Author: Deadline

The tenure of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot at Warner Bros. Television is expected to cross the 20-year mark. The company is in advanced negotiations with Warner Bros. to re-up its film and TV deal with the studio, sources tell Deadline. The pending multi-year extension comes more than two years after Bad Robot’s current massive five-year pact experienced serious turbulence at the half point following the April 2022 close of the Warner. Bros.-Discovery merger when it was among a number of big-ticket items scrutinized by the new regime. At that time, HBO pulled the plug on Abrams’ sci-fi drama Demimonde before…

Thai breakout hit How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has landed North American distribution. The film has secured a theatrical release through Well Go USA, and in China via Teamer Media, South Korea (NK Contents), UK & Ireland (Vertigo Releasing), the Netherlands (Vedette Film), Belgium (Vedette Film) and India (PVR). The film will open in China on August 23, North America on September 13, the Netherlands on October 10, South Korea in October, Belgium on November 13 and UK & Irelend in December. The film’s release date in India has not been confirmed yet. Produced by Thai studio GDH,…

Harrison Ford made a simple brown felt fedora hat an era-defining style statement when he donned it in the Indiana Jones movie series, and now it’s sold for an astonishing $630,000. The BBC reports that the hat was specifically created for the 1984 second instalment of the record-breaking series, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  The hat reached $630,000 at auction on Thursday in Los Angeles. Other items sold at the same time included props from the Star Wars franchise, alongside Harry Potter and James Bond productions.  The auction house said the hat was also used during additional photography…

The first trailer for Goodrich debuted on Friday, teasing Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis as an estranged father and daughter reconnecting. Keaton stars as Andy Goodrich, whose life is upended when his wife and mother of their 9-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his grown daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Kunis), who is now pregnant, as he ultimately evolves into the father she never had.  “I am 27 years older than you, which is basically unheard of for siblings……

Taiwan‘s Ministry of Culture (MOC) has selected Old Fox as its entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 2025 Academy Awards. Old Fox is directed by Hsiao Ya-chuan, who won Best Director at the Golden Horse Film Awards last year for the film. Hsiao has directed works like Taipei Exchanges (2010) and Father to Son (2018). Selected as Taiwan’s submission from a pool of 14 films, Old Fox follows an 11-year old boy living with his poor father as he navigates the struggles between the worldliness and kindness of humanity. The boy soon befriends his landlord, nicknamed…

The Lord of the Rings IP owner Embracer Group saw net sales in its Entertainment & Services division fall sharply in the first quarter of 2024. The Sweden-based company posted sales of SEK848M ($81M), down 54% year-on-year for the April to June period. Overall net sales were down 24% to SEK7.93B, with lower numbers posted in its PC/Console Games, Mobile Games and Tabletop Games units. Losses before interest and tax were SEK1.44B, compared with an SEK421M gain a year ago, while adjusted EBIT was SEK828M, versus SEK1.67B. The results in the PC/Console and Entertainment divisions were broadly in line with…

The far-right rioters came for a hotel housing 130 asylum seekers. They laid siege to the grey Holiday Inn building in Yorkshire with bricks, chairs, and fire extinguishers, smashing open glass windows and marauding through corridors shouting obscenities at people who had fled their homelands for the sanctuary of Britain. Residents told The Times reporter Tom Witherow that they were terrified of being harmed. One shared a video of a rioter threatening to slit the throats of those in the building.  This was just one moment during six days of disorder in Britain this month. The riots were sprawling and…

EXCLUSIVE: The latest original from African streamer Showmax, sci-fi drama The Fix, will open MIP Africa. This marks the third year in a row a Showmax original has opened the event, which is an offshoot of MIPCOM. Last year, Canal+ co-production Spinners took the slot. MIP Africa is part of FAME Week Africa, a Reed Exhibitions initiative focused on African creativity. The Fix, written and directed by Kelsey Egan, is set in a dystopian future Cape Town in South Africa where the air is toxic. A model, played by Grace van Dien (Stranger Things), takes a new designer drug at…

With a husband like Manny Jacinto, who wouldn’t wanna swap places with Lindsay Lohan for a Friday? While recently teasing the long-awaited sequel Freakier Friday, which is currently filming, Lohan and her onscreen mom/daughter Jamie Lee Curtis revealed some details about the Good Place alum’s role. “Manny plays Lindsay’s husband, but that’s as much as we can say,” Curtis told Entertainment Weekly, before Lohan raved, “Manny is lovely, so funny.” In the 2003 adaptation of Freaky Friday, they starred as single mother Tess and teen daughter Anna Coleman, who switch bodies after opening an enchanted fortune cookie and have to…

Although Disney World already boast its own Pandora—The World of Avatar, the new Disneyland attraction will draw inspiration from the sequels.