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EXCLUSIVE: With Matt Shakman boarding as director, Marvel Studios has now found its writers to deliver the new Fantastic Four pic. Sources tell Deadline that Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer are on board to write the script for the film. Insiders add that the writing duo actually has been involved with Fantastic Four for some time,

Julia Roberts and George Clooney have managed to keep their friendship intact since first teaming up in Ocean’s Eleven. Of course, the two Hollywood stars have developed enough of a rapport with each other to trade witty banter on occasion. That’s why pairing up for the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise made sense. With the

The presence of Movistar Plus+, Spain’s biggest pay-TV/SVOD operator, is hard to ignore at this year’s San Sebastian film festival, with two original TV series and one feature film helmed by the streamer scattered throughout the program. The Telefonica-owned platform also had a hand in every Spanish feature in the festival’s Official Selection. Domingo Corral,

Pete Davidson‘s back in the Big Apple with a new woman on his arm — yes, she’s his costar, Kaley Cuoco — but interestingly enough, his ex, Kim Kardashian, was also in town. The ‘SNL’ alum was all smiles Tuesday night in Manhattan as he and Kaley attended the premiere of “Meet Cute” — a

Orit Fouks Rotem’s Cinema Sabaya will be Israel’s entry to the best international film category in this year’s Oscar race, following its best picture win at the country’s Ophir national cinema awards over the weekend. Under Israel’s Oscar entry selection process, the work that wins the best film Ophir is automatically put forward as the

After a near month of mudslinging behind the scenes drama for Don’t Worry Darling which hovered around its Venice Film Festival world premiere, the sophomore feature directorial from Olivia Wilde finally opens in 4,000 theaters. However, Warner Bros. need not sweat the tabloid headlines. No, all of that has only made this Florence Pugh, Harry

Three years after Halle Bailey was cast as the live-action The Little Mermaid’s Ariel, Walt Disney Studios finally unveiled a first look at the upcoming 2023 movie during the D23 Expo earlier this month. The Little Mermaid trailer showed Bailey as the Disney Princess for the first time, teasing her look for the movie and

EXCLUSIVE: Keshet International has secured rights to Cuba Libre, a buzzy drama about a follower of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara that’s being billed as one of Portugal’s most ambitious television series ever. The six-part biopic, based on the life of Ana Maria Silva Pais, will form part of KI’s slate at Mipcom Cannes next month. Produced by Hop!

Play video content BACKGRID Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde know how to keep us guessing … amid rumors their relationship’s on the rocks, the duo look to be on the same page in NYC and even got a little cozy at a “Don’t Worry Darling” event. Harry, Olivia, and a majority of the cast were

Adam McKay, who directed last year’s climate-change satire Don’t Look Up, has donated $4 million to Climate Emergency Fund and joined its board of directors. It’s the largest personal contribution since the fund was founded in 2019. “The Climate Emergency Fund is unique in their commitment to funding, civil, non-violent, disruptive activism,” the Oscar-winning filmmaker said.

Big screen exhibitor Imax has extended the employment agreement of chief executive Richard Gelfond through Dec. 31, 2025. The amendment to Gelfond’s initial agreement, effective as of January 1, 2023, also commits to annual equity award grants in 2023, 2024 and 2025. Otherwise his compensation and severance terms remain the same, according to an SEC

Despite the fact that the character of Buzz Lightyear was recently voiced by Chris Evans, based on the box office, it looks like most fans might be partial to the adventures of Tim Allen as the toy version, alongside his buddy Tom Hanks as Woody. This is why a lot of fans may have gotten

UPDATED: Kate Winslet will return to production in Croatia on the movie Lee this week, Deadline has confirmed, after a fall on the set Sunday that required a trip to the hospital as a precautionary measure. PREVIOULSY, Sunday PM: Kate Winslet was taken to the hospital after she suffered an accident while filming Lee in Croatia.

