UPDATED, 11:09 AM: A Georgia judge today ruled that Nick Gordon is legally responsible for the 2015 death of his girlfriend Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Gordon failed to appear today for a civil hearing on the wrongful-death case in Fulton County Superior Court — the…
Foreign-Language Oscar-shortlisted Labyrinth Of Lies took the Mercedes Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Director Giulio Ricciarelli’s film chronicled the coverup of German war crimes.
Runners-up in the category included: Elmo Nüganen’s 1944 (Estonia), Jaco…
UPDATE, 8:36PM: Sean Penn’s secret interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman helped law enforcement authorities to locate El Chapo’s whereabouts. A Mexican official insisting on anonymity said Saturday it was the Penn interview as well as the drug lord’s contacts with other celebrities that initially led law…
Laura Dern is joining the cast of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival. As with most other details about the show Dern’s role is top secret. TVLine reported the news.
Whatever it is, her role would reunite Dern with Kyle MacLachlan, her Blue Velvet costar. Additional cast members previously reported by Deadline include…
Film Independent announced the winners of its trio of Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grants today at the annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch at the BOA Steakhouse in West Hollywood.
Mel Eslyn received the Piaget Producers Award which goes to emerging producers who overcome highly limited resources to demonstrate the…
A group of Relativity Media’s unsecured creditors have filed a proposed settlement that involves claims to several movies including Bridesmaids and Fast And Furious 6. The settlement proposal was filed late Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. You can read the documents here and <a href="https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/relativity-manchester-parties.pdf"…
Here is a list of box office records that Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens has broken as of January 6:
Fastest highest-grossing film at domestic B.O.: 20 days (beats Avatar‘s $760.5M)
Fastest to $700M at domestic B.O.: 16 days (crossed January 2)
Fastest to $600M at domestic B.O.: 12 days (crossed December 29)
Fas…
Who were the top draws at the international box office in 2015 in terms of overall film grosses? Hint: a lot of them came from a single franchise. But there are some surprises in the mix. The data for the Top 20 was provided to Deadline by Box Office Analyst's Robert Mitchell. Departing from previous years, we’ve…
UPDATE, 2:08 PM: Fosun International chairman Guo Guangchang is back at work and continuing to oversee day-to-day operations of his company. The head of the Shanghai-based conglomerate disappeared for about a week, leaving those in financial circles wondering about the sudden departure. It is known that there has been…
Spotlight, which chronicled a team of journalists digging to expose a coverup by the Boston archdiocese of an epidemic of pedophile priests, has been voted Best Picture of 2015 by the 50th annual National Society of Film Critics.
Michael B. Jordan was named Best Actor for Creed, in which he played the son of Rocky…
In a move that is certain to stir things up as the political new year unfolds, President Obama will lead a televised town hall Thursday to address tightening restrictions on access to guns. The commander in chief will sit down with Anderson Cooper on CNN at 8 PM ET for the one-hour event titled “Guns in America,”…
How are the Oscars like New Year’s Eve? This year’s Academy Awards host Chris Rock offers his observation in this 15-second spot posted, appropriately enough, on the final day of 2015 and somehow largely overlooked and unremarked until today. If there’s one thing that really takes off once the calendar has clicked…