via The Threads statement: THR · The exit itself: THR · Gisondo on what he still doesn't know: THR
James Gunn posted to Threads saying "No one from Skydance has even seen" Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel, per The Hollywood Reporter. He and Peter Safran step down as DC Studios co-CEOs on December 1. The post is a masterclass in the departed-exec voice: …
via The lawsuit: Deadline · The complaint breakdown: TMZ · Her canceled season and her next move: Page Six · The spinoff keeps casting: Us Weekly
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives cast member Dakota Mortensen filed a defamation suit in Utah state court Friday against Hulu and the show's two production companies, per Deadline. TMZ breaks down the complaint, which accuses the show of running "stage scenes pres…
via The complaint: Deadline · Work-for-hire, explained: The Hollywood Reporter · The full rundown: The Wrap · The work-for-hire angle: A.V. Club
New Regency sued Michael Mann in federal court Friday, arguing the 1995 "Heat" screenplay was a "work for hire" and that his copyright termination notices are "defective and invalid," according to Deadline. "Work for hire" is the phrase a company uses when it …
via The statement, broken down: Deadline · The C-minus grade: Rolling Stone · The silence break: Just Jared · The awkward follow-up: Deadline
Shane Gillis addressed the backlash to his Oct. 10 "SNL" monologue on Joe Rogan's podcast this week, per Deadline, telling the host that the show does not approve monologues and that he promised them "no controversy." The set, which mixed self-deprecating fat …
via The box office update: Deadline · The preview math: Variety · Rival coverage: THR
Ti West's "Ebenezer," the PG-13 Scrooge picture starring Johnny Depp, opened Friday in 3,535 theaters, per Deadline, with a $20M+ opening weekend projected on a net $38M budget. The comeback narrative has been running since Comic-Con, where Depp showed up in f…
via The report as TMZ told it: TMZ · Rival coverage: The Guardian · Rival coverage: IGN · Pattinson at the last press event, still in a suit: Extra
According to TMZ, citing Puck, the search for the next James Bond is closing in on Robert Pattinson after the early screeners failed to impress, and his deal was reportedly sweetened to three films at a much bigger payday. The next James Bond is being picked l…
According to 7NEWS, four men in balaclavas, two of them carrying knives, scaled the fence at Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky's Byron Bay estate around 2am Tuesday and walked out with three vehicles, all with the keys still in them, per E!. The cars were recove…
via The recap: Variety · The full ten-writer list: IndieWire · The "all but confirm" coverage: EW · The no-script shoot: World of Reel
Per Variety, eagle-eyed Marvel fans combed through the Writer's Guild of America directory and spotted the screenwriting credits for Avengers: Doomsday, which list Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman among the 10 writers who worked on the film. We'll call the ten-w…
via The box-office numbers: Deadline · Rival coverage: Hollywood Reporter · The Broadway League weekly grosses: broadwayleague.com
“Much Ado About Nothing,” the Jamie Lloyd revival starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, grossed $2,340,819 last week with all eight preview performances sold out at the Winter Garden, according to Deadline. It opens on Broadway November 19. Let's look at …
Johnny Depp's gothic A Christmas Carol, "Ebenezer," premiered in London Monday and opens Nov. 13 in U.S. theaters, and per Variety Depp is taking a $5 million salary, a fraction of his old fee, for his first big studio role in eight years. Cinema owners are be…
via The shakeup: Variety · Rival coverage: Deadline · The Supergirl math: CBR
According to Variety, James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as DC Studios co-presidents four years into the job, and former Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham takes over as president starting December 1. The press release says "stepping down." The headline says "Fired."…
*According to Variety, Druski hosted his first "Saturday Night Live" last night, the first digital creator to run the show without a movie or TV crossover, and spent part of it playing Elizabeth Holmes in his signature whiteface. Emma Stone crashed his opening…
via The carpet gallery: Vogue · The museum's announcement, Gucci and all: LACMA · More carpet photos: The Hollywood Reporter · Every look: W Magazine
The 15th annual LACMA Art+Film Gala wrapped up Saturday night in Los Angeles, honoring painter Vija Celmins and director Denis Villeneuve, per Vogue. Photos from the carpet courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. Read the museum's own announcement, because that is…
via The weekend numbers: Variety · The record, the demos, and the New Jersey detail: Deadline · The pre-weekend projections: ScreenRant
According to Variety, Godzilla Minus Zero opened to $14.5M on Friday and is tracking to a $32M weekend, a record for a live-action foreign-language opening, while The Cat in the Hat brought in $6M. Deadline puts the Warner Bros. Animation film at $17M to $20M …
via The story: Deadline · The interview where he said it: CinemaBlend · Rival coverage: Variety · The revival announcement: People
According to Deadline, Adam Driver has confirmed he is not returning for HBO's five-episode "Girls" revival, telling an interviewer, "No, but I wish them the best of luck." "No, but I wish them the best of luck." Read that again. That is not a sentence a perso…
via The presales report: Deadline · The opening date: Collider · November in theaters: Fresh Calendars
Advance tickets for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping are reportedly the best Lionsgate has seen post-Covid for any title, running ahead of Universal's Wicked, per Deadline. The prequel opens Friday, Nov. 20, and the studio's opening forecast now has an…
Matthew Vaughn and Cristiano Ronaldo's stuntman action comedy “Stuntnuts” gets its first market screening at AFM and a new Matt Damon cameo, per Deadline. The film, which features Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell playing themselves, was shot a couple of years …
Universal set international release dates for Alex Gibney's documentary “Musk” on Friday, per Variety, after the studio reportedly wavered on an overseas rollout following legal threats from the film's subject. Asked what had happened, Gibney said, “Were they …
According to Variety, the New York Times Company is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd, the movie-rating site, for roughly $330 million, with the co-founders expected to stay on and report to a Times executive. The deal is not final. The site, per…
