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M. Night Shyamalan’s next film for Universal Pictures, which was previously untitled, has received its identification and a new release date. Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin now will be out in wide release on Friday, February 3, 2023, a two-week bump up from its previous date. The director teased fans in August about…

Universal has set new release dates for its anticipated films The Bad Guys and Ticket to Paradise. The former action comedy from DreamWorks Animation will open wide one week later than expected, on April 22, 2022, opposite Lionsgate’s Nicolas Cage comedy, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The latter feature…

The creator of Illumination/Universal Pictures’ upcoming Sing 2 animation wanted to take the sequel to “the next level” even before he’d finished wrapping the first film. Garth Jennings told today’s Deadline Contenders London that he had his “mind blown” when visiting Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas and decided from…

Following a heated bidding war that led to his next film landing at Universal, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has not only found its star to play the titular role but set a date on when audiences can see his next movie. Universal Pictures and Nolan’s banner Syncopy have confirmed Cillian Murphy to star in Oppenheimer…

Universal Pictures has set Billy Eichner (Impeachment: American Crime Story), Luke Macfarlane (Single All The Way), TS Madison (Zola), Miss Lawrence (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Symone (RuPaul's Drag Race), Guillermo Diaz (Law & Order: Organized Crime) and Guy Branum (truTV’s The Game Show) to star in Bros…

Sam Richardson (Veep, The Tomorrow War) is set to star in Stranded Asset, an action comedy he penned with Jen D’Angelo (Hocus Pocus 2), which Chris Pratt is producing for Universal Pictures. The film's plot is being kept under wraps. Pratt is producing under his Indivisible Productions banner, which has a first-look…

Kenyan distance runner Eliud Kipchoge was born in 1984, when the world record in the men's marathon stood at 2:08:05. Today, he holds the world record at that distance, having pared the time all the way down to 2:01:39. That achievement, not to mention back to back gold medals at the Tokyo and Rio Olympics, have…

EXCLUSIVE: Margo Martindale (Uncle Frank), Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project), Kahyun Kim (American Gods), and newcomer Scott Seiss have joined Cocaine Bear, rounding out the cast of the Universal pic which heads into…

Universal Pictures has set a November 18, 2022, release date for She Said, about the reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault story. Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, respectively. They broke one of the most…

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have unveiled the official trailer for Sing 2, which hits theaters on December 22. As the second chapter in the musical comedy franchise kicks off, koala Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) and his all-star cast of performers have turned their New Moon Theater into a…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has landed the rights to the Brian Freeman novel Infinite, with Fast & Furious scribe Chris Morgan and Head of Development Ainsley Davies producing through their Chris Morgan Productions. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer will write the script. The story follows Dylan Moran, who…

Marking his third collaboration with director Paul Greengrass, News of the World offered costume designer Mark Bridges the chance to tackle his first Western, and an earlier period than he'd ever before done on film. The Universal Pictures title centers on Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks), a Civil War veteran who journeys…