EXCLUSIVE: "This response is totally absurd and a total sham," declares Roman Polanski's attorney to a court filing from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to end the Oscar winning director's desire to be reinstated into the organization that tossed him out in 2018. "The whole thing is a stupid PR stunt…

Quentin Tarantino was needled today at the Cannes Film Festival press conference for his film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as the director fielded questions about Roman Polanski and the fact that Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate has few lines in the film. On the subject of Polanski, who was recently brought back into the…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences invited 928 entertainment industry professionals to join and while many were celebrating their invitation to the ever-changing Academy which is looking to be more inclusive, there is one invitee that didn’t want to jump on board: Emmanuelle Seigner. Seigner, who is the…

The latest episode of The Deadline Podcast with Peter Bart today explores the off-camera intrigues that shape movies but never make headlines — how great lines are improvised (or blown), and last-minute scenes added or changed in new films and classic ones. A key scene in The Godfather is changed at the eleventh hour…