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Nearly two years after the news broke about the death of Chadwick Boseman, it is now being reported that a settlement has been reached in the negotiations of the actor’s estate: Boseman’s widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, will evenly split it with Boseman’s parents, Leroy and Carolyn Boseman. According to Radar Online, court documents have been

The big screen debut of Marcel The Shell With Shoes On opened at $170K on six screens in New York and LA, the highest PSA of the weekend at $28,267 for the iconic lonely snail voiced by Jenny Slate. The mock documentary about the loveable anthropomorphic mollusk hails from distributor A24, a distributor that manages

Meadow Walker, the daughter of the late Paul Walker, has weighed in on the overturning of Roe v. Wade with her own personal story. The 23-year-old revealed she had an abortion in 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began to rage. Meadow said … “Today marks a huge setback in history- a profound injustice to

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Refresh for more analysis and chart In an amazing feat for an adult-skewing, 2 hour and 39 minute running movie at the box office, Warner Bros’ Baz Luhrmann directed Elvis is heading toward an estimated $31.5M opening, looking to truly top the box office. Outside of superhero tentpoles like Spider-Man: No Way Home at

Driver’s License singer Olivia Rodrigo and UK musician Lily Allen gave the middle finger to the U.S. Supreme Court justices by dedicating Allen’s 2009 song “F— You” to the Glastonbury festival. The tribute is due to the controversial overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case which protected a woman’s choice to have an abortion.

Being an Oscar-winning and commercially successful actress like Sandra Bullock doesn’t happen by osmosis, as she’s worked hard to become the beloved star that she is. Recently, Bullock confirmed that she’s placing her personal life ahead of her career following the release of rom-com The Lost City to focus on being a mother to her

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Lundberg have seen this day coming. For a long time. Their 2108 Netflix documentary Reversing Roe examined how right-wing activists, politicians and jurists were steadily chipping away at abortion rights across the country, with the goal of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade. Today it happened, in a 6-3 Supreme

John Lennon allegedly had an affair with an assistant who was 10 years his junior and it was all Yoko Ono‘s idea … according to a new documentary. According to “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story,” a doc that just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival … John had an affair in the 1970s with

A24 is going animated whimsical with Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Neon opens Beba, Cohen Media Group presents Apples, IFC Midnight Flux Gourmet and Abramorama a documentary The Human Trial in limited release at arthouse cinemas. These venues have been doing a bit better, slowly luring Covid-spooked key older demos back into the theater-going

Feature Adaptation Of Stage Play Maginot Line EXCLUSIVE: Mara Marini (Parks And Recreation), Carlo Mendez (The Bay), Diana Angelina ((God)Mother) Alex Keener (Alex, Inc), Janna Bossier (S.W.A.T), Samantha Elizabeth Johnson Esq. (Girls Night In) and Mindy Montavon (Murder In The Heartland) have joined the cast of writer-director Emmett Loverde’s The Maginot Line. Based on Loverde’s play, the

Taika Waititi has become so massive for his work in the later Thor movies and in the Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit, but it all really started with What We Do In The Shadows. After directing a short in 2005 that first brought to life the comedic idea alongside frequent collaborator Jemaine Clement, Waititi later made the

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Women in Film, Los Angeles have set Ana Brown (Trash Pandas), Audrey Rosenberg (Wild Animals), Christina YR Lim (Gyopo), Rebecca Christian (Sankofa Selah), Sabeen Amanat Farooq (Burn Your Idols) and Zoey Towner (Great American Highway) as the participants for their fifth consecutive Feature Residency, which provides six promising screenwriters of underrepresented

Amber Heard is now officially on the hook for $8.35 million, and she could be on the hook for even more if she appeals the defamation verdict. As you know, a jury awarded Johnny Depp the $8.35M after an explosive trial. The judge Friday officially entered the judgment into the court record, and there’s a

EXCLUSIVE: One of the more highly sought open directing jobs may have just been filled. Sources tell Deadline that Leigh Whannell is in negotiations to direct The Green Hornet and Kato for Universal. Execs have been meeting with directors over the past couple of weeks, but insiders close to the meetings felt as soon as

