Author: Deadline

Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning were among the winners at the 11th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards Saturday in Beverly Hills. Rachael Harris (Suits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) hosted the ceremony that’s meant to spotlight outstanding filming locations that sent the tone and enhance the narrative for international features, television and commercials. The LMGI Humanitarian Award was also given to the Motion Picture & Television Fund for continuing to provide a range of health and social services to the entertainment community. Accepting on behalf of the MPTF was Jennifer Jorge, MPTF’s Director of Community Social Services. Here are the winners of the 11th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards: OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN…

“I forgot to remember to forget,” sang Elvis Presley in 1955, and similar mental gymnastics are required to figure out what’s actually happening — or has been happening — in this upscale twisty-turny horror thriller. But although it raises serious and intriguing questions about hot-button issues and features a top-notch cast that couldn’t possibly be bettered, Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut winds up leaving us to ponder more moral conundrums than it can properly answer in the format of high-end genre film. The premise is a very good and timely one (think of a female-fronted Get Out), but the script doesn’t…

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro‘s A Pale View of Hills will be distributed by GAGA Corporation and produced by Japan‘s Bunbuku and the U.K.’s Number 9 Films. Set to be released in Japan in summer 2025 and already in production, A Pale View of Hills is exec-produced by Ishiguro and directed by Kei Ishikawa. Ishikawa directed Gukoroku: Traces of Sin and A Man, which both premiered in the Venice Film Festival. U-Next’s Hiroyuki Ishiguro will lead the producing team of the film. A Pale View of Hills is Ishiguro’s debut novel, with his other works like Remains of the Day…

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus. Despite having the biggest movie of the week, there are some critics Fede Álvarez just can’t convince. The Alien: Romulus director briefly dropped into an Alien franchise subreddit this week to chat with fans about his new sequel, but the moderators weren’t having it, flagging Álvarez as an imposter in a notice that he is “permanently banned” from the subreddit. “Got banned from the ALIEN subreddit for apparently trying to impersonate, myself,” he wrote on X with a laughing emoji, sharing a screenshot of the message. The moderator shared an update that Álvarez…

18 international projects have been selected as part of the Busan Story Market, which runs during the Busan International Film Festival. There are 10 projects from Taiwan, six from Japan and two from France. These selections join the 29 Korean IP selections for the Busan Story Market and 30 titles for the Asian Project Market, which all fall under the Asian Contents & Film Market umbrella. This year’s edition of the Busan Story Market features French IPs selected by the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in the Republic of Korea, which include one book and one web novel.…

The tenure of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot at Warner Bros. Television is expected to cross the 20-year mark. The company is in advanced negotiations with Warner Bros. to re-up its film and TV deal with the studio, sources tell Deadline. The pending multi-year extension comes more than two years after Bad Robot’s current massive five-year pact experienced serious turbulence at the half point following the April 2022 close of the Warner. Bros.-Discovery merger when it was among a number of big-ticket items scrutinized by the new regime. At that time, HBO pulled the plug on Abrams’ sci-fi drama Demimonde before…

Thai breakout hit How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has landed North American distribution. The film has secured a theatrical release through Well Go USA, and in China via Teamer Media, South Korea (NK Contents), UK & Ireland (Vertigo Releasing), the Netherlands (Vedette Film), Belgium (Vedette Film) and India (PVR). The film will open in China on August 23, North America on September 13, the Netherlands on October 10, South Korea in October, Belgium on November 13 and UK & Irelend in December. The film’s release date in India has not been confirmed yet. Produced by Thai studio GDH,…

Harrison Ford made a simple brown felt fedora hat an era-defining style statement when he donned it in the Indiana Jones movie series, and now it’s sold for an astonishing $630,000. The BBC reports that the hat was specifically created for the 1984 second instalment of the record-breaking series, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  The hat reached $630,000 at auction on Thursday in Los Angeles. Other items sold at the same time included props from the Star Wars franchise, alongside Harry Potter and James Bond productions.  The auction house said the hat was also used during additional photography…

The first trailer for Goodrich debuted on Friday, teasing Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis as an estranged father and daughter reconnecting. Keaton stars as Andy Goodrich, whose life is upended when his wife and mother of their 9-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his grown daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Kunis), who is now pregnant, as he ultimately evolves into the father she never had.  “I am 27 years older than you, which is basically unheard of for siblings……

Taiwan‘s Ministry of Culture (MOC) has selected Old Fox as its entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 2025 Academy Awards. Old Fox is directed by Hsiao Ya-chuan, who won Best Director at the Golden Horse Film Awards last year for the film. Hsiao has directed works like Taipei Exchanges (2010) and Father to Son (2018). Selected as Taiwan’s submission from a pool of 14 films, Old Fox follows an 11-year old boy living with his poor father as he navigates the struggles between the worldliness and kindness of humanity. The boy soon befriends his landlord, nicknamed…