Author: Deadline

The two shows represent a blast of contrast: Adolescence is gritty and minimalist. The Studio is noisily over the top. Yet both are dominating the conversation among critics and cinephiles and are impacting viewers worldwide. Adolescence is topping Netflix charts in 71 countries with its probe of the “male rage” lurking in a benign 13-year-old boy (played by Owen Cooper). Created and directed by a British actor Stephen Graham, the four-part series is reminiscent of ’60s-era documentary filmmaking. The Studio from Apple TV+ is a throwback to the fierce satiric comedies of Blake Edwards (The SOBs in 1971) depicting an…

Tom Hiddleston is set to reprise his role of Loki in Avengers: Doomsday in his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hiddleston was one of the many actors confirmed to return to the MCU and was recently asked about the film, which the Russo Brothers will direct. “[I’m] very, very excited,” Hiddleston told ComicBook. “It’s really remarkable that I can talk about it because mostly I’m in a position of knowing and not being able to say anything … it’s been an extraordinary chapter of my life playing Loki, and it’s not over yet.” Hiddleston has played the anti-hero across…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Coogler is 4-for-4. He’s written and directed four films, all heart and all winners: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He puts that streak on the line with Sinners, an original elevated horror film that takes his usual onscreen companion, Michael B. Jordan, on a decidedly different trip. Jordan plays twin WWI vet enforcer brothers, Smoke and Stack, who come home to start a blues club in 1930s Mississippi. They expect an obstacle from the KKK but not to run smack into a thirsty group of vampires determined to crash the party as they…

EXCLUSIVE: Director and actress Joan Chen signs with Anonymous Content for management. Chen can most recently be seen in Sean Wang’s DiDi, for which she was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award. She will next be seen in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, alongside Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang, which releases theatrically on April 18. Following this, she will star in the Amazon MGM holiday comedy Oh. What. Fun., alongside Felicity Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer. It was recently announced that Chen will also star in the Netflix series “Remarkably Bright Creatures” alongside Sally Field. Her career began with her winning the prestigious “Hundred Flowers…

How do you live when Vladimir Putin wants you dead? That’s the dilemma facing Christo Grozev, a man often described as a “rock star investigative journalist.” The story of how he became persona non grata — песона нон грата, if you prefer – with the Kremlin is told in the documentary Antidote, directed by James Jones, which just made its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. “Someone asked me the other day, how many people are on Putin’s kill list? And I was like, ‘I have no idea,’” Jones says as he and Grozev join Deadline at a café at…

With her new presidential action flick G20, Viola Davis understands the desire to politicize her role. Noting they made the movie before Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to Donald Trump, the Oscar winner can see “probably in hindsight” how her butt-kicking politician character President Danielle Sutton might make voters long for what could have been. “I do not think it’s a suspension of disbelief to imagine someone who looks like me as the president,” Davis told UK’s The Times. Davis also explained why President Sutton’s political party is never clarified in the film. “If you get down to the…

FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: Mr. Zaslav, I’d like to direct your attention over to the motion picture executive suite where co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have an absolute, jaw-dropping hit on their hands in Legendary‘s A Minecraft Movie. Let the record show. Today is $50M alone, and that includes last night’s near-$11M in previews. The weekend is well north of $100M at 4,263 theaters, with some rivals seeing $130M+. It’s clearly the biggest opening YTD on a 3-day basis ahead of Captain America: Brave New World‘s $88.8M. That also means it will be the biggest weekend of 2025 YTD…

EXCLUSIVE: House of Gods director Fadia Abboud is directing a “boundary pushing” sci-fi feature about under-represented communities in Australia. The feature from not-for-profit outfit Co-Curious follows the story of five unique characters: a Samoan fa’afafine landscaper, a high-powered Arab property developer who is also a fulltime carer, a Lebanese matriarch with a secret younger lover, a socially marginalised cleaner wrestling with his past, and a dreamer who is pulled into the orbit of her mother’s Orthodox church. The characters and stories of the film draw on the cultural backgrounds of the writers and provide a commentary on what it means…

Billboard Women in Music 2025 EXCLUSIVE: The Ron Howard-directed survival thriller Eden has been acquired in a U.S. rights deal by Vertical, with the distributor plotting an August 22 nationwide theatrical release. Scripted by Noah Pink (Tetris) from a fact-based story he wrote with Howard, the drama from Imagine Entertainment and AGC Studios stars Jude Law (The Order), Ana de Armas (Ballerina), Vanessa Kirby (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Daniel Brühl (All Quiet on the Western Front), Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate), Toby Wallace and Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front). They are the members of three parties who flee post-World…

Billboard Women in Music 2025 EXCLUSIVE: Kate Hollowell, the Sundance-winning multihyphenate creator, is coming on board to direct Something Murdered for Amblin Entertainment. The project is an original idea written by Liz Benham that Amblin picked up last year. Hollowell will rewrite to direct as a feature. Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham, Tyler Gillett and Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin executive producing. Plot details are unknown. Hollowell’s short film Say Hi After You Die, which she directed, wrote and starred in, won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award in 2024 and won Best Director at HollyShorts. She is also a…