Author: Deadline

The author of the bestselling memoir that was adapted for Toronto festival hit The Salt Path issued a long statement Wednesday answering allegations about her book that were raised in a UK newspaper article. Raynor Winn says the report in The Observer this week “is grotesquely unfair, highly misleading and seeks to systematically pick apart my life.” See her full statement below. The film, starring Gillian Anderson as Winn and Jason Isaacs as her ailing husband Moth Winn, the movie is an adaptation of a supposedly true-to-life book about the couple’s journey along the South of England coast after they…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that Bridgerton actress Simone Ashley has joined the cast of 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2 opposite core members Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci and new addition Kenneth Branagh. The sequel to the 2006 movie follows Streep’s Anna Wintour-like fashion editor who if facing the headwind decline of the print industry. Her former assistant Emily Charlton has now a bigtime executive in fashion circles and the two compete for ad revenue. Branagh is the husband to Streep’s ice queen Miranda Priestly. David Frankel, the original director is back, along…

EXCLUSIVE: After seven years and four films, Zombies stars Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim feel like the franchise is still just getting started. The duo, who also serve as executive producers on the upcoming Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, have in many ways grown up on the set of these Disney Channel originals. They were in their teens when they took the roles of Zed and Addison, who have sought over the course of the last three films to unite human and monsterkind together in their hometown of Seabrook. In Zombies 4, they tell Deadline they’re passing the torch…

With the release of The Old Guard 2 on Netflix ahead of the holiday weekend, star Charlize Theron is reflecting on the state of female-led action movies in Hollywood and why she is no longer doing as many stunts as before. In a joint interview with the New York Times opposite her co-star Uma Thurman, the Mad Max: Fury Road actress said studios are less likely to give more chances to women who spearhead blockbusters, especially if the movie doesn’t kill at the box office. “Yeah, it’s harder. That’s known,” she responded when asked by the newspaper if there’s still…

On a different racetrack of events, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were initially attached to Ford v Ferrari, with the F1 star revealing what ultimately led the latter to back out of the project. Speaking to the United Arab Emirates-based publication The National News, Pitt reflected on the racing pic that never came to pass, which initially featured F1 and Top Gun: Maverick helmer Joseph Kosinski as director. The eventual 2019 biographical sports/action film featured Christian Bale as fearless racer Ken Miles, Matt Damon as automotive designer Carroll Shelby and James Mangold as filmmaker. “Tom and I, for a while…

FRIDAY UPDATE: With another big day spent gobbling up turnstile action, Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Rebirth has topped the century mark globally, putting $104.6M in its powerful maw through Thursday worldwide. The Thursday tally in 70 overseas markets was $22.3M, lifting the running international box office cume to $48.8M. Today notably adds France and India to bring the opening suite to 82 offshore markets. Signs are looking good for an opening above pre-weekend projections — we’ll know more Saturday. Not included in the totals above, China’s Friday estimate is $6.1M for $21.9M across the first three days at No. 1 and…

Although Brad Pitt has one of the biggest movies of the summer, he seems reluctant to embrace a new era of Hollywood. The 2x Oscar winner recently shared some sage wisdom as he admitted his generation of actors was “a little more uptight” than today’s young franchise-minded talents, explaining actors were less likely to “sell out” in the early days of his career. “I like watching what the new generations are coming in with. I like to see what they’re up against and also the way they negotiate their way through it. I feel they enjoy it more,” he explained…

EXCLUSIVE: Dances With Films, the festival that describes itself as “defiantly independent,” has announced its jury and audience awards after wrapping the 28th edition of the cinematic showcase in Los Angeles. No Choice, directed by Nate Hilgartner, won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature. Hannah Deal, Jennifer Herzog, and Robert Denzel Edwards star in the drama about a young woman who “becomes unexpectedly pregnant and starts having harrowing, prophetic dreams that she will die if she can’t get an abortion.” Honorable Mention in that category went to Something Casual, directed by Brandon Buczek, a romantic drama about two people…

2nd UPDATE, 5:26 PM: The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial will be back Wednesday to deliberate on the racketeering charge against the much-accused Grammy winner. After a white-knuckle final hour Tuesday in the lower Manhattan courtroom, where it looked like there could be a mistrial or a partial verdict, the eight men and four women panel have just left for the day with a promise to return. They will get back into it at 9 a.m. ET tomorrow. While what the partial verdicts are is still sealed and unknown, the jury had reached some consensus on the two…

James Gunn is addressing rumors that he is looking into casting Adria Arjona as Wonder Woman in the DC Universe. In a new interview, the DC Studios co-head was asked about following Arjona on social media, which prompted fans to question if she would take on the superhero role. “I follow Adria on Instagram but everybody came out [and said], ‘He just followed her, that means she’s Wonder Woman,’” Gunn said in an interview with Extra. “She’d be a great Wonder Woman, by the way.” Gunn continued, “She was in a movie that I made seven years ago. We’ve been…