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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…

Although Dick Van Dyke had to miss the third iteration of his Vandy Camp fan gathering this weekend, he was there in spirit. The 6x Emmy winner’s wife Arlene Silver announced that he was “not up to” attending Saturday’s event in Malibu as planned, but he was tuning into the livestream as fans shared well wishes in his absence. “I’m sorry. When you’re 99-and-a-half years old, you have good days and bad days, and when you’re 40 years old, you have good days and bad days,” said Silver on stage, according to USA Today. “Unfortunately, today is not a good…

Ducks of a feather, Joshua Jackson and Marguerite Moreau are sticking together more than 30 years later to show their Mighty Ducks pride. The pair, who starred together in the 1992 Disney movie, repped the Anaheim Ducks on Friday as they suited up in the team’s jerseys (with their to announce their first-round picks of the 2025 NHL Draft at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles. “It’s been a while since I wore 96, so it’s nice to have back on,” said Jackson on NHL Tonight as he and Moreau sported jerseys with their characters’ names and team numbers. While…

Four years later, Scarlett Johansson is still stuck in the Twilight Zone while trying to figure out her Tower of Terror update. After Deadline announced in 2021 that she’ll produce a new film inspired by the Disney World ride and written by Josh Cooley, the 2x Oscar nominee recently teased that the script is “taking shape” as they attempt to flesh out the narrative of the attraction. “It’s a hard nut to crack,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “Harder than you think, because the ride itself, there’s some lore to it, but it’s… I don’t want to say thin, but it…

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and RedBird Capital Gerry Cardinale‘s independent artist-led studio, Artists Equity, has signed an overall three-year theatrical feature film agreement with Sony Pictures. The deal calls for Sony handling the global release of Artists Equity productions. The Culver City lot will also finance the films and handle all ancillaries, with Artists Equity having the option to co-finance individual projects. Artists Equity has had a long-running non-exclusive relationship with Amazon MGM Studios on such movies as Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 ($102M global box office), Affleck’s Air Jordan Nike movie Air ($90M global) and the William Goldenberg directed, Jennifer…

EXCLUSIVE: It was 50 years ago that Jerry Bruckheimer got his first full credit as producer, after switching from Madison Avenue to make movies. Billions in ticket sale grosses from the biggest franchises the business has seen followed his move, in establishing him as really the only brand name producer whose name is featured in ad spots. And he will be the first one to say it’s all an exercise in problem solving. On F1, star Brad Pitt illustrated a major creative dilemma when he introduced the film at its Radio City Music Hall premiere. As big a star as…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ feature adaptation of Yesteryear, the forthcoming novel by Caro Claire Burke, has found its writer in Emmy winner Hannah Friedman (Obi-Wan, Willow). Anne Hathaway remains attached to star and will produce through her Somewhere Pictures banner, alongside Adam Shulman, as well as Suzan Bymel and Guymon Casady for Entertainment 360. Somewhere Pictures’ Jonathan Rice will exec produce alongside 360’s Alex Holcomb. Entertainment 360 identified the hot novel last year through a literary scout, getting it in front of Hathaway and Shulman, with whom they teamed to take in to Amazon MGM Studios, winning a bidding war…

Deadline is launching a new writer-focused series Proper Presents: Deadline Dinners, an event designed to foster candid conversation, celebrate breakthrough storytelling and build community around the written word. The first event will take place Tuesday, June 24 and be hosted by Tory Kamen, the screenwriter behind Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great that just had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Kamen will invite a roster of young female screenwriters to honor the fresh perspectives and powerful storytelling of women making their mark in the entertainment industry. All events will take place at the Santa Monica Proper…

Apple TV+ has inked a new multi-year, first-look feature film deal with The North Road Company‘s Chernin Entertainment, the flagship scripted film label behind such titles as Hidden Figures, Ford v Ferrari, The Greatest Showman and Planet of the Apes. On the television side, Chernin Entertainment is already a partner of the streaming platform, producing the upcoming historical miniseries Chief of War starring Jason Momoa, about the unification and colonization of Hawaii at the turn of the 18th century, set to premiere Aug. 1. It is also behind the Emmy-nominated See, also featuring Momoa; NAACP Image Award-winning Truth Be Told…