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While Jennifer Coolidge knows how to knock a comedic performance out of the park, it’s the humanity of her characters that continues shine through. Discussing her new movie Riff Raff, now available on demand, the Golden Globe winner told Deadline she could “really relate” to her heartbreaking and “self-destructive” character Ruth in the crime comedy

Jimmy Tatro has joined the cast of an untitled comedy from Amazon MGM Studios, alongside Will Ferrell, Zac Efron, and Regina Hall. Nicholas Stoller is directing the film from his own script. The comedy follows a young convict fresh out of prison (Efron) who takes a reality TV courtroom hostage blaming the megalomaniac TV judge

More than 23 years after David Lynch facilitated her big break, Naomi Watts was ready to serve as the auteur’s muse once again. Following Lynch’s death at age 78 in January, the 2x Oscar-nominated actress recounted her last time seeing the Twin Peaks creator during a lunch in late November with him and fellow Lynch

In the fall of 2023, Disney announced plans to double its investment in theme parks to $60 billion over ten years. Today, CEO Bob Iger spent a big chunk of time sharing “some of what we’ve been up to” with shareholders at the company’s annual meeting, touting new lands and attractions from Cars, Avatar, Lion

Indonesia is booming with local content, international co-productions and a vibrant box office, although overseas distribution and the absence of film incentives remain weaknesses, said film professionals currently working in Indonesia, on a panel at Hong Kong’s Filmart. Indonesia’s culture minister, Fadli Zon, was also present at the panel, alongside a delegation from the Indonesian

EXCLUSIVE: Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, and Jake DeVito’s film and production company Jersey Films 2nd Avenue are rolling the cameras on the thriller comedy feature Drag which stars 2x Primetime Emmy nominee Lizzy Caplan (Fleishman is in Trouble, Zero Day), Lucy DeVito (A Sudden Case of Christmas, Little Demon), John Stamos (Big Shot, Scream Queens),

Jonathan Majors is open to returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after playing Kang the Conqueror in 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The actor is promoting his latest film, Magazine Dreams, and said if Marvel called him to reprise his role in the MCU, he would accept. “Yeah, of course I say yes. Disney,

EXCLUSIVE: Mariana di Girolamo, Oscar nominee Tom Waits, Ailín Salas and Paola Giannini are boarding Martin McDonagh’s massive ensemble for Wild Horse Nine, opposite previously announced Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, Parker Posey and Steve Buscemi. The dark comedic drama, which we first told you about, reunites McDonagh with Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures, and Film4, following

At the UK-China Screen Forum held with Hong Kong’s Filmart, BBC Studios unveiled that Walking with Dinosaurs will premiere exclusively on iQiyi for mainland China audiences in 2025, and a Chinese-dubbed version of nature series Asia will also launch on Phoenix Chinese Channel. The forum, now in its fourth edition, featured a delegation from the

The very private Gene Hackman will be allowed to retain some of his privacy posthumously, at least for a few more weeks. Almost three weeks after the two-time Oscar winner and spouse Betsy Arakawa were discovered dead at their Santa Fe home, a New Mexico judge today granted their estate’s request to seal medical records As

Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM is readying a bumper slate of 65 projects this year after boosting its content budget by 10% despite what its head honcho terms a “subdued” local market. Giving Deadline a trade exclusive, CEO Yoon Sang-hyun labeled 2025 the “first official year of global expansion” and revealed that content spend will

Babak Anvari is set to direct a new sequel to Cloverfield, which is reportedly a direct sequel to Matt Reeves’s original 2008 film. In a new interview during the SXSW premiere of his latest film Hallow Road, Anvari teased the new sequel. “So sad that I cannot because everyone on that team is very secretive,

SZA would love to revisit her on-screen other half in a sequel to One of Them Days, but would co-star Keke Palmer? The rapper and singer recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid promoting her forthcoming co-headlining stadium tour, the Grand National Tour, with Super Bowl collaborator Kendrick Lamar, which kicks off April 19 in

Bill Maher returned to the topic of the Best Picture Oscar winner Anora on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Last week, Maher posited that Sean Baker‘s indie hit winning the big prize on Oscar night was helped by the Karla Sofía Gascón controversies that tainted her leading Oscar nominee Emilia Pérez. This week on

