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There are Glen Powells everywhere for those with the eyes to see — at least according to the lookalike contest held earlier today in the Top Gun: Maverick star’s hometown of Austin, Texas. According to Fox 7 Austin, hundreds of people gathered at Auditorium Shores in Town Lake Park on Sunday, including Powell’s mother and

It is 30 years since The Shawshank Redemption debuted, but it remains as beloved as ever, and its star Tim Robbins credits one man for its survival – Ted Turner. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Robbins rails against algorithms dictating our viewing habits and cites his 1994 film about the fates of prison

It seems some of the animosity between Denzel Washington and Josh Brolin‘s characters in American Gangster momentarily bled out off-screen in a heated exchange during filming. In a recent interview with Graham Bensinger, Brolin — who was promoting his new memoir From Under the Truck — reflected on his career and upbringing, including what he

EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Anderson says she has “danced between shame and beating myself up” — and she’s still here. She has opened so many eyes with her stunning breakthrough performance, at age 57, playing Shelly, a veteran hoofer forced to hang up her heels in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl. I think it’s one of the best screen performances of

Matthew McConaughey may be a king of rom-coms, but all was not all right, all right, all right at one point in his acting career. While speaking with Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios on his Good Trouble podcast, the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star recalled a time in his professional life

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy and artist Yvonne McGuinness are the new proprietors of The Phoenix Cinema in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. After 105 years in operation as a movie theater and dance hall, The Phoenix will remain an independently owned venue, which Time Out has previously named “one of the 50 best cinemas in the

UPDATED with suit dropped: Deadline confirmed on Thursday that Jonathan Majors‘ ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari has dropped the federal lawsuit in which she accused him of assault and defamation. The suit, originally filed in March in New York federal court, came less than a month before Majors was sentenced to probation after being convicted of two

EXCLUSIVE: “Well, blow me down!”, as the curmudgeonly sailor would say. Popeye is the latest iconic public domain character to get a horror movie adaptation. In fact, there are two on the loose at the same time. A few days ago, news dropped of a “raunchy horror” from ITN Studios. Today, we can bring news of

In 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech to the United Nations, nobly imploring member nations to allow Congo to emerge independent of colonial power Belgium. “The people of the Congo are entitled to build up their country in peace and freedom,” he said. “Intervention by other nations in their internal affairs would deny them

Motion Picture Sound Editors, the organization of entertainment sound editing professionals since 1953, will present Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Costner with the 2025 MPSE Filmmaker Award. The honor is bestowed annually to a filmmaker of distinction. Supervising Sound Editor Greg Hedgepath will receive the Career Achievement Award, which is presented to a person whose career has

Saoirse Ronan is having a moment. Which is not necessarily a new experience, given she has four Oscar nominations to her credit. Now 30, the Irish-born actress first made the Academy cut at 14 for her supporting role in Atonement, which she followed with leading roles in Brooklyn, Ladybird and Little Women. But this year,

“Press play and stay” is how Netflix’s Lat Am content boss characterized the streamer’s programing strategy as he unveiled sneak peeks of two of the most anticipated TV series out of the region ever, 100 Years of Solitude and Senna, along with first-looks at the Vinicius Junior movie and some new shows. Paco Ramos, VP

James Gunn is not discarding making R-rated projects at DC Studios if the story merits it. As Gunn and Peter Safran build their version of the DC Universe, the filmmakers are not shying away from continuing to take risks in their storytelling. In a new interview, Gunn revealed he would not wait and see how

EXCLUSIVE: WME‘s ex-corporate strategy SVP has joined the board of Insanity, the UK agency that reps the likes of Maya Jama. Laura Edwards will become a Non-Executive Director at the London shop following five years in New York with WME, which she exited several months back. During her time at WME she worked across M&A,

Denzel Washington expressed his disillusionment with U.S. politics, saying that the masses are “being manipulated” on both sides of the political aisle. “You know, it’s so easy to stand outside America and say this and that,” Washington told The Times of London while promoting his tour de force in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, in which

