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in Netflix, News, Nineteen Steps, Tom HooperMillie Bobby Brown’s ‘Nineteen Steps’ Sets Tom Hooper As Director
EXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown may have just exited Perfect, the Netflix pic on Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, over creative differences, as we first reported. But progress on her film slate continues, as Deadline has learned that she’s enlisted Academy Award winner Tom Hooper to direct the feature adaptation of her New York Times bestselling novel […] More
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Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic Over Story About Erratic Tenure As FBI Director
FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic and writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on Monday, claiming a piece chronicling his tenure at the agency was a “sweeping, malicious and defamatory hit piece.” The story chronicled concerns among unnamed current and former FBI employees that Patel’s tenure has been erratic and has […] More
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How ‘Mr. Scorsese’ Director & Covid Got Martin Scorsese To Open Up About His Life
Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Miller was acquainted with the subject of her latest, Apple TV’s five-part Mr. Scorsese, through her husband Daniel Day-Lewis, one of legendary director Martin Scorsese’s cinematic muses. But when it came to getting the filmmaker to commit to opening up about his life and career, it required a little bit of an […] More
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‘John Candy: I Like Me’ Director Colin Hanks On His Documentary
Legendary actor John Candy has been gone for more than three decades, but his children Jennifer Candy-Sullivan and Chris Candy are celebrating his life and body of work in the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, currently available to stream via Prime Video. His daughter and son were joined by the film’s director Colin […] More
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‘Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery’ Director Looks Back On Groundbreaking ’90s Fest
The popularity of the female-led ’90s-era musical festival Lilith Fair was enough to tell the story behind its origins, Ally Pankiw, director of the Hulu documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, explained at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary panel, but even more importantly, “it was also the first time that someone had really stood up to […] More
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BBC To Set Out Scale Of Cuts To TV, Radio & Online Over Coming Months Before Enacting 2,000 Layoffs, Director General Says
The BBC will in the coming months set out how it plans to cut back on TV, radio and online following today’s brutal announcement of 2,000 layoffs. Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s interim Director General, just said on Radio 4’s The Media Show that the corporation will “make sure changes are consistent with the direction […] More
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Nicolas Cage is back for second ‘Longlegs’ film with director Osgood Perkins
Nicolas Cage is set to return for a second Longlegs film with director Osgood Perkins. Read More: ‘Longlegs’ review: Nicolas Cage brings the batshit in seriously creepy serial killer movie Perkins will again write and direct the yet-to-be-titled serial killer flick with Cage returning to star and produce, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount Pictures […] More
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Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony Announces Cohorts For 2026 Spring Residency; Appoints Karen Horne As Executive Director
EXCLUSIVE: Mara Brock Akil’s Writer’s Colony has selected four emerging writers for their spring cohort which will run March 18 to June 6. The Spring cohort will include LA-based stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Jordan Rock; comedian and writer Domonic Diaz-Smith, a USC graduate and winner of the Warner Bros./truTV Comedy Writer’s Award; Porscha Williams, […] More
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Director Takashi Yamazaki Unveils ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ First Look
Director Takashi Yamazaki, who won an Oscar in 2023 for Best Visual Effects for Godzilla Minus One, took the stage at CinemaCon to introduce his next film, Godzilla Minus Zero. “The journey from Minus to Zero will not be an easy one,” he told the annual confab of exhibitors. “Right now, we are pouring all of […] More
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Tokyo Film Festival Appoints New Director
Hisamatsu Takeo has been appointed as Festival Director at the Tokyo Film Festival, replacing Ando Hiroyasu, who is due to step down on May 31. Takeo previously served as the Festival Director from 2017 to 2021. Hiroyasu had been the festival chairman since 2019. Under his leadership, Tokyo relocated its main festival hub from Roppongi […] More
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Zach Cregger Producing ‘Little One’ Comedy From Director Alex Kavutskiy
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Sony’s CinemaCon presentation tonight, where we’re told that Zach Cregger will be on hand to tout his Resident Evil movie, and we’ve learned of a new project from the filmmaker. Following his success alongside Roy Lee on Weapons, and his breakout horror flick Barbarian before that — with their Resident Evil movie […] More
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‘Extraction’ Director Sam Hargrave To Helm ‘It Had To Be You’ For Sony
EXCLUSIVE: The Sony Pictures and Platinum Dunes thriller It Had To Be You is locking in one of the best action directors in town as Sam Hargrave is coming on to helm the pic. Eliza Jane Brazier wrote the script which is based on her novel of the same name. She is also an exec […] More
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