Author: Deadline

A year after the loss of their Bernadette Bassenger, Priscilla is tuning up for another fabulous adventure across the Australian Outback. Guy Pearce recently gave an update on the production timeline for the sequel to 1994’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, following co-star Terence Stamp’s death at age 87 last August. “Well, the sequel, which is going to be—what are we now, ’26?” Pearce told Good Morning America. “We’ll probably shoot it ’27, it’ll come out ’28.” Written and directed by Stephan Elliott, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert stars Hugo Weaving, Stamp and Pearce…

Paramount Pictures is really revving its engines on the upcoming Days of Thunder 2 starring Tom Cruise as Anne Hathaway is set to join Cruise in the sequel. Cruise announced the news on his social platforms featuring a picture of the two A-listers leaning against a Nascar race car in Daytona. The picture also announced that the film would be released June 2, 2028. The movie will be filmed for iMax and also available in Dolby cinemas, 4DX and premium large formats. Hathaway’s addition comes after Paramount tapped Jonathan Levine to direct hence fast-tracking the pic as Cruise’s next project.…

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai’s reputation as a travel and entertainment destination has taken a battering in recent months as the emirate got caught in the crosshairs of the U.S.-Iran war but this has not put a stop to the fledgeling Golden Dunes Festival. Ali and Zeus Zamani, the L.A.-based filmmaking duo behind AZ Filmz, are pushing on with a second edition of the event they spearheaded last year in partnership with Ben Coen, Scott Carlson and Don Worley. After an inaugural edition revolving around an awards ceremony, the second edition has been expanded to three days and will feature a program of…

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Dornan, star of Apple‘s upcoming crime thriller series 12 12 12, is set to star opposite Zoë Kravitz and Adèle Exarchopoulos in their mystery movie from My Old Ass helmer Megan Park. Character details are being kept under wraps, as is the logline for the as-yet-untitled film. Park is directing from her own script and exec producing, with Apple Studios and LuckyChap to produce in association with FilmNation. Tom Ackerley, Bronte Payne and Kelly McRedmond are overseeing the project for LuckyChap. Dornan is best known for his work in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which brought him Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award nominations, along…

James Gunn is clearing up several reports about DC Studios projects amid the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger. The merger of the two media companies is at a standstill, but that doesn’t mean that development of superhero franchises at DC is on hold. Answering a fan query on Threads about the current status of DCU development projects, Gunn said, “Nothing is on hold.” Another fan posted a screenshot that claimed director Andy Muschietti said work on the Batman film based on The Brave and the Bold was on hold amid the merger. “It doesn’t sound like something Andy would have said, but…

Castro (Barbie, 9-1-1) will receive the Humanitarian Award for his commitment to community, education and creating opportunities for others through culinary arts. Reilly (American Horror Story, Obi-Wan) is set for the President’s Award, recognizing exceptional contributions to the property craft by a professional outside the traditional property master role. The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Wilkinson (Titanic, eight Harry Potter films), celebrating a remarkable career spanning more than four decades and some of the most iconic films in British and international cinema. Read more about them below. “The MacGuffin Awards are about recognizing the people whose creativity, generosity and…

EXCLUSIVE: Big move in the LA film producing scene as vet filmmaker Brian Kavanaugh-Jones is ending his run at Range as Partner and Co-President of Film & Production to join Chris Ferguson at his Vancouver-based banner Oddfellows. In some ways it’s a continuation for Kavanaugh-Jones. He and Ferguson have been longtime collaborators, producing 24 film and TV projects together since 2013 including recent box office hits The Monkey and Longlegs and upcoming The Young People, all from Osgood Perkins. Kavanaugh-Jones, who will work between LA, Texas and Vancouver, is joining Oddfellows at an opportune moment given the company’s recently announced…

Following the death of Hayden Panettiere, Melissa Gilbert is the latest to call for better protections for child actors. On Saturday, the Little House on the Prairie alum admitted she “did not know Hayden personally,” but explained that her death feels “so personal to me” as a former child actor, demanding unions “enact real change” in response. “How is it possible that no one in the mainstream media has picked up on this?” she began in a Substack essay. “Within one year, Michelle Trachtenberg, Daveigh Chase and Hayden Panettiere have died. DIED! Three former female child actors of the same…

The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival wrapped up on Friday, with Austria taking home the top prize. During the awards ceremony at National Theatre Sarajevo, the jury awarded Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s Everytime with the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Narrative Feature Film, which comes with a prize of 16,000 euros. “Moments of cinematic grace float through this mesmerically elastic and transcendental grief-soaked ghost story. Our decision was unanimous,” said the jury, which consisted of SFF President Emily Watson, director Igor Bezinović, actress Sara Klimoska, European Film Academy CEO/director Matthijs Wouter Knol and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari. Scroll on to…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Showalter is set to direct a modern retelling of cult-classic romantic comedy Serendipity for Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax, Deadline has learned. Script is by Marc Klein, who wrote the original film, with casting underway. The film will be produced by Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal Productions, alongside Simon Fields, who produced the original. Jonathan Glickman, Alexandra Loewy, and Thom Zadra will exec produce for Miramax, alongside Klein. Emily Crook is overseeing the project for Semi-Formal, which is under a multi-year, first-look film deal with Amazon MGM, while Arianna D’Andrea will oversee for Miramax. Directed by Peter Chelsom and starring…