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Anya Taylor-Joy is lending her voice to give life to Princess Peach in the upcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie. To prepare for the role, the Queen’s Gambit star turned into a gamer. “So now I am a gamer, and it's really fun,” she told Modern Luxury San Diego. “Ideally, I like playing at arcades…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is turning into one of the more hotter projects in town, Skydance’s The Gorge starring Miles Teller, looks to have found its distributor and Teller’s co-star. Sources tell Deadline that Apple Original Films has boarded the pic with The Queen’s Gambit breakout Anya Taylor-Joy set to star…

A group of wealthy people arrive on a mysterious island and receive the meal of a lifetime in Mark Mylod's psychological thriller The Menu. Written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, the film stars Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicolas Hoult. A five-star restaurant called Hawthorne is creating a special…

UPDATED with settlement, 1:25 PM: Netflix has settled the $5 million lawsuit filed against the streamer over its hit limited The Queen’s Gambit. Terms of the settlement reached today weren’t announced. The suit was filed by Soviet chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili, who alleged sexism and historical inaccuracy in the…

UPDATED, 8:10 a.m.: Searchlight Pictures has released the official trailer for its starry horror film The Menu, from director Mark Mylod (Succession), which bows in theaters on November 18. The darkly comic feature follows a couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) as they travel to a coastal island to eat at the…

Mark Mylod’s dark comedy The Menu will be available for moviegoer consumption on November 18 in theaters, Searchlight said Tuesday. In the Seth Reiss and Will Tracy scripted movie, a couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes)…

UPDATED with new red band trailer: “Fate has no mercy,” Alexander Skarsgård says in the latest trailer for Viking revenge epic The Northman unveiled by Focus Features today. Watch it above and the new redband trailer below. In the latest film from director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch), which hits theaters…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Season 6 premiere of Peaky Blinders. Surprising as it sounds, it has been 889 days since BBC One aired the Season 5 finale of period gangster saga Peaky Blinders. With anticipation at a fever pitch, the first episode of the sixth and final season debuted tonight…

Illumination and Nintendo have put together a powerhouse voiceover cast for their upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie which will hit cinemas on Dec. 21, 2022; that date also being news today. Playing the fraternal, mushroom digesting plumbers and squashers of turtles are Chris Pratt as Mario and Charlie Day as…

Even with an Emmy win for Best Limited/Anthology series and a tie with The Crown for the most Emmys this season at 11, don’t count on a second season, or even sequel movie, for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.  73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadline's Full Coverage “I feel like we told the story we wanted to tell…

For anyone questioning the viability of original content on the big screen, there’s a moment in Edgar Wright’s 1960s fantasy-horror feature Last Night in Soho which could reduce the most stone-cold hearted streaming proponent to water. Anya Taylor-Joy, playing the aspiring singer, Sandy, (who Thomasin McKenzie’s…

Leave it to Edgar Wright to play with genre expectations and deliver yet another delightfully off-kilter thriller that also thrills with its undeniably trippy atmosphere and blast to the past of swinging 60’s London. The director of films like Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, The World’s End, and of course…