Wicked, Emilia Pérez, The Wild Robot, Will & Harper and Road House took the film prizes at the delayed 2025 ACE Eddie Awards, which were handed out Friday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Shōgun, Baby Reindeer, What We Do in the Shadows and Frasier were among the TV winners at American Cinema Editors’ 75th anniversary

Following a successful 2024 awards season, Horror films demonstrated their dominance at the box office, marking a significant year for the genre. Notably, the Academy Awards recognized four films within the genre, signaling a growing appreciation for horror’s artistic merit. The Academy Awards have historically marginalized horror films, with The Silence of the Lambs in

It’s hard to believe now but before taking 12 long years to follow 1987’s Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the famously meticulous Stanley Kubrick was comparatively prolific — in the ’60s alone he released four of his 13 features. In these days of instant gratification, a director taking longer than three

Cinesite, a leading independent visual effects and animation studio collective, has received a long-term funding package worth $215 million to support continued operations, technological innovation and strategic expansion. The London-based group said financing — a series of transactions — was led by its longtime bankers NatWest alongside Barclays and Santander. Its shareholders, including family office

The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals tonight announced its 2025 Jury and Special Award winners. Amy Wang‘s Slanted, which the jury called an “unflinching satirical thriller” about identity, won the Narrative Feature competition. Special Jury awards went to director/writer/actress Annapurna Sriram for Fucktoys and actress Amanda Peet for Fantasy Life. Shuffle directed by Benjamin Flaherty won the

THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE Section: Documentary SpotlightDirector: Dan FarahLogline: An unprecedented and revelatory documentary –featuring 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community– that reveals an 80-year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin. The film exposes the profound impact

Experiencing joy in wartime might sound like an impossibility, but members of the LGBTQ community in Ukraine are proving it’s not only achievable, but even a form of resistance. Diva Monroe, a trans woman, and drag performers Marlene and Aura star in Queens of Joy, which just held its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a deal to turn the Stephen King bestselling novel Cujo into a new feature film. Roy Lee is producing, and they will go out to writers immediately. The novel was first turned into a 1983 thriller that starred Dee Wallace as a mother desperate to protect her son from a formerly

The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival kicked off Friday, March 7 in Austin with world and North American premieres of movies in 11 sections, TV shows in three sections and several short film and virtual reality programs. This year’s festival kicks off with opening-night film Another Simple Favor reteaming Paul Feig, Blake Lively and

Title: Clown in a Cornfield Festival (section): Narrative Spotlight Director: Eli Craig Logline: Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves

Technology and trauma come together once again for Christopher Landon‘s latest Blumhouse thriller Drop, a fun and satisfying ride through a first date from hell. Years after the traumatizing death of her husband, widowed mother Violet (Meghann Fahy) is ready to put herself back out there, accepting a first date with the charming Henry (Brandon

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has boarded Brother Verses Brother as executive producer. The Ari Gold-directed drama has its world premiere today at SXSW. Inspired by Coppola’s concept of Live Cinema, Gold embarked on a radically personal musical odyssey alongside real-life twin, Ethan Gold. As their characters search for their father across the great and troubled

“The challenge for me was the months and months I spent training to line dance,” said Ben Affleck at the SXSW premiere of The Accountant 2 – “that was my stunt. Tom  Cruise has nothing on me, just in terms of line dancing.” Gavin O’Connor returned to direct the sequel to his original 2016 film,

John Goodman has been injured during the production of Warner Bros‘ and Legendary’s latest movie from director Alejandro González Iñárritu, which is filming in the UK. A Warner Bros. Pictures spokesperson told us: “Actor John Goodman experienced a hip injury. He received immediate medical attention that led to a brief delay in shooting to allow him time

Bill Maher is saying “cancel culture” is still thriving during a conversation Friday with David Sedaris on Real Time with Bill Maher. The HBO host and comedian says the idea of “cancel culture” has evolved into something else and the Karla Sofía Gascón scandal played a part in Emilia Pérez losing at the Oscars, which

EXCLUSIVE: Constantin’s Resident Evil franchise reboot, with Barbarian and Weapon filmmaker Zach Cregger directing, will stay at Sony. Warner Bros was kicking the tires of this latest Cregger pic, but Sony isn’t letting this $1.2 billion-grossing franchise go. A theatrical release date of September 18, 2026 has been set, which tells you how excited the