Author: Deadline

Utopia, which knows its way around a music documentary (Meet Me In The Bathroom, Crestone) opened Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements at the Film Forum in NYC to $13.2k with sold-out Q&As and plans to roll the Venice-premiering satirical hybrid doc/mockumentary across key markets in May ahead of a national release June 6. It’s sitting at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes (31 reviews). Each stop of the road show from LA (sold out preview at Vidiots on the 8th) and Brooklyn next weekend (also holding at the Film Forum) to San Francisco, Nashville, Knoxville, Portland and Chicago — feature sold and selling-out…

Paul Feig is open to yet another Simple Favor. The director of the twisty, campy crime dramedy and its recently debuted follow-up, Another Simple Favor, said he “would love” to explore a threequel following Anna Kendrick’s mommy vlogger Stephanie and Blake Lively’s conniving con-woman Emily Nelson. “I definitely know where I want it to go,” he told People in a new interview. “We’ll see if everybody wants to do a third one. It was too much fun — I would love to get back together with this group and these characters and send them on an even weirder, international adventure, if possible.”…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sheen has been tapped by James Cameron to narrate the audio book of Ghosts of Hiroshima, the Charles Pellegrino book set for publication by Blackstone on August 5. Cameron plans to use the book as the basis for a film of the same name, which the filmmaker will direct as his first non-Avatar film since 1997’s Titanic. The project has been a labor of love for Cameron for fifteen years, and the three time Emmy winner Sheen was part of that dream. “Martin Sheen is my dream come true to read this book for audio,” Cameron told Deadline. “His…

Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) and Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) are set to star in Ruin, a new thriller based on the screenplay by Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo (Marvel’s Eternals), which topped the Black List in 2017. Hailing from Niki Caro, the director behind titles like The Mother and Mulan, the film is set in the ruins of post-WWII Germany, following a recently released camp prisoner (Gadot) who is forced to make an unlikely alliance with a German soldier (Schoenaerts) in a mutual quest to exact revenge on a Nazi SS squad. It brings Caro back to WWII following…

President Trump’s first 100 days in office have been marked by a concerted effort to stigmatize trans people and deny them rights. A week after re-entering the White House he issued an executive order banning transgendered people from enlisting or serving in the U.S. military (last month, a federal judge blocked that order, declaring it “soaked in animus”). In January, Trump also signed an executive order “directing federal agencies to withhold funds from medical providers and institutions that provide gender-affirming medical treatments for people under 19,” according to the ACLU, which is suing to overturn that directive. On his very…

The International Cinematographers Guild has chosen John Lindley as its new president and revealed the results of the rest of its officers elections. See the full list below. Lindley is returning to a role he previously held from March 2020 through June 2022, succeeding outgoing president Baird Benton Steptoe Sr. He, as well as all newly elected officers, will assume their positions in June 2025 and serve a three-year term, ending in June 2028. Per the ICG, 35.6% of eligible voters cast a ballot in this election. Lindley received 1,482 votes, while other candidates Dave Perkal and Baird B Steptoe…

EXCLUSIVE: Linden Productions has acquired rights to adapt bestselling author Eric Blehm’s latest book, The Darkest White. Riva Marker of Linden Productions will produce the film alongside Storm City. Blehm will remain on the project and serve as an Executive Producer.  The book tells the extraordinary and inspiring journey of Craig Kelly, a latchkey kid whose athletic prowess and innovations would revolutionize winter sports, take him around the globe, and push him into ever more extreme environments that would ultimately take his life. It is also a definitive, immersive account of snowboarding and the cultural movement that exploded around it, growing the sport from minor Gen X cult hobby to Olympic centerpiece…

More than 40 years later, Ralph Macchio paid back Francis Ford Coppola the best way he knew how at the director’s AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute. During Saturday’s gala at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the actor recalled an important lesson the filmmaker taught him on the set of 1983’s The Outsiders, repaying him with a “symbol of gratitude” for giving him his breakout role. “I remember early on, to help me understand my character better, Francis gave me $5 and told me to try to get through the day on just that,” recounted as he reunited with co-star…

Although Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones lead the upcoming romantic drama On Swift Horses, don’t expect the typical sparks between the pair. Director Daniel Minahan teased the film, now playing in theaters, and how the dynamic between Elordi’s Julius and Edgar-Jones’ Muriel “transcends even sexuality” to explore the LGBTQ characters’ “platonic” romance. “I thought it was so unique, the idea of these two queer people falling in love and having this huge impact on each other’s lives,” Minahan told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s a romance that’s platonic, but it transcends even sexuality. It was a really interesting way to keep people…

BAFTA winner Emma Mackey (Sex Education) is set to play the White Witch in Netflix‘s Narnia movie from filmmaker Greta Gerwig, sources have confirmed to Deadline. She takes over a role to which Charli xcx had previously been linked. The reasons for the musician’s departure aren’t clear. Netflix declined to comment. Mackey joins a cast that will also include Daniel Craig, as uncle of Digory Kirke, and Meryl Streep as lion Aslan the Great. The film will reportedly adapt The Magician’s Nephew, the sixth novel in the Narnia series from author C.S. Lewis, which tells the origin story of Narnia.…