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Chatting away to Sally Hawkins, as you do, in the fabled Abbey Road Studios in posh North London neighborhood of St. John’s Wood, she tells me ”I feel fine” when I inquire after her well-being. Our feet are planted in the very spot where The Beatles recorded the track for “I Feel Fine,” a single that

Neon and Topic Studios present writer/director Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool at 1,835 theaters in a lively specialty weekend sandwiched between a new crop of Sundance films and noteworthy expansions in the glow of Oscar nominations. Infinity Pool, staring Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman and Jalil Lespert, had a splashy debut last weekend in the

Gregory Allen Howard, the first African American screenwriter for a $100 million drama with Remember The Titans, died today in Miami, Florida following a brief illness. He was 70 and his death was confirmed by his publicist. Howard was also the only African American screenwriter to score a $100 million spec script for Remember the

Since debuting in 1969, there have been countless iterations of Scooby-Doo and the gang. Ranking amongst some of the best Scooby movies are the 2002 and 2004 live-action takes on the beloved franchise. One of the film’s stars, Sarah Michelle Gellar, has recently shared her thoughts on whether or not a Scooby-Doo 3 is still

American actress Mimi Kirkland was only 8 years old when she played the role of Lexie — the smart and loving daughter who is seeking a mother following her mother’s passing — in the 2013 romance/drama “Safe Haven.” Mimi shared the big screen with Josh Duhamel as the recent widow, loving dad and local grocery

Matt Hancock was paid £320,000 ($400,000) to appear on last season’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and a further £45,000 ($55,700) for Channel 4’s Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, UK parliamentary documents have revealed. UK government rules obliged the former Health Secretary to report in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests that

With Wednesday’s worldwide box office grosses included, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has surpassed $2.054B globally, and jumped up a notch on the all-time worldwide chart.  Globally through yesterday, the epic sci-fi adventure passed Avengers: Infinity War ($2,052M) with $2,054.7M to become the No. 5 highest-grossing movie ever worldwide. As we wrote on

Anyone who has traveled to seaside resort areas around the world will recognize them, the obvious foreigners who spend their days approaching tourists with assorted trinkets to sell and are most often ignored or shooed away by Westerners. Precious few films have put such figures centerstage, but Drift does that and quite a bit more

Ever since A24 released the first look of The Whale, Brendan Fraser receiving an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film seemed inevitable. However, it still feels so good to actually see his name solidified into the Best Actor race. And I’m not the only one who thinks this, because many fans took to

Play video content TMZ.com Michael Peña has nothing but well wishes for Jeremy Renner after his snowplow accident … saying he hopes he makes a full recovery, after saving lives on and off camera. We caught up with Michael at LAX and asked all about his fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe star … who’s, of course,

EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season’s COO Tim Robinson has left the Severance producer after four years. Robinson, a former Shine Group and Avalon boss, joined Fifth Season in 2018. The Brit has been working out of its LA base but exited recently. Robinson is well respected and much liked at Fifth Season, which was formerly known as

Regal parent Cineworld said it’s opted to pursue a sale of assets and the process “is well under way” with non-binding bids due February 16. The company said in a bankruptcy filing this week that it’s reached out to 30 “potential transaction parties” including many competitors. If the debtors (Cineworld and its affiliates) find one

The Accidental Getaway Driver is one those rare, where-did-this-come-from films that every so often pops up to invigorate festivals and adventurous viewers on the lookout for something fresh and different. Generically, this is nothing new, a low-down gritty crime drama populated by cars, guns and desperate characters. But the movie, which premiered in the U.S.

