Author: Deadline

Allan Freeman, a groundbreaking movie marketing executive who worked on campaigns for Star Wars, The Shining, The Omen and Best Picture Oscar winners Rain Man, Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs among many other films, has died. He was 88. His family said Freeman died June 7 of an undisclosed illness. Born on May 8, 1937, Freeman began this three-decade career as a “Mad man,” doing consumer research from Madison Avenue on how to improve the efficacy of advertising campaigns for corporate giants General Foods and Bristol-Myers. In the early 1970s, he began creating campaigns for Palomar…

More than five years after the Netflix series ended its two-season run, Mindhunter could get the feature-length trilogy treatment. Holy McCallany, who starred as FBI special agent Bill Tench in the true crime series, said he recently spoke to creator David Fincher about the possibility of bringing the show back in another form. “So look, you know, I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago, and he said to me that there is a chance that it may come back as three two-hour movies, but I think it’s just a chance,” he told ScreenRant.…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has preemptively acquired the original horror script Suffer Little Children from writer-director, Rodrigue Huart. Huart will direct from a script he wrote with Walter Hamada producing through his 18Hz Productions under the company’s output deal at the studio, alongside producer and rightsholder Pablo Cruz, who will produce through his Canana banner. Nick Romano will executive produce for 18Hz Productions. The project is a reimagining of the 1976 Spanish horror film Who Can Kill A Child?, which has garnered cult classic status. Plot details are under wraps, but the original film follows a couple who travels to a…

EXCLUSIVE: Carla Gugino is the latest to come aboard as a co-star opposite Brad Pitt in Netflix‘s The Adventures of Cliff Booth, directed by David Fincher. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Elizabeth Debicki and Scott Caan also are on board from a script by Quentin Tarantino. Netflix and reps for Gugino could not be reached for comment. Plot details are vague, but sources say the film will follow one of Tarantino’s most iconic characters as he serves as a Hollywood fixer in a follow-up to Pitt’s Oscar-winning turn in One Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is unknown who Gugino will be playing…

Though Heather Burns‘ character in 2000’s Miss Congeniality has a little bit of trouble coming up with her idea of a perfect date (“April 25th …  not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket”), the actress has a quick answer when it comes to whether or not she’d want to revisit the Sandra Bullock-led comedy film. In a new interview with People, Burns — who plays the unforgettable, kind-hearted and wide-eyed Cheryl/Miss “Rhode Island” in the action-comedy — said she “would jump at” the chance to do a threequel, following the 2005 Miss Congeniality: Armed…

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump’s vainglorious birthday parade masquerading as a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army may get drenched in a rainy DC this Flag Day, but the financial sun is shining a bit brighter for some suffering Hollywood vendors. A plethora of prop houses in and around LA received a much-needed injection of cash the past month from the federal government for the massive march set to kick off soon in the nation’s thunderstorm anticipating capitol, Deadline has learned. Specifically, the parade organizers made rentals orders of vintage guns, rifles, period piece helmets, and other hardware and…

Growing up in a multiracial family in New York City, Rosario Dawson had a unique first-hand perspective on how cannabis is used as a tool for racism. As an executive producer and the narrator of Kiss My Grass, a documentary short that premiered last week at Tribeca Film Festival, exploring the underlying roots of racial injustice and inequity in the cannabis space, the actress opened up to Deadline about how seeing the war on drugs “devastate entire communities” made her want to participate in the project. “I grew up around a lot of potheads, including my parents. It was always…

Bryce Dallas Howard opened up about some of her past films that didn’t do well at the box office. In a new interview, the Jurassic World star revealed she was not surprised when one of her movies end up flopping. “You can always see it coming while you’re making it,” Howard said in an interview with The Independent. “I’ve never been shocked when something doesn’t work. But I’m just an actor – you’re there to serve a director’s vision.” She continued, “If a movie doesn’t turn out the way that you envisioned, you can barely feel disappointed because it’s not…

EXCLUSIVE: After hitting a home run during the holidays with his new take on the Dracula story Nosferatu, Robert Eggers looks to be staying in the Christmas spirit for a new project he has set his sights on. Sources tell Deadline that Warner Bros is in development with Eggers who will write and direct a retelling of the classic Charles Dickens Christmas ghost story A Christmas Carol. Insiders add that while negotiations are not underway with talent, Eggers is writing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for his longtime collaborator Willem Dafoe. Chris Columbus and Elenor Columbus are attached to produce via Maiden…

EXCLUSIVE: Julian Fellowes is hitting the road this week and heading to New York City, the setting of his latest hit series, HBO’s The Gilded Age, premiering its third season at the Tribeca Festival on Thursday. Additionally, Fellowes will be teeing up promotions ahead of the September 12 premiere of the third and “final” installment of the Downton Abbey films, featuring the lead cast from the beloved PBS and ITV series of the same name. Fellowes will appear on the red carpet at Tribeca in his wheelchair due to issues caused by spinal stenosis, a condition that compresses the spinal…