Author: Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: The Whiplash Oscar winner is boarding the David Ayer directed Paramount Pictures production Heart of the Beast opposite Brad Pitt. It’s the second time that J.K. Simmons as worked with Ayer after the 2005 Christian Bale crime drama Harsh Times, and it’s the third time he’s starred in a Pitt movie after 2001’s The Mexican and the Coen Brothers George Clooney-Frances McDormand 2008 comedy caper Burn After Reading. Deadline first told you about Heart of the Beast. Cameron Alexander, who penned the script, will executive produce. The movie follows a former Army Special Forces Soldier and his retired combat…

After a year of development, Top Gun 3 is not quite ready for takeoff. Jay Ellis, who plays Lt. Reuben ‘Payback’ Fitch in Top Gun: Maverick, recently gave an update on the third installment, which was Deadline reported was in the works at Paramount in January 2024. “So here’s what the story’s going to be. It’s going to be Payback. No, no,” he jokingly told Us Weekly. “In all honesty, they’re still working on the script. They’re still working on the story. They’re wanting to get it right.” Ellis added that co-star and producer Tom Cruise “is a stickler, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is working on a $6M to $7M deal to acquire Selena Y Los Dinos, the Isabel Castro-directed documentary about the slain queen of Tejano Music. Other bidders are in the mix as Cinetic auctions a film that became so popular that when Sundance put it on its portal for industry to watch, the film had to be taken down so quickly became fervent fans were getting hold of clips and posting them. Deal’s not done, but this puts a different face on the recently completed Sundance fest, because that is a high amount for a documentary. Stay tuned.…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenn Tran, star of the last season of The Bachelorette, was in tears, her mother sitting yards away, as she watched footage of her proposing to Devin Strader on ABC’s After The Final Rose live finale. The engagement hadn’t worked out and was over before Tran was forced to relive that day alongside Strader. It was a decision that former Bachelor star Ben Higgins called “cruel and unnecessary.” “Do I have a choice?,” Tran asked host Jesse Palmer as he teed up the footage. It seems she didn’t. The decision to air the footage was made by Claire Freeland,…

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish screenwriter Javier Gullón has been tapped to adapt Final Boarding, a horror film for Sony’s Screem Gems, based on a short story by Clarence Hammond. Plot details for the film are under wraps. Ashley Brucks optioned the story when she started as President of Screen Gems in the fall of 2023. Exec-turned-producer Hammond will produce alongside Brucks, his former colleague at Paramount Players. This marks the second studio horror project that Gullón has lined up recently, following his pitch sale of the Sarah Pinsker novella Two Truths and a Lie to Walter Hamada’s 18hz and Paramount. Prior to…

After investing more than five years perfecting his Bob Dylan chops as A Complete Unknown wound its way to production, Timothée Chalamet saved his most persuasive performance for the film’s crew. Production audio mixed Tod Maitland, part of the team nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound for the film, recalled the star coming to him 10 minutes before a key scene started shooting at New York’s Carnegie Hall. “He said, ‘I’m going live,’” Maitland recalled. The idea had surfaced during rehearsals, but once the decision was made at the start of the 53-day shoot, decades’ worth of moviemaking customs…

EXCLUSIVE: Great news for Blue Bloods fans — one of the beloved police drama’s signature characters, Donnie Wahlberg‘s Danny Reagan, will be back on CBS with a new ‘Blue’ cop show in a new city. CBS has given a straight-to-series order to Boston Blue (working title), a universe expansion of the long-running Blue Bloods, for the 2025-2026 broadcast season. In the new series, from writers Brandon Sonnier & Brandon Margolis (S.W.A.T.), Wahlberg will reprise his role as NYPD Detective Danny Reagan as he takes a position with Boston PD. Once in Boston, he is paired with Detective Lena Peters, the…

Harvey Weinstein is set to go to trial again in New York City for rape in April, however in the meantime, the incarcerated former producer is lashing out legally at his brother Bob Weinstein and former COO David Glasser over an old $45 million loan that was supposed to save The Weinstein Company in 2016. Seeking a self-described “claw back of any improperly appropriated or ill gained assets and/or monetary sums taken by Third-Party Defendants” and other damages, Weinstein’s filing is “an action for fraud arising from the Defendants’ inducement of Weinstein to sign as a personal guarantor for a…

UPDATED: Edward Berger’s Vatican drama Conclave was one of the big winners at the BAFTA Film Awards this evening, with four wins including Best Film, the British Film Academy’s top prize. The film also took wins in Outstanding British Film and Adapted Screenplay. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The film’s haul of four was matched by Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which landed wins in Best Director, Leading Actor for Adrien Broady, and cinematography for Lol Crawley. Netflix’s beleaguered genre mash up Emilia Perez won two awards, Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña and Film Not In The English Language…

SPOILERS: This post contains details about Captain America: Brave New World Although Captain America: Brave New World has hit theaters during a particularly divisive time for the United States, those behind the MCU sequel would ask fans not to read too much into it. During Tuesday’s world premiere in Hollywood, star Anthony Mackie and director Julius Onah spoke to Deadline about offering audiences an “escape” with the fourth Captain America film, which sees Mackie’s Sam Wilson achieve the “American Dream” in taking over the shield from Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). “I think the great thing about this movie is, Marvel…