Romantic comedies: They’re not supposed to be dangerous! This isn’t Tom Cruise driving a motorcycle off of a European cliff so he can transition into a base jump. It’s Sandra Bullock having a meet-cute with Keanu Reeves, or Julia Roberts falling for Hugh Grant at a bookstore in Notting Hill. That’s what makes the list

Emmett Till‘s family is saddened and stunned the Motion Picture Academy overlooked the film about this tragic and pivotal story in American history … and it did so in every Oscar category. Emmett’s cousin and cofounder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, Deborah Watts, tells TMZ … the family is extremely disappointed the movie “Till”

EXCLUSIVE, Updated with additional details: Paul Mescal’s Irish eyes are smiling, and doing a jig as well. Not only did he receive a first Oscar nomination Tuesday for his leading role in Aftersun, but Deadline can reveal that the acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, in which Mescal delivers an electrifying Stanley Kowalski, will transfer from

With a slimmed-down roster and many productions offering 2 for 1 tickets during the annual Broadway Week promotion, Broadway box office was down 24% for the week ending January 22, with the 23-show total at $25,835,362. Attendance of 204,847 was off 17% from the previous week when 29 shows were on the boards. Despite the

Landscape with Invisible Hand is a unique story of survival under economic occupation of the Vuvv, an extraterrestrial race who aim to dominate humanity in every way except violence. Written and directed by Cory Finley (Bad Education, Thoroughbreds), the innovative, poignant film explores how humanity might handle an Earth-altering alien occupation and the resulting clash

Since M. Night Shyamalan burst onto the Hollywood scene with his 1999 mega-hit (and one of Bruce Willis’ best films), The Sixth Sense, he’s become known as a filmmaker who can land an excellent cinematic curveball. Admittedly, some of his surprising plot endings hit better than others (as highlighted in our ranking of Shyamalan’s movie

Violet McGraw, the child actor who played one of the main characters from the smash hit horror flick “M3GAN,” made a killing on the film … and the job came with some sweet perks. According to Violet’s minor’s contract — filed in court, and obtained by TMZ — the 11-year-old actress was paid $3,932.50 per

Breathing fresh life into the rom-com genre, Raine Allen Miller’s Rye Lane is a delight. Premiering at Sundance, it pays affectionate tribute to its forebears while injecting a youthful British energy reminiscent of seminal TV shows such as Skins. This is a sunny, irreverent take on life and love, following two strangers over the course

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots: The Last Wish is a bonafide puss in loot, as it will cross the $300M mark globally with today’s grosses included.  The highly reviewed sequel and Shrek spinoff is at $297.8M with Sunday’s worldwide actuals included. Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, the adventure has surpassed Croods: The New

The Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-23 at Hotel Park City, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Park City. RYE LANE Section: Premieres Director: Raine

Animal cruelty on sets is rare, but when it happens, the story spreads like wildfire. Oftentimes, the director is found to be at fault. This time, 6 Underground director Michael Bay found himself at the center of allegations involving a pigeon being killed by a camera boom while filming the 2019 action thriller in Italy.

“Inspirations for Kang — Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar. Start there,” Jonathan Majors told us at Deadline’s Sundance studio recently about his influences for playing Marvel’s next giant villain, Kang the Conqueror. “Counterpoints, which is also important in creating character is to figure out how does he encounter people,” the Primetime Emmy nominee

James Cameron joined an exclusive club Sunday — one that includes only himself … he’s the sole director in history with three movies that have crossed a huge money milestone. That benchmark is the $2-billion line, which his latest film — ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ — crossed Sunday … now marking the third such

Deadline’s studio at the 2023 edition of the Sundance Film Festival continued with Day 3 by hosting fest-goers such as Jennifer Connelly, Ben Whishaw and Alice Englert for Bad Behaviour; Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat and Anthony Chen for Drift; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eve Hewitt, John Carney and Oren Kinlan from Flora & Son; Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto

Refresh for latest…: It’s now official, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has become the sixth movie ever to cross the $2B mark worldwide. It is also the filmmaker’s third to hit the milestone, alongside Titanic and the original Avatar. The mega-achievement was presaged ahead of the weekend with the global gross on the

FANCY DANCE Section: PremieresDirector: Erica TremblayScreenwriter: Erica TremblayLogline: Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of losing custody to Jax’s father,

Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd will forever be intertwined in moviegoing fans’ collective pop culture imaginations. An occupational hazard that accompanies being Hollywood A-listers, especially two who starred in one of the best trilogies of all time, Back to the Future. Not all co-stars get along on set or go on to spark a