Disney kicked off its CineEurope presentation in Barcelona today with 12 minutes of footage from July’s Marvel fourquel Thor: Love And Thunder, and throughout the show teased trailers and looks at its other upcoming titles including four never-before-seen scenes from James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water. Ahead of the Thor footage, Disney’s Head of

Paul Giamatti has joined the cast of 30 Coins, the Spanish mystery horror series that premiered on HBO Max in 2020 and was renewed for a second season in February. The eight-part Season 2 is now in production in Spain, Italy, the U.S., France and the UK, with a 2023 premiere date planned on HBO

Last September, roughly four years after Illumination Entertainment’s untitled Mario movie was announced to the public, the animated feature’s voice cast was revealed, with Chris Pratt leading the charge as the man himself, Mario! We’re a little under a year away from hearing how Pratt will sound as the popular Nintendo character, but the Guardians

EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA Entertainment has expanded its slate of Korean films, acquiring North American rights to titles including Alienoid, Hansan: Rising Dragon, Gangnam Zombie, The Ghost Station and The Assassin. While the international and indie distributor has set theatrical releases in place for Alienoid and Hansan, plans for the other three films have not

It’s all coming to life … Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling‘s Barbie and Ken characters came face-to-face on set — the first time fans have gotten a glimpse of the two together. Both clearly were dressed in wardrobe from Barbie’s cowgirl collection Tuesday in L.A. Gosling sported a black ensemble, complete with a white cowboy

Longtime Marvel Entertainment marketing and publicity executive Mike Pasciullo has died, according to a remembrance posted Wednesday on Marvel.com. Born in 1972, Pasciullo worked at Marvel for 25 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of Marvel Television & Entertainment, Marketing & Publicity. He was, according to prolific comic book writer Frank Tieri, not just

Distribution sources are saying there’s a chance that Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick could top the box office this weekend in its fifth session with $32 million, a 28% decline week over week. This will easily send the Tom Cruise movie past the half-billion point at the domestic box office; the pic already is the actor’s highest

EXCLUSIVE: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of James Cameron’s Titanic, the multiple Oscar winner and box office phenomenon has been set for a fresh theatrical release just in time for Valentine’s Day next year. A remastered version will be available in cinemas in 3D 4K HDR and high-frame rate, with Disney releasing internationally beginning February

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial ended at the beginning of June, with the former coming out as the “winner” through being awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages (that latter amount was reduced to $350,000). While the legal drama isn’t done between these ex-spouses, as Heard (who was

Opa! Nia Vardalos revealed the start of production on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 in Athens yesterday in an Instagram video shot in her hotel near The Plaka. Vardalos will be pulling double duty as the film’s lead Toula Portokalos and its director. Sources tell Deadline that Greece will be the setting for Toula

Taylor Swift and BF Joe Alwyn are clearly having some fun in the sun, getting into the water and sharing some serious smooches on vacation. The two have been down in the Bahamas, and were spotted Sunday on their getaway — packing on some PDA during a dip. After their love-fest, TS and JA got

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Downs Colaizzo is in talks to direct and rewrite Paramount Pictures’ Harbinger, stepping in for Wes Ball. Ball was forced to step down to focus on the next Planet of the Apes pic, on which he is deep in pre-production. Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing Harbinger for Original Film. Dan Mintz is producing for

MJ and A Strange Loop saw Tony Award glory translate into box office surges in the week after the June 12 ceremony, with MJ leaping by $216,921 over the previous week’s take to a huge $1,660,978. A Strange Loop grossed $845,313 for the week ending June 19, a jump of $168,998 over the previous week. Both

Warner Bros took the stage at CineEurope here in Barcelona this evening, touting its upcoming slate ahead of a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis which begins rolling out this week. In his remarks, Andrew Cripps, the studio’s President of International Theatrical Distribution, put particular emphasis on collaboration with exhibition being a key element to the

We’re coming up on one month of Top Gun: Maverick playing in theaters, and Tom Cruise’s return to the role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell continues to triumph a the box office. Going into this past weekend, the sequel crossed the $800 million mark to become Cruise’s highest-grossing movie of all time, overtaking 2018’s Mission: Impossible

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Speeds Past $900M Worldwide – Deadline You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content June 21, 2022 12:56pm Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick‘s jet-propulsion continues as the Tom Cruise-starrer has now crossed $900M global in just 25 days of release. The worldwide cume through