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Adam McKay's climate change satire Don't Look Up is officially a record breaker, with the title attracting the most viewing hours for a movie in a single week in Netflix's history. The pic's 152.29 million hours watched globally in the week December 27-January 2 is a new high-water mark, the streamer has confirmed to…

Few filmmakers these days seem to be working in the long-cherished tradition of sharp movie satires that make a greater point about the world. Adam McKay — whose films have moved on from pure farce like Anchorman and Talledega Nights to pointed, topical satires like his Oscar-winning script for The Big Short and the…

Apple Original Films has confirmed it will be the studio backing and distributing Bad Blood, the drama about the shocking rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that Adam McKay is writing to direct, with Jennifer Lawrence starring. The project was originally set up at Legendary after a heated auction in 2016…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay has evolved from his broad comedy origins on Saturday Night Live and films like Step Brothers, Talladega Nights and Anchorman to more socially relevant films like The Big Short and Vice. He has fused both of these elements into Don’t Look Up, a Netflix movie that features…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is closing a deal for No Hard Feelings, an edgy comic vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence that will be directed by Gene Stupnitsky. Sony prevailed in stiff competition. Script was written by Stupnitsky, whose credits range from The Office to Bad Teacher and Good Boys. He wrote the script with John…

Netflix has unveiled a new clip from Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, which will hit theaters on December 10, and arrive on the streamer on the 24th. In the Oscar-winning writer-director’s satirical sci-fi pic, a comet is hurtling towards Earth. So what are we gonna do about it? Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio play…

Move along. Please disperse. Nothing to see here — just an approaching comet that will destroy Planet Earth. Here’s the first teaser for Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s satirical feature for Netflix starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as a pair of low-level astronomers who go on a giant media tour to warn…

Netflix has dated its fall schedule of film releases, narrative and documentary. The service that promised a new movie each week has a whopping 43 films coming in the final four months of 2021. That is twice the volume of releases most film studios would dream of releasing in a busy calendar year. Can a studio…

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Apple will emerge victorious for the big Sue Mengers biopic project we told you about on Sunday night with Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence circling and Paolo Sorrentino attached to direct. Apple is in advanced talks to get this coveted package which came down to a run-off between the tech…

A big biopic project about famed talent agent Sue Mengers is being shopped around town Deadline has confirmed with Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence circling and filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino attached. Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo and John Logan wrote the screenplay about the female agent who crashed the Hollywood…

Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence was injured on the set of the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, which is in production in and around Boston with Adam McKay directing, after a planned explosion in the early-morning hours of Friday went awry, sending glass flying and cutting Lawrence near her eye. Sources said Lawrence is…

EXCLUSIVE: After playing Magic Johnson’s father for Adam McKay in the upcoming HBO Los Angeles Lakers series, Rob Morgan has been tapped for McKay’s next feature film, joining Jennifer Lawrence in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up. McKay will write, direct and co-produce along with Kevin Messick under McKay's Hyperobject…