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Deadline already told you that a Scream sequel is happening with directors Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) returning and James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick co-writing the screenplay. Today Spyglass Media and Paramount made it known to no surprise that the franchise’s new generation of actors are…

Paramount+ has acquired Finestkind, the crime thriller from Oscar winner Brian Helgeland which stars Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. A drop date later this year on the streamer is scheduled. Pic takes place in New Bedford, Mass., which is the biggest commercial fishing…

Revived from the ashes of the Weinstein Company, Scream’s funny and self-aware 2022 reboot turns out to be a smart play for Paramount and Spyglass Media Group which have landed the rights, and judging by the way it evolves you can bet on a new series of sequels ala Halloween, one of many movies in the genre this movie…

The trailer for Ti West A24 horror film X has dropped and it looks like a cross between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Boogie Nights. The film follows  a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves…

Catherine Zeta-Jones will take on the matriarch of the Addams Family, Morticia Addams herself, for Netflix’s Wednesday series. For the Tim Burton series, she will join Luis Guzmán who will appear as Gomez Addams and Jenna Ortega, who takes on the titular character. The coming-of-age comedy, written by Smallville…

Luis Guzmán (Traffic) has joined the cast of Netflix’s Wednesday, Tim Burton's live-action Addams Family series for Netflix focused on the iconic character of Wednesday Addams, Deadline has confirmed. Guzmán will guest star as Gomez Addams, patriarch of the Addams family and father of Wednesday, played by Jenna…

Jenna Ortega (Yes Day, Jane the Virgin) has been tapped for the title role in Wednesday, Tim Burton's live-action Addams Family series for Netflix focused on the iconic character of Wednesday Addams. The coming-of-age comedy, written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar and to be directed by Burton, is a…

In The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park approaches the grief of a school shooting through multiple lenses. There’s Vada (Jenna Ortega), a once free-spirited teen who is lost in emotion; Mia (Maddie Ziegler), the popular girl who struggles alone till she bonds with Vada; Quinton (Niles Fitch) who loses a brother but…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega seeks out emotional healing following a school tragedy in writer-director Megan Park’s SXSW drama The Fallout. The Fallout is a film about the unseen faces of a tragedy, those who can't turn their pain into effecting positive change in the world because they are too afraid to leave their…

EXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Julie Bowen (Modern Family), John Ortiz (Kong: Skull Island) and Will Ropp (The Way Back) have joined Jenna Ortega (You), Maddie Ziegler (West Side Story) and Niles Fitch (This is Us) in high school drama The Fallout, which wraps its four-week LA shoot this week. As we…

EXCLUSIVE: Count You and Jane the Virgin actress Jenna Ortega in for Spyglass Media Group and Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Scream.  She joins franchise castmembers David Arquette and Courteney Cox who’ll reprise their respective roles as Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers, as well as newcomer Melissa Barrera (In the Heights…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Get Out star Bradley Whitford and Jane the Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega have boarded the pandemic thriller Songbird, which begins principal photography today. The movie from former Paramount production chief Adam Goodman and former Disney exec Andrew Sugerman's Invisible Narratives, with…