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Auckland Film Studios, which recently hosted productions including Netflix’s Sweet Tooth and Amazon’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, has opened two new sound stages as demand for physical facilities continues in the global production boom.  The two stages are both around 2,000 square metres (22,000 square feet), which means that Auckland

Many consider Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles one of the greatest satirical comedies of all time. Though the movie was a box office hit upon release, a lot has changed since 1974, and many have pointed out that the biting and nontraditional western couldn’t be made today due to its subject matter. According to the writer

EXCLUSIVE: Lucas Till (MacGyver), Ruby Rose (Taurus), Tyrese Gibson (Morbius) and Don Johnson (Knives Out) will topline the action-thriller The Collective from Yale Entertainment, which has recently wrapped production. In the film directed by Tom DeNucci, a group of righteous assassins called The Collective take aim at a highly sophisticated human trafficking ring backed by

Seth Rogen had no problem letting the jokes fly as he took part in a ceremony to honor women in showbiz … taking a playful jab at Kim Kardashian for missing the occasion. Seth took the stage, Wednesday, during The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast, and true to form, cracked a few jokes about

In the first big bold move by the new heads of DC, James Gunn and Peter Safran, Deadline has confirmed that they’ve put the kibosh on Patty Jenkins’ treatment for Wonder Woman 3. The filmmaker was expected to hand in a screenplay, we understand, and instead the new bosses got pieces of paper that just

In the wake of Warner Bros/DC’s The Flash going a week earlier on June 16 and landing on the date of Jennifer Lawrence’s R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings, the latter movie has moved a week later to June 23, which is Flash‘s old date. The movie follows Lawrence as a ne’er-do-well who is hired by

EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race producer World of Wonder is heading on a pitching spree in Asia, with co-founder Fenton Bailey telling Deadline that Middle Eastern countries could embrace the format “in time.” World of Wonder has engaged third-party agent 04 Media to pitch the show in Thailand, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea imminently. In

Ryan Reynolds is a fan of pop princesses. He famously used the song “Fantasy” by Mariah Carey in the promotional material for his 2019 film Free Guy, and is a longtime pal of Taylor Swift. Now he can increase his association with pop icons after an incredible and cheeky performance by Shania Twain at the

Fremantle and Carnivalesque Films have announced their partnership on Kim’s Video, a new feature documentary unearthing the stranger-than-fiction story of the legendary NYC video rental store Kim’s Video Collection, which will world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, as announced earlier today, screening as the opening day film of the NEXT section. The film

UPDATE 3:49 PM PT — The coroner makes it clear, there was no evidence of Anne being impaired at the time of the crash — though benzoylecgonine, an inactive metabolite of cocaine was detected. Anne Heche had cocaine in her system at the time of the car crash that eventually took her life … according

Focus Features has dated Wes Anderson’s next movie Asteroid City for June 16, 2023. Do we smell a Cannes selection? Pic will go even wider on June 23. Universal, as previously reported, has overseas. Focus previously teamed with Anderson and Indian Paintbrush on 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom. Asteroid City, written by Anderson based on a story

Tomorrow Studios, an ITV Studios partnership, has optioned Japanese crime format Connected: The Homebound Detective, produced by Envision Entertainment and Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV, for an adaptation in the U.S. market.  Envision Entertainment and Nippon TV will co-produce the adaptation with Tomorrow Studios. The series follows an agoraphobic young man, still living in his childhood

For as long as there have been famous people, there have been celebrity couples. There’s just something thrilling about seeing A-listers together, and getting a glimpse into their personal lives through social media. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively likely know this all too well, as they regularly dunk on each other on places like Twitter

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Blake Nelson (Old Henry) will topline the boxing drama Bang Bang from director Vincent Grashaw (What Josiah Saw), which has wrapped production in Kentucky. (A first-look still from the pic can be found above.) The film written by The Sopranos actor Will Janowitz follows Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski (Nelson), a bitter, retired boxer who’s

American actress Kali Rocha was 29 years old when she was cast as the annoyingly friendly flight attendant — who demanded oversized luggage be checked and not carried on — in the 2000 comedy/romance film “Meet The Parents.” Kali shared the big screen with Ben Stiller as the nurse who is intimated by his future

