AMC and French broadcaster Canal+ are going with God after greenlighting the Point Break television series. This comes after Deadline revealed in December that the Breaking Bad broadcaster was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller. The series is set in the present day, over thirty years […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Noah Reid is looking to join Max Thieriot and Morena Baccarin as the lead of a Fire Country–Sheriff Country universe series. The Schitt’s Creek alum has been tapped to appear in two episodes of the upcoming second season of CBS’ cop drama Sheriff Country as Dr. Hudson “Hud” Henshaw. The guest star casting comes […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva11 Sept
For Michael Dowse, the filmmaker behind The Stunt Driver, there’s a meta aspect to his journey with the Canadian sports comedy. The film, examining the dogged pursuit of a seemingly impossible dream, was in effect just that for him — a “white whale” that he chased for 12 years. And now, he’s harpooned it: The film […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar11 Sept
Italian-French director Tommaso Usberti’s Before the War, a coming-of-age tale exploring contemporary masculinity, has scooped the Grand Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Critics’ Week. In other key feature film prizes, Chilean-Indian London-based director Shalini Adnani’s Our Share of Sand, a family drama reflecting on inequality and environmental crisis, won the Audience Award. Bibiana […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow11 Sept
Gary Oldman has reflected playfully on creating headlines around the world with his comments about the James Bond casting process. In an interview with Canadian broadcaster Global over the weekend, Oldman claimed that 007 had been selected. Oldman added that he hoped his Slow Horses co-star Jack Lowden would get the role. “It’s been rumored […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: From Married At First Sight to Say Yes To The Dress, wedding shows remain a popular fixture on television. And now YouTube. Dorothy Wang, one of the stars of Netflix reality series Bling Empire: New York, is launching her own wedding on the Google-owned streaming service and has teamed up with Rich Kids of […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi has recently been teasing his second directorial effort in a year, on the heels of the addiction drama Doe. And we can now tell you that it’s Wrong Number, a horror thriller where he stars opposite Barbie Ferreira (Mile End Kicks). Currently in production in Los Angeles, Wrong Number centers on Ibn (Mescudi), […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar11 Sept
Grab your salt, lavender, limes and coconuts because it’s time to return to the Owens family with Practical Magic 2 now out in theaters. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as Sally and Gillian Owens, sisters who viewers first met in the 1998 romantasy film in which they learn they are descended from a line […]
Deadline•Dessi Gomez11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American distribution rights to the feature take of the Eugene O’Neill play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night which stars 2x Oscar winner Jessica Lange reprising her 2016 Tony-Award winning Broadway role. Quiver will release the pic on Sept. 25 with a special screening at Film at Lincoln Center on […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor Toby Kebbell for representation in all areas. Currently leading the cast of Apple’s alt-history space-race drama For All Mankind, Kebbell previously starred for four seasons in the streamer’s psychological thriller Servant from M. Night Shyamalan. Additional TV credits include Black Mirror, The Street, and the modern BBC adaptation of Macbeth. In film, Kebbell will next be seen […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar11 Sept
“Sweeney Todd with taxidermy” is the high-concept pitch behind Stuffed, a doozy of a musical black comedy that, ambitiously, attempts to make a serious point about modern-day loneliness and, thanks to its terrific core cast, pretty much succeeds. Not everything works, notably the rarefied nature of the score, which at time sounds like Rufus Norris’s […]
Deadline•Damon Wise11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off playing a role in the strong opening of Coyote vs. ACME, Legion M is expanding its recently launched film fund. The crowd-sourced, fan-driven film company is expanding the fund’s capacity to $5 million. It launched earlier this year in co-ordination with the opening of Fackham Hall, a send-up of Downton Abbey and […]
Deadline•Dade Hayes11 Sept
Argentinian director María Aparicio’s third feature Sadness Sometimes, Other Times Revolt has scooped the top prize at the 2026 edition of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori, the GDA Director’s Award. In other key prizes, French director Robert Guediguian’s A Woman Today (Une Femme Aujourd’hui) won the Europa Cinemas Label, while Italian director Nicola Sorcinelli’s […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow11 Sept
Russell Crowe touched down at the Venice Film Festival on Friday with his concert documentary What Love Builds, about his life as a musician and band Indoor Garden Party, which premieres Out of Competition on Friday. The Oscar-winning Gladiator actor, who has hit the headlines across his career for fiery outbursts, both private and public, […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow11 Sept
The line-up for Deadline’s September 17 L.A. Law Summit continues to grow with MACRO CEO Charles D King & WME Chief Legal Officer Courtney Braun now on board. Click here to learn more about Sept. 17’s Deadline LA LAW Summit & how to RSVP. Set from 10 am – 3 pm PT at Deadline’s LA […]
Deadline•Dominic Patten11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival hosts the world premiere of Black Sunflowers Friday evening, one of the most dynamic and explosive documentaries of the year. The film set in Ukraine is punctuated by ragers, “Tokyo drift”-style street racing, machine gun fire, and in interludes, moments of tenderness between young lovers. Director James Marcus Haney crafts […]
Deadline•Matthew Carey11 Sept
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett criticized Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s feature doc NAZA in a lengthy X post this afternoon following the film’s buzzy debut at the Venice Film Festival. “Yesterday, a film accusing Israel of genocide premiered,” Bennett wrote. “It’s a horrific blood libel against our sons and daughters. What makes it […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien are teaming up for the first time on-screen since big-budget 90’s action movie Starship Troopers. Richards and Van Dien have recently wrapped in Hamilton, Ontario, on thriller No Free Lunch, the third film in the Horizon line/March On Productions slate, which also includes Silent Nightfall starring Stana Katic, […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman11 Sept
The tragedy of September 11, 2001, which took the lives of almost 3,000 people, touched every part of America, including Hollywood. The TV community grieved one of its own as Frasier co-creator David Angel and his wife were among those on board one of the hijacked planes that hit the World Trade Center in New […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva11 Sept
On the eve of the 2026-2027 TV season, CBS is seeking to dismiss a scathing lawsuit brought by an ex-writer for the show, claiming that the scribe’s allegations of racial and sexual harassment are “fabrications and outright lies.” Back in June, John Lowe claimed in an unspecified damages seeking filing that showrunner Jennie Urman Snyder […]
Deadline•Ted Johnson11 Sept