Author: Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: The volume of reality TV production in Los Angeles has been falling over the last five years and the situation is set to worsen as one of the biggest music competition shows is set to leave the city. Deadline understands that American Idol is moving production from Los Angeles to the Atlanta area in Georgia. The ABC show is moving production for its upcoming Season 25, which premieres in the new year, Fremantle, which produces the show with Sony Pictures Television-backed 19 Entertainment, confirmed to Deadline. We hear that Fremantle is in final talks with a studio complex in…

RIVER Director-screenwriter: Joshua Giuliano Logline: Three siblings set out to scatter their father’s ashes on a remote river, but the trip turns into a waking nightmare when their boat breaks down and they realize they are being hunted by a faceless killer. US Distributors: Independent Film Company/Shudder Panelists: Joshua Giuliano, Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe, Max Mattern, Dane DiLiegro First Screening: Thursday, Sept. 10 at Royal Alexandra Theatre Key Quote: “For me, it initially came from trying to unpack how complicated family relationships can be. Specifically, it came from multiple anxieties I had whenever I would travel home to visit my…

BELOW Director: Jamie Childs Writer/Creator: Jesse McKeown Logline: Something monstrous lurks off the coast in this suspenseful, Newfoundland-set limited series, starring Josh Hartnett and Mackenzie Davis. Studio: Netflix Panelist: Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Jesse McKeown and Jessica Rhoades. First Screening: Thursday, September 10, 9:30 TIFF Lightbox Key Quote: “The fact that Newfoundland plays such a huge role in the script was a massive selling point for me because I thought this can’t be real this place can’t exist in this way,” said Hartnett. “On the edge of Canada, still in North America and yet somehow so removed from…

Searchlight Pictures boss Matthew Greenfield broke down how YouTube has become fertile ground for finding new stories and filmmakers. The Searchlight Pictures boss also spoke about the battle with familiarity and the need for original ideas to get people into movie theaters in the streaming age. After Obsession and Backrooms, studios and producers are scouring YouTube for the next big property originating on the Google-owned video sharing platform. “YouTube is an incredible resource, and we’re always looking for new storytellers,” Greenfield said. “One of the things that’s super exciting about [YouTube] is that it used to be that we would…

For Michael Dowse, the filmmaker behind The Stunt Driver, there’s a meta aspect to his journey with the Canadian sports comedy. The film, examining the dogged pursuit of a seemingly impossible dream, was in effect just that for him — a “white whale” that he chased for 12 years. And now, he’s harpooned it: The film premieres at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, as part of the Toronto Film Festival, tonight. The Stunt Driver tells the true story of Ken Carter, Canada’s underdog answer to Evel Knievel, whose life goal was to nail a mile-long jump in a rocket car across the St.…

EXCLUSIVE: Ross Butler and Marc Evan Jackson are among the newly-announced cast joining Sayani Gupta (Delhi Crime) in Arya. The film, which is written and directed by Neil Tuli, follows Arya (Gupta), a disciplined piano teacher from a prestigious Indian conservatory. Per the synopsis, she reluctantly takes an assignment in northern Minnesota, hoping to rescue a struggling band program, as well as fuel her career ambitions back home. Cameras are rolling on the indie pic, which has now rounded out its cast with Adi Roy (Unaccustomed Earth), Kyra Leroux (Firefly Lane), Arjun Gupta (The Magicians), Sari Lennick (A Serious Man),…

The 2026 Venice Film Festival got underway on Wednesday, September 2, with Oscar-winning English director Danny Boyle’s Ink — starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy — kicking off an 83rd edition that includes films starring the likes of Robert Pattinson, Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem, Jack Huston & Sofia Boutella, Dakota Johnson, John Malkovich & Sam Rockwell, Alicia Vikander & Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte and Kate & Rooney Mara in their first movie together. Along with Ink, this year’s competition lineup includes such buzzy titles seeking awards-season glory as Florian Zeller’s Bunker, Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, Lance…

The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Bunker, directed by Florian Zeller, starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano, and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Attending the premiere were members of the film’s cast, including Jury President Maggie Gyllenhaal and Luca Guadagnino. RELATED: Venice Film Festival 2026 Photos Day 5: ‘Possible Love,’ ‘The Echo Chamber’ & ‘Hombre Al Agua’ Premieres The film centers around an architect who accepts a morally ambiguous project – building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire – and his wife begins to question their marriage after seventeen years together. The film is a dramatic…

No one ever imagined this would be a record $4.76 billion summer. When we started off, we knew Universal’s The Odyssey was destined to be huge given that the 70MM Imax tickets sold out a year in advance. Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day was also bound to be big, but the biggest movie of all-time at the domestic box office? No way! No one knew what the hell Backrooms was, but tracking knew that there was a there, there. But A24’s biggest opening of all-time at $81.4M U.S. and highest grossing title ever at $197.5? Stop it! More impressive,…

Audible set down at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend with a preview of its ambitious adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror classic Dracula. The platform’s biggest audio production to date, the adaptation is being rolled out in seven different languages, with each of the versions featuring their own local A-list star cast and director, while taking their cue from the English-language version directed by Mary Lambert. The Venice presentation featured a short preview of the English-language version, giving a taste of Jonathan Bailey as Dracula, Ella Purnell as the vampire’s object of desire Mina, as well as…