Author: Deadline

Amazon Prime Video has quietly removed artwork of James Bond after fans of the franchise noticed that 007 had been stripped of his firearm in all of the images. Deadline has confirmed that the original artwork was replaced by stills from the Ian Fleming spy movies over the weekend, following a social media backlash that coincided with James Bond Day on October 5. Prime Video declined to comment on the matter. On Friday, a number of Bond fans in the UK noticed that special Prime Video artwork had airbrushed out his gun. This included posters of Sean Connery’s Dr. No…

While discussing her Hamptons International Film Festival opener Eternity earlier today, Elizabeth Olsen acknowledged she “always” wants to return to the MCU “It is something that I love, and it’s something I always want to return to,” she said at a panel conversation, per People. “I think the thing that’s been so special about the last five years is I’ve gotten to do so much with the character that I never thought I would. There are still character through lines that have happened in the comics that I’d love to do that I think fans also want to.” Olsen continued,…

Taylor Swift’s preface of her new theatrical release — “The Fate of Ophelia” music video followed by lyric videos to each of her already record-breaking The Life of a Showgirl’s 12 songs interspersed with brief descriptions of her inspiration behind each song and brainstorming behind the music video — welcomes viewers to her next era, which she hopes will surprise them. For an intense fandom that received first news of a somewhat unexpected new album so close to the end of a behemoth concert tour followed by the singer’s engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, conjuring surprises…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s remembered as one of boxing’s most controversial title fights, and now a documentary feature will relive that fateful night. All-time great Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jr.’s victory over WBC Welterweight champ Victor ‘Vicious’ Ortiz on September 17, 2011 will be told in Re-Match, a doc from director Dexton Deboree (Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1, Best Shape of My Life with Will Smith). Frank Ariza’s production house, AF Films, and Spanish-British actress-producer Itziar Fay are producing. In the fourth round of a spiky fight, Mayweather knocked out reigning WBC champ Ortiz in controversial fashion. Ortiz appeared to be apologizing to…

Prime Video is going even deeper into the YA genre. The Amazon streamer made a host of announcements around young adult films and TV shows today at an event in Ibiza, with Culpa Tuya star Nicole Wallace and its writer Mercedes Ron among those in the spotlight. As we reported here, Wallace has signed a talent deal with Prime Video, while Amazon outlined details of its fruitful relationship with Ron, who is currently in the process of having her Dímelo Bajito and Marfil book sagas turned into movie trilogies. Ron was onstage at the event showcasing a pact with Prime…

EXCLUSIVE: France’s Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, also known as Cinemed, and Beirut-based Arab cinema platform Aflamuna have unveiled the seven projects selected for its 4th project incubator event supporting independent filmmakers from across the Middle East and Africa. They include Palestinian West Bank director’s Bilal Alkhatib documentary My Name Is Khalil, a portrait of a young actor and filmmaker’s search for identity, having been named after a brother who died in the first Intifada. Syria also features strongly in the selection with Jalal Maghout’s animation Recordanza, about a young Syrian writer seeking a fresh start in Berlin, and Hanna Karim’s…

Celine Dion and Omar Sy have been announced alongside Benjamin Lavernhe, Antoine de Caunes, Clémence Poésy, Pom Klementieff and Alain Chabat for the French-language voice cast of High in the Clouds. Adapted from McCartney’s eponymous 2005 children’s book, the 3D animated family film follows the adventures of a teenager squirrel called Wirral who accidentally sparks a revolution against Gretsch, the bossy diva-owl who has banned all music from his town. Dion, Poésy, Klementieff and Chabat were also previously announced for the animation‘s English-language voice cast, led by Himesh Patel as Wirral and Hannah Waddington as Gretsch as well as featuring…

The creator of AI actress Tilly Norwood has put out a statement following a fierce backlash in response to news over the weekend that talent agents were looking to sign the AI-generated character. Tilly Norwood is the creation of actress, comedian and technologist Eline Van der Velden, CEO of AI-focused production company Particle 6, who has also just launched AI talent studio Xicoia. “To those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art. Like many forms of…

Before Ethan Hawke was the four-time Oscar-nominated performer and writer he is today, as a young up-and-comer The Lowdown star crossed paths with Robert Redford during an audition for his 1992 period drama A River Runs Through It. Sharing a fond memory of that first meeting on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the established screen actor called Redford, with whom he became friendly throughout the years, “one of the heroes of my life.” The Blue Moon star paid tribute to both Redford and his good friend and collaborator, the late Paul Newman, citing both venerated performers as quintessential role models of what…

“Culture and cinema are under attack,” was the warning from mk2 Chairman Nathanaël Karmitz during a timely Zurich Summit panel on the topic of how the culture and entertainment sectors can navigate political interference and social media vitriol. Karmitz, a leading cinema owner and film financier in France, told delegates that the company had recently organized talks devoted to its movies but that social media abuse had made it a lot harder to continue with the events: “Now we have far right Twitter accounts that systematically attack everything about movies and French movies,” he said. “There are polemics around the…