EXCLUSIVE: The director isn’t giving anything away about his next film “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton and shoots in March. But he has plenty to say about not being done with Mad Max, how there is value in blockbuster franchises (“I watch all of them”), and his ongoing search for depth in storytelling.
Sao Paulo went Onward at CCXP on Saturday as director Dan Scanlon of the forthcoming Pixar film featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer took the dais at the pop culture confab. The animated pic may be set in a visually stunning fantasy world where unicorns roam the…
When Olivia Wilde went in to pitch herself to Annapurna to direct Booksmart, she didn’t refer to other teenage movies of yore, i..e the John Hughes or Amy Heckerling canon, rather the Denzel Washington LA noir Training Day.Â
The reference spoke to the intensity she aimed to incorporate in what could be seen on its…
After London in October and Los Angeles in November, New York City is now ready for Deadline’s The Contenders. The all-day event is now underway at the DGA Theater in Manhattan, and like its London and L.A. counterparts features an impressive slate, with 27 films from 13 participating studios in the thick of…
2nd writethru Saturday AMfollowing Friday midday post: The doldrums of December are here and as remains standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX which is handling animated feature Playmobil. That movie is very close…
Kim Yong-Hwa, the South Korean filmmaker whose credits include box office smash fantasy action drama Along With The Gods and its sequel, has provided an update on his planned first co-production with Hollywood.
Speaking at the 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM), the director said that he is still…
The only white character in the live action remake of Aladdin is up for a spin-off movie, even though the star of the film apparently can’t get a job. That has the internet hopping mad at the injustice of it all.
Just days after Mena Massoud, the star of the billion-dollar grossing live-action Aladdin, complained…
A former Stargate writer-producer has mounted an online campaign to bring out a new version of the classic science fiction series, which has been off the air since 2011, when the plug was pulled on Stargate: Universe after two seasons.
Joseph Mallozzi, who worked on Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate:Unive…
Sir Richard Branson’s new short film production, Sides of a Horn, is looking to shed light on the rhino poaching crisis that exists in South Africa. The goal is the same as the 2006 Leonardo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, which opened the world’s eyes to the underbelly of the diamond trade.
In fact, the 17 minute-plus…
Blue Bloods executive producer Leonard Goldberg was saluted tonight with an end card tribute at the conclusion of the show.
The card came up following the cast’s traditional dinner table scene, with this particular version sporting a “Merry Christmas” theme all around. The happy moment then faded to black and the…
The internet community has been very worried about the actress in that Peloton commercial, the one where the gift of a stationary bicycle seems to increase the anxiety levels in the eyes of a woman seeking to please her controlling husband.Never fear. She now has Deadpool on her side.Actor Ryan Reynolds, who plays…
The television business is becoming increasingly global, fueled by the rapid expansion of the major streaming platforms. That also goes for the major Hollywood talent agencies.
Reps have always looked for opportunities beyond the U.S. But now, because of the increased demand for locally produced international content…
"We have two living Popes for the first time in 500 years, and they don't agree on anything and both are meant to be infallible, and I thought, that's an interesting kind of situation," said screenwriter Anthony McCarten of the inspiration behind The Two Popes, a behind-the-scenes imagined drama about the now resigned…
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.