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EXCLUSIVE: Casey Hammer, granddaughter of Armand Hammer and aunt of Armie Hammer, is set to reveal the family's secrets in a limited documentary series. She has signed an exclusive deal with Talos Films, the production company behind Discovery+'s Queen of Meth and Disney+'s Family Reboot, to develop a docuseries about…

Armie Hammer has withdrawn from the planned 2022 Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes, producers confirmed today. The news is the latest hit to Hammer’s career in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations and an LAPD rape investigation. "I have loved every single second of working on The Minutes with the…

Dan Stevens is set to join Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in Starz’s Watergate drama Gaslit, in which he will play former White House counsel John Dean, sources tell Deadline. UCP is producing the series, which Matt Ross is directing and exec producing while Robbie Pickering is showrunner. Stevens replaces Armie Hammer…

While Disney’s seismic theatrical release changes with Black Widow, Cruella and Luca today were on the top of everybody’s minds, it was easy to ignore the elephant in the corner of the room. We’re specifically talking about Kenneth Branagh’s mystery ensemble Death on the Nile starring Armie Hammer, who has been…

Armie Hammer is under investigation by Los Angeles police on rape claims and could soon find the matter being handed over the District Attorney's office. "We can confirm that Armie Hammier is the named suspect in an alleged sexual assault investigation, initiated on February 3, 2021," LAPD Officer Drake Madison told…

The new opioid drama Crisis weaves its way through three alternating stories all tied to the same subject — the tragic addictive nature of these drugs, and three individuals aiming to combat it in their own ways. A movie that undoubtedly will be compared to two multiple-Oscar-winning movies, Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 Tr…

WME has dropped Armie Hammer as a client, Deadline confirmed Friday, the latest fallout from the actor’s controversial social media posts that were leaked online. The news today comes after Hammer exited roles in a pair of projects. He was set to co-star opposite Jennifer Lopez in Lionsgate’s film Shotgun Wedding, but…

UPDATED, 11:17 AM: Transformers star Josh Duhamel is officially boarding the Lionsgate Jennifer Lopez movie Shotgun Wedding. Jennifer Coolidge and Sonia Braga are also joining to respectively play the moms of Duhamel and Lopez’s characters. The announcement was made by Erin Westerman, president of production for the…

Armie Hammer won’t be joining The Offer, the Paramount+ series about the making of the classic 1972 feature The Godfather.  Hammer was to play producer Al Ruddy in the 10-episode series about his experience on the Paramount film. Reportedly the series is now in need of a lead. The is the third project Hammer has left…

“There is no greater scourge facing America from within,” we’re told. “The president takes the opioid crisis very seriously.” Such begins the first trailer for Crisis, a thriller about the horrid epidemic that’s told in three interwoven stories. Check it out above. Here is the logline for writer-director Nicholas…

EXCLUSIVE: Armie Hammer has quietly left the star-studded cast of Gaslit, the Sam Esmail-produced Watergate series for UCP, which also stars Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Joel Edgerton. According to sources, Hammer departed the project several weeks ago, before the current controversy over alleged disturbing private…

UPDATE, 3:57PM: Armie Hammer has responded to the salacious news that’s out there about him, and his recent departure from the Lionsgate Jennifer Lopez movie Shotgun Wedding.  In a statement sent to Deadline, the star of The Social Network and Nocturnal Animals says, "I'm not responding to these bullshit claims but in…