DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced today that Sam Mendes’ 1917 will start shooting on April 1 on location in England and Scotland. The film follows two young British soldiers (Captain Fantastic's George MacKay; Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman) on a single day at the height of World War…

Universal will be releasing Judd Apatow’s Pete Davidson comedy on June 19, 2020, and will open DreamWorks’ Henry James-inspired thriller The Turning on Jan. 24, 2020. As Deadline reported, the Apatow comedy is the filmmaker’s first since the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwrecked. There is no reported logline for the…

For the third time since his 2012 Oscar-nominated film Flight, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis tanked at the box office last weekend, with Universal/DreamWorks’ Welcome to Marwen bottoming out with $2.3M at 1,911 theaters. This feature adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol was an attempt by the director to deliver a…

What do words cost? In contemporary Hollywood, quite a bit, apparently. If you believe those who say First Man was hurt by Ryan Gosling's 'globalist' defense of director Damien Chazelle's decision not to depict astronaut Neil Armstrong's planting of an American flag on the moon—and the Internet is crawling with those…

EXCLUSIVE: American Idol alum Kelly Clarkson is pulling double duty for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls sequel, titled Trolls World Tour. The crooner will voice the character Delta Dawn, the mayor of the Country Trolls, and sing an original song in the film. Clarkson joins returning voice cast members Justin Timberlake…

Two years after Spotlight won best picture at the Oscars, there’s another newsroom drama in the awards season race, Steven Spielberg’s The Post. The film recounts the Washington Post‘s race during the early 1970s against the New York Times in the breaking news coverage of the Pentagon Papers, a study leaked by former…

Hollywood has certainly turned out countess numbers of films of men in battle. The list of war movies is endless, but not so films about what happens when those men come back from the fight. Sure, there have been classics like the 1946 Oscar winner The Best Years of Our Lives which focused on World War II vets…

Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise), Game of Thrones‘ Lena Headey and David Bradley (Doctor Who) have joined the recurring voice cast for Season 2 of Netflix's acclaimed DreamWorks Trollhunters, from Guillermo del Toro and DreamWorks Animation TV. They join the Season 1 cast that includes Kelsey Grammer in his…

After vanishing in its opening weekend at the domestic box office to $18.6 million, film finance sources tell Deadline that Paramount/DreamWorks-Reliance’s Ghost In The Shell stands to lose at least $60M, and that’s based off a global B.O. projection of $200M ($50M domestic, $150M international) and combined…

Universal will release DreamWorks Pictures' Thank You For Your Service, about a group of U.S. soldiers who battle PTSD upon their return from Iraq, on October 27. Pic marks the directorial debut of American Sniper scribe Jason Hall and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by David Finkel, which Hall adapted. It…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 8, 2016. If you happen to have come within earshot of a speaker over the last six months, there's a fair chance you'll have heard Justin Timberlake's joyous summer song, "Can't Stop the Feeling!", which must surely be one of the most regularly-played tracks of the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a near-seven-figure deal, DreamWorks has acquired Highway One, a spec script by The Shallows scribe Tony Jaswinski, with Denise Di Novi attached to direct the female action thriller. The film will be produced by Lynn Harris and Matti Leshem through their Weimaraner Republic banner. The producers teamed…