Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman premiered in August, on the one year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was no accident. Lee's film, based on the memoir of black police officer Ron Stallworth, who successfully infiltrated the David Duke-run KKK in the 1970s, had so many rhetorical…

Rhys Thomas at first thought the call from the FBI was a joke. The author and documentary filmmaker listened to the phone message again and jotted down the return number. "Could this be a crank call?" he wondered. "Am I a person of interest in some investigation I know nothing about?" But it was no joke. The FBI…

Confirming Deadline’s exclusive report last summer, Amazon said today it will move its entertainment operations into Culver Studios, the fabled site where Hollywood classics like Gone With the Wind and Citizen Kane were filmed. The company said the roughly 700 people working in Santa Monica for production arm Amazon St…

One of Hollywood’s iconic films is under some serious scrutiny in Memphis, Tennessee. The city’s historic Orpheum Theatre is pulling showings of Gone with the Wind after the 1939 classic was deemed as “insensitive.” Victor Fleming’s film was part of their summer series programming. After the first screening on August…

Amazon Studios soon could be taking up residence at one of the most iconic mansions in Hollywood – the so-called "Gone with the Wind" mansion on the Culver Studios lot. Neither Amazon nor Culver Studios would confirm or deny rumors circulating on the lot, but three sources have told Deadline that it's true. "That's…

At nearly 101 years old, two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland is the last surviving grande dame of Classic Hollywood. Long after she left the U.S. for Paris in 1956, she remains one of the industry's true, original disruptors. Taking Warner Bros. to court early in her illustrious career, the Gone with…

Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving grande dame of Classic Hollywood, turns 100 tomorrow. The last time I saw her she was a spry 86, bounding up the stairs of her house in Paris' 16th arrondissement and with no signs of slowing. Reflecting on that, it seems hardly surprising that this formidable woman is…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is heading into the domestic box office stratosphere. Still, it’s good to have a perspective on how it really compares with history’s biggest mega hits, which you can see on the chart below. It shows domestic box office grosses adjusted for the inflation in ticket prices: That’s necessary…

Hey Oscar voters, the BBC Culture poll has just dissed you – BIG TIME. Do you care? In a comprehensive new poll of the 100 Greatest American Films of all time, released this week by BBC Culture, only a measly 12 Academy Award winning Best Pictures turn up at all, and only 8 of them in the top 75.   Worse than that…