Author: Deadline

Tedde Moore, who played Ralphie’s teacher Miss Shields in the holiday classic A Christmas Story as part of a long screen and stage career, has died. She was 79. Her family wrote on social media that she died August 5 in Huntsville, Ontario, but did not reveal a cause of death. “On Wednesday August 5th under sunny skies overlooking Fairy Lake, Tedde passed away surrounded by family physically and spiritually in her beloved Huntsville Muskoka,” the statement read. Her bravery in this choice was almost overwhelming, beyond beautiful and also difficult. Forever the teacher, she had a quote for every…

As FNaF fans await a third installment in the video game movie franchise, they can enjoy a slice at a Five Nights at Freddy’s immersive pizzeria. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the fictitious haunted establishment from the FNaF games and movies, is opening next year at the American Dream mall and entertainment complex in Bergen County, New Jersey, where fans will be able to eat pizza, play arcade games and catch a show with their favorite animatronic characters. A spokesperson told NJ outlet Patch that the fast-casual pizzeria will be “the world’s first permanent immersive restaurant experience tied to the franchise,” developed…

Olivia Wilde has revealed that she was “passionate” about getting a theatrical release for The Invite following the audience response to the comedy at Sundance. “I wanted to investigate this phenomenon that we found at Sundance when we felt the film have that chemical reaction with the audience the first time and it was extraordinary,” she told a press conference at the Locarno Film Festival where the film screens on the Piazza Grande this evening. “I thought, well, this was magic. We have to listen to this… we have to fight for it,” she continued. “If you don’t fight for…

The latest theatrical rom com One Night Only starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro centers around quite the premise — pre-marital sex has been outlawed in the United States except for one night of the year when the chastity mandate lefts for twelve hours and single citizens are allowed to have at it. Along with appearances from Maya Hawke, King Princess — who has two songs on the film’s soundtrack, Molly Ringwald, LeVar Burton and more, the film has several cameos to look out for including stars of a previous Will Gluck movie. Related Stories Find all the songs in…

2026 Critics Choice Super Awards winners list: ‘The Boys’ and ‘Widow’s Bay’ top TV as ‘Obsession,’ ‘Superman,’ ‘Project Hail Mary’ and ‘The Furious’ lead film.

EXCLUSIVE: After locking down rights in a major pre-empt prior to publication, Netflix has launched development on a feature adaptation of Deep End, the instant #1 NYT bestselling New Adult romance from The Love Hypothesis‘ Ali Hazelwood. Published in 2025 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Deep End centers on the steamy college romance between a competitive diver and an ace swimmer jumping into forbidden waters. Laura Kosann has been tapped to pen the script, with Shawn Levy and Dan Levine set to produce via 21 Laps, alongside Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan from Unwell Productions. Hazelwood will exec produce, alongside Matthew Janzen…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, which has just been announced as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Centrepiece program.  The Nigerian film, which will world premiere at TIFF next month, is the feature adaptation of Lola Shoneyin’s internationally acclaimed 2010 novel of the same name. It produced by EbonyLife Films, the film strand of Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife Group, in partnership with Genesis Media Group, Nile Media Entertainment Group, Silverbird Group and Flytime Entertainment.  Set within a seemingly harmonious polygamous household, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives follows Baba Segi, a wealthy patriarch with…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Laing, the two-time Emmy winner behind Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors and the recent true-life Rose Byrne drama Tow, is set to direct Runaway Wedding for Working Title Films, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Working Title declined to comment. Runaway Wedding follows underage lovers Matt and Anna, who elope to the chagrin of their parents, who chase them across the country — and unexpectedly fall in love, themselves. We hear that Laing will work from a script by Adam Brooks, whose credits include the Working Title rom-coms Definitely, Maybe and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, as well as the more recent Netflix pic The Life List. Liza…

Next week, veteran filmmaker Haile Gerima will take his latest feature, Black Lions – Roman Wolves, to the U.S. for its first public screening, following a series of lively showings at the Berlin Film Festival in February.  The five-part, 10-hour documentary film will screen in its entirety across several days at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia.  Decades in the making, Black Lions – Roman Wolves is a sweeping survey of Italy’s brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia, told through a complex mix of archival footage and contemporary interviews with eyewitnesses.  Black Lions – Roman Wolves is Gerima’s first feature since…

Richard L. O’Connor, an Emmy-winning TV producer and a studio executive in charge of production on such films as On Golden Pond, The Muppet Movie and Raise The Titanic, died July 22 in Palm Desert. He was 96. His death was announced by his family. A cause was not disclosed. A long-time resident of the Mendocino Coast, O’Connor won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program for producing the 1989 NBC TV movie A Mother’s Courage: The Mary Thomas Story starring Alfre Woodard. Born in San Francisco with his twin brother Don on January 7, 1930, O’Connor and his twin…