Tony Gilroy entered the Star Wars galaxy as a credited writer (he came in later in the shoot) for the stand-alone 2016 hit movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Now he has taken it […]
Justine Triet won the the Palm d’Or, the top prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival becoming only the third woman to receive the honor in the 76-year history of the event. Triet directed the […]
The Writers Guild of America West received the most robust support from their sister unions in Los Angeles at the “Unions Strike Back” Rally on Friday evening. In solidarity with WGAW President Meredith Stiehm stood […]
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“This was not planned,” says stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco about his auto-biopic comedy About My Father making it to the screen. “This is not something I had on my vision board,” he tells us on […]
Cannes Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Asteroid City, the latest film from director Wes Anderson which boasts a star-studded cast ensemble and his return to the Croisette after premiering The French Dispatch in […]
So far in 2023 we’ve had the sixth installment of the Scream franchise and a fifth Evil Dead movie in Evil Dead Rise. Both did surprisingly well at the box office, given that the failure […]
Late last month the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn the Taliban for systematically depriving Afghan women of their rights, demanding the country’s fundamentalist Islamic rulers provide “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of […]
There was come old-school writer cred on the picket line outside the Fox lot in Century City today. David E. Kelley, he of the 11 Emmys and 30 nominations, is a veteran of multiple WGA […]
Idris Elba started his career on British television with small bit roles before his breakout role as Stringer Bell in the critically acclaimed HBO television series The Wire. This led to numerous roles in feature […]
It was a great night for Disney as Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had a smash debut in its world premiere Thursday evening at the Cannes Film Festival. The June 30 release received […]
EXCLUSIVE: Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights for the zany kung-fu-themed action romantic comedy Zenithal. Vanessa Guide stars as a woman battling to establish peace between the sexes after her longtime boyfriend […]
Rep. Katie Porter joined writers on the picket line at the Culver Studios in Los Angeles on Friday in solidarity with the ongoing WGA strike. Before addressing the crowd, Porter led them in a chant […]
(L-R) Todd Garner and Billy Ray Billy Ray and Todd Garner recap the second week of the WGA standoff on Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast. They then interview with John Wells, producer of shows from ER […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fisher Stevens’ Highly Flammable production company today announced Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions have joined the documentary We Are Guardians as executive producers. The film, about Indigenous protectors of the imperiled Amazon […]
EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary Afghan Dreamers will exclusively premiere on Paramount+ on May 23, ahead of an expected Emmy push for the documentary about an all-girl robotics team in Afghanistan. Emmy winner Sheila Nevins and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to Yale Entertainment’s action-thriller The Collective starring Lucas Till (MacGyver), Ruby Rose (The Meg), Tyrese Gibson (Fast And Furious), and Don Johnson (Django). The Collective charts the story of […]
The Georgia Screen Entertainment Coalition, which is an affiliate of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, says it’s hoping for “an equitable resolution” of the ongoing Writers Guild strike. Filming in the state, which generated $4.4 […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Cinema […]
Outside the Fox lot in Century City this afternoon, WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser appeared amongst over 150 members who were on site to picket following the breakdown of negotiations with the Alliance of […]
SATURDAY AM: Two holdovers, Super Mario Bros Movie and Evil Dead Rise, are continuing to have a gravitational pull on the under-25 set, while frosh wide releases once again this spring are seeing single digit […]