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Vojtech Jasny, an award-winning director from Czechoslovakia who made more than 50 films, has died. He was 93. Jasny passed away Friday, according to The Associated Press. The director was best known for his 1968 film, All My Good Countrymen [also known as All My Compatriots], about the lives and struggles of Czechs…

UPDATE SATURDAY PM: Big Machine Label Group’s Nashville headquarters closed early on Friday, allegedly because of death threats made to staff. Entertainment Tonight reported that the label closed its offices at 12:30 PM after employees received “direct and hostile death threats.” Update Friday, throughout Taylor Swif…

No one in the music business was asking “Where’s the beef?” this week. It was right out in the open, as Taylor Swift/Big Machine, Lizzo vs. Postmates, and Sharon Osbourne vs. Bob Lefsetz squared off against each other over various issues. Using the power of social media to shame, make a point, and generally launch…

There is good news and bad news about John Woo’s forthcoming remake of his 1989 crime drama The Killer. The good news is that it’s still being made. The bad news is that Lupita Nyong’o is no longer attached to the project. The iconic director shared the news about Nyong’o leaving the project with Deadline at the Hawaii…

UPDATE, Saturday AM: w/chart Wave a flag for original movies at the box office, as Disney’s release of 20th Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s Ford v. Ferrari is racing to a $30M win after a $11M Friday (including $2.1M Thursday previews). That buried Sony’s franchise reboot of Elizabeth Banks’s Charlie’s…

It has been 20 years since Edward Norton last directed a movie, and that was the comedy Keeping The Faith. It has also been 20 years since Norton discovered Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn and has had it in his head ever since, with the idea that someday it would make a great film. That day is here now…

Hollywood film and television makers and Washington lawmakers gathered in DC on Thursday for the "Beyond the Red Carpet: Movies and TV Magic Day," an event that offered lawmakers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creativity and innovation of the film and TV industries. The event, which included interactive trade…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad, whose 2017 feature documentary Last Men in Aleppo was Oscar-nominated and won an Emmy. The pic, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema grand jury doc prize, follows three men as they volunteer with the White Helmets civil defense…

This afternoon, Disney reserved a ton of slots for Fox features all the way into 2023. While we haven’t listed the entire Disney/Fox schedule, we’ve listed the notable changes and tallies below. What’s interesting with all these changes is that the Star Wars films remain on Disney’s calendar, despite the recent…

James Faulkner (Game of Thrones, Da Vinci’s Demons) has signed on to star in Andrew Hyatt’s comedy-drama All Those Small Things, the debut feature from Rebel Kat Productions and Hyatt's Chi Rho Films. Hyatt is directing the film from his own script, about British game show host Jonathan Robbins who finds himself…

EXCLUSIVE: Valparaiso Pictures has wrapped shooting on documentary The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, directed by BAFTA nominee Otto Bell (The Eagle Huntress), with Emmy winner Joe Bini (You Were Never Really Here) on board to edit. The 40-minute doc charts the destruction wrought by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011…

Lionsgate is in final negotiations to land The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a film project scripted by Tom Gormican (Ghosted) & Kevin Etten (Ghosted, Workaholics). Deadline has confirmed that if the deal makes, the studio will make the meta feature that will star Nicolas Cage playing a version of himself…