Author: Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing A Murder to Remember, a feature adaptation of Brynn Kelly‘s Audible Original from Grey Gardens helmer Michael Sucsy. A Murder is described as a razor-sharp romantic thriller that follows a Jane Austen-obsessed American art expert and a broke but charming British lord who awaken after a blackout-drunk night at a crumbling English abbey convinced they witnessed a murder. With no evidence of a crime and no one willing to believe them, the unlikely pair must uncover the truth before the killer silences them for good. Kelly’s audiobook, described to Deadline as Knives Out meets…

As Prime Video’s Reacher prepares a fifth and sixth season, the franchise’s creator is happy with the freedom provided by this adaptation. Author Lee Child, who penned the Jack Reacher books on which the series is based, explained why he “exercised that veto” on a third entry in the Tom Cruise movies, opting instead for the “fabulous luxury” of a streaming series. “I had a clause in that movie contract that after two movies I had a veto whether we would do any more. I exercised that veto,” he told Collider. “The deal was done in 2005, and it finished…

The British invasion of the mid-1960s was a multi-pronged attack, an assault led above all by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. Their seismic impact on American and world culture has been well documented. But of the leaders of those three mega-bands, perhaps the most mysterious remains Pete Townshend, The Who’s songwriter and enigmatic eminence, thrashing chords and smashing guitars while Roger Daltry handled lead vocals. His sheer brilliance and rock innovation is captured in the documentary Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes, which held its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. It’s directed by Frank Marshall (The…

Joe Cortese (Green Book) and Julia Ormond (Sabrina) join me for this special edition of Deadline’s The Backstory to talk about the origin and production of their new film Here’s Yianni!, the rare motion picture to focus on a marriage not just at its happy beginning but also nearing its end and still as passionate and dedicated as it ever was — especially in the face of a devastating health crisis when one of them is diagnosed with dementia. Director Christina Eliopoulos, who based this story on her own father, and producer Valerie McCaffrey also join in the conversation to…

The Château de Versailles has unveiled a major exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sofia Coppola’s cult 2006 film Marie Antoinette. Running from September 22, 2026, through January 24, 2027, at the Petit Trianon, the presentation marks the first time in the palace’s history that an entire exhibition is dedicated to a single motion picture. Conceived in close collaboration with Coppola, the showcase displays the film’s craftsmanship, aesthetic choices, and lasting impact on cinema, fashion, and contemporary culture. Co-curated by Laurent Salomé, Director of the National Museum of the Châteaux de Versailles and Trianon, and Hélène Delalex, Chief Heritage Curator…

Colleen Hoover had written 16 of her wildly successful romance novels before switching gears in 2018 and taking a shot at writing a psychological thriller, Verity. She even self-published it, and it led to yet another literary triumph, one that seems perhaps a bit more personal than most of her output since the two main female characters are both book authors of the same type of material Hoover usually traffics in. So this begs the question: Could one or both of them actually be alter egos for Hoover herself? Well, at least it makes for a good guessing game. With…

EXCLUSIVE: True Brit Entertainment, the UK theatrical distributor founded by former Lionsgate executive Zygi Kamasa, has effectively filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Deadline understands that True Brit, which has distributed titles including Hugh Jackman’s The Death of Robin Hood, has appointed administrators at Simons Muirhead Burton to oversee the company’s affairs. True Brit launched in 2023 with backing from Three Six Zero, the talent management and entertainment company that has repped stars including Calvin Klein and FKA Twigs. Marv Studios, co-founded by Matthew Vaughn, also has a stake in True Brit. Launched with an ambition to focus exclusively on British…

EXCLUSIVE: Women Like Us, the Netflix film from the Obamas’ Higher Ground and Charles D. King’s Macro Film Studios, has rounded out its cast with nine additions: Greg Tarzan Davis (Top Gun), Melanie Liburd (Bad Boys: Ride or Die), Harry Lennix (The Blacklist), Joy Bryant (Parenthood), Danielle Pinnock (Ghosts), Dewayne Perkins (The Studio), six-time Grammy winner Samara Joy, Tiffany Boone (Mufasa: The Lion King) and Gail Bean (The Drop: A Snowfall Saga). Character details haven’t been disclosed. Announced in July, the film is led by Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams, Jenifer Lewis and Whoopi Goldberg. Women Like Us is the…

Former Disney exec Kevin Mayer, who oversaw his former employer’s 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox, has shared his thoughts on the Paramount-Warner Bros merger. The pragmatic exec, who has been co-CEO of Blackstone-backed media company Candle Media since 2021, told a panel at the Zurich Summit this weekend that consolidation in the media and entertainment sector was inevitable in a period of declining revenues. “If we’re going to be intellectually honest about answering this question, you have to also ask yourself, what would happen if the merger didn’t happen,” he said in a response to a question on the…

William Goldman’s adage that “nobody knows anything” never gets old. If studios and financiers knew what was going to work every time, everyone would be rich and the industry would be a lot less interesting. The old saying reared its head today at the Zurich Summit when filmmakers and brokers behind the year’s horror phenomena Backrooms and Obsession admitted that they didn’t know their films were about to go stratospheric. There’s absolutely no shame in admitting that. No one knew quite how enormous both films would become, even if many clearly believed in the films and the filmmakers. “You know,…