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EXCLUSIVE: Nico Hiraga, who starred alongside Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, has signed with WME. The move comes as he gets set to begin production on The Power, the feminist sci-fi series at Amazon from Jane Featherstone and Reed Morano, written by Naomi Alderman based on her novel…

The ReFrame coalition has awarded 26 feature films released in 2019 with its ReFrame Stamp, which recognizes the top 100-grossing gender-balanced narrative and animated features. The list, which grew from 20 total films that earned the stamp a year ago, includes Booksmart, Captain Marvel, Harriet, Hustlers and Oscar…

Normally Olivia Wilde would more likely be a part of my other Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side, but when she recently visited our studios it was instead to tape today’s edition of Behind The Lens. That’s right. Wilde is the latest actor to move to the other side of the camera in directing her first major…

EXCLUSIVE: Booksmart, the directorial-debut film from Olivia Wilde, revolves around two female academic achievers, Amy and Molly –played by Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein, respectively — who on their last night before high school graduation realize their best days as teenagers have passed them by. After learning…

After playing determined free spirits who refuse to be boxed in, like Quorra in Tron: Legacy, Devon Finestra in HBO's Vinyl, and ambitious Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs in this season's Richard Jewell, Olivia Wilde expanded her résumé, which already included producing Meadowland and A Vigilante…

When director Olivia Wilde found out that Delta Airlines had removed the LGBTQ elements from her movie Booksmart in October, she demanded they be reinstated. By November, Delta committed to showing both Booksmart and Rocketman with LGBTQ scenes intact. Wilde told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New…

When Olivia Wilde went in to pitch herself to Annapurna to direct Booksmart, she didn’t refer to other teenage movies of yore, i..e the John Hughes or Amy Heckerling canon, rather the Denzel Washington LA noir Training Day.  The reference spoke to the intensity she aimed to incorporate in what could be seen on its…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. “Thankful” reads the heading of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ latest email to members, the most recent in a series of messages being sent this month to urge members to see all the “great films, performances, and achievements of the…

Saturday Night Live took a swing at the recent controversy surrounding a poorly thought out airline edit of Olivia Wilde’s coming-of-age comedy Booksmart. The film got a shout-out in “Airline Pilots,” a skit that starred Mikey Day and the night’s guest host Harry Styles as co-pilots whose raunchy conversation from the…

Delta Air Lines will stop showing edited versions of the films Booksmart and Rocketman on its in-flight offerings, and is working with its vendor to get editions that restore deleted same-sex love scenes. The issue of the edited versions came up when a fan tweeted the information to Olivia Wilde, the director of Booksm…

The movie business famously creates curious bedfellows: Consider Olivia Wilde and Charles S. Cohen. Wilde is the gifted actress whose buoyant first-time directing venture, Booksmart, is trying to break the indie film business out of a dismal slump. Cohen is the billionaire investor and art film connoisseur who, as the…

6TH UPDATE/Tuesday AM: Disney’s Aladdin will final its Memorial Day weekend opening between $116M-$117M after a robust estimated $25.7M Monday, +15% from Sunday. This comes from estimates this morning. Should Disney call Aladdin at $117M+ for the Friday through Monday stretch, then the Guy Ritchie-directed musical…