Filmmakers and actors took to Twitter to remember actor Martin Landau. From his early days of Mission: Impossible  to his Academy Award-winning performance in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, the flood of praise from Hollywood was abundant. Alec Baldwin and Joss Whedon gave love to his role Crimes and Misdemeanors while Ed Wood…

Martin Landau, whose role as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s 1994 film Ed Wood earned the popular player an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, died Saturday at 89 following “unexpected complications” after a brief stay at the UCLA Medical Center, his publicist Dick Guttman confirmed Sunday. In a career spanning more…

There are plenty of first-time directors appearing at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival—several of which came through Deadline’s Tribeca Studio in the festival’s first week—but there is only one filmmaker who made his writing and directing debut in his seventies, taking a moment away from his work as a world-renowned…

Deadline is holding its Tribeca Film Festival portrait and video interview studio at the festival hub in NYC, opening its doors to this year’s most riveting and groundbreaking filmmakers. Guests stopping by the Deadline Studio on Day 5 included Milo Ventimiglia (Devil’s Gate), Cobie Smulders & Justin Long (Literally, R…

In an industry that caters to youth and is thought to be rampant with ageism, there is some encouraging news coming out of the Tribeca Film Festival tonight. It is the premiere of The Last Poker Game, starring Martin Landau as an aging physician who moves into a nursing home with his ailing wife and strikes up an…

UPDATE Friday noon: Remember opens today in NYC. In Los Angeles, it opens next Friday, March 18, at the Laemmle Royal. EXCLUSIVE: Atom Egoyan’s Remember, a revenge drama you won’t easily forget, opens Friday in limited release. The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Lan…

Eighty-six-year-old Oscar winner Christopher Plummer ages up a bit in Remember as a 90-year-old World War II Auschwitz concentration camp survivor named Zev. He’s hell-bent on avenging the death of family members when he discovers the Nazi commandant responsible is still alive and living somewhere in America…

Producers Peter Pastorelli, Marshall Johnson and Eddie Rubin have partnered to launch Long Road Film, a production outfit with the goal of producing multiple films per year with budgets of $5 million-$10 million. The New York-based joint venture has signed with Gersh for representation, and its first project will be…

Anna Nicole, which tells the rags to riches story of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, will premiere on Saturday, June 29, at 8 PM, Lifetime announced today. Agnes Bruckner stars as Anna Nicole, alongside Martin Landau, Virginia Madsen, Adam Goldberg and Cary Elwes. Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Judith Verno…

With a filmography that includes roles in some of the highest-grossing movies of all time including The Avengers, Iron Man and the Star Wars series Samuel L. Jackson clearly knows how to pick ’em. And that is entirely intentional. His current film Django Unchained, in which he is reunited with frequent director Quentin…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Martin Landau and Oscar-nominated Virginia Madsen are set to co-star opposite Agnes Bruckner in Lifetime's original movie The Anna Nicole Story. American Psycho helmer Mary Harron has come on board to direct the film, executive produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Judith Verno. Written by…