Gabrielle Union is joining a now-growing list of public figures that are leaving social media platform X. In a final post made yesterday, the Bring It On star cited changes to the terms of service, as well as the return of “volatile” individuals as reasoning for her departure. Recently, Jamie Lee Curtis also announced her

Gladiator II star Paul Mescal is unpacking some of his previous comments about audiences’ parasocial relationship toward him. “It’s just a weird thing because ultimately I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but we know a lot about each other because we’re visible the whole time,” the Academy Award nominee said recently on an

Denzel Washington, revered for his consistent hit rate as much as his talent when it comes to movie-making, reveals he knows he made some bad choices at an earlier stage in his career.  The double Oscar winner, who stars as slave owner Macrinus in Gladiator II, told The Times of London:  “After Malcolm X [1992] I made

When one imagines a musical biopic of storied singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, a CGI chimpanzee in the lead role is not an obvious choice. However, Better Man, in the hands of writer-director producer Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), sees that proverbial ‘performing monkey’, played by Jonno Davies, become key to a poignant tale of dehumanizing celebrity.

It is official. The 97th Oscars have a host and his name is Conan O’Brien. The Emmy Award-winning television host, writer, producer and comedian will be the sole host for the 97th Academy Awards on March 2, 2025, Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang announced today. It will be O’Brien’s first time

T.J. Miller wants to return to the Deadpool universe in a potential fourth installment, but only if Ryan Reynolds asks. In a new interview, the Silicon Valley alum said he would be open to reprising his role in a new sequel to the Marvel Studios movie. “We talked a little while ago,” Miller said on

Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is revealing today that two years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a procedure to remove the tumor. Thankfully, the filmmaker is now “fully recovered and fully functional,” he tells Deadline. The knight of the British realm is making a speech this afternoon to U.K. lawmakers at the

Denzel Washington is revealing that a same-sex kiss was cut from Gladiator II. In a new interview, Washington, who plays Macrinus in the Ridley Scott film, was asked, “How gay is the Roman empire?” “I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken,”

Thailand‘s government is on course to increase the cash rebate for foreign shoots from 20% to 30% after a meeting with senior Hollywood execs. Plans to increase the rate have been in the works since early 2023. Thai representatives talked up the plans at recent Asian confabs, and sources say they were the centerpiece of

In February 1961, a remarkable outburst took place at the United Nations in New York – jazz artists Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, writer Maya Angelou and others crashed the Security Council to protest the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. That little-remembered demonstration serves as the backdrop to the award-winning documentary Soundtrack to a

A new promotion for Wicked turns back the clock to 2021 to show co-stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo reacting to being cast as the film’s co-leads by director Jon M. Chu. The longform spot, titled “Connect to Your Dreams,” is a plug for the movie as well as distributor Universal Pictures parent Comcast‘s Xfinity

While reflecting on his career, Timothée Chalamet said there were certain doors that were closed to him in the industry based on his looks. In a new interview with Zane Lowe promoting his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown for the first time, the Oscar nominee said he related to certain outsider elements the legendary

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett is ready for another Mission, Deadline can exclusively reveal. In Mission: Impossible 8, Bassett reprises her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane from 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The plot of the new film, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance, remains under wraps. Most recently garnering multiple Oscar nominations and grossing over $567MM

Danielle Deadwyler, who was previously snubbed by the Academy Awards for her starring portrayal in Till, said she’s more “relaxed” about being back in the Oscars conversation with The Piano Lesson. And, in fact, de-centering awards season might be the way to go. “I’m relaxed about it,” the actress told the Los Angeles Times in

Jon M. Chu had a bit of a scheduling conflict with the Los Angeles premiere of his sweeping musical Wicked. Ahead of the the film’s West Coast debut, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Chu spoke to attendees, cast and crew in a recorded clip explaining that he was at the hospital awaiting the birth