Author: Deadline

THE THREESOMESection: Narrative SpotlightDirector: Chad HartiganScreenwriter: Ethan OgilbyLogline: One fateful night, the stars seemingly align for Connor — a kind and unassuming young man — as his long-time crush — the electric and irreverent Olivia — steers them into a threesome with a sweet, alluring stranger Jenny. The encounter sparks a relationship between Connor and Olivia and their love grows quickly, all the way toward planning a life together. But their happy romance is soon demolished when Jenny reappears in their lives, thrusting all three into a difficult and messy journey towards true accountability and adulthood.Panelists: Hartigan, Zoey Deutch, Jonah…

EXCLUSIVE: Constantin’s Resident Evil franchise reboot, with Barbarian and Weapon filmmaker Zach Cregger directing, will stay at Sony. Warner Bros was kicking the tires of this latest Cregger pic, but Sony isn’t letting this $1.2 billion-grossing franchise go. A theatrical release date of September 18, 2026 has been set, which tells you how excited the studios are to get this latest rendition up on the screen. Cregger’s screenplay, which was co-written with Shay Hatten (Ballerina, John Wick: Chapter 3 & Chapter 4), is under wraps but apparently harkens back to the original Capcom game’s horror roots. Constantin Film is producing and co-financing…

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. standup and influencer Noel Leon and actor, producer and writer Mickey Gooch Jr. have tapped a raft of comedy veterans for their directorial feature debut A Comedy of Errors. Billed as a true-life addiction tale, Leon wrote the screenplay and also stars and co-directs with Gooch. She is joined on screen by Siobhan Hogan Fallon (Forrest Gump, Seinfeld, Men in Black), Brian O’Halloran (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob), Luke Null (Saturday Night Live), Judy Gold (2 Broke Girls, Better Things), Andy Dick (Reality Bites, Inspector Gadget, Employee of the Month), and Or Mashiah (Wild ‘N Out). Leon, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Following an extensive auditioning process, rising star Austin Abrams has landed the lead role in 20th Century’s adaptation of the Daniel Kraus novel Whalefall, with Brian Duffield directing. Duffield will co-write the script with Kraus. The film is described as The Martian meets 127 Hours, centering on a scuba diver in search of his deceased father’s remains who gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. After giving up on life, the young man is surprised to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and…

EXCLUSIVE: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actor Kathryn Newton is getting in on the bloody fun, and is joining the cast of Radio Silence’s follow-up to its near $58 million global-grossing 2019 cult Searchlight hit Ready or Not. The casting marks Newton’s second collaboration with Radio Silence after last year’s Universal horror movie Abigail. Newton joins returning star Samara Weaving in the movie directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The original Ready or Not scribes are also back: Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. The first film followed a young bride (Weaving) as she joined her new husband’s (Mark…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Hugo Ruiz has signed with Buchwald. Ruiz wrote and directed the film One Night With Adela, the Spanish filmmaker’s debut feature which is currently available to stream via Amazon. Laura Galán stars as Adela, a street cleaner in Madrid hellbent on revenge against those who have made her life miserable. The thriller thrives on the concept of a one-shot sequence and belongs to an eventual trilogy currently in development, where all three films take place over the course of one night. One Night With Adela also stars Gemma Nierga, Jimmy Barnatán, Raudel Raúl, Litus, Rosalía Omil, Fernando Moraleda…

It was a huge night for Anora and independent filmmaking at the 97th Oscars. Sean Baker matched Walt Disney’s record and Mikey Madison surprised many by beating Demi Moore to win Best Actress. Conan O’Brien was a popular host, funny but sympathetic, running a show that handed out a lot of awards to a lot of movies from the aforementioned sex worker comedy drama to The Brutalist, I’m Still Here, Dune: Part Two, Wicked, No Other Land, The Substance, Conclave, A Real Pain, Flow and even a couple for the embattled Emilia Pérez. There was also a lot of singing…

EXCLUSIVE: Shirley MacLaine wailed during her acceptance speech when she won her Oscar back in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, “I’m gonna cry because this show has been as long as my career!” Spare a thought for three of this year’s Best Actress nominees, Demi Moore, Karla Sofia Gascón and Mickey Madison, because for them, awards season has been running since last May when their movies, The Substance, Emilia Pérez and Anora, respectively, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. “It’s been nearly a year,” Moore tells me helpfully, when we meet at the annual Charles Finch/Chanel pre-Oscars soirée in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Her…

Angie Stone, a veteran soul and R&B singer, has died at 63 after a Sprinter van accident in Alabama. The 3x Grammy nominee’s daughter Diamond Stone announced her mother’s death Saturday on social media following the accident that occurred as she was leaving a performance early that morning in Montgomery, Alabama. “My mommy is gone,” wrote Diamond Stone on Facebook. Angie Stone’s rep Deborah R. Champagne also confirmed the death to TMZ following the accident. Born Dec. 18, 1961 in Columbia, South Carolina, Angela Laverne Brown got her start with hip hop trio The Sequence in the 1970s, before joining…

Medication found at Gene Hackman‘s Santa Fe home may provide more information on how the Oscar winner and wife Betsy Arakawa died. With conflicting missives emerging over what led to the deaths of the couple, the state of the on-going police probe will be revealed later Friday in a press conference, the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office said today. Ahead of the 3 p.m. MT presser, the Sheriff Adam Mendoza-led department has provided details on what a search warrant of the 95-year-old Hackman and the 63-year-old classical pianist’s home produced. Sought about 8 hours after the couple and one of their…