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EXCLUSIVE: Danny Pino has signed on to join the ensemble of the Universal’s movie adaptation of the Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen, joining Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams and Amandla Stenberg. The story follows Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family…

After helping successfully relaunch Universal’s The Fast & Furious franchise for the studio, Justin Lin and his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner are making the studio their official home. Lin has signed a very lucrative multi-year overall production deals for film and TV with Universal Pictures and Universal Studio…

After shocking the world with the idea of shooting a feature film in outer space, Tom Cruise may be a little closer to finding a partner who will join him and director Doug Liman on the untitled film. We have confirmed that Universal Pictures is in early talks to come on to the project that would be the first feature…

AMC boss Adam Aron has just fired off a letter to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley in response to NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the $95M PVOD success of Trolls World Tour.  As Aron explains to Langley in the letter (read it below), he initially got it…

Comedian Jo Koy is about to bring his brand of funny to the big screen. Deadline has confirmed that Amblin Partners and Dan Lin’s Rideback are set to collaborate on Easter Sunday, a comedy inspired by the Filipino stand-up’s life experiences. The film, which will be very much a Filipino narrative written by Ken Cheng…

When composer Thomas Newman was approached for 1917, he was excited about the notion of working on a film unlike any that had been made before. "That was compelling all on its own," Newman reflects. "'What am I in for? What is he in for?' We'll know as we do it, and not before." An epic war thriller constructed to…

On 1917, production designer Dennis Gassner faced the monumental challenge of crafting epic World War I sets for a film that would appear as one take. Based on stories told to director Sam Mendes by his grandfather, the thriller centers on Lance Corporals Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), two…

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: In one of the biggest surprises of tonight's Golden Globes ceremony, 1917 helmer Sam Mendes won the award for Best Director of a Motion Picture. Parasite's Bong Joon-ho was heavily favored to take home the statuette, following the film's win for Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language, such that…

Sam Mendes’ World War I drama 1917 is set to open in limited release this weekend. Moviegoers may be skeptical as they ask themselves, “Do we really need another World War I movie?” but with a certified fresh Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 93%, 1917 is proving to be a must-see film, awards season or…

If you watched Cats on opening night, you may have seen a different version than others who saw it later in the weekend as sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures sent out a memo to theaters saying that they will be sending out a new version of the big-screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway musical…

Sky is to develop a major new UK studio for TV and film productions at Elstree with the backing of its parent company Comcast. The cost of the investment was not disclosed. The British broadcaster will open Sky Studios Elstree by 2022 and it will work in collaboration with Elstree Studios, the famous home of films…

EXCLUSIVE: A short film reuniting the creature from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Henry Thomas, who played Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film, is premiering Thursday on NBC, Syfy and on the website of Comcast Xfinity. You can watch it above. Titled A Holiday Reunion, the film has a running time of a bit more…