via The teaser with the hotline: Showbiz Junkies · Rival coverage with the number: TV Insider · Rival coverage: Collider · The network show page: NBC
NBC has set the premiere date for the David Boreanaz "Rockford Files" reboot, January 2 after an NFL telecast, with a regular Thursday 8 p.m. slot starting January 7, and launched a Jim Rockford hotline you can actually call at (760) JIM-ROCK, per Variety. The…
via Where the Impossible Task quote first hit the record: Variety · Rival coverage from the announcement: The Hollywood Reporter · The Impossible Task angle: FandomWire · Animation trade coverage: Animation World Network
Keanu Reeves has officially closed a deal to voice John Wick in Lionsgate's animated prequel, per Variety. The film tells the Impossible Task story. He kills all of his rivals in one night to free himself from the High Table and earn the right to be with Helen…
via The collection and the prices: Variety · The brand page: Glamnetic · The launch reel: Instagram
According to Variety, Glamnetic and Warner Bros. launched a "Dune" press-on nail collection of nine sets today, priced $21.99 to $23.99, timed to the Dec. 18 release of "Dune: Part Three." The franchise's merch pyramid is full height now. Top tier: the Hamilto…
via The DM story and the rep's statement: Variety · The Times Square push and Oscar screenings: IndieWire (via Yahoo) · The trailer and the Oscar bid: Variety · The YouTube audience math: The Wrap
According to Variety, Grimes has a few minutes of cameo in "Gods Don't Give Gifts," the R-rated AI-generated feature from YouTuber Gossip Goblin that hits theaters Dec. 4, and the studio is running a Times Square ad campaign built around her appearance. The di…
via The article: Variety · The competing coverage: Deadline · The real photo: Variety/Getty · The brand page: Magic: The Gathering
Maya Hawke is set to star in "Magic: The Gathering," a live-action movie from Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment, per Variety. Matt Johnson, who directed "Blackberry," will direct. Her role is undisclosed and the plot is "under wraps," though the…
via The announcement: Variety · The studio page, full filmography: Netflix Tudum · Rival coverage: Screen Rant · Rival coverage: Polygon
According to Variety, Guy Ritchie is writing, directing, and producing a seventh film with Jason Statham, "Dogfight," which Netflix has announced as a "stylish revenge actioner" set in the London criminal underworld. Production starts in the UK in early 2027, …
via The memoir fight story: Variety · The full scene, first reported: EW · The near-fistfight, fan coverage: Just Jared · The Las Vegas chapter, long read: Complex
According to Variety, Eric Dane's posthumous memoir My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments reveals that he and Josh Duhamel nearly came to blows on the Las Vegas set when Duhamel pulled a neck-injured Dane by the tie, twice, during a fight scene, and nobody call…
via The campaign and guest list: Variety · The advert, trade coverage: Drapers · The 170th anniversary, fashion trade: The Industry · Same week, rival campaign: Variety
According to Variety, Burberry is marking 170 years with "Wrapped in Burberry: Celebrating 170 Years," a Harmony Korine directed short set at Longleat House in Wiltshire, where Pierce Brosnan and Fiona Shaw play hosts to a Christmas party attended by Cara Dele…
via The name reveal: Variety · Rival coverage: Deadline
According to Variety, James Wan and Jason Blum have named the company created when they merged Blumhouse and Atomic Monster in 2024: Blumhouse Atomic. Both labels will keep operating separately under the new umbrella name. Read the PR quote first: "When we mer…
via The round 4 report: Variety · Rival coverage: Deadline
According to Variety, Disney is prepping a fourth round of 2026 layoffs, with Bloomberg reporting that some managers have been told to cut 20% of their expenses on an annualized basis. It is expected to be the biggest round of the year by headcount. Round four…
via The interview itself: Variety · Rival coverage: SlashFilm · Depp as Scrooge at Comic-Con 2026: News24
According to Variety, while out promoting his Christmas Scrooge movie "Ebenezer," Johnny Depp told Entertainment Tonight that he would return for "Pirates of the Caribbean 6" for one reason only: to "send them off on a better note." "Send them off on a better …
via The lineup announcement: Variety · The film's post-release VR plans: Deadline · The lead single, official lyric video: YouTube
The 29-track companion album "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album)" was announced Monday, with The Cure, Depeche Mode, Stevie Nicks, Tyler Childers, and Jennifer Lawrence among the contributors. According to Variety, it drops November 13 on the…
via The deal announcement: Variety · Rival coverage of the sketch-to-series pipeline: Blex Media · The original viral sketch: YouTube
Druski signed a multi-year exclusive deal with Netflix Monday, headlining "Collect & Praise," a semi-scripted series premiering Dec. 1 that adapts his viral "Mega Church Pastors Love Money" sketch. According to Variety, Mike Epps plays the deacon. The fictiona…
via The quip: Deadline · The robot sketch: Variety · The original bit: NBC News · The apology for the wrong thing: Yahoo
Per Deadline, Inde Navarrette opened her SNL hosting debut on Halloween night with a Shane Gillis callback about getting into Marvel shape. "So every morning, I put on my little whore outfit and hit the gym," which is the exact framing of his October monologue…
via The quotes: Deadline · His profile and the Socrates bio: Letterboxd · Rival coverage: Yahoo
Per Deadline, Rider Strong said on his own podcast that he "stopped revealing my star count on Letterboxd" "for the sake of my professional career." He has removed about half his ratings, which he described as a "complete flat line" of half stars and five star…
via The weekend numbers: Variety · The staring contest framing: Deadline · $10.6M vs $10.4M, frame by frame: The Wrap · The doc's run to date: IndieWire
A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything and DC's Clayface finished the Halloween weekend nearly level at about $10.5 million apiece, one of the slowest weekends of the year, according to Variety. Final numbers Monday. The mechanism is the mat…
via The first report and the rep statement: TMZ · Variety confirms: hospitalized, being released · EW: the holstering accident, the details · Hollywood Reporter: the LAPD response to The Range LA
