Author: Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Shirley MacLaine wailed during her acceptance speech when she won her Oscar back in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, “I’m gonna cry because this show has been as long as my career!” Spare a thought for three of this year’s Best Actress nominees, Demi Moore, Karla Sofia Gascón and Mickey Madison, because for them, awards season has been running since last May when their movies, The Substance, Emilia Pérez and Anora, respectively, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. “It’s been nearly a year,” Moore tells me helpfully, when we meet at the annual Charles Finch/Chanel pre-Oscars soirée in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Her…

Angie Stone, a veteran soul and R&B singer, has died at 63 after a Sprinter van accident in Alabama. The 3x Grammy nominee’s daughter Diamond Stone announced her mother’s death Saturday on social media following the accident that occurred as she was leaving a performance early that morning in Montgomery, Alabama. “My mommy is gone,” wrote Diamond Stone on Facebook. Angie Stone’s rep Deborah R. Champagne also confirmed the death to TMZ following the accident. Born Dec. 18, 1961 in Columbia, South Carolina, Angela Laverne Brown got her start with hip hop trio The Sequence in the 1970s, before joining…

Medication found at Gene Hackman‘s Santa Fe home may provide more information on how the Oscar winner and wife Betsy Arakawa died. With conflicting missives emerging over what led to the deaths of the couple, the state of the on-going police probe will be revealed later Friday in a press conference, the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office said today. Ahead of the 3 p.m. MT presser, the Sheriff Adam Mendoza-led department has provided details on what a search warrant of the 95-year-old Hackman and the 63-year-old classical pianist’s home produced. Sought about 8 hours after the couple and one of their…

Days before the Oscars, a war of words has broken out between two key below-the-line workers over the credits on The Substance. Frédérique Arguello, who was head of the hair department on the Demi Moore-led horror movie, has claimed she was passed over for an Oscar nomination in the Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling category in favor of her assistant Marilyne Scarselli. Scarselli, alongside special makeup effects designer Pierre Olivier Persin and key makeup artist Stéphanie Guillon, are listed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the official nominees in the category, one of five overall noms…

The cause and manner of Michelle Trachtenberg‘s death will remain undetermined, according to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Trachtenberg’s famly requested that no autopsy be conducted, according to multiple media reports. The medical examiner’s office would automatically do an autopsy if foul play or criminality was suspected, but there is none, so the office did not overrule the family’s decision. Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday at a luxury residential tower in midtown Manhattan where Trachtenberg was found unresponsive. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. She was 39. The…

Much of world cinema’s lost works have been victims of either technology with poor materials like nitrate film or the ignorance of a limited and often bigoted industry. Thankfully for film fans, it is becoming increasingly difficult for either to deal a death blow to a film’s trajectory.  Social and technological advancements also continue to aid our rediscovery of past great works like Zeinabu irene Davis’s debut feature Compensation, which embarked on its first wide release this past Friday just over 25 years since its festival debut.  Compensation screened at Sundance in 2000, receiving positive notices from critics like Roger…

EXCLUSIVE: The Whiplash Oscar winner is boarding the David Ayer directed Paramount Pictures production Heart of the Beast opposite Brad Pitt. It’s the second time that J.K. Simmons as worked with Ayer after the 2005 Christian Bale crime drama Harsh Times, and it’s the third time he’s starred in a Pitt movie after 2001’s The Mexican and the Coen Brothers George Clooney-Frances McDormand 2008 comedy caper Burn After Reading. Deadline first told you about Heart of the Beast. Cameron Alexander, who penned the script, will executive produce. The movie follows a former Army Special Forces Soldier and his retired combat…

After a year of development, Top Gun 3 is not quite ready for takeoff. Jay Ellis, who plays Lt. Reuben ‘Payback’ Fitch in Top Gun: Maverick, recently gave an update on the third installment, which was Deadline reported was in the works at Paramount in January 2024. “So here’s what the story’s going to be. It’s going to be Payback. No, no,” he jokingly told Us Weekly. “In all honesty, they’re still working on the script. They’re still working on the story. They’re wanting to get it right.” Ellis added that co-star and producer Tom Cruise “is a stickler, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is working on a $6M to $7M deal to acquire Selena Y Los Dinos, the Isabel Castro-directed documentary about the slain queen of Tejano Music. Other bidders are in the mix as Cinetic auctions a film that became so popular that when Sundance put it on its portal for industry to watch, the film had to be taken down so quickly became fervent fans were getting hold of clips and posting them. Deal’s not done, but this puts a different face on the recently completed Sundance fest, because that is a high amount for a documentary. Stay tuned.…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenn Tran, star of the last season of The Bachelorette, was in tears, her mother sitting yards away, as she watched footage of her proposing to Devin Strader on ABC’s After The Final Rose live finale. The engagement hadn’t worked out and was over before Tran was forced to relive that day alongside Strader. It was a decision that former Bachelor star Ben Higgins called “cruel and unnecessary.” “Do I have a choice?,” Tran asked host Jesse Palmer as he teed up the footage. It seems she didn’t. The decision to air the footage was made by Claire Freeland,…