Movies

Paul Haggis — famous for writing/directing 2006’s Best Picture, “Crash” — has been arrested in Italy for sexual assault … this according to multiple reports. Local media say the Oscar-winning filmmaker — who also wrote “Million Dollar Baby,” among other hit films over the years — was busted Sunday in the city of Ostuni, where

“As we’re nearing the end of Phase 4, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently told Total Film. “I think there have been many clues already, that are at least apparent to me, of where this whole saga is going. But we’ll be

Among studios, Sony was first up with its presentation here at CineEurope in Barcelona which kicked off on Monday. “As an industry, we are anything but done,” declared Sony Pictures International Releasing’s President Steven O’Dell at the top of the show. The studio is coming off of its most ambitious six-month slate ever, which it

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Khalique-Brown, the lead actor in writer-director Peter Kosminsky’s (Wolf Hall) six-part cyber-thriller The Undeclared War, — which starts June 30 on Channel 4 and All 4 in UK, Peacock in U.S. on August 18 — tells Deadline that she wrote 1,000 emails over a period of two years “begging“ UK agents and casting

Michael J. Fox has been incredibly open about his struggles with Parkinson’s disease in recent years. Unfortunately, worsening symptoms led Fox to retire from acting after more than four decades in film and television, as dealing with the illness started affecting his abilities as an actor. A year after his retirement, the Teen Wolf actor

As part of the opening day here at CineEurope in Barcelona, Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri shed some light on everything from the upcoming Minions: The Rise of Gru to whether we’ll see a same-sex kiss in a future Illumination title and how one long-ago misfire helped inform his career. In a wide-ranging onstage

Logan Paul says his relationship with The Rock was completely ruined amid the fallout from his suicide forest vlog in 2017 … revealing his idol asked him to remove any traces of them together from social media following the controversy. The 27-year-old YouTuber/boxer had celebs and politicians calling for him to be canceled after posting

IFC Films opened Official Competition starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez at four theaters in NYC and LA for an estimated three-day gross of $34,000 and per-theater-averages of $8,500 for the comedy directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat following it U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Festival last week. The film, world premiered

The CineEurope conference kicks off here in Barcelona on Monday with distribution and exhibition expected to be in fine spirits, coming off a series of mega-drivers in the first part of the year and heading into a lucrative second half. There’s reason for backslapping and high-fiving, but there are also concerns that all sides need

When you watch a certain movie that was made years ago, you may be think that there’s no way a certain element in the movie or a casting decision would ever work today. For example, cisgender actress Hilary Swank won an Oscar for playing the role of young transgender man Brandon Teena and, in recent

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear was no match for dinosaurs or Tom Cruise at the international box office this weekend. The Toy Story spinoff came in below projections with a $34.6M offshore bow in 43 material markets. That landed it third among Hollywood movies for the overseas session, behind holdovers Jurassic World Dominion and Top

Play video content TMZ.com Amber Heard is facing a stark and expensive reality after the Johnny Depp trial — namely, that she could be on the hook for millions … so it’s no surprise she’s out bargain hunting. Check out this video, obtained by TMZ, which shows AH shopping at a TJ Maxx in Bridgehampton,

Mubi Go, which has helped buoy NYC’s arthouse market by offering members a free movie ticket a week at participating theaters, expands to LA today where the biz could really use a boost. The films are curated and the first is Apple’s Cha Cha Real Smooth. Mubi, a global streaming service, production company and film

Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Cesar-winning actor and star of French classics such as Amour, Z and The Conformist, has died aged 91. The iconic actor, also known for Three Colors: Red and A Man and a Woman, died on Friday at his home in southern France, his wife and agent Marianne Hoepfner confirmed to Agence France Presse. Hollywood & Media

Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson is on a hot streak and, after his slew of successful streaming and box office hits over the past few years, he apparently has no qualms about sharing his glory with his family. Not too long ago, he bought his mother her final, forever home and, now, he’s purchased another

