Author: Deadline

Three faith-based films from two independent distributors hit the top ten, a pair of Indian pics popped and traditional indies flexed at a rapidly improving box office. Angel Studios’ The King Of Kings is looking at a $19 million weekend on 3,200 screens, its widest opening yet and the highest grossing debut of a faith-based animated film. The story of Jesus told by Charles Dickens to his young son topped the previous record holder, The Prince of Egypt from DreamWorks Animation back in 1998, for a no. 2 domestic box office berth. Fathom Entertainment’s The Chosen franchise has its two…

Ally fans rejoiced as Lady Gaga reprised her hit song from A Star Is Born (2018) for the first night of Coachella 2025. Following some tracks from her latest album Mayhem, as well as some of her other bops, Gaga performed her Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning song ‘Shallow‘, which she originally sang with co-star Bradley Cooper for the acclaimed remake. “You know, since the last time I played Coachella, I’ve had some songs come out,” she prefaced. “But one of them, I think back to being here and remember how special it was that I got to perform here.…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has just set plans to revamp The Bodyguard, the 1992 romantic drama thriller that teamed superstars Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The studio, which released the original, has set Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour director Sam Wrench to helm and script by Juror No. 2 writer Jonathan A. Abrams, Deadline has learned. The news was revealed Friday in an interview with Warner Bros’ co-film bosses Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy. No casting has been set, but after the first film’s star duo and box office success (it made $411 million worldwide box office and landed a…

The two shows represent a blast of contrast: Adolescence is gritty and minimalist. The Studio is noisily over the top. Yet both are dominating the conversation among critics and cinephiles and are impacting viewers worldwide. Adolescence is topping Netflix charts in 71 countries with its probe of the “male rage” lurking in a benign 13-year-old boy (played by Owen Cooper). Created and directed by a British actor Stephen Graham, the four-part series is reminiscent of ’60s-era documentary filmmaking. The Studio from Apple TV+ is a throwback to the fierce satiric comedies of Blake Edwards (The SOBs in 1971) depicting an…

Tom Hiddleston is set to reprise his role of Loki in Avengers: Doomsday in his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hiddleston was one of the many actors confirmed to return to the MCU and was recently asked about the film, which the Russo Brothers will direct. “[I’m] very, very excited,” Hiddleston told ComicBook. “It’s really remarkable that I can talk about it because mostly I’m in a position of knowing and not being able to say anything … it’s been an extraordinary chapter of my life playing Loki, and it’s not over yet.” Hiddleston has played the anti-hero across…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Coogler is 4-for-4. He’s written and directed four films, all heart and all winners: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He puts that streak on the line with Sinners, an original elevated horror film that takes his usual onscreen companion, Michael B. Jordan, on a decidedly different trip. Jordan plays twin WWI vet enforcer brothers, Smoke and Stack, who come home to start a blues club in 1930s Mississippi. They expect an obstacle from the KKK but not to run smack into a thirsty group of vampires determined to crash the party as they…

EXCLUSIVE: Director and actress Joan Chen signs with Anonymous Content for management. Chen can most recently be seen in Sean Wang’s DiDi, for which she was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award. She will next be seen in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, alongside Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang, which releases theatrically on April 18. Following this, she will star in the Amazon MGM holiday comedy Oh. What. Fun., alongside Felicity Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer. It was recently announced that Chen will also star in the Netflix series “Remarkably Bright Creatures” alongside Sally Field. Her career began with her winning the prestigious “Hundred Flowers…

How do you live when Vladimir Putin wants you dead? That’s the dilemma facing Christo Grozev, a man often described as a “rock star investigative journalist.” The story of how he became persona non grata — песона нон грата, if you prefer – with the Kremlin is told in the documentary Antidote, directed by James Jones, which just made its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. “Someone asked me the other day, how many people are on Putin’s kill list? And I was like, ‘I have no idea,’” Jones says as he and Grozev join Deadline at a café at…

With her new presidential action flick G20, Viola Davis understands the desire to politicize her role. Noting they made the movie before Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to Donald Trump, the Oscar winner can see “probably in hindsight” how her butt-kicking politician character President Danielle Sutton might make voters long for what could have been. “I do not think it’s a suspension of disbelief to imagine someone who looks like me as the president,” Davis told UK’s The Times. Davis also explained why President Sutton’s political party is never clarified in the film. “If you get down to the…

FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: Mr. Zaslav, I’d like to direct your attention over to the motion picture executive suite where co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have an absolute, jaw-dropping hit on their hands in Legendary‘s A Minecraft Movie. Let the record show. Today is $50M alone, and that includes last night’s near-$11M in previews. The weekend is well north of $100M at 4,263 theaters, with some rivals seeing $130M+. It’s clearly the biggest opening YTD on a 3-day basis ahead of Captain America: Brave New World‘s $88.8M. That also means it will be the biggest weekend of 2025 YTD…