Movies

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

Robert Zemeckis clearly has a thing for time – past, present, and Back To The Future. With a filmography that also includes films like Polar Express and especially his Oscar winning Best Picture Forrest Gump, the director loves mixing the newest filmmaking technologies with relatable stories that play with our perceptions of life as time

The new untitled Spider-Man movie has been added to the release calendar for July 24, 2026, with Tom Holland returning as the webslinger and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton directing. No other movies are dated on that weekend. The fourth installment opens in the wake of a

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has elevated its scripted and unscripted bosses in EMEA. Rivals commissioner Lee Mason becomes Executive Director of Scripted Originals, EMEA Disney+, while Sean Doyle has been given the same title on the unscripted side. Their roles remain similar and they have not been given additional responsibilities. The pair of commissioners in Diego Londono’s

EXCLUSIVE: Following the box office success of Sony’s It Ends With Us, Brandon Sklenar has found his next high-profile adaptation to star in. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to join Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the Lionsgate adaptation of The Housemaid. Paul Feig is set to direct the Hidden Pictures/ Feigco Entertainment

Unless there is a shift in the legal Force or a big-bucks settlement, the Disney and Gina Carano will go head-to-head at trial next year over the former mixed martial artist’s 2021 firing from The Mandalorian. That trial will start September 29, 2025, to be specific. After having beaten the Mouse House and its Daniel

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a teaser trailer for Black Snow Season 2, the Travis Fimmel detective drama drama. Additionally, Aussie streamer Stan has set a January 1, 2025, launch date on the return, and we have some new first-look images below. The drama will also return to U.S. audiences via AMC Networks streamer Sundance Now next year, and

EXCLUSIVE: The Exchange has boarded world sales on Australian horror-thriller In Vitro, starring Talia Zucker (Lake Mungo), Will Howarth (Beast) and Ashley Zukerman (Succession). Directed by Tom McKeith and Howarth, the film marks the follow-up after their debut feature Beast, which was nominated for Best First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. After a

“Is anyone here new to the Lord of the Rings or Tolkein?” Stephen Colbert joked with the audience on Friday during New York Comic Con’s preview panel for Warner Bros Animation’s Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. The Late Show host and Lord of the Rings super-fan, serving as the panel’s moderator,

Disney EMEA bosses gave MIPCOM attendees a ‘window’ into their thinking over a new era of flexibility in the international TV market this morning. Far from holding back all original content for its own platform, EMEA content chief Diego Londono said “we are open to different models” and are “more flexible in terms of the

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King Richard) and Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight franchise) have wrapped on Liz Here Now, a new indie drama from director Sterling Macer Jr. Shot in Lexington, KY, the film is based on the novel of the same name by Todd Connor. The story follows Liz Baxter (Ellis-Taylor), who works as

Jason Blum couldn’t reveal details Friday about Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, but he brought New York Comic Con attendees the poster for the sequel to last year’s highest-grossing horror movie ($137.2M domestic, $291.4M). The first movie opened during the actors strike, day-and-date on Peacock, and defied all the hurdles of last fall’s marketplace. The

There is always space, it seems, for another warm-hearted story about the foibles of Irish working-class women, cosy as a fireside chat with a nice cup of tea. As for gay men and their mams, that’s a rich  seam of drama, comedy and whatever lies in between that is probably inexhaustible. The four mothers who

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ directorial debut My Dead Friend Zoe took the Grand Jury prize for Best Feature Narrative Saturday night as the Woodstock Film Festival presented awards for its silver jubilee edition. The film stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman in a tale of a female veteran of the war in Afghanistan

Sony may have skipped San Diego Comic-Con, but they came to the Big Apple on Friday for New York Comic Con showing off exclusively to the room, and not to anyone else, the first trailer for Karate Kid: Legends, which brings back not only OG Ralph Macchio’s Danny LaRusso from the original 1984 movie and

Roman Polanski’s film An Officer and a Spy is to receive its UK premiere, six years after winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and despite being frozen out of the UK and American film market due to the director’s criminal past.  The Times newspaper reports that the UK Jewish Film Festival

After 20 years, Zach Braff is bringing the sounds of Garden State to the Golden State. The 3x Golden Globe nominee announced a 20th anniversary soundtrack concert, which will happen March 29, 2025 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, benefitting homeless shelter The Midnight Mission. Tickets are now available on Ticketmaster. “It’s been 20

Tom Holland is famous for being unable to keep a secret and recently gave an update on the development of Spider-Man 4. The actor teased that he and Zendaya had read a draft of the script and are excited about the direction the superhero film is headed. “We have a creative and a pitch and

Two senior execs and a creative associate are exiting the Netflix France scripted series team. Senior creative execs Clementine Gayet and Jimmy Desmarais are leaving, along with Ingha Mayo, who is a creative associate. A source in Europe said the execs left this week. Gayet has been with Netflix since 2019, joining from Iconoclast Films.

The year was 1971. The venue: Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The event: the (unofficial) Women’s World Cup soccer tournament, attracting a massive crowd of more than 110,000 madly-cheering fans – to this day, believed to be the largest gathering ever for a women’s sporting competition. The story of this extraordinary event – and how

Sometimes, looking back can help with what’s coming next. That was the message from Sony Pictures Television Studios president Katherine Pope on Wednesday during a keynote interview in Rome at the Italian confab MIA, in which she addressed everything from Season 5 of The Boys to calling for gaps between seasons to shrink. Asked to

EXCLUSIVE: Directing and screenwriting duo Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg have inked with Grandview for representation. Cohen and Halberg directed Screen Gems’ Tarot this past spring which grossed $50M off an $8M production cost — 62% of that from offshore. The twosome were the first selection for Screen Gems’ directing incubator, where they wrote, directed,

Saoirse Ronan could’ve starred opposite Scarlett Johansson in 2021’s Black Widow. The Lady Bird star recently addressed rumors she was offered the role of Yelena Belova in the Marvel film. During an appearance on Happy Sad Confused, host Josh Horowitz asked Ronan if she had been offered the role that ultimately was played by her

EXCLUSIVE: A drama adaptation of ‘The Tea House on the Death Pass’ – Daniel Edelson’s novel based on the true story of hundreds of hikers who became trapped while trekking in the Himalayas – is in the works. ZDF Studios and Paramount’s Ananey Studios are joining forces to co-produce. Euphoria creator Ron Leshem, Amit Cohen

EXCLUSIVE: Thomasin McKenzie says that because of her youthful appearance — she’s 24 — it has been “a bit of a struggle” to play her own age or older, but those worries are banished with her latest role. In the wonderful movie Joy, she delivers a remarkable portrait of Jean Purdy, one of the founding pioneers of human in