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At least so Far, the New York Film Festival belongs to Netflix. A day after announcing that the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman will open the 57th NYFF in a World Premiere, Film at Lincoln Center today announced that its prestigious Centerpiece film will be another Netflix entry, the Noah Baumbach-directed Marria…

Marvel's standalone Black Widow took Hall H by storm with director Cate Shortland as well as star Scarlett Johansson and cast members Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, Florence Pugh and O-T Fagbenie. The movie will have Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as assassin-turned-Avenger Natasha Romanoff, who, as we all know…

Scarlett Johansson was put under fire again this week when she made some comments about political correct casting that didn’t go over so well with many people — and they reacted as such on social media. The Daily Mail published parts of an interview she did with As If magazine. “You know, as an actor I should be…

After an Avengers: Endgame premiere screening that packs as much intricate storytelling and surprises as any Hollywood blockbuster you’ve ever seen, there was another surprise right after at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Every current Marvel Comic Universe star was onstage, making speeches and taking bows. The…

Following a week-long Las Vegas field trip, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live returns to Disney's El Capitan Theatre Monday night to begin a week-long promotion fest for Marvel Studios Avengers: Endgame. Monday night’s show features a reading about the latest iteration of the wildly popular franchise by the movie’s Mark…

Florence Pugh is about to get some red in her ledger. Deadline has confirmed that the Fighting With My Family star is in talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the forthcoming Black Widow stand-alone movie at Marvel Studios. Details about the film have been kept under wraps, so Pugh’s role in the film remains a mystery…

Forty years ago the big holiday hit was Superman, Hollywood’s very first superhero blockbuster. Warner Bros marketed the movie by promising the sky to moviegoers: “You’ll believe a man can fly.” Now, four decades later, that promise should be rewritten to reflect a new era of superhero blockbusters: “You better believe…

Glenn Close, who starred in the 2011 film Albert Nobbs as a woman living life as the male title character, weighed in on the recent controversy over Scarlett Johansson’s casting in a transgender role. "My thinking right now is that people who are producing and directing properties like that need to go out of their way…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: We haven't done this back and forth for a while, but it’s worth addressing the dangerous corner Hollywood studios have been…

Scarlett Johansson’s withdrawal from Rub & Tug, in which she’d been cast as a transgender man, is a game changer in Hollywood’s portrayal of the transgender community, GLAAD said today. The LGTBQ media-advocacy organization also cited “the transgender voices” who spoke out about the film. “Hollywood changed how…

Scarlett Johansson, who endured cries of whitewashing when she played the lead in last year’s Ghost in the Shell, this time has given in to public pressure. The actress today exited Rub & Tug, the Rupert Sanders-directed film in which she was to play the trans owner of a massage parlor. Johansson’s role in the project…

Deadline told you on June 20 that it was in the works, and now Cate Shortland has closed her deal to direct Scarlett Johansson in the freestanding Black Widow film, giving the actress and Marvel its first stand-alone movie after she played supporting roles in a slew of superhero films including The Avengers…