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As buyers wander the vast halls of the Palais in Cannes this week taking meetings and exploring the next generation of TV shows, they will no doubt be wowed by some supremely premium content. But there is no escaping the fact that, in 2024, financing a show is harder than ever. Reaching greenlight has been

Much like their onscreen counterparts, Robert Downey Jr. left quite the impression on Tom Holland. The Spider-Man actor recently recalled a gesture by MCU co-star that was “so great and so sweet” during his first day of filming Captain America: Civil War (2016) with Downey Jr. “I’m very grateful to Downey, but… When I did

James Gorman, the former Morgan Stanley CEO who joined Disney‘s board earlier this year in a signal to investors about the company’s succession process, has been named chairman. He will succeed Mark Parker on January 2, 2025. Parker, executive chairman of Nike, is leaving the board after serving as a director for nine years. Gorman

As Smile 2 continues scaring up bigger audiences than its popular predecessor at the global and domestic box offices, director Parker Finn is providing some insight into the decisions that went into the making of his horror sequel. While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the Smile helmer said he “totally” cast actor Ray Nicholson in the

EXCLUSIVE: Like the name of a band or title of a great album, the moniker given to a production company can come loaded with meaning. “I wanted to make it something personal, rather than just cool-sounding and generic,” James Norton explains when asked about Rabbit Track Pictures, the film and TV production company he runs

Tales of love, unrequited or otherwise, interwoven over the festive season, laden with pop songs and narrated by one of the biggest celebrities in showbusiness, That Christmas is best viewed by romcom auteur Richard Curtis as a kid-friendly attempt to atone for his long-standing seasonal hit Love Actually. Beautifully rendered by Simon Otto, head of

Pedro Almodóvar believes that both his two latest leading actresses should be Oscar-nominated for their performances in his latest film The Room Next Door – and he adds he wouldn’t mind one for himself.  The Spanish director’s first full-length film in the English language, it received an 18-minute standing ovation when it screened at Cannes

Sony may have skipped San Diego Comic-Con, but they came to the Big Apple on Friday for New York Comic Con showing off exclusively to the room, and not to anyone else, the first trailer for Karate Kid: Legends, which brings back not only OG Ralph Macchio’s Danny LaRusso from the original 1984 movie and

Afternoon Insiders, glad to have you back during what’s been a busy old week. Max Goldbart here bringing you the latest. Sign up for the newsletter here. Mamma MIA! A trip to the Barberini: Deadline was in Italy this week, as top players from European and North American film and TV descended on the annual MIA

No Other Land, the powerful documentary set in a Palestinian community of the occupied West Bank, may lack U.S. distribution, but it’s got awards momentum behind it. The film directed by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers earned a place on DOC NYC’s coveted Short List — the festival’s nod to what it considers

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is to tell the miracle story of the four children who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle via a feature doc from Oscar-winner Orlando Von Einsiedel, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer‘s Imagine Documentaries, and Grain Media. The streamer has confirmed The Lost Children, which will air next month. The doc brings together

The year was 1971. The venue: Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The event: the (unofficial) Women’s World Cup soccer tournament, attracting a massive crowd of more than 110,000 madly-cheering fans – to this day, believed to be the largest gathering ever for a women’s sporting competition. The story of this extraordinary event – and how

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Brooks and a storied group of animation creatives are combining on a short about the creator’s experience overcoming depression, with sales launching at MIPCOM. Brooks and Spencer Grammer (Rick and Morty) will lead the voice cast of Enormous, which is inspired by Stephen Kramer Glickman‘s personal journey battling depression with the help of

EXCLUSIVE: Directing and screenwriting duo Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg have inked with Grandview for representation. Cohen and Halberg directed Screen Gems’ Tarot this past spring which grossed $50M off an $8M production cost — 62% of that from offshore. The twosome were the first selection for Screen Gems’ directing incubator, where they wrote, directed,

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute, Doris Duke Foundation and Islamic Scholarship Fund have announced the second crop of recipients for its Building Bridges Fellowship, as part of the larger $1 million grant to expand and uplift Muslim storytelling and voices in the entertainment industry, announced in April of this year. The fellowship, which revealed its inaugural

When it comes to the best horror movies we’ve ever seen, 1996’s Scream has gone down in history as one of the most clever versions of a slasher. Coming off the wild success of the original movie, director Wes Craven and the main cast reunited for Scream 2 in 1997. However, when David Arquette looks

Taylor Swift‘s saying people may never want to close their eyes again after seeing “Blink Twice” … and, she adds the movie might be triggering for some people. The pop star took to her Instagram Story Friday to shower praise on her close friend Zoë Kravitz … and Kravitz’s new movie starring Channing Tatum, on

Anthony Ramos, Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones make up the cast of Twisters, whose characters face the challenge of reducing the intensity of tornadoes. After giving convincing performances playing a group of storm chasers who knew their stuff about cyclones, you’d think all of the film’s actors had science backgrounds. Well, Ramos revealed a super

Australian actress Penelope Mitchell was in her early 20s when she first started playing Liv Parker — the flirty and powerful witch twin — on the hit drama series “Vampire Diaries” back in 2014. Penelope was part of an all-star cast like Nina Dobrev as the caring gal who turns into a vampire, Elena Gilbert,

As we look ahead to this weekend in new 2024 movies, we may have a dud on our hands with The Crow remake. Just ahead of the adaptation landing in theaters Thursday night, Lionsgate Films lifted the embargo for the Bill Skarsgård-led flick, and critics are not happy with the long-awaited reimagining of James O’Barr’s

Nathalie Fay, an actress with a memorable part in the first ‘Hangover’ film, has been arrested for allegedly punching her boyfriend in the face … TMZ has learned. The actress — whose real name is Nathalie Tordion — was arrested in South Miami, Florida on Saturday after police responded to a call about an incident

Earlier today, the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was released online, giving the public a taste of the director’s first feature in over a decade following its polarizing premiere at the Cannes Festival in May. However, now Lionsgate, which is handling the upcoming 2024 movie’s distribution, is is pulling the trailer from theaters

Tony McFarr — a stuntman who served as a double for big Hollywood stars like Chris Pratt — died from a heart issue likely brought on by acute alcohol poisoning from prolonged heavy drinking. In new documents, obtained by TMZ, the Orange County Medical Examiner in Florida officially declared Tony’s death the result of an