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EXCLUSIVE: As 2020 winds to a close, talent reps are fighting with Warner Bros for back end compensation their clients would have earned had WarnerMedia waited out the pandemic instead of putting a year’s worth of theatrical films on HBO Max alongside U.S. theaters. And only telling filmmakers, casts and even…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Jared Leto is in early discussions to star in the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed, an adaptation of the popular podcast. Insiders say the deal is far from closed and may not go forward but discussions are ongoing. Crazy Stupid Love and This Is Us directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are on board…

Jared Leto doesn’t look to be done with his Joker role just yet as Deadline can confirm the Oscar winner is set to reprise the role in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which is premiering on HBO Max in 2021. Officially titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the directors cut is being overseen by HBO Max, which is financing…

EXCLUSIVE: Although Ridley Scott still has to finish shooting his period drama The Last Duel, his follow-up is looking to land a monster cast. We are hearing that Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Huston and Reeve Carney all are in talks to join MGM’s Gucci. Lady Gaga is attached to star as…

EXCLUSIVE: After taking its time figuring out where it wants the next Tron installment to go, Disney’s sci-fi franchise looks to have new life as we are hearing Garth Davis has been tapped to direct the pic starring Jared Leto. Davis has been better known for his smaller art house films over the years like 2018’s Mary…

Jared Leto says he “walked out yesterday into a very different world,” after being in total isolation from the outside communication during a 12-day meditation trip in the desert. The Oscar winner took to social media on Monday to share that he had “no idea what was happening outside the facility” amid the current coro…

Oscar winner Jared Leto sinks his teeth into a Marvel Comics horror character who dates back to 1971 in the first trailer for Sony’s Morbius. For Sony’s Columbia Pictures, Morbius (July 31) is part of a mining expedition into the unexplored corners of the Spider-Man universe, an initiative that already has produced a s…

Jared Leto is in talks to join the cast of Warner Bros’ Little Things, a cop thriller starring fellow Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek, Deadline has confirmed. John Lee Hancock is directing his script. Washington is playing Deke, a burned-out Kern County sheriff who teams with an LA County Sheriff's…

Less than a week after giving Deadline an exclusive glimpse into his latest documentary effort, A Day in the Life of America, Jared Leto took a break from work in London for the pic's Tribeca premiere. Shot over the course of 24 hours on July 4th, the apolitical doc sent 92 crews to all 50 states—along with Puerto…

EXCLUSIVE: With his latest directorial effort, A Day in the Life of America, Jared Leto had two objectives in mind—to be honest, and to do "brave work." To those familiar with Leto's work before the camera, this should make sense. Winning his first Oscar five years ago for his transformative turn in Dallas Buyers…

EXCLUSIVE: Adria Arjona is in talks to play Martine, the female lead in Sony’s Morbius feature film which has Jared Leto starring. Daniel Espinosa is directing the Spider-Man Universe spinoff based on Marvel Comics’ antihero Morbius the Living Vampire. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane, the…

BREAKING: Jared Leto and director Daniel Espinosa are being set by Sony for Morbius, a Spider-Man Universe spinoff based on the Marvel Comics antihero Morbius the Living Vampire. Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, creators of Netflix’s Lost in Space, wrote the script. Leto, who played the iconic character The Joker in…