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Viola Davis' Amanda Waller is the latest DC Comics character getting the small screen treatment. Deadline understands that HBO Max is developing a Peacemaker and Suicide Squad spinoff series featuring the supervillain with Davis in talks to star and exec produce. Watchmen writer Christal Henry will write and exec…

Karen Fukuhara, who stars in Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys and David Ayer's Suicide Squad, says she was struck by an unknown assailant outside a cafe in what the actor describes as an anti-Asian hate crime. “This sh*t needs to stop,” Fukuhara wrote in an Instagram post describing the attack. “Us women, Asians and the…

Ahead of Peacemaker‘s Season 1 finale, HBO and HBO Max’s Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys hinted that a second season of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad spinoff series is in the offing. (UPDATE: HBO Max confirmed the renewal today.) “I’m feeling good so stay tuned. The show has been doing great,” Bloys told Deadline…

One of the stars of The Suicide Squad has obtained a restraining order against a former sex partner and posted about the situation at length on Instagram. Joel Kinnaman said Friday on Instagram that Gabriella Magnusson, a Swedish model who goes by the name Bella Davis, was allegedly “threatening to publicize false…

Suicide Squad director David Ayer has taken to Twitter to give his perspective on the 2016 Warner Bros. feature, responding at the same time to those who continue to criticize it. In a three-page letter posted to his account Thursday, titled “My Turn,” Ayer disavowed the studio’s cut of the film as well as a “10 week…

Writer/director James Gunn celebrated the filming conclusion of his The Suicide Squad by posting a picture of the entire cast and crew to Instagram. But he also revealed that working on the film was emotionally challenging, as his father died shortly before the production began, and his dog passed two weeks before the…

The expected Saturday Night Live gang plus some new faces were back for the season 45 premiere, though one still-current cast member was noticeably absent: Pete Davidson. Although he had a spot in the opening credits, Davidson was absent from the sketches and even during host Woody Harrelson’s goodbye at the end of…

EXCLUSIVE: German actor, DJ and comedian Flula Borg is joining James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.  Borg’s role is being kept under wraps, but we hear he’s playing a love interest to one of the characters in the Warner Bros release. He joins returning castmembers Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Viola Davis (Amanda Waller)…

Deadline has confirmed that Will Smith will not reprise his role as Deadshoot in Warner Bros.’ James Gunn-directed Suicide Squad 2.  Word is that Smith’s exit was amicable, he wasn’t officially set to do the sequel, and it came down to scheduling in regards to his backing out. Deadline hears that Gunn is looking to…

Look out Gotham City, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn is all dressed up for fun. The scene-stealing star of Suicide Squad is returning to the role of the DC Comics wild-card wild child for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), an R-rated Warner Bros. romp through Batman’s grim hometown…

Atlas Entertainment has promoted Oscar-nominated producer Richard Suckle to the position of president. He will work with company founder and CEO Charles Roven to guide the direction of the film and TV company, mentor its creative executives and continue producing. Suckle joined Atlas in 1992 as Roven's assistant…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Charles Roven was honored by his peers tonight at the Producers Guild of America Awards with the 2018 David O. Selznick Achievement Award bestowed for his body of work — a long career that began about 34 years ago with his first film Heart Like A Wheel. His resume now includes everything from 12 Mo…