Editor’s Note: On June 22, 2020, veteran editor and Sunwise Media co-founder Ri-Karlo Handy penned a guest column for Deadline on the wide ranging response to his social media call for Black union editors just days beforehand. As Americans took to the streets after the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd to demand an end

Johnny Depp‘s fans not only have love for the actor … they’re showering his lawyer with the highest honor in the land … pushing for her to become the first woman Prez! Depp fans have plastered Camille Vasquez‘s name on everything from hats to shirts … with the words “Camille Vasquez for President” emblazoned on

Legendary Eisner Award-winning comic book artist Tim Sale, who influenced generations of creatives in that medium as well as many in film and television, died Thursday according to his official Twitter account. He was 66. The post on Sale’s account — which has changed its name to “Remembering Tim Sale” — indicated he “passed with

Pixar’s return to the big screen, Lightyear, did $5.2M between fan Wednesday previews and Thursday night shows, which is just under the $6.3M that Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 did back in April over its first two days of previews. Lightyear‘s Wednesday fan screenings started at 6PM, while Thursday showtimes began at 3PM. The sci-fi origin story of space

Universal/Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion is set to thrash past $500M worldwide today. The global total through Thursday is $493.2M. That includes $302.1M from the international box office and $191.1M domestic on the Colin Trevorrow-directed threequel. JWD reaching the five-century milestone will see it join a group of only eight Hollywood films to do so

For decades, Samuel L. Jackson fans have been championing him to win an Oscar for his amazing work. Of course, Jackson finally received his well-deserved Honorary Oscar before this year’s ceremony, but many fans have argued that he should’ve won for his role as the foul-mouthed Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction.

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing from sources that Universal is circling Cleopatra, the Gal Gadot epic which was set up at Paramount with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier EP/director Kari Skogland helming the project. While interested in the project still, Paramount was not prepared to meet the timeline that the creative elements necessitated. Deadline first told you about the

A juror in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial says they just didn’t buy what he says were Amber’s emotional swings, from “crying” to “ice cold.” The juror, who wanted to stay anonymous, spoke to ‘GMA’ Thursday, saying he took umbrage at Heard’s post-verdict statement that the jury ruled the way it did because of Depp’s

Venom franchise star Tom Hardy took to Instagram on Thursday and shared the cover page of what appears to be a script for Venom 3. While the image does not reveal the sequel’s name, where the title should be is a black box containing a crude illustration of the Symbiote with a long, red tongue

More box office milestones here as the theatrical business bounces back and the pandemic eases: Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness crossed $400M yesterday at the domestic box office during its 41st day of release. The movie is still the second highest grossing film of 2022 to date behind Top Gun: Maverick, which beat it to $400M

UPDATED: Mick Jagger, 78, thanked fans for the well-wishes after revealing last week that he had Covid. The Rolling Stones frontman also announced that he is now “feeling much better and can’t wait to get back on stage next week!” That’ll be music to the ears of European Stones fans, especially those in Milan where

Hot off the heels of Universal’s recent Stephen King re-adaptation Firestarter — pun half-intended — and ahead of his upcoming efforts such as the war drama The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Zac Efron has landed an excellent new project. One that will combine him with two unexpected words: that of A24’s acclaimed and impactful films,

EXCLUSIVE: Inbar Lavi (Lucifer), Jake McLaughlin (Black Bird), Ray Panthaki (The Serpent Queen) and Shaun Sipos (Outer Range) have signed on to star in the indie thriller Black Diamond, from writer-director Judd Bloch. The film centers on a young woman who would appear to be living an idyllic life with her hedge funder boyfriend atop

Play video content SplashNews.com Tom Hanks was seeing red when his wife Rita Wilson was almost knocked to the ground by a pack of his fans … and the guy who’s normally Mr. Cool let ’em know he was pissed off! Tom and Rita were heading to their car Wednesday night in NYC when the

Don’t expect director Taika Waititi’s planned Star Wars film to be about Chewbacca’s grandmother. The director warned as much in a recent interview with Total Film saying, “Look, I think for the Star Wars universe to expand, it has to expand. I don’t think that I’m any use in the Star Wars universe making a