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EXCLUSIVE: Perhaps no film on his list of narrative star vehicles has subject matter as near and dear to Leonardo DiCaprio as Don’t Look Up, the star-studded Adam McKay-directed Netflix satire that substitutes a metaphorical comet in place of the toll that the climate crisis is taking on the planet. Since his…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Keanu Reeves is in talks to head to the World's Fair in 1893. Deadline understands that The Matrix star is in negotiations to star in Hulu's series adaptation of The Devil In The White City, the big-budget take on Erik Larson's 2003 book. The Devil in the White City tells the true story of two men, an…

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…

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: In a pre-emptive situation, MGM has secured a deal for the feature film project Jim Jones, with Leonardo DiCaprio in final talks to star as the 1970s religious cult leader who was behind the Jonestown mass suicide on November 18, 1978 that took more than 900 lives. The Oscar winner will produce for his Appia…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Orlando von Einsiedel’s (The White Helmets, Virunga) latest documentary short, From Devil’s Breath, will air as part of The Tipping Point, the upcoming docuseries from Time Studios, Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions, Sugar23 and P&G Studios announced back in July, which is focused on the…

A host of big names tweeted their support for Indigenous People’s Day, a longstanding counterpoint to Columbus Day that President Biden made official with a declaration on Friday. Leonardo DiCaprio was among the A-listers who made the connection between the day of remembrance and Indigenous Peoples’ stewardship of…

Polestar, the electric vehicle company backed by Volvo of Sweden and Leonardo DiCaprio was valued at $20 billion in a SPAC deal that will take it public. The company, founded in 2017 by Volvo Cars and Chinese automotice group Zhejiang Geely Holding, has two cars, Polestar 1 and Polestar 2, currently on roads in…

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…

As Democratic leadership tries to unite its progressive and moderate wings, a group of 80-plus artists, celebrities and activists called on the leaders of Google, Disney, Amazon, Fox, Facebook and more to urge Congress to support President Biden’s Biden's Build Back Better plan. Boldfaced signatories to the group…

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…