EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winner Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi has joined the cast of Bill & Ted Face the Music.  His role is being kept under wraps in the threequel to the cult franchise which stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine. Dean Parisot directs from a screenplay by…

Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving have been cast in Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third installment in the franchise that returns Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to their iconic roles. The film, from Orion Pictures, has set an August 21, 2020 release date via United Artists Releasing. Lundy-Paine will play Billie…

HBO will shine a spotlight on children in show business, unveiling Tuesday the feature documentary Showbiz Kids. The film, to be directed a former child actor-turned-director Alex Winter, will be executive produced by The Ringer Films' Bill Simmons, Trouper Productions' Winter and Zipper Bros' Glen Zipper. The pic…

Epix is reteaming with Deep Web helmer Alex Winter for The Panama Papers, an investigative documentary feature from Bungalow Media + Entertainment, Trouper Productions and Zipper Bros. Films, for premiere Monday, November 26 at 9 PM ET. The Panama Papers details the unprecedented coordination of journalists from…

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Winter, Glen Zipper (Undefeated) and Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) have teamed up on documentary The Panama Papers, narrated by Elijah Wood. Great Point Media will launch sales on the under-the-rader completed movie at Toronto. We can debut first footage from the film. The talking-heads doc, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Want to know more about blockchain? Alex Winter might be able to help. Here’s the first teaser trailer for the actor-turned-filmmaker’s documentary Trust Machine: The Story Of Blockchain. Produced by SingularDTV and Futurism and narrated by Rosario Dawson, the film explores the global evolution of…

“Most excellent!” Twenty-seven years after we last saw the totally radical pairing of Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston Esq., Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are now confirmed to reprise their roles in a third Bill & Ted movie. Bloom is launching sales in Cannes on the long-gestating time-travel comedy, which is…

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure star Alex Winter has revealed that he was sexually abused as a child actor in the 1970s and said that the #Metoo movement has been a "light bulb" moment, making it easier for people to share their experiences. Winter, speaking to the BBC's Radio 5, said that he was abused by a man…

UPDATED, 1:13 PM: Who The F*@% Is Frank Zappa, which has become the highest-funded documentary film in Kickstarter’s history, has a final tally: $1,126,036 from 8,688 backers. Outside of Kickstarter, Alex Winter collected another $91K to push the final to $1.2M. The funds will be used to mount a documentary film about…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting a look at Alex Winter’s (Downloaded) documentary Deep Web, set for premiere on EPIX in the spring.  Docu chronicles the October 2013 arrest of Ross William Ulbricht,  the 30-year-old entrepreneur alleged to be "Dread Pirate Roberts" — founder of Silk Road, the notorious online black market…

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Winter is staying online. Coming off Downloaded, this year’s documentary about the rise and fall of Napster, the Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure co-star is looking to direct a film about virtual currency and the dark side of the Internet. The helmer is teaming with Bond360 founder Marc Schiller – <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/alex-winter-to-helm-bitcoin-seeking-kickstarter-funding/alex-winter-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-627059"…

Alex Winter’s documentary about the rise and fall of Napster will open at Manhattan’s Village East Cinema on Friday, June 21 and the Sundance Sunset Cinemas in Los Angeles on June 28, VH1 announced today. Focusing on Napster and its founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, Downloaded examines the rise of digital media…