Michael Mann, 83, director of Heat and Collateral, was hospitalized Saturday after a weapon discharged while he was holstering it at a West Los Angeles gun range, according to TMZ. The mechanism here is ego, not gravity. For four decades Mann has been the guy …
via The Instagram takedown, quote by quote: Deadline · The $701K opening and the 880-theater cut: Deadline · The rival write-up of the takedown: Variety · Sony stops reporting the grosses: Cosmic Book News
On Oct. 31, Taika Waititi posted on Instagram that the critics who gave Sony's "Klara and the Sun" a 26 percent Rotten Tomatoes score are "sad lost souls" who "became critics," signing off with "Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin." Per Deadline, th…
via Rolling Stone: Jessica Lange on "American Horror Story" and the possible end of her career · Deadline: Jessica Lange retirement report · AOL: Jessica Lange, 77, reflects on her career's possible end
Jessica Lange, 77, told Rolling Stone she "actually feel[s] like I'm coming to an end" — the interview timed to the launch of "American Horror Story" Season 13, with her possible last film, "Long Day's Journey Into Night," still in theaters. The mechanism: the…
via Deadline: Daytime Emmys winners list 2026 · Billboard: Kelly Clarkson wins one and loses one at the 2026 Daytime Emmys · EW: 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards winners list
The Kelly Clarkson Show took home five Daytime Emmys on Friday, including Outstanding Daytime Talk Series — for a show that wrapped its final episode on August 31. According to Billboard, Clarkson wasn't even at the ceremony. The mechanism has a name: the post…
via Deadline: "It: Welcome to Derry" drops surprise Halloween episode · Variety: "It: Welcome to Derry" Halloween special lands on HBO Max · A.V. Club: "It: Welcome to Derry" dropped a surprise episode on HBO Max for Halloween
HBO Max dropped a 30-minute surprise Halloween special for its "It: Welcome to Derry" series — "A Story of Derry," set in the centuries before Pennywise arrived in the town — which appeared on the platform this Halloween, according to Deadline. The "surprise d…
via The numbers: Deadline · The meme craze: Deadline · The Ripa costume special: E! News · The Oscar prediction: Deadline
According to Deadline, A24's three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" is expected to lead the weak Halloween frame with more than $10 million, for a U.S. 14-day cume of $52.7 million. A three-hour documentary about a convicted fraudster…
via The Zukerman memo: Deadline · The streaming side: Deadline · The international shuffle: Deadline · Variety's take: Variety
In an internal memo obtained by Deadline on Oct 30, Melissa Zukerman, chief communications officer of merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, revealed the post-merger communications organization — and named the seven people losing their jobs. The merged compa…
via The layoffs: Deadline · The buyback: Deadline · The Candle questions: Deadline · Variety's take: Variety
According to Deadline, Hello Sunshine is laying off roughly 30 people — about half the staff — three weeks after co-founder Reese Witherspoon bought the company back from Blackstone-backed Candle Media with France's Mediawan. The buyback was the good-news week…
via The lobby interview: TMZ · Full quotes, syndicated: Yahoo Entertainment · The clip, fan-recycled: PopTingz on X
According to TMZ, Terrence Howard told a TMZ photographer in New York on Wednesday that he is "looking forward to becoming president," adding that if the people in power will not make a difference, "somebody's got to do something." His proposed platform: 400 y…
via The exclusive: Variety · Confirmation and the sources: Deadline · The original announcement: Deadline
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has exited Eddie Murphy's upcoming Peacock series "The Chairman" as writer and showrunner, Variety first reported, and Deadline has confirmed. Sources say the split was "creative," decided by Peacock, Universal and 101 Studios ex…
via The death report: Variety · The Marvel and Feige tributes: Variety · The "Godspeed, Captain" thread: Variety · Hugh Jackman's tribute: Variety
Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home at age 86. Per a Variety report, the family statement says he died "after a brief battle" with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Dementia, and that his pr…
via The privacy fight: TMZ · The original lawsuit: 6abc
Tyler Perry is fighting to keep private text messages sealed away from accuser Mario Rodriguez, per TMZ, which reports the texts came up in the $77 million lawsuit over an alleged 2018 sexual assault and Perry now claims releasing them would cause "undue annoy…
via The box office autopsy: Deadline · Red carpet premiere photos: Deadline · The original trailer: Deadline · Collateral Beauty, the last time this happened: Deadline
Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun, starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, opened this weekend to $701,000 across 880 theaters, a per-screen average of under $800, per Deadline. SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. For a movie whose star has 39 million followers. 880 th…
via The full trailer, broken down: Deadline · The cast, itemized: Variety · Every Austen adaptation, ranked: Deadline
Netflix dropped the full trailer today for its six-part Pride and Prejudice series, with Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet and Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet. Written by Dolly Alderton, directed by Euros Lyn, it pr…
via The exclusive, Deadline · The key art Deadline used · The game's official page
A24's Alex Garland "Elden Ring" adaptation is headed to the American Film Market next week, and per Deadline it will be the biggest-budget movie ever sold at a market. Amazon MGM already scooped up a chunk of international streaming rights. Indie darling A24 n…
via The deal: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The takeover it was announced during: Deadline · His tax credit lobbying: Deadline
Lionsgate announced Monday that it is forming a joint venture with Steven Paul's SP Media, in which Paul's company makes a capital investment and gets its independent features distributed by the studio, according to Deadline. The deal lands one week after Lege…
via The numbers and the Astin video: Deadline · Drake Bell's Instagram: Deadline · Rival coverage, the ONE JOB AWAY campaign: Variety · The 2023 deal that made the bonus: Deadline
During a weekend national board meeting, SAG-AFTRA revealed that less than 1% of its 160,000-plus members qualify for the streaming success bonus the union won in its 2023 strike, according to Deadline. Roughly $1.5 million will roll out to about 700 performer…
