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Play video content Strangers in a Strange Land Leslie Jordan will be gracing the silver screen one last time … because the last film he ever starred in is on its way to being completed. Writer and director Tracy Pellegrino tells TMZ … “Strangers in a Strange Land,” Leslie’s last listed film credit in post-production,

Florence Pugh is opening up about her early days as she was an emerging actor in Hollywood. The Don’t Worry Darling star said that after landing a television pilot as a popstar, her bosses wanted to make changes to her apparance. “All the things that they were trying to change about me – whether it

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Halloween adjacent weekends have rarely been good ones at the box office, and even less so during the pandemic, when there aren’t a lot of solid movies in cinemas. Saturday night is largely party night, not movie night. All titles this weekend are expected to gross $66.2M, not that far off from

With director James Gunn becoming co-chairman and CEO of DC Studios, a heated rivalry is emerging with his former collaborator, Marvel Studios president/CCO Kevin Feige, right? Wrong. Gunn and DC films producer Peter Safran will share the top roles at DC Studios, it was announced this week, overseeing the overall creative direction of the DC Universe across film, TV

David Gordon Green has wrapped his Blumhouse-produced Halloween trilogy with the release of Halloween Ends. Though Ends was divisive, one thing is for sure; the film is a loving nod to the series’ original creator, John Carpenter’s entire filmography. Green will next tackle another classic horror franchise — The Exorcist.  Considering how involved Carpenter has

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video Germany’s Country Director Kaspar Pflüger has left the Amazon streamer after just six months in post, we’ve learned. Pflüger, a well-known and widely experienced exec in Germany, joined from broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 in April and was in charge as Amazon unveiled a slate of originals for 2022/23 last month. An Amazon spokesman confirmed

Joyner Lucas creates some of the most cinematic visuals in hip hop music and he’s taking his talents to the big screen for his first feature film … alongside none other than Mark Wahlberg. Sources close to production tell TMZ Hip Hop … Mark personally handpicked Joyner for the cast of the film, which we’ve

Working seven years to get his feature writing and directorial debut Sam & Kate just right, Darren Le Gallo not only has created a touching and engaging family drama but he also as managed to cast a couple of famous acting families to pull it off in style. Add to that that Le Gallo’s own

Three films opening this weekend highlight women’s rights, class and racism — nothing ripped from today’s headlines exactly, but features with a distinctive moment and point of view that appear particularly relevant today. Call Jane, Holy Spider and Armageddon Time join Tár, Till, The Banshees of Inisherin and others already in theaters as it gets

A second WandaVision spinoff series focusing on Paul Bettany’s Vision is in the works at Marvel Studios for Disney+, sources tell Deadline. Titled Vision Quest, the potential series, which is opening a writers room next week, will be about The Vision (Bettany) trying to regain his memory and humanity, I hear. While the focus is

The promotion of films is often as important as the films themselves and that usually includes a very specific schedule for when new information is going to be released. While rumors or other leaks revealing information that a production would rather keep secret are always a risk, it’s rare, though certainly not impossible for things

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content, Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content and The Atlantic have secured rights to journalist Peter Pomerantsev’s article for The Atlantic ‘We Can Only Be Enemies’ and will adapt it for film. Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, the Ukrainian director of well-received Cannes festival drama The Tribe, is attached to pen and direct the war crime drama adaptation. Published in May 2022, Peter Pomerantsev’s

Play video content TMZ.com Actor Alan Ruck has a loooong list of credits to his name over decades of work … but he knows EXACTLY which one of his roles tops the rest — at least in his eyes. We got Alan at LAX Thursday … and hit him with a somewhat morbid question —

Tomorrow, we hear is Courtenay Valenti’s last day as Warner Bros. President of Production and Development after we told you first that she was exiting the Burbank, CA lot after a 33-year run. She is a free agent, with no strings attached to Warner Discovery, I hear, and given her development track record in the

Katie Holmes has been set to star in The Wanderers, a new Off Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The New York debut of Anna Ziegler’s latest will begin preview performances January 26, 2023 head of a February 16 opening at the Laura Pels Theater in New York. The limited engagement will run through