How great is the Ezra Miller movie The Flash? So good that Warners is moving it up by a week to June 16, Father’s Day weekend, where Disney has the original Pixar movie Elemental and Sony has the R-rated Jennifer Lawrence pic No Hard Feelings. Despite Miller’s tabloid headlines over the past year, including a

Ganesh Rajaram and Haryaty Rahman are rising at American Idol and Got Talent producer Fremantle. Rajaram has been appointed CEO, Fremantle Asia and Latin America, effective January 1, 2023, while Rahman is being promoted to EVP Sales to replace him. The newly created role for Rajaram, who was previously General Manager/EVP, Asia, gives him oversight of all aspects of production businesses

The John Wick franchise has been a massive success to the point that not only are we going to see John Wick: Chapter 4 next year, but John Wick: Chapter 5 has already been announced. But fans are going to get even more action from this franchise as the first spinoff film, Ballerina starring Ana

“Let me tell you, it’s not easy writing a Disney princess movie,” said Gurinder Chadha about her new original music feature about a dynamic princess from Indian history that is in the works with Disney. “It’s a very hard thing to do because there are certain rules you have to follow and you also don’t

The stars were out and shining bright in D.C. this weekend … this as President Biden bestowed lifetime awards on a handful of them who were honored at the White House. George Clooney, Gladys Knight, Bono and the rest of U2 were on hand Sunday in our nation’s capital to receive their Kennedy Center Honors

Paweł Łoziński started working on The Balcony Movie two years before the Covid pandemic forced people to adopt social distancing, but the air of separation between the filmmaker and his subjects in this documentary feature might feel familiar.  Łoziński’s movie is a kind of moving-picture album: a collection of passers-by he hailed from his balcony window in Warsaw. Many paused and —

Akin to domestic, it was a rather sleepy weekend at the international box office. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever again won the frame, with $20.2M from 50 overseas markets for an offshore total of $339.3M and a global tally of $733M through Sunday. The offshore drop on Wakanda Forever was 39% as it heads to

After months of laying low following the Oscars slap, Will Smith is out and about again, as he does press for his latest film, Emancipation. Smith, based on interviews that he’s done thus far, seems incredibly pleased with his historical drama, so much so that he’s even showed it off to some of his celebrity

As a musician, David Bowie transcended any traditional definition of a rock star. Through the documentary Moonage Daydream, director and producer Brett Morgen sought to transcend the traditional constraints of a biographical documentary.  Speaking at the Deadline’s Contenders Documentary panel, Morgen shared his approach in the HBO Documentary Films project to understanding a subject as

Madonna‘s MTV VMA for one of her iconic ’80s hits will be sitting on a lucky — and probably wealthy — fan’s shelf soon. RR Auction tells TMZ … Madonna’s Moonman — AKA MTV Video Music Award — for her 1986 song “Papa Don’t Preach” is now on the auction block with an estimated price

UPDATED, Saturday AM Writethru after Friday PM post: Where’s a wide expansion of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery when you need it? Expect a greater subtraction of dollars at this weekend’s box office, as the Rian Johnson-directed whodunit goes dark until December 23. Disney/Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever came in with a $4.4M

Eami means “forest” in Ayoreo. It also means “‘”world.” When director Paz Encina traveled to the land of the indigenous Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, she found that they do not make a distinction between these things: The trees, the animals and the plants that have surrounded them for centuries are all they know and now they live

As the expression goes, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” So when Keke Palmer does her impression of Angela Bassett, she’s really showing how much she loves the Oscar-nominated actress. The Nope actress previously went viral for doing a spot on Angela Bassett, and just recently she did it as the Black Panther actress

Squeezed in between his minor appearance as Dexter Tolliver in Suicide Squad and playing Red Guardian in Black Widow, Stranger Things’ David Harbour scored his first leading role in a comic book movie via 2019’s Hellboy. Unfortunately, unlike the Ron Perlman-led Hellboy movies, the reboot was both a critical and commercial disaster, resulting in plans

These last few months have been very interesting for Will Smith. It was in March that the star went viral after he slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars, and his actions have been heavily debated since. Following a wave of backlash and retreat from the spotlight, Smith is now out and about once