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The final film of the David Gordon Green Halloween reboot trilogy has fans of the franchise divided and the director of the slasher is explaining the creative decisions he made for Halloween Ends. Some of the criticism that the horror flick received was that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, played…

I can’t even count all the various incarnations of the Halloween horror franchise there are. It all started 44 years ago when we were introduced to Laurie Strode as played by Jamie Lee Curtis, perhaps the most consistently tortured and beaten female character in movie history. And she just keeps coming…

Keep telling yourself, “It’s just a movie.” That is, unless it’s David Gordon Green’s run on the Halloween franchise, according to Jamie Lee Curtis. She says the spark that brought her back to the iconic slasher series was precisely that Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride tapped into a changing world to add new…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that David Gordon Green is set to direct a movie at Disney Studios for Disney+ about Walt Disney’s journey to building Disneyland, the “Happiest Place on Earth.” The news comes days before Gordon’s Halloween Kills opens, the sequel to the highest-grossing Halloween movie of all time It…

Here it is: the second installment in the current reboot of the franchise they couldn't kill, Halloween. Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode is still with us as the slasher genre's essential "final girl," despite now being and playing a senior citizen. Michael Myers, described in the credits as "The Shape" and embodied…

"Laurie/Jamie, we're the same thing after 43 years," said Jamie Lee Curtis as she greeted the Venice Film Festival press corps this afternoon. In town to receive a Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion as well as to world premiere Halloween Kills, the actress discussed playing Laurie Strode for more than four decades, what…

EXCLUSIVE: On lunch break Thursday in the first day of shooting of his first U.S.-set film Bones And All, director Luca Guadagnino talked about seizing the chance to reunite with Call Me By Your Name cohorts Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, latter of whom he added to cast along with André Holland, Jessica Harpe…

EXCLUSIVE: Clive Barker has joined the Exec Producing team of HBO's developing series adaptation of his classic horror franchise, Hellraiser. Deadline broke in April that Halloween helmer David Gordon Green is on board to direct the initial episodes. The series will be written by Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Galactica)…

This is an attention-getter: Smokey and the Bandit is being remade for television by Halloween's David Gordon Green and Brian Sides. The pair are developing the adaptation of the 1977 Burt Reynolds movie with UCP and Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door. The movie, which was directed by stuntman Hal Needham, follows Reynolds'…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has made a deal to develop a series from the classic horror franchise Hellraiser, with Halloween helmer David Gordon Green set to direct the pilot and several more initial episodes that brings to the small screen for the first time Pinhead, the iconic pincushion-domed villain who heads a group of…

EXCLUSIVE: Another classic TV sitcom is mounting a comeback. The iconic 1960s comedy Hogan’s Heroes is being rebooted by the original series co-creator Al Ruddy, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and Rough Pictures. The reimagined version will be a single-camera action adventure comedy series set in present day…

EXCLUSIVE: In a moment in which Facebook is finalizing a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $5 billion primarily for the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Deadline hears that AGBO is mounting a movie about the young pink-haired data consultant, Christopher Wylie, who purportedly was at…