Dwayne Johnson’s Hollywood success reached a new high this past weekend when he debuted his first superhero role in the DCEU with Black Adam. Coming off the movie’s box office debut and impressive audience reaction, the actor is taking a break from touting the blockbuster to honor his mother, Ata Johnson, who just turned 74

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Arihiro Wada and Director Taichi Ito have partnered on CinemaAirLane, a new international distribution platform set to launch in 2023, which will partner with international film studio NOMA. The company’s main goal will be to simplify global distribution and directly connect international filmmakers with US theatres. In its initial phase, CinemaAirLane will enable

Leslie Jordan was a treasure to folks in Chattanooga, Tennessee, his hometown … and now the city plans to honor the late actor, and it’s working with his family to make it happen. Leslie, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles, is being remembered as “one of the cherished sons of Chattanooga,” according to a rep

Marvel President/CCO Kevin Feige isn’t bothered that one of his most valuable employees is going to work for the competition. Caught on the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever red carpet by Deadline, Feige gave his thoughts on James Gunn’s new job as cochairman and co-CEO of DC Studios. “Well, he has got a lot of work

Universal/Working Title’s Ticket to Paradise has winged past the $100 million mark globally. With Tuesday’s grosses included, the Julia Roberts–George Clooney rom-com’s split is $20.6M domestic and $81.9M from the international box office for a worldwide total of $102.5M so far. Having released early overseas, Ticket to Paradise, directed by Ol Parker, just went out

The young OG cast of Hocus Pocus is all grown up now in their forties! As the sequel to the iconic Halloween movie just hit Disney+, this brings so much more attention to the ’90s throwback movie‘s behind-the-scenes secrets. An OG Hocus Pocus actor revealed that he got high during the filming of the movie,

EXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has unveiled a first round of deals for best-selling French writer Gilles Legardinier’s feature directorial debut Mr. Blake At Your Service!, reuniting John Malkovich and Fanny Ardant on the big screen. The film has been acquired for Germany and Austria (MFA+ Film Distribution), Italy (Adler Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Spain and

Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin are doing a 180 after their recent divorce flap … because now they look like a happy, funny reality TV family … based on their most recent shopping trip. Sly and Jennifer were back to doing couple things Tuesday, hitting up a Rite Aid in Beverly Hills and leaving the

UPDATE: Jane Doe #1 faced cross examination from one of Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys, as she was pressed on details of the alleged assault. Attorney Alan Jackson attempted to raised doubts about her testimony, including how Weinstein was able to find her hotel room if she had checked in under an alias, Leonore. At one point,

National CineMedia is suing Regal Cinemas, one of its founding partners, for hiding behind Chapter 11 to cancel a longstanding and legally binding contract – a twist in the bankruptcy saga of Regal parent Cineworld. Regal created National CineMedia with AMC and Cinemark in 2007 to provide in-theater advertising in and it still owns a

The Wizarding World has been entertaining audiences for decades, with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels growing into multiple film franchises, theme parks, and even stage plays. But the acclaimed author has been in hot water for the last few years over her comments about transgender women. While plenty of actors from the movies have come

Incoming British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to unite the country “not with words but with actions” and said “mistakes were made” during the disastrous 44-day reign of his now-predecessor Liz Truss. In the past hour, the former Chancellor-now-PM has headed to Buckingham Palace where he was officially sworn in by King Charles III,

UPDATE 3:17 PM PT — A tow truck just removed Leslie’s car from the scene, you can see heavy damage to the front passenger’s side, with his wheel almost totally taken off. UPDATE Play video content BACKGRID UPDATE 1:50 PM PT — A rep for Leslie Jordan posted on Jordan’s IG, saying “the love and

The final film of the David Gordon Green Halloween reboot trilogy has fans of the franchise divided and the director of the slasher is explaining the creative decisions he made for Halloween Ends. Some of the criticism that the horror flick received was that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, played by Jamie Lee Curtis and

In addition to New Mexico being a serious place for filmmaking and TV series –the state reaping a record $855.4M from Hollywood’s motion picture & TV industry’s spending– Santa Fe itself counts a fervent moviegoing community, especially for arthouse and experimental product. Audiences packed venues around town for the Santa Fe International Film Festival from