via The exclusive with the 1993 detail: Page Six · Rival coverage: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The rest of his slate: Deadline
According to Page Six, Keanu Reeves is attached to star in the Netflix action film "Maelstrom," a "Die Hard"-style project first sold as a spec script to Warner Bros. in 1993, taking over the lead from "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson, who dropped out. Directed by…
According to Page Six, a source says Megan Fox is relieved her ex Machine Gun Kelly is moving on with Dakota Johnson, and per Just Jared, the word doing all the work in that sentence is relieved. Relieved is the word you use when a warranty expires. Not happy.…
During World Series Game 1, MLB aired an exclusive Avengers: Doomsday preview on Fox, with Pedro Pascal's Mister Fantastic throwing the ceremonial first pitch to Joseph Quinn's Human Torch. The ceremonial first pitch was the one ritual in baseball you could no…
Clayface opened to $10.4M on Friday (previews included) across 3,458 theaters and is tracking a $24M to $25M weekend for the No. 1 spot, according to Deadline. An R-rated DC villain movie with no IMAX and a social diagnostic 47% below the studio average, and i…
via The AFI screening story: Deadline · The surprise-reveal recap: The Wrap · On-set photos and the Fincher reveal: Gold Derby
Quentin Tarantino surprised an AFI Fest crowd at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Friday night by screening the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the script he wrote that David Fincher is directing, according to Deadline. The film is due…
Sacha Baron Cohen says the Ironheart team sat him down before offering him the role of Mephisto to check that casting a Jewish actor as the devil would not be offensive, according to Variety. At a Wednesday conversation at New York's 92nd Street Y, he describe…
Amazon MGM Studios is setting final screen tests for the next James Bond as early as Friday, with at least four test offers out and three names expected in front of the camera: Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O'Connor, according to Deadline. The spy who ki…
via The record: Deadline · April presale sellouts: Deadline · The cast posters: Deadline gallery
BFI Imax, the UK's largest screen, sold 33,000 advance tickets for Dune: Part Three in 24 hours, a new presale record for the venue, per Deadline. The film does not open until December. The record is a preorder, and the PR machine is reporting it like a box of…
via The report: solid Q3, soft guidance · "Strategy is unchanged": Sarandos on the call · Two year low: Variety · Layoffs a "hard tradeoff": Greg Peters
Netflix reported Q3 on Tuesday and its stock fell 6% after the close, the lowest level in two years per Variety. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told analysts on the earnings call that the strategy is unchanged. The mechanism is the earnings call, the room where executive…
via The report: Variety · Same-day coverage: The Wrap · The horror-side read: Dread Central
According to Variety, Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in James Wan's reimagining of "The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil" at Paramount Pictures, a remake of the 2019 Korean action thriller. Don Lee, better known as Ma Dong-seok, is attached to reprise his role o…
via The denial: Variety · The original report: Gold Derby · This year's category wars so far: Gold Derby
According to Variety, Lionsgate's "Michael" has been denied entry to the Golden Globes' comedy/musical categories and will now compete in the drama slot instead. The appeal deadline is October 31, and nobody close to the studio is holding their breath. A billi…
via The memoir quotes: Variety · The Guardian's version: The Guardian · Digital Spy: Digital Spy · The Independent bulletin: The Independent
According to Variety, Judi Dench wrote in her forthcoming memoir "Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?" that Tom Hooper's 2019 "Cats" film was "a waste of all that goodwill and talent," adding, "I never saw the final cut so I can't judge." The actor, who playe…
via The bribe story: Variety · The Oppenheim interview: Vulture · NME's version of the story: NME · The box office numbers: Variety
According to Variety, director Lance Oppenheim says Robert Pattinson only agreed to star in A24's "Primetime" after the director shipped 200 canisters of Zyn nicotine pouches to his Los Angeles home alongside the script, addressed "Dear Chris Han-Zyn." The fil…
via The exclusive date: Deadline · Holiday release confirmation: The Hollywood Reporter
According to Deadline, Amazon MGM has set Dwayne Johnson's Lizard Music for Christmas Day 2027, which is the slot a studio hands to the movie it believes will make the whole family sit down. The live-action/CGI hybrid is directed by Benny Safdie from his own a…
via The exclusive order: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The Netflix week it landed in: Deadline
According to Deadline, Netflix has put a two-season straight-to-series order on The Apology, an A24 thriller drama starring Gwyneth Paltrow in her first lead TV role. Thomas Vinterberg, of Another Round, directs. In the show, a couple whose son was murdered 18…
via The new quote: Variety · Rival coverage: The Wrap · The original 2024 request: Variety · The death-scene pitch: Deadline
On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Michael Douglas confirmed what he told The View in 2024, per Variety: he asked Marvel to kill his Ant-Man character off after the second film, and the studio wouldn't let him. He even pitched the death scene, shrink to ant si…
via The full quote: Deadline · The 15-year fan campaign, documented: TrekMovie · The podcast he said it on: YouTube · Rival coverage: Nerdist
According to Deadline, James McAvoy revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he pitched a Star Trek series called Mutiny On the Stargazer about a young Jean-Luc Picard and that "we nearly did it." His stated career goal, in his own words: "All I really …
via The actual quote, on video: USA Today · The recap and the PaleyFest photos: Page Six · Season 4 watch guide: Page Six · Same press tour, nine back surgeries deep: Page Six
According to Page Six, Sylvester Stallone, 80, told USA Today that casting his 24-year-old daughter Scarlet Rose in Tulsa King is "of course nepotism, you idiot," and that a parent who would not hand their kid every advantage is not a good parent. The whole de…
via The deal: Variety · Rival coverage: Yahoo
