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Adele Lim’s debut film, Joy Ride, will make you cry your eyes out, in addition to showing the audience that women know how to party hard. Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Teresa Hsiao, the film stars Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu as four friends on a global adventure of self-discovery –

The head of the VC firm that invested several hundred million dollars in A24 a year ago says the indie producer-distributor’s “extraordinary” momentum could lead to a large international business and potential acquisitions. As is their wont, A24 executives are not talking publicly, but Stripes partner Ken Fox did speak with Deadline soon after the

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 filmmaker David F.

American actor Mark Holton was 34 years old when he played the role of Ozzie Jones — who accidentally swallows the killer Leprechaun’s gold — in the classic St. Patty’s Day horror film “Leprechaun” back in 1993. Mark shared the big screen with Hollywood greats like Warwick Davis as the scary and vindictive leprechaun with

Sam Neill first noticed he had swollen glands while promoting Jurassic World Dominion last March. After consulting a physician, the actor was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer. His course of treatment began with chemotherapy, which did not work. Neill, now 75, said he began taking a new chemotherapy drug and, after

NORTHERN COMFORT Section: Narrative Spotlight Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson Screenwriters: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Halldór Laxness Halldórsson, Tobias Munthe Logline: A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course’s final challenge is an experience flight from London to

Friday afternoon: We’re hearing that New Line’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently on its way to an $11M Friday, inclusive of last night’s $3.4M, for what’s looking like a $30M opening at 4,071 theaters. The pic cost $125M before P&A, $25M more than the first Shazam! While that’s nothing to scream “Shazam!” about

Shazam! Fury of the Gods finally lands in a rainy windswept Los Angeles tonight for its premiere at the Regency Village. But the franchise’s filmmaker David F. Sandberg won’t be in attendance after testing positive for Covid. Taking to social, Sandberg wrote, “Sadly I won’t be going to the Shazam premiere tonight because I finally

Whether it’s the top o’ the morning or a late-night party at the bar, these stars love a tall glass of Guinness … so take a look at some of the biggest celebs drinkin’ away in honor of St. Patrick’s Day! Hugh Jackman, Kevin Hart, and Ben Affleck are just a few of the A-listers

A Punjabi and Bollywood actor is recovering from multiple stab wounds today after a man wielding a hatchet and knife attacked him outside a gym about an hour southeast of Los Angeles. Aman Dhaliwal was assaulted at about 9:20 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of a Planet Fitness by a man Corona police identified

In another sign of the return to China for Marvel after a long drought, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has been set for a day-and-date release on May 5. The James Gunn-directed finale in the series is due to hit North American cinemas that same day while international rollout will begin on May

EXCLUSIVE: Artist International Group has signed French actor Kev Adams whose work spans acting, screenwriting and producing. Adams can most recently be seen in his original comedy Maison De Retraite (Retirement Home), where he plays a young convict forced to work in a retirement home after being sentenced to community service. Directed by Thomas Gilou

Lindsay Lohan won’t have to do parenthood all on her own, ’cause she’ll have Mom and Dad to help bring up the baby around Lohan family members … so say her parents. Michael Lohan tells TMZ he plans to be in Lindsay’s kid’s life, one way or another. He says he and his daughter are

The Shazamily is back, and on a much larger scale, but at its heart this superhero saga is still about family, and that’s the good thing here. In 2019’s origin story (which goes way back to 1940 comics when the then-named Captain Marvel was introduced), a group of teens in a foster home, often bullied

In the wake of delivering Talking Heads frontman David Byrne his second Oscar nomination with Everything Everywhere All at Once, A24 has acquired worldwide rights to his former band’s 1984 cult hit concert pic, Stop Making Sense, for theatrical release later this year. A24 will give the Jonathan Demme directed movie (the filmmaker’s first concert

The Case Against Adnan Syed director Amy Berg has become the latest creative to strike a first-look deal with Fremantle. The deal is the first of its kind for Fremantle’s Documentaries Unit, which is overseen by Global Head of Documentaries Mandy Chang. Under the terms, Berg and her Disarming Films shingle will work closely with