Brad Pitt isn’t just a stud in the film world — the dude’s doing big things in the art space too … putting his latest works on display in a land far, far away. The actor/producer apparently submitted a number of pieces he created for a gallery exhibition over in Tampere, Finland. The event was

Julia Roberts and George Clooney landed at the top of the international box office chart this weekend as Universal/Working Title’s Ticket to Paradise expanded its offshore rollout. Adding 39 markets for a $12.1M session in 46 lifted the overseas cume to $14.8M with several majors still to come; domestic begins on October 21. Collectively, the

Ben Kingsley shows a different side to his screen persona with his performance in Dalíland, in which he plays the mercurial Surrealist artist in the last decade or so of his life. When he came to Deadline’s TIFF studio, the actor praised his young co-star Christopher Briney, who plays James, a young Manhattan gallery worker

Cobra Kai, the successor series to The Karate Kid film franchise, is still as beloved by fans as ever following the conclusion of Season 5, and the wait for Season 6 has already been heightened by the news that a new Karate Kid movie is coming in 2024. Those wondering if and how Netflix’s series

Director Mary Harron brought first-time actor Christopher Briney into Deadline’s TIFF Studio to discuss Dalíland, a film that explores the final stretch of the Surrealist art superstar Salvador Dalí’s life, leading up to his death in 1984. As Harron explained, “It shows the last years of Dalí and his wife Gala’s crazy marriage, as seen

Viola Davis‘ new movie has sparked a fierce debate about Hollywood covering hard truths through a lens — including slavery … resulting in some calling for a boycott of this one. “The Woman King” hit theaters this weekend, but almost as quickly as the hype for the flick started soaring … the pushback also began

Saturday AM Update: TriStar/eOne’s The Woman King is coming in higher than expected, with an $18M opening boosted by lively word of mouth off an A+ CinemaScore and a massive 95% positive on Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak. Friday, including $1.7M previews, came in at $6.8M. Comping this Black female epic to previous Hollywood titles was a challenge,

As the Toronto International Film Festival comes to its official Closing Night we say goodbye to the re-energized fest for another year, but not before we say ‘hello Dali’ or actually the final World Premiere of the festival, Daliland  which picks up the celebrated artists’ life in its later years focusing on the odd relationship between his

When moviegoers were introduced to Avatar in 2009, the original Avengers had yet to be assembled, the Star Wars sequel trilogy wasn’t even a twinkle in Lucasfilm’s eye, nor the Jurassic World trilogy for Universal, each of which have since come and gone. As Avatar: The Way of Water gets closer to release, one might

Zachary Wigon’s Sanctuary stars Christopher Abbott as the heir to wealthy family (“A rich asshole,” as he put it), and what happens to him as he tries to extricate himself from the clutches of a dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) is the core of this ingenious two-hander. “I’d say that it’s a film about role-playing,” said Wigon

Newly single Tyler Stanaland was spotted gettin’ close and personal with his “Selling the OC” costar Alex Hall — on the exact same day, his divorce from Brittany Snow was announced. An eyewitness tells TMZ … Tyler and Alex hit up SOTA Wednesday night in Corona Del Mar for some sushi with friends — including

EXCLUSIVE: Here is a resurrection of a DC character worth getting excited over. Warner Bros will develop another installment of the 2005 supernatural thriller Constantine, and the studio is re-teaming star Keanu Reeves and director Francis Lawrence, who made his helming debut on the original. Akiva Goldsman will write the screenplay and produce the project

A steady flow of specialty films starts this weekend with the return of a key player to cinemas and a broader arthouse slate that will expand steadily into awards season. This is still a weird theatrical landscape but independent distributors and theater owners have agreed for months that there’s no recovery without a brisker pace

German movie icon Werner Herzog came to the Deadline’s TIFF studio in great shape, having turned 80 just a few days before the festival started. Herzog was in town for the world premiere of his new documentary Theatre of Thought, an exploration of the human mind — a very difficult subject, which he conducts with

Although a remake of The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan was released in 2010, the original incarnation of the franchise hasn’t had a theatrical presence since 1994’s The Next Karate Kid. However, that universe has been getting a lot of attention in recent years through Cobra Kai, the show that originally premiered

EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog’s documentary explorations have ranged from the cosmic (Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds) to the fiery depths (Into the Inferno). His latest nonfiction film takes him on a journey inside the human brain, a subject as complex as any the director has ever tackled. A trailer for Theater of Thought dropped today, on

UPDATE 6:30 PM PT — An attorney for Anne’s older son, Homer, tells TMZ … “We prefer to see the estate administration play out in court and not in the media, as our legal documents speak for themselves.” UPDATE Homer’s lawyer, Bryan Phipps, adds … “The court appointing Homer special administrator today supports that decision.”