John Wilson has been filming inside Harry Styles' Together, Together residency at Madison Square Garden since August, and the documentary is going to Universal. According to Variety, Universal Pictures Content Group owns the global rights and is pushing a thea…
Antonio Banderas has joined Nicolas Cage in season 5 of HBO's "True Detective," set in Jamaica Bay, New York, with production set to start in 2027, per Deadline. Cage, who announced his own involvement last week at New York Comic-Con, will play Henry Logan. Ba…
J.K. Rowling's agent Neil Blair issued a statement this weekend slamming the masked protest that interrupted the gala for a new shortened version of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre in London, claiming the activists "put others at risk…
20th Century's $60M "Whalefall" opened to $7.5M this weekend, far below the $11M the tracking had spotted, while "Street Fighter" banked $31M and A24's Elizabeth Holmes doc "You Can See Everything" charted the second best documentary opening ever, per Deadline…
A New Mexico judge dismissed the child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield on Friday, ruling prosecutors failed to act in a fair and impartial manner during the grand jury process, per The Hollywood Reporter. His wife Melissa Gilbert marked the ne…
via The option: Deadline · The game on Steam: Steam
According to Deadline, Scarlet Stallone's SRYN Productions has optioned the Fears To Fathom horror video game franchise for film and television, teaming up with the creator who goes by Rayll. The game is an anthology of standalone psychological horror entries …
via The merger math: Deadline · The preview numbers: Deadline · The review: Deadline
According to Deadline, Street Fighter, the video game reboot from Paramount, Legendary, and Capcom, pulled in $4 million in Thursday previews, with the studio projecting a domestic opening north of $30 million and about $70 million worldwide. The film is the f…
via The preview numbers: Deadline · The review: Deadline · A24's film page: A24 Films · How the shoot stayed secret: E! News
According to Deadline, You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, opened in 800 theaters today after $1.75 million in Thursday previews with a 100 percent positive score and 92 percent of previewers recom…
According to Deadline, Netflix on Thursday booted Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, a 10-year veteran, replacing her with ex-Disney TV chairman Peter Rice, the day after the company laid off roughly 1,000 people in its biggest cut in history. Six years in an…
via The friends' response: TMZ · The memoir interview: Deadline · The feud history: Variety · The book signing: Warner Bros. Studio Tour
According to TMZ, Anna Faris' friends called Chuck Lorre "sy" after he revealed in his new memoir Sitcom that he doubted her casting as the lead of Mom and claimed his gut instinct was correct when she left after season 7. Every showrunner's memoir is the same…
via The defense squad: Deadline · The $8M opening: Deadline · The $150M loss: Deadline · Hathaway's 10/10: Deadline
According to Deadline, Tom Cruise's Digger, the $160 million Alejandro G. Iñárritu film that opened to $8 million and is expected to lose around $150 million, has assembled a celebrity defense squad: Ben Affleck called the criticism "a little bit like the high…
via The exhibition, with photos: Deadline · The Bunnyman, at its Istanbul debut: Deadline
Johnny Depp's first major UK art exhibition opened Tuesday at Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street, per Deadline. The show follows the Shanghai edition of A Bunch of Stuff, and it runs to paintings, drawings, collages, and his first sculpture. The gallery's own …
via The announcement: E! News · The months of "later in life" setup: Page Six · The "full attention" interview: E! News · The Instagram post: Instagram
According to E! News, Hilary Swank, 52, is pregnant with her third child and announced the news with a family dance video, captioning it: "A lot of people have been asking what project I'm doing next, this one releases in December." There was no sonogram. Ther…
via The ticket story: Variety · The experience page: Fever
According to Variety, Warner Bros.' "Dune: The Experience" opens November 20 in downtown Los Angeles, a one-hour walkthrough of Arrakis with a giant sandworm, and the $250 tier gets you a seat inside the real ornithopter. The movie comes out December 18. The e…
via The Affleck response: E! News · The clip: E! News video · The "one-man riot" quote: Yahoo Style
According to E! News, Ben Affleck addressed David Fincher's 12-year-old claim that he shut down the Gone Girl shoot over a Yankees hat, calling the director a "lying motherf---er" on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast. For twelve years the hat story was Fincher'…
via The announcement: Deadline · The math: A.V. Club · The Q&A format: ScreenRant · The wine empire: World of Reel
According to Deadline, Megalopolis returns to theaters October 24 in a limited run from New York to Hawaii, with the audience texting questions to Francis Ford Coppola and him answering the best ones live. The $120 million self financed epic that took in $14 m…
via The opening: Deadline · The representation: Arts & Collections · The forms: Halcyon Gallery · The Bunnyman: Yahoo News
According to Deadline, Johnny Depp's first major UK exhibition opened October 13 at Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street, with every work listed as Price On Application. The redemption arc got a New Bond Street address. Halcyon has signed Depp as a represented a…
According to Variety, Peacock has greenlit a competition series called "Assassins" based on the campus stealth game where you get rid of classmates. Scarlett Johansson is executive producing. The synopsis calls it a "ruthless game of cunning strategy and wit."…
According to Deadline, Reese Witherspoon is partnering with Paris-based Mediawan to buy back her production company Hello Sunshine from Candle Media. Co-founder Seth Rodsky stays on, moving to the board. The shape of the deal: build the company, let Wall Stree…
According to Variety, HBO has greenlit a limited five-episode revival of Girls, with production starting in 2027, a full decade after the season six finale. All four original leads are back: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, plus Andrew…
via The exclusive details: Deadline · Trejo's son on the ICE film: Deadline · Trejo's "pro-immigrant" pushback: Deadline · The other shut-down, with Majors: Deadline