Kobe Bryant‘s hand and footprints were forever enshrined at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and the Bryant family was on hand for the moving ceremony … with Natalia Bryant delivering an emotional speech about her dad. Mamba’s prints were originally cast in February 2011 — the day before KB was named All-Star Game

EXCLUSIVE: Following another wildly successful year, Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness scribe Michael Waldron is launching a new feature film and TV production company, Anomaly Pictures, with his producing partner Adam Fasullo. The new banner believes that popcorn entertainment can also be prestige entertainment. At the heart of every project lies

Sony has added one more release to the summer theatrical calendar, Stage 6 Films’ Knights of the Zodiac on May 12. Produced by Toei Animation and based on the international anime sensation, Knights of the Zodiac brings the Saint Seiya saga to the big screen in live-action for the first time. Seiya (Mackenyu), a headstrong street teen,

When Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav installed the new leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran at DC, heavy decisions were promptly made from the unplugging of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3 to Henry Cavill losing his Superman cape. However, throughout it all Shazam! star Zachary Levi’s faith in his new bosses didn’t waver,

Play video content TMZSports.com Travis Kelce is weighing in on the NFL’s greatest tight end debate … telling TMZ Sports he’s not worthy of the G.O.A.T. title. Many have thrown Kelce’s name into the debate lately — including Giants star Darren Waller and Chiefs great Christian Okoye, who both told us #87 will go down

In the latest episode of the podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, which was released today, the Harry Potter author spoke about the reactions to her 2019 tweet, in which she expressed support for Maya Forstater, a British researcher fired for comments interpreted as anti-trans, and for which she drew condemnation from GLAAD. At the time,

New Line’s Covid-delayed DC sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods finally will hit theaters this weekend in 77 offshore territories and the U.S. with a global outlook between $80M-$85M — $35M of that coming from domestic. The David F. Sandberg-directed pic previously had been scheduled to open on December 21, but Warner Bros decided in

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe and 2x Emmy nominee Alfred Molina (Spider-Man: No Way Home) has joined the indie dramedy When We Get There, marking the feature debut of writer-director Ryan Patrick Welsh. 2x Emmy nom Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers franchise) and William Katt (The Greatest American Hero) are also set, with newcomers Chris Heeder, Jamie Lien

UPDATE 1:24 PM PT — Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are sending their well-wishes to the mom-to-be — we got the sister leaving CBS Studios in NYC, giving some “congratulations” to Lindsay Lohan! UPDATE Play video content TMZ.com UPDATE 1:22 PM PT — Lindsay’s ex Sam Ronson tells TMZ … “I wish her all the

As Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 barrels the Marvel Studios’ franchise toward its conclusion, Karen Gillan, stopping in Deadline’s SXSW studio provided a glimpse as to how life is shaping up for Thanos’ adopted daughter and Gamora’s adopted sister, Nebula, in the threequel. “Now we’re seeing Nebula post the death of the source of

EXCLUSIVE: MakerVille, the recently launched entertainment subsidiary of Hong Kong media group PCCW, is set to make a splash at Filmart, unveiling an ambitious slate of movies and premium series, following its debut feature Mad Fate, which had its world premiere at Berlin film festival.  Lofai Lo, MakerVille’s CEO and former General Manager of PCCW’s

Chadwick Boseman got a lot of love at the Oscars … something his family was well aware of and super appreciative to hear during the big night. Allen Boseman, Chadwick’s cousin and the attorney for the Boseman family tells TMZ … “It’s been incredible how Chadwick has been received by the entire Hollywood family and

NATIONAL ANTHEM Section: Narrative Spotlight Directors: Luke Gilford Screenwriter: David Largman Murray, Kevin Best and Luke Gilford Logline: Dylan lives an isolated life of routine in rural New Mexico, working odd construction jobs to help support his little brother and alcoholic mother. He accepts a gig working at the House of Splendor, a homestead built

UPDATED with complete list of winners: A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture tonight at the 95th annual Oscars. The Daniels — Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert — also won the Best Director and Original Screenplay Oscars for Everything Everywhere All at Once, which topped all films with seven trophies after coming into