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Editor’s note: An error was made in the initial publication of this post. We apologize. Amber Heard is the one seeking LAPD records, not Johnny Depp. Months after first going after the Los Angeles Police Department in her legal battle with Johnny Depp, Amber Heard has doubled down on the cops. In a subpoena approved…

Johnny Depp went on the record today saying that he is a victim of cancel culture and that "no one is safe" from the movement, calling on people to "stand up" for people facing "injustice". "It can be seen as an event in history that lasted for however long it lasted, this cancel culture, this instant rush to…

Spain’s primary film event, the San Sebastian Film Festival, was one of the few major international fests to host a physical edition last year as the pandemic raged around the world. Flash forward 12 months and Covid is far from behind us, but festivals are pushing on in this strange new world. After a summer where…

It is said that with age comes wisdom and that adage feels strikingly true when it comes to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The prominent Central European event is the one of the world's oldest film festivals, founded in July 1946, a month before Locarno launched its first festival and few months before…

UPDATED with statement from Depp lawyer: Johnny Depp is complaining that Hollywood is boycotting him, but a Virginia judge just handed the Minamata star a big win in his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard. Already pursuing $100 million counterclaim, the Aquaman star attempted a Hail Mary move in April…

A Sunday Times interview with Johnny Depp featured a claim by the 58-year-old actor that he is being “boycotted by Hollywood.” In the interview, published on Saturday in the UK, Depp spoke out about where he stands with the industry and his film, Minamata, which is just being released in the UK. Depp stars in the…

San Sebastian Film Festival has hit back at its critics after taking some flak this week for deciding to give its honorary Donostia Award to Johnny Depp. Last year, Depp lost a high-profile libel case with UK tabloid The Sun over its description of him as a "wife beater" in regards to his relationship with ex-wife…

This year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Aug 20 -28) will honor actors Johnny Depp and Michael Caine, and director Jan Sverak. Depp, who is also set to be feted at San Sebastian this year, is set to attend the Czech festival which “will recognize and pay tribute to the acclaimed actor's extensive career…

Johnny Depp is to receive the San Sebastian Film Festival’s (Sept 17-25) Donostia Award, its highest accolade. The festival today described Depp as “one of contemporary cinema's most talented and versatile actors”. The ceremony feting the U.S. star will take place on September 22 at the festival’s Kursaal…

An Aquaman sequel without Amber Heard was never, ever an option. Today on the Deadline Hero Nation podcast, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom producer Peter Safran was asked whether the social media campaign by Johnny Depp fans for Amber Heard’s removal from the DC sequel ever had any influence on the production and their…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Andrew Levitas has sent a letter of complaint to MGM and others to protest what he claims is a decision to “bury” the film Minamata because of the personal baggage of its star, Johnny Depp. The film lays bare the scandalous neglect that the Chisso Corporation displayed in the Japanese coastal city…

Johnny Depp's recent failure to secure an appeal in the "wife beater" verdict against him in Britain is causing legal ripples on this side of the Atlantic. Flying the flag of international law, Amber Heard's lawyers say the Pirates of the Caribbean star's Stateside $50 million defamation lawsuit against the Aquaman…