The Daily Wire revealed details Tuesday of "Confession," its under-the-radar prestige drama set in Stalin's 1938 Moscow, written by Ben Shapiro and starring Rob Lowe, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte, with a world premiere at the Warsaw Film F…
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"CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker used his MIPCOM Cannes keynote to unveil Cinemalistics, a real-time true-crime app that follows live cases through twenty tabs of police reports, 911 calls and court filings, per Deadline. His opening line: "The CSI guy is dead. We…
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According to Deadline, Blumhouse announced Friday that MatPat is developing a feature adaptation of "Amanda the Adventurer," the indie puzzle game about a haunted children's show. For ten years the job went like this: sit on a couch, find one weird thing insid…
via The announcement: Deadline · Disney's version: Variety · The channel in question: YouTube
According to Deadline, Dhar Mann announced "Creator City" on Sunday, a 4-acre LA campus with 175 sets built as actual brand stores, opening in Super Bowl week. 175 sets. 15 concurrent productions. The pitch says content campus, but the set list reads like a st…
via The weekend numbers: Deadline · The audience grade angle: Just Jared · Chastain on the Sorkin matchup: Hollywood Reporter · The scorecard: Rotten Tomatoes
The math is the story. A $19 million budget, a $27.5 million opening, an 18 percent critics score, a D+ from the audience. The movie is winning the weekend while losing every review, which is a specific flavor of box office success the marketing team never ask…
via The panel, live from New York: Deadline · The True Detective confirmation: Just Jared · The original rumor he's now confirming: Deadline
The waiver was never a form. It's a club. "I'm not an AI-friendly actor, I guess. I don't belong to that club" is a line out of a corporate HR manual, delivered at a comic con panel, and there is no press release to retract it because the club declined him in …
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The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's "Social Network" sequel, opened to $6 million this weekend against a budget around $30 million, according to Deadline. Jeremy Strong is playing Mark Zuckerberg after Jesse Eisenberg turned down the role. Sorkin went back to…
via The recap and first-look photos: Page Six via Yahoo Entertainment · Rival coverage: Complex · The actual landing page: meganfox.world · More steamy snaps: Parade
According to Page Six's report, syndicated to Yahoo Entertainment, Megan Fox launched a paid-content page on Subs.com on Friday and, in the same breath, became a co-owner of the platform itself. The launch, promoted by a lingerie teaser, reportedly crashed the…
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According to Deadline, HBO has greenlit a one-hour drama series adaptation of "Crazy Rich Asians," the 2018 film, with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Ronny Chieng returning and Michelle Yeoh set to recur. The movie that was the highest-grossing Hollywood stu…
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Netflix greenlit an untitled Bridgerton spinoff limited series built around Lady Violet's youth, based on Julia Quinn's novella "Violet In Bloom." The series covers Violet's courtship of Viscount Edmund Bridgerton — the husband who dies in the main series and …
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According to Variety, Luke Grimes said in a USA Today interview that he hasn't spoken to "Yellowstone" co-star Kevin Costner since the show ended, adding that they are "both busy guys and life moves on." The mechanism is a fall TV cycle. The spin-off needs a q…
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According to Deadline, former NHL defenseman P.K. Subban will star in and executive produce Screech Owls, an animated series about a young hockey team that thwarts crime, launching on CBC in English in fall 2027 and on Radio-Canada and TFO in French in winter …
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According to Deadline, Amazon closed a six-year deal Tuesday making Prime Video the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards, with the ceremony free to view every September, the pact reportedly worth north of $120 million over the term, and the end of the 30-y…
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According to Deadline, Paramount has appointed Steven Spielberg to oversee all creative aspects of the next live action Transformers film, with Michael Bay in early talks to return as director, and it will be the eighth installment of a franchise that has gros…
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According to GeekTyrant, YouTuber Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, dropped a trailer for "Gods Don't Give Gifts," a 104-minute AI-generated sci-fi horror film. It opens in limited theaters December 4, and the team has announced it will campaign for a Best Anima…
via The farewell and the money: Deadline · The post-deal org chart: Deadline · Zaslav's pay package: Deadline · The debt raise: Deadline
According to Deadline, David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery for a few more hours, posted a three-minute farewell video to the company's internal portal on Monday. The Paramount deal is expected to close today. In it, Zaslav sits in a stiff-backed chair …
via Cruise's defense: Variety · The box office report: Variety · The loss estimate: The Guardian · The merger tie-in: The New York Times
Tom Cruise's "Digger," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satirical black comedy about an oil tycoon whose malfunctioning Antarctica drilling rig sends an ice cap hurtling toward Europe, opened to $8 million in North America and $20 million worldwide, and Cruise said in …
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Universal Pictures Content Group, LW Entertainment, and Cameron Mackintosh are producing a live recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera for a 2027 cinema release, via Deadline. The film will capture the production's 40th anniversary gala at His…
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On a recent episode of the "Dinner's on Me" podcast, Chuck Lorre described working as a writer on two seasons of Roseanne as "malice. It was absolute," per Variety. Roseanne Barr "hated that there were writers. Fundamentally hated that other people wrote words…
via The trailer and the mumble: Deadline · The official trailer: YouTube · The Gaslamp street stunt, original: Deadline · Rival coverage: Entertainment Weekly
