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Peacock has unveiled the first stills and clip from its political thriller The Independent, starring Jodie Turner-Smith (White Noise), Brian Cox (Succession), Ann Dowd (Mass), John Cena (Peacemaker), Margaret Odette (Sex/Life) and more. The streamer also said Wednesday that the film will premiere on the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a Deadline interview this morning, writer-director Peter Farrelly revealed he is planning an early 2023 start for Ricky Stanicky, his first R-rated comedy in years. He is in talks with Zac Efron and John Cena, with the latter playing the title role. Farrelly cautions that deals aren’t done, but he is…

A day after his long-time agent left ICM Partners to start his own management firm, John Cena is changing agencies as the Peacemaker star has signed with WME for representation in all areas. Cena will remain with Dan Baime, who left ICM Partners to start up management firm Intenta Management. Cena has had him self…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Baime, an ICM Partners agent of 25 years, partner and co-head of the Production Department, is leaving the agency business to segue to management. He is launching his own management firm, Intenta Management, with his long-time client John Cena as Intenta’s first client. ICM agent and partner Lara Sackett…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Officer Exchange, a big action comedy project, just sold to Amazon Studios. Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad star John Cena is starring in a script by Ben Zazove and Evan Turner. The project is currently in development. Cena will play Shepard "Shep," a wrecking ball of a cop who teams up with…

Sky has taken UK rights to James Gunn’s John Cena-starring Peacemaker and the show will drop later this month. The HBO Max original follows in the tradition of a long line of HBO shows that have aired as part of the Sky/HBO content deal, although it has been announced quite far down the line with premiere date so…

Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel's book, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, warns in its prologue: "China's pressure on Hollywood and its own entertainment industry have the potential to challenge the American film industry as the chief narrator of the twenty-first…

John Cena wasn’t playing Cupid in the season finale of Peacemaker when he took a shot at Arrow. Thursday’s season finale of the HBO series had a line that crossed over the super hero line. The Peacemaker said Green Arrow "goes to Brony conventions dressed as the back half of Twilight Sparkle with a four-inch-wide…

"I feel like we are left as a team, as a unit, and it took a journey for us to get there, but we finally do," says Peacemaker star Danielle Brooks of the first season of the HBO Max series from James Gunn. "And I think we realize who the true badasses are – and that's us, the two women you are taking to right here,"…

Following the success of its recent Peacemaker series that included a Season 2 renewal, Warner Bros and John Cena are staying in business together. Cena is set to star in the WB’s Looney Tunes animated hybrid pic Coyote vs. Acme. Dave Green will direct, with a screenplay from Samy Burch based on the Looney Tunes…

A Season 2 of James Gunn’s popular DC series Peacemaker is locked and loaded on HBO Max. Gunn will direct and write all episodes for the new season. Gunn and series star John Cena announced the news on social media Wednesday morning, with Gunn already having indicated on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast recently that…

EXCLUSIVE: Narcos, Peppermint and Coyote star Juan Pablo Raba is joining John Cena and Alison Brie in director Pierre Morel's action comedy Freelance. Filming is now underway in Colombia on the movie, which follows a special forces operator (Cena) who decides to retire from the Army and start a family back in the U.S…