X past the $500M mark globally, and Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to over $730M worldwide. The Fast & Furious franchise had, earlier this week, crossed $7B globally while the

Fresh from his standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival for his latest film Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese has taken a tour of Italy, including a meeting with Pope Frances in the Vatican, where the Oscar winner also announced his plans to make a film about Jesus.  Variety reports that Scorsese told a

Johnny Depp‘s American fans are going to have to wait a little longer to see him live, ’cause the guy’s got a bum ankle right now … and it’s temporarily put him out of commission. Sources close to the actor tell TMZ … Johnny’s upcoming U.S. shows with his band, The Hollywood Vampires, are getting

A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves. Breakdown: Friday – $474k; Sat.

The Monty Python crew always looked on the bright side of life when it came to its classic film parody, Life of Brian. But Monty Python star John Cleese insists he never said that he would remove a politically incorrect scene from a stage adaptation of Life of Brian, even though the film’s 1979 sensibilities

Leo DiCaprio may be as famous for yachting as he is for another, even bigger ship, but these days he’s strictly upper deck! The “Titanic” star was lounging this weekend on the top deck of a super yacht with some buddies … along the coast of Sardinia. There he was — again — a shirtless

Imax chief executive Rich Gelfond said he’s never seen China let as many U.S. titles into country as early as they have this year. After a slowdown in the pace that caused some angst in Hollywood, there’s been a steady stream of releases — although not necessarily a surge in ticket sales — with The

UPDATED with latest: The Cannes Film Festival kicked off this year with opening-night movie Jeanne du Barry, with Deadline on the ground to watch all the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which last year saw Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness win the coveted Palme d’Or on its way

Jane Fonda isn’t chasing award show glory anymore, and she certainly wasn’t about to chase the winner of one France’s after a director took top honors … see for yourself. The actress was on hand Saturday at Cannes, where the the Palme d’Or was awarded to French filmmaker Justine Triet for her flick, ‘Anatomy of

What has fallen flat at Pixar? This is the innovative animation studio that pushed all before it in the first decade of this millennium, that invented a way of turning the plastic finish of digital animation to its advantage in the towering Toy Story, that was prepared to start a film with a 20-minute scene