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Warner Bros. is giving a Dec. 14 wide release to Clint Eastwood’s latest movie The Mule, which he not only directed, but stars in. As is standard for Eastwood, the four-time Oscar winning filmmaker finished the film early: Production wrapped in early July and a cut was recently shown to Warner Bros. brass over the…

UPDATE: Few in Hollywood had more stories to tell, or told them better than Burt Reynolds. Wanna bet? Read this interview Reynolds did with Deadline while promoting his memoir, with great tales about his interactions with everyone from Bette Davis to Orson Welles, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Carson. He would have told…

EXCLUSIVE: Victor Rasuk has joined the cast of The Mule, the Warner Bros. crime drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. In The Mule, Clint Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive—easy…

I already had a headache from fretting about the ballot measure to split California. Who gets the water? What happens to Prop 13? Where's Yosemite? Can we still repeal the gas tax? Are the prisons in one state, the criminals in another? What about the bullet train? How do we divvy up Jerry Brown's legacy? Then I came…

Bradley Cooper is reteaming with Clint Eastwood in The Mule. Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive—easy enough but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican…

On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the most influential fixtures on the international film circuit has died. Pierre Rissient, a critic, programmer, distributor, press attaché, assistant director, director and talent advocate, passed away overnight last night. He was 81. Bertrand Tavernier announced the…

This is the second in an occasional look at emerging artists, their struggle for the big break, and how they make the most of it. The first dispatch was the unlikely road Beulah Koale took to star in Thank You For Your Service and Hawaii 5-0. EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood’s biggest grossing films cast brawny-looking actors…

Now in his 80s, the latest turn in Clint Eastwood’s remarkable career sees the producer-director taking on real-life heroes and situations to make his movies. There was the massive hit American Sniper, then the story of hero airline pilot Sully, and now perhaps his riskiest bet yet in The 15:17 to Paris. This is the…

Clint Eastwood has successfully appealed the rating for Warner Bros’ upcoming movie The 15:17 to Paris, which originally had been classified with an R rating. It now will be PG-13. The decision came Wednesday, according to the Classification and Rating appeals board. Deadline hears that the reason for the producers…

Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 To Paris is the next film from the director to deal with the story of real-life heroes — and this time he’s got the actual men playing themselves. On August 21, 2015, Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone thwarted a…

EXCLUSIVE: McKeon/Myones Entertainment has brought aboard author and American hero Alek Skarlatos for representation. Skarlatos, along with his childhood friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, thwarted a terrorist attack aboard a train bound for Paris from Amsterdam in August of 2015. The three later wrote a book Th…

Clint Eastwood's drama The 15:17 to Paris from Warner Bros/Village Roadshow will open worldwide on Feb. 9, 2018. The pic centers around the real-life heroes who derailed a terrorist attack during a highspeed train ride. The announcement was made today by Sue Kroll, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution…