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The monster hunt will begin next year. No, we’re not talking about the national elections but the Screen Gems fantasy action film starring Milla Jovovich from Resident Evil writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson. Monster Hunter will launch September 4, 2020, Sony Pictures said tonight. Here’s the logline: Behind our…

HBO has announced that all of its shows featuring sexually intimate scenes henceforth will have a monitor known as an “intimacy coordinator” on set. As first reported by Deadline’s sister publication Rolling Stone, the intimacy coordinator will serve as a mediator among actors, directors, producers and crew. HBO’s The…

The Witch and Split‘s Anya Taylor-Joy has joined the cast of Peaky Blinders‘ fifth season. BBC One, where the Steven Knight-created epic crime saga is moving after spending its first four go-rounds on BBC Two, tweeted the news today, welcoming Taylor-Joy to Birmingham. There’s no word yet on just what her role will…

Some things just hit you in the gut and have no easy explanation. The death Tuesday of Craig Zadan is one of them. I am still trying to process it. I have done so many interviews over the years (along with his longtime producing partner, Neil Meron) of this prolific producer and true showbiz devotee, including one I…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to American Dresser, a motorcycle road movie written and directed by Carmine Cangialosi and starring Tom Berenger, Keith David, Bruce Dern, Gina Gershon, Penelope Ann Miller, Katherine Narducci, Jeff Fahey and Cangialosi. The company will release the pic September…

This week, watch Pete Hammond reviews of the basketball comedy Uncle Drew as well as Dominic Patten’s thoughts on the season 5 premiere of Power. There are also new episodes of the New Hollywood Podcast and the Crew Call Podcast for your ears as well as Deadline’s Contenders Emmys video series for your viewing…

From Patrick Melrose to Vida to She’s Gotta Have It, this week’s slate of videos and podcasts are filled with the talented women of Hollywood. In this week’s The Actor’s Side, Pete Hammond talks to Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. Known for her roles in Last Exit to Brooklyn and the classic Fast Times at R…

From Arrested Development and Ozark star Jason Bateman to the cast and showrunner of Queen Sugar to our Contenders Emmys video series, there are tons of Deadline videos and podcasts to catch up on from the past two weeks. In addition to chatting with This Is Us star Mandy Moore, Pete Hammond talked to Jason Bateman…

From Homeland to The Americans to Legion, this week’s roundup of videos and podcasts feature some potential Emmy candidates as TV FYC season gains momentum. For The Actor’s Side, Pete Hammond sat down with stage and screen legend Mandy Patinkin to talk about Homeland and his successful career. Before the series finale…

This week’s roundup of Deadline’s video series and podcasts includes an array of guests that will give you something to watch and listen throughout Memorial Day weekend. Behind The Lens goes on location to the French Riviera and the Cannes Film Festival, where Pete Hammond sat down a few days ago with Oscar-winning…

Dear White People creator Justin Simien, GLOW actor Marc Maron, and Edi Gathegi & Otmara Marrero from Sony Crackle’s tech thriller StartUp were on this week’s slate of podcasts and videos at Deadline. As Marc Maron tells Pete Hammon in the latest edition of The Actor's Side, the GLOW actor talks about how he got the…

Phil Rosenthal is known as one of TV’s most successful writer-producers, especially after the nine-season run of Everybody Loves Raymond, the smash-hit CBS sitcom he created for Ray Romano. He even starred in and produced a hilarious documentary called Exporting Raymond, which followed him as he went to Russia to help…