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Laney Chantal, who appeared on Season 5 of SyFY’s Face Off, died this week of an accidental drug overdose, her family said. She was 33. Chantal died Monday in Milford, Michigan, her family confirmed in a public obituary. They noted that she "struggled with various mental illnesses throughout her…

Nicolas Cage joins me today for a wide-ranging conversation for my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side. We talk about the critical praise and awards buzz he has been receiving for the summer release Pig, in which he gives one of his best-ever performances and for which he is nominated for the Best Actor Critics…

Romy Walthall, who starred in 1989’s The House of Usher opposite Oliver Reed and Donald Pleasence, was a regular on Steven Bochco’s Murder One and appeared on Hotel Malibu opposite Jennifer Lopez, has died at 57. Her son, Morgan Krantz, confirmed Walthall’s passing on Twitter. Often going by the stage name Romy…

EXCLUSIVE: When Adam Wingard appears on a Zoom call to talk about his leap into event filmmaking with Godzilla vs. Kong that opens here Wednesday after a huge weekend in China, the director is donning a beard long enough that he could be a model on a cough drop box. “I haven't found a good reason yet to cut it off…

There is good news and bad news about John Woo’s forthcoming remake of his 1989 crime drama The Killer. The good news is that it’s still being made. The bad news is that Lupita Nyong’o is no longer attached to the project. The iconic director shared the news about Nyong’o leaving the project with Deadline at the Hawaii…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is giving a face lift to Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo-directed action thriller that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The studio will reboot the film, with new cast. Oren Uziel has been set to write the script, and Neal Moritz will produce and David Permut will be executive…

Hulu is about to get in the middle of Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy’s business. The streaming service has a deal with NBCUniversal Television for exclusive SVOD rights to all episodes of the Emmy-winning NBC comedy 30 Rock, starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan and others. The series makes its Hulu debut on…

Syfy has made its summer plans. The NBCUniversal-owned cable net said today that its new grindhouse car-race series Blood Drive will get the green flag at 10 pm Wednesday, June 14. Also unveiled were premiere dates for the fifth Sharknado invasion and a number of returning series including Dark Matter and Killjoys. Psy…

Syfy’s reality competition series Face Off is bringing together the first-ever all-star cast of competitors for its 11th season, beginning January 24 at 9 PM. The news was announced this morning on Today, as two audience members were treated to Halloween makeovers by former Face Off contestants Stella Sensel (Season…

The rise of computer-generated special effects hit the visual effects world like an earthquake. The ability to create entire worlds or at least enormous creatures on a computer made many previously impractical things possible. The tradeoff, however, was increasingly high pressure, less money, and faster turnarounds…

A stuntwoman who was burned on the set of Syfy’s Face Off is suing the production companies and others for lost wages, medical expenses and damages. In the civil complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here), Tamiko Brownlee claims she was “severely burned over multiple parts of her body” when…

Syfy has ordered a sixth season of its flagship reality series Face Off to premiere in January 2014. Season 5 is heading into its season finale on November 5, with two original Face Off specials — Naked And Painted and Judges' Favorites — slated for November. Face Off, a competition/elimination series exploring the…