“We’ve been trying to climb this mountain for 30 years,” an army colonel tells the assembled group. “Britain is depending on us to get up first.” The mountain is Mount Everest, the world’s tallest. The officer is John Hunt (Willem Dafoe), who would lead the first successful mission to ascend it. Among the group is […]
Deadline•Erik Pedersen3h ago
Italy has unveiled the 21 films under consideration to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards. A selection committee, overseen by the film body Anica, will decide which film will go forward as Italy’s submission at a meeting on September 23. The films, all of which were […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow3h ago
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios’ Los Angeles division is taking a new approach to scripted and has promoted its unscripted chief Ryan O’Dowd to oversee it. O’Dowd, who was President, Unscripted, has been named President, BBC Studios Global Productions LA, bringing its scripted and unscripted operations under a single leadership structure. As a result of the move, […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline4h ago
Ben Saunders, the London-born Dutch singer who won the first-ever incarnation of The Voice, was found dead Tuesday, September 15, in a popular Netherlands recreational lake. He was 43. His death was announced on Instagram by his brother Dean, who wrote, “My dear little brother died today. I have never felt such pain as I […]
Deadline•Greg Evans4h ago
Charles D. King’s Macro is getting into the direct-to-consumer business, acquiring streaming service AllBlk from AMC Global Media. The service, which targets Black viewers, was launched in 2014 as UMC (short for Urban Movie Classics) by businessman and BET founder Robert L. Johnson. His company, RLJ Entertainment, which also owned streaming assets like Acorn TV, […]
Deadline•Dade Hayes4h ago
After exploding on to the horror movie universe with fresh and inventive films, Barbarian and the Oscar winning Weapons, I was a little worried to hear Zach Cregger’s next film was going to be yet another entry in Sony’s Resident Evil franchise that already has spawned about 8 movies, 6 of them starring Milla Jovocich’s […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond4h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing Scope, a mystery action thriller from Warfare helmer Ray Mendoza and producer Jaume Collet-Serra, Deadline has learned. Billed as a mystery action thriller in the vein of Disturbia and Rear Window, Scope originated as a spec by Charley & Vlas Parlapanides (Netflix’s Blood of Zeus) and Scott Charnick, which Netflix picked […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar5h ago
UPDATED, 8:16 a.m.: Laika has unveiled a final trailer for Wildwood, its sixth stop-motion feature opening exclusively in theatres on October 23. Tickets for the film, directed and produced by the studio’s Travis Knight, are on sale now.Set to open AFI Fest on October 21, it follows headstrong teenager Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee), who […]
Deadline•Patrick Hipes5h ago
James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision has acquired AI-driven tech startup and 3D specialist Outsyders for an undisclosed price as the company positions itself as a one-stop shop for 3D content creation. The two companies recently worked together on Paramount summer release Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), directed by […]
Deadline•Jillg3665h ago
Triple-Tony winner Patti LuPone is returning to the New York stage to portray iconic fashion editor Diana Vreeland in the one-woman Off Broadway play Full Gallop. The production, directed by Gordon Greenberg (Rope, Broadway’s The Heart of Rock and Roll), will begin a strictly limited 12-week engagement at NY City Center Stage II on Friday, […]
Deadline•Greg Evans5h ago
Fox Nation is leaning into Bachelor Nation with its new dating reality series hosted by Chris Harrison. Chris Harrison’s The Vow, which Deadline revealed in February, is set to premiere on the streamer on November 11. The six-part series will roll out weekly with the season finale on December 9. The show will see 30-year-old […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline5h ago
It finally happened: Sony’s highest grossing movie ever, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, is now the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office, defeating Star Wars: The Force Awakens which held the record for the last ten years with a final cume of $936.66M. As of yesterday, Spider-Man: Brand New Day counts a running […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro5h ago
EXCLUSIVE: A series of events have been set in Paris and New York to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ernest Hemingway classic The Sun Also Rises. The celebration begins September 21 and 22 at Ritz Paris, with guests including filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who is set to direct the upcoming A Farewell To Arms […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman6h ago
The British-American writer and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer has died. She was 77. Greer’s husband, David Hutchins, announced her death in a statement published this afternoon. Hutchins wrote that Greer died on Tuesday evening following a brief illness. Hutchins described Greer as “an acclaimed playwright, author, critic, cultural and political commentator whose intelligence, courage and […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim6h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Worthington (Avatar), Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), and Cara Delevingne (Club Kid) are set to play the lead love triangle in Paul Schrader’s upcoming erotic thriller Non Compos Mentis. Production is due to get underway next month in New York on the movie, which Oscar nominee Schrader has written and will direct. Additional […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman6h ago
A local Los Angeles TV news journalist and the pilot of an NBC L.A. news chopper are among the three people confirmed dead in last night’s Los Angeles-area helicopter crash. Journalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw were providing news coverage of a deadly bus crash in Chatsworth, CA, when their helicopter went down. The […]
Deadline•Greg Evans6h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian director Muayad Alayan’s Jerusalem-set drama Conversation with the Sea makes its North American premiere in Toronto on Wednesday, following its Venice debut, and Deadline can unveil the trailer. Kamel El Basha, who won Venice’s Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in The Insult in 2017, plays a 60-year-old Palestinian man, who […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow6h ago
EXCLUSIVE: Zach Roerig (The Vampire Diaries), Kayla Bohan (Harper), Scottie Thompson (NCIS) and John Littlefield (Dexter) are starring in crime-thriller Undertow. Kate Bohan (From Embers) is writer-director on the indie feature, which wrapped filming in August, and heralds from Lyon Park Productions. The synopsis reads: “When a teenage girl, Dakota, (Kayla Bohan) is kidnapped by […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman6h ago
EXCLUSIVE: The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation has announced the recipients of its generous inaugural Documentary Film Award: Untitled “Ear Hustle” Film and Indígena. Each film earns an unrestricted $50,000 grant “in recognition of its artistic excellence,” and filmmakers will attend a creative retreat hosted by Points North Institute during the Camden International Film Festival, which begins Thursday […]
Deadline•Matthew Carey6h ago
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), the modest, two-person musical that charmed critics last season and scored eight Tony Award nominations, will play its final performance on Sunday, November 29. At the time of its closing, Two Strangers will have played 21 previews and 428 performances at the Longacre Theatre. The First National […]
Deadline•Greg Evans6h ago