According to Deadline, Paramount has dropped the first full trailer for "Ebenezer," the Ti West-directed Dickens adaptation starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge, in theaters November 13. The film was already promoted in person last July, when Depp appeared in full …
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According to Variety, Sam Altman waved at Andrew Garfield, who plays him in "Artificial," the Luca Guadagnino film about the five-day period in 2023 when Altman was ousted from OpenAI and then rehired. The two have never spoken, and the film premieres Monday a…
via The rally recap: Variety · The rally video: Indivisible on YouTube · The lame duck quote, expanded: AOL · The De Niro speech clip: YouTube
According to Variety, Mark Ruffalo told a "Hands Off Our Vote" rally in New York on Sunday that when the crowd chanted "You tell 'em, Hulk," he was "gonna Hulk out. You won't like me when I'm angry," and added, "They thought I was out for the count, I'm still …
via The exclusive: Variety · The directors' Oscar-winning short: YouTube · O'Connell's Venice carpet peak: Page Six · The tuxedo, catalogued: Hollywood Reporter
According to Variety, Jack O'Connell and Odessa A'zion will star in "The End of the World as We Know It," about "a pair of star-crossed loners who meet on an epic pilgrimage to prove the earth is flat." The film is written and directed by Ross White and Tom Be…
Thanks to the "Avengers: Endgame Encore" re-release, the 2019 Marvel film has reclaimed the all-time box office record from "Avatar," $2.9255 billion to $2.9237 billion, per Deadline. Do the math before you cheer. The Encore, a short re-release, opened at No. …
During her SNL hosting run last night, Taylor Swift walked out on Dakota Johnson mid-monologue, then returned for the goodnights with a birthday cake, as Page Six caught on its own photos. Johnson introduces her as "my literal therapist." Swift then does a bit…
Fox dropped four new teasers for the Baywatch reboot on October 2, and they feature gymnast-turned-influencer Livvy Dunne guest-starring as a character called Junior Lifeguard Grace, per Deadline. The series is scheduled to launch on Fox for the 2026-27 season…
According to Deadline, the Livingston, Montana city commission unanimously moved Saturday to temporarily suspend the filming permit for the Daily Wire's "Pawn Shop," the pro-ICE action picture that was supposed to shoot through October 10 in the downtown. The …
Christopher Abbott, cast as Professor X in Marvel Studios' X-Men movie, told Entertainment Tonight that he "hasn't read anything yet. Nothing," as Deadline reports. He's "not even being coy." He has not read anything, but he "can't wait," because the film isn'…
via The focus group story: Variety · The No. 1 weekend: Variety box office · Rival coverage: ScreenRant · Rival coverage: ThoughtCatalog
Colleen Hoover's "Verity," the erotic thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, opened at No. 1 this weekend, and Variety reports the film's original "dark phoenix" ending was scrapped after focus group screenings rejected it. The ending they cut was…
Per Deadline, Aaron Sorkin logged back into Facebook for "The Social Reckoning," sent a friend request to Jesse Eisenberg, and got denied. The sequel opens October 9, with Jeremy Strong playing the Zuckerberg that Sorkin spent a three-day weekend trying to put…
According to E! News, Michael Douglas has confirmed in an excerpt of his upcoming memoir "One Helluva Ride" that he and Kathleen Turner were having an affair during the making of "Romancing the Stone" in 1984, days before the book hits shelves. A forty-year-ol…
According to E! News, Anne Hathaway, who delivered five films in 2026, posted an Instagram video on October 2 in which she vanishes in a cloud of animated smoke, followed by fake newspaper headlines reading "Anne Hathaway has disappeared" and "Anne Hathaway ha…
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Paramount dropped the first full trailer for "Ebenezer" on Thursday, a Ti West "supernatural revenge thriller" adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, per The Hollywood Reporter. The marketing did not pick a role, it picked a plot. The w…
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On Thursday at the ADL State of the Arts reception in New York, Selma Blair announced she is making a documentary about antisemitism called "Hineni," to say what she "couldn't say two years ago," per Deadline. The two-year gap runs from her February 2024 apolo…
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The American Cinematheque announced Friday that its 40th annual awards gala, which was set to honor Ryan Gosling at the Beverly Hilton on Nov. 2, will not take place this year, citing "scheduling conflicts" for the honoree. The nonprofit said a 2027 ceremony w…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said at Bloomberg's Screentime event Wednesday that the "KPop Demon Hunters" sequel, expected in 2029, will get "a very broad theatrical release," according to Deadline. The original pulled 325.1 million views in its first 90 days o…
via The Happy Jack announcement: Deadline · Martin Sheen's faith film gets a US date: Deadline · AMC's other greenlight this week, Point Break: Deadline
Charlie and Martin Sheen are back playing father and son on TV for the first time in over a decade, headlining Happy Jack, a six-episode half-hour family comedy for AMC and AMC+ that starts production at the Warner Bros. studio where Friends was filmed in 2027…
via The full story and the apology quotes: Page Six · The Fallon bit: YouTube · The same story, different outlet: Just Jared · "Red carpet traffic cop," the original: X
At Tuesday's "Verity" premiere in New York, Anne Hathaway took charge of the step-and-repeat, telling the cast where to look, pointing at each of them, and counting to ten, according to Page Six. On "The Tonight Show" Wednesday, she called the viral clip "the …
Ari Emanuel's rage memoir "Roll the Calls" will debut at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, according to Page Six, outranked by a book about Princess Diana written by her brother, Charles Spencer. "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister" was announced only abou…
via The Neon counter: Deadline · The A24 scoop: Deadline · The wiki itself: SCP Foundation
A24 bought an SCP Foundation movie this month, and within hours the wiki's own licensing team pushed back, because the SCP universe is a fan-built collaborative site where thousands of contributors write the monsters, according to Deadline. Now Neon has counte…
via The approval: Deadline · The co-CEO appointment: Deadline · The original settlement: Deadline · The judge's ruling: Reuters
