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Succession’s Jeremy Strong says he was very nearly cast as Captain America. Well, Captain America’s pre-serum scrawny body anyway. The ideas was that it would be Chris Evans’ head audiences saw, digitally plopped onto Strong’s body. “They told me there was a top-secret film about Captain America,&#8221…

AGBO’s The Gray Man is climbing the ladder toward becoming one of Netflix’s most watched movies ever over its first 28 days. The one it will eclipse next is AGBO’s Extraction, with The Adam Project and Birdbox within hailing distance on the streamer’s all-time list. "The goal was to provide audiences with some fun and…

Even before Netflix releases opening-weekend audience numbers later today that will likely point to record audience engagement in 92 countries, the streamer has put in motion a sequel to The Gray Man, with Gosling returning to the title role and Joe & Anthony Russo again directing. They'll produce with AGBO's Mike…

Apple’s high-profile space pic Project Artemis looks to be gearing up and also seeing two major changes as Deadline is hearing that Channing Tatum is in talks to co-star opposite Scarlett Johansson while Greg Berlanti will now direct the pic. Tatum replaces Chris Evans, who had to part ways with project due to…

The Gray Man may have cost a reported $200 million and shot in all corners of the globe during a pandemic, but the results pay off for Joe and Anthony Russo’s latest, a nearly nonstop two-hour action-packed ride that is part Bond, part Bourne, but really its own bag and a potential franchise-starter for Ryan Gosling…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Evans is in final negotiations to join Netflix’s Pain Hustlers opposite Emily Blunt. Deadline first told you about the project out of Cannes, where the streamer landed global rights to the David Yates-directed, Wells Tower-written feature for $50 million. Netflix had no comment on Evans potentially…

The original Buzz Lightyear has finally spoken about the controversy over Chris Evans voicing the main character in Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear origin story. “The short answer is I’ve stayed out of this ’cause it has nothing to do [with my Buzz Lightyear],” Allen told Extra of the new film in an interview published…

A spinoff was bound to come out sooner or later. Did we need an origin story to the Buzz Lightyear character from Toy Story? No. But the Lightyear film by Angus MacLane certainly does know how to build a world around the character we only learned about through the Pixar franchise. The film is about a flight, failure…

Jason Bateman has exited from the director’s chair on Artemis, the big feature film package starring Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans that Deadline told you in March that Apple swooped in to acquire in a $100 million-plus deal. Johansson is producing with Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn through their These Pictures…

Netflix this morning unveiled a new clip from its action-thriller The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, which will hit select theaters on July 15, before making its way to the streamer on the 22nd. The film from directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Endgame) is the most expensive…

It’s a tense cat-and-mouse chase across the globe in The Gray Man. Netflix has released the first trailer for the Russo Bros.’ $200M espionage action thriller starring Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling. Watch it above. Netflix's biggest-budget film ever stars Gosling as Court Gentry, aka the Gray Man, a freelance assassin…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the first 30 minutes of Pixar’s Lightyear. Forget about whatever Disney did with its theatrical day-and-date experiment with Disney+ during the pandemic, and its sundry titles sent directly to the streaming service. The studio returned to CinemaCon in Las Vegas about…