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EXCLUSIVE: Spanish screenwriter Javier Gullón has been tapped to adapt Final Boarding, a horror film for Sony’s Screem Gems, based on a short story by Clarence Hammond. Plot details for the film are under wraps. Ashley Brucks optioned the story when she started as President of Screen Gems in the fall of 2023. Exec-turned-producer Hammond will produce alongside Brucks, his former colleague at Paramount Players. This marks the second studio horror project that Gullón has lined up recently, following his pitch sale of the Sarah Pinsker novella Two Truths and a Lie to Walter Hamada’s 18hz and Paramount. Prior to…

After investing more than five years perfecting his Bob Dylan chops as A Complete Unknown wound its way to production, Timothée Chalamet saved his most persuasive performance for the film’s crew. Production audio mixed Tod Maitland, part of the team nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound for the film, recalled the star coming to him 10 minutes before a key scene started shooting at New York’s Carnegie Hall. “He said, ‘I’m going live,’” Maitland recalled. The idea had surfaced during rehearsals, but once the decision was made at the start of the 53-day shoot, decades’ worth of moviemaking customs…

EXCLUSIVE: Great news for Blue Bloods fans — one of the beloved police drama’s signature characters, Donnie Wahlberg‘s Danny Reagan, will be back on CBS with a new ‘Blue’ cop show in a new city. CBS has given a straight-to-series order to Boston Blue (working title), a universe expansion of the long-running Blue Bloods, for the 2025-2026 broadcast season. In the new series, from writers Brandon Sonnier & Brandon Margolis (S.W.A.T.), Wahlberg will reprise his role as NYPD Detective Danny Reagan as he takes a position with Boston PD. Once in Boston, he is paired with Detective Lena Peters, the…

Harvey Weinstein is set to go to trial again in New York City for rape in April, however in the meantime, the incarcerated former producer is lashing out legally at his brother Bob Weinstein and former COO David Glasser over an old $45 million loan that was supposed to save The Weinstein Company in 2016. Seeking a self-described “claw back of any improperly appropriated or ill gained assets and/or monetary sums taken by Third-Party Defendants” and other damages, Weinstein’s filing is “an action for fraud arising from the Defendants’ inducement of Weinstein to sign as a personal guarantor for a…

UPDATED: Edward Berger’s Vatican drama Conclave was one of the big winners at the BAFTA Film Awards this evening, with four wins including Best Film, the British Film Academy’s top prize. The film also took wins in Outstanding British Film and Adapted Screenplay. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The film’s haul of four was matched by Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which landed wins in Best Director, Leading Actor for Adrien Broady, and cinematography for Lol Crawley. Netflix’s beleaguered genre mash up Emilia Perez won two awards, Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña and Film Not In The English Language…

SPOILERS: This post contains details about Captain America: Brave New World Although Captain America: Brave New World has hit theaters during a particularly divisive time for the United States, those behind the MCU sequel would ask fans not to read too much into it. During Tuesday’s world premiere in Hollywood, star Anthony Mackie and director Julius Onah spoke to Deadline about offering audiences an “escape” with the fourth Captain America film, which sees Mackie’s Sam Wilson achieve the “American Dream” in taking over the shield from Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). “I think the great thing about this movie is, Marvel…

EXCLUSIVE: Annie Ilonzeh (S.W.A.T.), Marques Houston (You Got Served) and Erica Mena (Love & Hip-Hop) lead the upcoming sci-fi thriller Run from . The film is directed by Chris Stokes and is expected to be released in theaters in May. In addition to Ilonzeh, Houston and Mena, the cast includes Erica Pinkett, Drew Sidora, Ken Lawson, Claudia Jordan and Obba Babatunde. Run follows Melissa after she leaves her fiancé Andre at the alter, and her best friends convince her to go to a cabin on a much-needed “Girls Trip” to get her mind off things. But things take a huge…

Beware novel psychological therapies from Austria: You never know where they may lead. In the curious case of German director Tom Tykwer’s The Light, which opened the Berlin Film Festival, such a quacky therapy — mostly involving a flashing LED light and an egg-timer — is Syrian refugee Farrah’s comfort, an escape hatch from the horrors of her life and, ultimately, a tool to heal the multiple afflictions tearing apart the German family for whom she is keeping house. The parents are in failing couples therapy, the kids are disaffected, and Farrah appears from nowhere to sort them out. Sort…

Editors note: Since solidifying its place on the Oscar shortlist and being nominated for Best Live Action Short Film, Anjua is now streaming on Netflix. Check out Deadline’s interview with writer-director Adam J. Graves that originally published in December 2024. In Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai’s Anuja, resilience in the face of hardship is the central heartbeat. The short film, doubling as both a heartwarming tribute to sisterhood and as a social awareness campaign about the effects of unchecked child labor, focuses on Anuja (Sajda Pathan), a young girl who lives with her older sister, Palak (Ananya Shanbhag), in Delhi,…

EXCLUSIVE: After scoring massive viewership with Carry-On, his Netflix action-thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, which drew rave reviews in its December launch, director Jaume Collet-Serra has found his next project in Play Dead, a survival thriller described as Don’t Breathe meets 1917, sources tell Deadline. Specifics as to the film’s plot are under wraps. Script is by Peter Stanley-Ward & Natalie Conway. Nocturnal is fully financing the project and producing alongside Ghost House Pictures, BoulderLight Pictures, and Bad Grey, with production to kick off at NantStudios in Docklands Studios Melbourne in May. Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs will…