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Good morning! Wake up!! As time is reckoned in Hollywood, this is "O-minus 38"—that is, 38 days to the Oscar ceremony. The nominations balloting begins today. Also beginning is what might be the roughest, toughest, most tangled, and fastest five-and-a-half weeks in the living memory of the American mass media. In the…

There are all the usual paths that film projects take on their way to the big screen and then there’s the one-of-a-kind flight plan followed by The Peanut Butter Falcon, the heartfelt comedy-drama from Roadside Attractions. Co-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, who represented The Peanut Butter Falcon on…

EXCLUSIVE: Louis Theroux, the cult British documentary maker behind the 2015 film My Scientology Movie, has parted ways with BBC Studios to set up his own production company. Deadline can reveal that Theroux has established Mindhouse Productions alongside his executive producer Arron Fellows, ending a contractual…

David Weisman, an Academy Award nominee as producer of Kiss of the Spider Woman and an accomplished graphic artist, died on October 9 from complications from neuroinvasive West Nile virus. He died in Los Angeles at Cedars Sinai at age 77, according to his publicist. Born in Binghamton, New York, in March 1942, Weisman…

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Ryland Aldrich and Adam Maffei have set their next movie, A Hard Problem, which will mark the feature directorial debut of duo hazart (pictured above). Aldrich’s productions It Happened in L.A. and Folk Hero & Funny Guy respectively made their world premieres at Sundance and the Tribeca Film…