The international spy thriller 355, which was the biggest deal at last year’s Cannes, has added Avengers: Endgame‘s Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez, and set a July 8 production start in Paris, London and Morocco. Scripted by Simon Kinberg and scripted by Theresa Rebeck, the film is a global espionage thriller that…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has won an auction for a sci-fi comedy that is a star vehicle for Lupita Nyong’o, who will re-team with the principals behind Little Monsters, the Sundance film that sold to NEON and Hulu. Abe Forsythe is writing the script and directing. Nyong’o will produce with Made Up Stories' Bruna Pa…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Janine Eser (Fanie Fourie's Lobola) has been brought on to adapt the screenplay to Trevor Noah's bestselling memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which has Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o attached to star. Liesl Tommy, the director behind the upcoming Jennifer…

“What if I just showed you four episodes of This Is Us without explanation?” said Jordan Peele at the Paramount Theater in Austin before his film Us made its world premiere at SXSW. After the screening, the film received an uproarious ovation, and Peele took the stage again with the cast, including Lupita Nyong’o, Wins…

EXCLUSIVE: James Bond 25 might well have multiple Oscar winners in its star studded cast. Sources tell Deadline that Lupita Nyong’o is being courted to join the Bond film UPDATE: her team is now telling me it won’t work out with her — and that Rami Malek is closing his deal to play the villain opposite Daniel Craig…

If anyone could put in perspective the unbelievable trajectory of filmmaker Ryan Coogler from his Fruitvale Station debut to Black Panther, it would be Sylvester Stallone, his creative partner on the film in between, Creed. Before Coogler even filmed a debut that would become a Sundance sensation, he was knocking on St…

The first look at Jordan Peele’s forthcoming horror Us freaked us out with doppelgangers, a pair of scissors and Lupita Nyong’o‘s creepy laugh. The newest trailer, which debuted during the Super Bowl, slathers on the creepiness and gives us a bigger peek — but not much — into what Us is really about. The trailer…

EXCLUSIVE: NEON and Hulu have won a bidding among four studios to land rights to release the dark comedy Little Monsters for U.S. report. The suitors battled all night for the Abe Forsythe-directed genre film that stars Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England and Josh Gad. The deal went for mid-seven figures for the U.S…

Universal has dropped a Christmas Day present with the first look at Jordan Peele’s anticipated Us, the follow-up to his Oscar-nominated hit Get Out. It opens with the Wilson family, Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) Gabe (Winston Duke) and their children, traveling up the Northern California coast to Adelaide’s childhood…

Black Panther has risen to plenty of challenges, shattering every expectation to far surpass the ticket sales of any film by a Black director, with a cast populated by African and African-American performers, on its way to a $1.3 billion global gross. But there's one challenge remaining: can the film overcome a clear…

Both the films Walt Disney Studios brought to Deadline’s The Contenders LA promote social change, albeit in extremely different ways. Groundbreaking superhero epic Black Panther put the African experience at the forefront of a mainstream Marvel film, reaching a worldwide audience and scoring a phenomenal $1.3 billion…

EXCLUSIVE: Buyers have been ravenous for FilmNation’s starry spy-sisterhood thriller 355, which has sold out internationally, including a string of multi-million dollar deals. Following the big deal for France with SND last week, major international pacts have now closed with Tele Munchen Group for Germany, Universal…