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The list of candidates for the 2020 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors election is now out, with the winner in each branch being chosen directly from these entries rather than whittling it down to four finalists in each, as has been done previously. The list of candidates is made up of…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has just swooped in and exercised its right to match the winning bid. It has bought the RatPac Dune Library that consists of 15-25% of 76 big ticket films that the studio co-financed with the help of RatPac Dune through its slate deal, sources confirm. Deadline revealed late last year that Vine A…

EXCLUSIVE: In a year full of big deals, it looks like the last one might be the imminent sale of the RatPac Dune library. Sources said that Vine Alternative Investments, which last year bought a controlling interest in Village Roadshow and acquired the Manchester Film Library, has moved into the lead and should be…

EXCLUSIVE: A quiet tug of war is taking place right now over the RatPac Dune library, a package of 76 films that includes minority ownership stakes in Gravity, Wonder Woman, Batman V Superman, The LEGO Movie, Creed, Annabelle, Godzilla, American Sniper, Mad Max: Fury Road, It and Dunkirk. The whole library is being…

EXCLUSIVE: (Updated with additional lawyers’ statement) Nearly a year after she claimed that Brett Ratner sexually assaulted her and the director sued for defamation, Melanie Kohler and the filmmaker have ended their legal battle. Each has made statements to Deadline signaling an end to the dispute, and their mutual…

As reported last November following several sexual harassment allegations against filmmaker and producer Brett Ratner, Warner Bros. is no longer in business with his co-financing entity RatPac-Dune Entertainment which co-financed more than 70 titles amounting to a reported $450M in funding across such movies as The Leg…

It’s been three months since Arnon Milchan’s Regency Entertainment sued Warren Beatty and others for breach of contract over the filmmaker’s underperforming 2016 pic Rules Don’t Apply. Now the legal pendulum is swinging the other way. In a $50 million cross-complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here)…

Hercules director Brett Ratner's defamation case against a woman who accused him on rape in an online posting survived a potential dismissal today but he'll have to overcome a big legal yardstick before anything moves to trial. In a hearing on Thursday in federal court in Hawaii, U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor…

Melanie Kohler has asked a federal court judge to dismiss the defamation suit brought by Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, which she argues is an attempt to “silence and intimidate” women like her who have come forward with stories of sexual mistreatment at his hands. The document (read it here), filed yesterday in…

UPDATE, with video Former model Keri Claussen Khalighi told Megyn Kelly this morning that music mogul Russell Simmons has privately apologized to her for sexually assaulting her, despite his public insistence that what happened in 1991, when she was 17 years old, was consensual. “Russell and I have actually had a…

Music/film mogul Russell Simmons is being accused by a former model of forcing her to engage in sex as filmmaker Brett Ratner watched and did nothing, according to a report. Keri Claussen Khalighi said she was 17 years old when the incident happened in 1991 at Simmons’s New York apartment. The story was first…

Rumors swirled over the weekend that Gal Gadot would not sign on the dotted line for Wonder Woman 2 if Brett Ratner was involved. Deadline cleared up this noise Monday: Gadot was already committed to Wonder Woman 2, and Ratner’s RatPac Dune isn’t committed to co-finance the sequel. During an appearance today on Today…