Author: Deadline

Colman Domingo is addressing rumors that he was set to replace Jonathan Majors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and take over the role of Kang the Conqueror. Social media was abuzz about Domingo possibly joining the MCU, which prompted the Euphoria actor to meet with Marvel Studios to find out if any rumors were true. “I think there had been conversations of me coming to Marvel in some way,” Domingo said according to Slash Film. “So we [Domingo and his PR team] did follow up with a sit-down meeting with the heads of Marvel. So we did do that, and…

Super Bowl weekend is notoriously tough for cinemagoing but fans turned out and tuned in for music documentary concert film Becoming Led Zeppelin from Sony Pictures Classics, which rocked the top ten. A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist are holding. Neon saw a bump for its Parasite re-release. Documentary No Other Land had a nice expansion. Long-gestating Becoming Led Zeppelin, an early version of which premiered at Venice in 2021, charged to more than $2.6 million on 369 Imax screens and the no. 7 spot, the only indie in the top 10 this weekend. That’s the biggest ever opening weekend…

There’s something special about DreamWorks Animation‘s The Wild Robot, which earned three Oscar nominations for Animated Feature, Sound and Original Score. “I knew from the moment I read the book that we had to move in a completely new direction in order to faithfully get this narrative up on the screen,” writer-director Chris Sanders says during a panel for Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees. One of the more unique aspects of the film is the lack of dialogue, which allowed for more reliance on sound design and score. Even in the beginning of the film, only the main character Roz, voiced…

RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Paul Selvin Award for their work as the screenwriters of Nickel Boys, the Amazon MGM Studios drama they adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning book. The honor will be bestowed during the guild’s WGA Awards on February 15 at the Beverly Hilton. The award, named for the former WGAW general counsel and given each year to a member or members whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties, is the latest for the film and the duo. Ross made his narrative…

Don’t expect another Back to the Future film, as co-writer Bob Gale seemingly shoots down the possibility despite fan desires. On Sunday, February 2, the Saturn Awards honored Back to the Future on its 40th Anniversary with the George Pal Memorial Award. Gale, Christopher Lloyd, and Emma Thompson received the honor, and the writer addressed fan desire for a fourth installment of the sci-fi film. “People always say, ‘When are you guys going to do Back to the Future 4? And we say, ‘F*** you!’ Gale jokingly said while accepting the honor. “You can quote me on that.” He continued,…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a novel package that should generate some heat in the cold of Berlin’s EFM next week. Black Bear is launching Bad Boy, a new breed of genre film that charts a young woman’s fight to escape a deadly serial killer through the eyes of man’s best friend, his faithful dog. There have been plenty of kids films and some dramas told from an animal’s perspective, but not many horror films. From the producer of Longlegs, Dave Caplan, and M3gan, Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath, the film is set to star Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to family sci-fi adventure Xeno, produced by Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat. Lulu Wilison (Annabelle: Creation), Wrenn Schmidt (For All Mankind), Paul Schneider (Lars And The Real Girl) and Omari Hardwick (Power) star in the film written and directed by Matthew Loren Oates and produced by Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley and Luke Kelly-Clyne for Hartbeat, with Shana Marie and Jesse Jensen for Tabooma. In the completed film, a teenage girl and a terrifying alien form a powerful bond after a chance encounter in the desert, sending them on an adventure that questions the nature…

Jack Quaid stars in Companion and is opening up about his experience filming the Drew Hancock-written and directed thriller. The actor said in a recent interview that a stunt in the movie gave him the “heebie-jeebies,” and he had to have a stunt double help him with the scene. “There was this one stunt that is small in the grand history of things I’ve done on screen, but I don’t know why; it just gave me the heebie-jeebies,” Quaid told Entertainment Weekly. Quaid continued, “She closes a car door on my hand, and it was the one stunt where I…

A24 has gotten on the board at the Sundance Film Festival. The indie distributor is closing an acquisition deal for Sorry, Baby. Scripted and directed by Eva Victor, the drama premiered Monday night at Eccles. It become the third film in sight of a deal, with more coming. Film was fought over by several suitors, and sold for around $8 million, Deadline hears. The logline: Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on … for everyone around her, at least. The film stars Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, and Kelly McCormack. Producers are Adele…

In a lengthy Instagram post shared earlier today, Karla Sofía Gascón has reiterated an apology for her past bigoted tweets — which included remarks containing Islamophobia, anti-Black rhetoric and derogatory references to George Floyd’s murder, as well as disparaging comments about co-star Selena Gomez — while simultaneously defending her posts as taken out of context. Gascón also declares that she is “not racist” and has a Muslim loved one and seems to imply that the controversy is a smear campaign for her to not “win anything and sink.” The Emilia Pérez star and newly minted Oscar nominee began the post,…