Author: Deadline

A photo gallery with obituaries for entertainment and media professionals who died during 2025.

Never think for a second that anything like New Year’s Eve could get in the way of some old-fashioned Hollywood legal fireworks. Eleven days after Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint with California’s Civil Rights department against Justin Baldoni and his team over what went down during production of It Ends With Us and the film’s aftermath, the much A-lister supported actress has formally sued her co-star and director in federal court in New York. “As laid out in this Complaint, the Baldoni-Wayfarer-led public attack of Ms. Lively was the intended result of a carefully crafted, coordinated,…

As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline’s film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline’s Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond notes, “There was an exceptional list to choose from.” His Top 3 all began their careers at the Cannes Film Festival, “another reason that iconic French fest sets the table for cinema for the rest of the year,” he says. Along with Cannes,…

James Norton, the Happy Valley star who has been heavily linked to James Bond, thinks men should be proactive when confronting the MeToo movement. Norton told the Radio Times magazine that the “modern man” was living in a time where there was an “attempt to rebalance the patriarchal crimes of the past.” He argued that some men wrongly think they should be “passive” about misconduct when they should actually step up in a post-MeToo world. Norton made the comments in an interview to promote Playing Nice, the new ITV series that follows two couples who discover that their toddlers were…

Nearly 20 years after making ‘Walk the Line’, James Mangold says the 2007 parody ‘Walk Hard’ didn’t scare him off from the musical biopic genre.

The fallout, now with lawyers involved, between Blake Lively and her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni shows no sign of quietening down, with a report Saturday that Baldoni is preparing to file a counter-suit in response to Lively’s own a week ago. It was reported Friday 20th that Lively had filed an 80-page legal complaint against Baldoni, citing his inappropriate behaviour on set, and also that he had been instrumental in an alleged smear campaign against her – all claims he denies. Now, the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that Baldoni is preparing to file a…

Don’t expect Denis Villeneuve to take a call while making Dune Messiah, and not because the signal is weak on Arrakis. The 3x Oscar nominee recently revealed that phones are “absolutely” banned from his sets as they’re “addictive,” noting that he’s “very tempted to disconnect myself” from screens altogether as well. “Cinema is an act of presence. When a painter paints, he has to be absolutely focused on the color he’s putting on the canvas. It’s the same with the dancer when he does a gesture,” he explained to the Los Angeles Times. “With a filmmaker, you have to do…

The year 2024 proved that big budgets aren’t everything, with a new wave of independent filmmakers crafting stories that resonated with audiences and critics alike. These underdogs of the silver screen reminded us that sometimes, the smallest films cast the biggest shadows. Notable highlights in this year’s extensive festival offerings range from the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner In the Summers, directed by Alessandra Lacorazza; Pamela Anderson’s triumphant return to the screen in The Last Showgirl; and the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner The Seed of the Sacred Fig, from Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof.…

Adrien Brody is opening up about the lengths he went to for his Oscar-winning performance in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film The Pianist. Brody portrayed Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in the biographical film. For the role, Brody took on a near-starvation diet and lost 30 lbs., dropping his weight to 129 lbs. The actor was said to be “barely drinking water” when they started filming the movie, which was shot in reverse, showing Szpilman at his most depleted. “That was a physical transformation that was necessary for storytelling,” Brody told New York Magazine’s Vulture. “But then that kind of opened me…

Powerful performers punch above their weight in this otherwise by-the-book boxing drama. Based on the record-setting back-to-back Olympic victories—in 2012 and 2016—of professional boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, who came from a poor background in Flint, Michigan, to win gold medals in London and Rio de Janeiro, it’s a familiar tale of success against the odds that takes some interesting turns as a depiction of a woman competing in a stereotypically male sport. Ultimately, though, what made great material for a 90-minute documentary (2015’s T-Rex) doesn’t organically stretch to a 109-minute feature; thankfully, director Rachel Morrison resists the urge to confect…