A federal judge today approved the antitrust settlement between Paramount and the twelve state attorneys general who sued to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the last hurdle for the deal to close next week, according to Deadl…
via The exclusive: Page Six · The Sloane drop: Page Six · The $60 million in legal fees: Page Six
Blake Lively has signed with Kelly Bush Novak, the founder of PR firm ID and the publicist to Lady Gaga and Christopher Nolan, according to Page Six. The signing comes one day after she dropped Leslie Sloane, her publicist of 20-plus years and co-defendant in …
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The $135 million apocalypse satire "Digger" starring Tom Cruise is tracking an $8 million to $12 million opening this weekend, according to Page Six. The studio's new "decide for yourself" promo opens with a quote from a film influencer with 4,895 TikTok follo…
via The announcement: Deadline · The confirmation: Variety · The cut scene: THR
According to Deadline, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is getting a re-release with new footage. The film is now the highest-grossing domestic movie of all time at $950.7 million and the third biggest of all time worldwide at $2.495 billion. The re-release is not …
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Bob Chapek's memoir "Behind the Castle Walls" hits bookstores Tuesday, claiming Bob Iger "didn't want to let go of the ball" when Chapek took the top job, according to The Blast. One Disney insider called the book "a bit of a yawner" and said "the Chapek thing…
via The exclusive announcement: Deadline · Rival coverage of the cast: Hollywood Reporter · The studio's own press: Netflix Tudum · The Mean Girls reunion angle: EW
Netflix announced today that Lindsay Lohan will star in and produce a new romance feature, "Return to You," starring Henry Golding, according to Deadline. The film, directed by Mark Waters, the man behind Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, is set in 2008 and follow…
via The photos and the trespass cite: NY Post · The photo gallery: TMZ · The July lamppost wrap: NY Post · Her own words: sabinetautou.com
Artist Sabine Tautou strapped a stripped, plastic-wrapped man to the Hollywood Sign on Friday morning for a 25-minute performance titled "Public Figure, 2026," before police cited her for trespassing. According to the NY Post, Tautou bills herself as a "notori…
via The coverage: Variety · The cover story: Esquire · Rival coverage: The Independent · The first wave of outrage: The News
According to Variety, Brad Pitt told a new Esquire cover story that AI, "if used as a tool," is going to be the thing that helps $40 million to $90 million mid-budget films get made. He called it "gonna be a very interesting experiment" and said he "heard an A…
According to Deadline, Disney's Chief Legal Officer sent a memo on Sept. 18 to his roughly 1,000-person legal department saying the group "will be a much smaller organization than it is today" and that some staffers "will personally be affected," all as part o…
According to Collider, Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars opened in 3,330 theaters on Aug. 28 and was playing in roughly 110 by its fourth weekend, having made about $14.9 million domestic and $38.9 million worldwide against a reported $110 million budget. FactsChec…
via The recap: MyNewsLA · The coverage analysis: Insurance Business · Rival coverage: Law Commentary · The first motion round: MyNewsLA
According to MyNewsLA, Justin Baldoni's lawyers asked an L.A. Superior Court judge in new filings to rule that insurer QBE had a duty to defend him in the "It Ends With Us" litigation, arguing that the federal court in the Lively case already held she was neve…
via The recap: Page Six · Rival coverage: Deadline · The kids' plea: Page Six · The concert details: TV Insider
According to Page Six, Lionel Richie, 77, announced his return to the "American Idol" judging panel for season 25 during Luke Bryan's Luke Bryan & Friends concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday, appearing on the arena's big screen while Bryan and…
via The recap: Hollywood Reporter · The perjury filing: CourtListener · The sanctions motion: CourtListener · The "we can bury anyone" text: New York Times
According to Hollywood Reporter, ex-"It Ends With Us" publicist Stephanie Jones has moved for sanctions against Hollywood publicist Melissa Nathan, arguing she committed perjury and hid evidence about anonymous smear websites, including one built to take down …
via The press release: GlobeNewswire via FinancialContent · Rival coverage: The Hollywood Reporter · Her actual jewels, the $137 million sale: Christie's · The same release, finance desk: MarketScreener
According to the GlobeNewswire release, Brilliant Earth and House of Taylor, the company that licenses the late Elizabeth Taylor's name and likeness, announced a 17-piece lab-grown jewelry collection on Sept. 24, ranging from $995 huggie earrings to a $15,000 …
via The recap: E! · The ScreenTime interview coverage: Screen Rant · The games-press version: GamesRadar+ · The MovieWeb version: MovieWeb
According to E!, David Thewlis, 62, says he is "sick of talking about" returning to Harry Potter, and the interview in which he said so is making the rounds again ahead of the HBO reboot. The series is in production and expected in 2027. The Return Question is…
via The recap: Deadline · The 2012 record it beat: Box Office Mojo · The 2012 opening report: TheWrap · The numbers: The Numbers
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot opened to $60.1 million from 3,684 theaters and $108.3 million worldwide last weekend, per Deadline. That worldwide number is being billed as the biggest opening in the 24-year-old franchise's history. Box office PR runs on …
via The recap: Daily Mail · The BBC version: BBC · The trade version: Variety · The great-jacket detail: The Independent
Prince William and Princess Kate attended Tuesday night's world premiere of Tom Cruise's satirical black comedy Digger at the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square, a Royal Film Performance held in aid of the Film and TV Charity, where Cruise guided the Princess down…
via The recap: News 7 Channel · The premiere economics piece: The Hollywood Reporter · The itemized party costs: The Guardian · The red carpet autopsy: Newsweek
According to News 7 Channel, a studio-scale premiere runs up to a million dollars before the after-party, and every dollar of it is so that forty cameras can film the same seventeen seconds of a celebrity pretending not to be in pain. The red carpet is the pur…