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Golden Globe nominated actress Elle Fanning has joined the cast of Barry Levinson's film about the making of Paramount's classic film, The Godfather. Fanning will play actress Ali MacGraw, who was married to Paramount’s head of production Robert Evans. Just after winning the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer…

"Since studios keep making remakes, why don't they at least remake them better?" Billy Wilder had a right to ask me that question 20 years ago, since the many remakes of his movies (Sabrina, The Apartment, etc.) never matched the originals. The Wilder conundrum seems relevant today when the studios and streamers are…

NBCUniversal’s Peacock, nearing its nationwide launch on July 15, has reached a licensing deal with ViacomCBS covering movies from Paramount and TV shows from across the company. Under the deal, films from Paramount will stream on Peacock in limited exclusivity windows throughout 2021, 2022, and 2023. The roster…

The writer seated across from me seemed at once pleased but tense. "I want to be sure you understand that I have no personal knowledge of the characters I've written about," he cautioned. "I have never met a member of the Mafia. I come from an Italian family but we talk about books, not hit jobs…. My insight into the…

Longtime international marketing consultant to Steven Spielberg, Gerry Lewis has died. Amblin Partners shared the news today that Lewis, 91, passed in London on January 5. Lewis was an international movie marketing, publicity and distribution consultant who worked in both the British and Hollywood industries for the…

Robert Evans, the colorful, Oscar-nominated Chinatown producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief during the late 1960s and ’70s, has died at age 89, a source has confirmed to Deadline. Evans passed away at his Los Angeles home after suffering a series of strokes in recent months. Evans began at Paramount…

He seemed like a serious young filmmaker at the time, but his career was a mess. I decided to be candid with him. "Why does it always seem like you are in trouble?" I asked him, knowing that he was looking for a new gig. "Is it that you like trouble?" He shook his head emphatically. "I like to learn," he told me…

Morgana King, who is best known for playing Marlon Brando’s wife in Godfather I & II, died March 22 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was 87. According to the Washington Post, her death was not previously reported. The Riverside County coroner's office confirmed her death. Born Maria Grazia Messina on June 4, 1930, in…

It looks like someone stole some memorabilia from The Godfather hoping to get an offer that they can’t refuse. Replicas of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather Notebook” which include items from the production of the legendary film have gone missing. Publishing and media company Regan Arts says that tens of thousands of…

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…

Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in: Al Pacino will reunite with Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and the man who mobbed them up, Francis Ford Coppola, in a rare reunion for the Tribeca Film Festival’s closing-night screenings of The Godfather and The Godfather P…

Filling out my Academy ballot this week, I find myself indulging in an exercise in Oscar futility: re-living my list of Oscar "should-haves." Brokeback Mountain should have won over Crash in 2005, Apocalypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and ET over Gandhi in 1982. The Academy is, well, the Academy, but some 683…