This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
BREAKING: Amazon Studios announced it has acquired North American rights to the emotional drama Herself directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady). The inspirational story about hope, perseverance and community world premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. Amazon Studios is planning a theatrical…
EXCLUSIVE: In the first major deal on the ground at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Searchlight Pictures is closing a worldwide rights deal for around $12 million for the David Bruckner-directed thriller The Night House, sources tell Deadline. Scripted by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the film stars Rebecca Hall…
UPDATED with complete list of winners:Billie Eilish swept the marquee Record, Album, Song and New Artist categories Sunday at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, with the 18-year old dominating the ceremony dubbed music’s biggest night.
The live ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles was hosted by Alicia Keys the same…
UPDATED AT 8:18PM PT with latest news conference.Los Angeles County officials held a series of briefings today on the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others. Bryant was 41.
The helicopter crashed into a hillside above Calabasas in foggy conditions just…
Nipsey Hussle loomed large over the Grammy Awards on Sunday night as the late rapper was honored with a star-studded tribute. Hussle, real name Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019. He was 33 years old.
On Sunday night at the Staples Center, director Ava DuVernay introduced the tribute to…
In the wake of her bruising reelection, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is calling for unity in advance of the 160,000-member union's upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract. "Labor solidarity is crucial, and in many ways it is our superpower," she said at Saturday night's national board meeting…
Alicia Keys used the power of her voice and piano to get a pointed message across. Faced with the uncomfortable task of being the face of the Grammys in a week when ugly accusations of sexism and voting irregularities dominated, Keys turned attention on the people who make music, instead of the people who exploit…
In Rodrigo GarcÃa's Four Good Days, Mila Kunis saw an opportunity to come to grips with the enormity of the opioid crisis through the intimacy of a two-hander—a film that would compassionately approach and strive to understand both addicts, and those who love them.
Based on a Washington Post article by Eli Saslow, the…
Just hours after Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash, the Grammy Awards quickly put together a tribute honoring the late NBA legend.
Moments after Lizzo opened this evening’s show, host Alicia Keys took the stage.
“Here we are together on Music’s Biggest Night,” Keys said somberly. “But to be honest with you…
Long before he directed Beasts of the Southern Wild—the Sundance phenomenon, which went on to earn four Oscar nominations—Benh Zeitlin longed to put his original spin on the story of Peter Pan. Seven years after hitting Park City with his first feature, the director has made his dream a reality, returning to the…
Music’s Biggest Night has arrived, with the Grammy Awards set to air Sunday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on CBS live from Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Hosted for the second straight year by 15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys, excitement has been building with an all-star lineup set to perform including Aerosmith, Billie…
When Andrea Riseborough read Zeina Durra's script for Luxor, she was immediately drawn in, signing onto the film, and heading to Egypt for a low-budget indie shoot within a matter of days.
"I think it was a combination of a lot of different things that were pushing us all toward making it, and making it so quickly,"…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
