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As Venom: The Last Dance continues to devour the international box office, leading the franchise to $1.5 billion overall, star Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel confirmed that they always envisioned the Sony Marvel movies to conclude as a trilogy. “We knew it would be three,” Marcel, who is credited as writer on all three

Paul Mescal has revealed that he won his role in Gladiator II after one 30-minute Zoom call with director Ridley Scott.  The Irish actor stars alongside Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen in the sequel to Scott’s 2000 Gladiator, due for release in November.  Mescal spoke about his brief audition process during an interview

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Your Monster. In Melissa Barrera‘s new fairytail-esque musical horror comedy, she plays a beauty who embraces her inner beast. Ahead of Your Monster‘s Friday premiere in theaters, the actress told Deadline she was inspired to take the role in writer/director Caroline Lindy‘s feature debut because the character ultimately

Hello Insiders, the big international chatter this week came from Cannes, but there’s been plenty of film and TV stories elsewhere. Jesse Whittock here guiding you through. Sign up here. Another MIP In The Cannes VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images “A fun run”: Stewart, Jake and Max returned from Cannes yesterday following another invigorating few days

Just a few days ago, Andrew Garfield praised his Hacksaw Ridge director Mel Gibson for the “beautiful healing with himself” the controversial Oscar winner has done over the years. Based on comments Gibson made today at LAX about the Vice President of the United States, the We Live In Time actor might want to reconsider

Greta Lee (Past Lives, The Morning Show) has joined the cast of Kent Jones’ Late Fame, starring Willem Dafoe as a forgotten poet whose work is rediscovered by a group of young artists years after he fell into obscurity. Lee is replacing previously announced Sandra Hüller, who had to withdraw from the project due to

Alan Sacks, known for co-creating Welcome Back, Kotter and producing several Disney Channel projects, has died. He was 81. The producer’s wife, talent agent Annette van Duren, tells Deadline that Sacks died Tuesday morning in New York City after his mantle cell lymphoma took an “aggressive” turn in recent weeks. “It was treated for him

EXCLUSIVE: More than 50 years after it was published, House of Bondage remains the definitive pictorial account of South Africa’s brutal and dehumanizing system of apartheid. The volume was the work of a young Black South African photographer, Ernest Cole, who had to smuggle his images out of the country to get them into print.

The popcorn bucket wars are heating up. After high-profile entries from Alien: Romulus and Deadpool & Wolverine, Gladiator II has entered the arena — or more accurately, entered with the arena. The movie’s official social media accounts today featured a video of “The AR-ena Popcorn Bucket,” which is lap-sized, circular Roman Colosseum perfect for holding

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