Author: Deadline

After 45 years, Bruce Campbell is officially hanging up his chainsaw hand, recently confirming that he’s moved on from the Evil Dead franchise. Noting that he was offered a cameo in Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise (2023), the actor who first played Ash in the original 1981 Sam Raimi movie, explained that the character is “not part of any big overriding story” going forward. “No, no. I think I think basically from Evil Dead Rise on, Ash is … you know, they wanted some little gag of Ash at the end of the movie. We did that as a lark,”…

EXCLUSIVE: Archstone Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Russian Poland, a new feature film written and set to be directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker David Mamet. The film will be produced by Barry Germansky, with Scott Martin and Michael Slifkin serving as executive producers. Casting is set to begin this summer, with a planned spring 2027 production start. Archstone will launch worldwide sales on the project at Toronto. The film’s official synopsis reads: “Set in 1948, Russian Poland follows two Jewish-American WWII veterans who, disguised as British airmen, steal a bomber to run…

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone‘s Kelsey Asbille is set to star opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth in The Kellys, the action film from Thunder Road that Amazon MGM has acquired for worldwide release on streaming, as we first reported yesterday. Character details are being kept under wraps, with production underway. Directed by Brad Peyton, from a script written with Tze Chun, The Kellys follows Jack Kelly, a disgraced NYC cop whose wife, Molly, is taken hostage by terrorists inside an old armory building. Subsequently, he’ll have to join forces with the people he fears most to save her: His family. Asbille is best known for starring…

It’s that timeline of year again. We now have the date, venue and other details for the 2027 ACE Eddie Awards, presented by American Cinema Editors. The envelope, please. Honoring outstanding editing in film, television, documentaries, shorts and digital content, the 77th annual Eddies ceremony is set for Saturday, February 6, returning to UCLA’s Royce Hall. Nominations will be revealed three weeks earlier, on Thursday, January 14. The eligibility period for all submissions runs from January 1-December 31, 2026. See the full timeline below. “Editing is the invisible art that makes everything else possible, and the ACE Eddie Awards exist…

EXCLUSIVE: Singer-songwriter P!NK (Alecia Moore), author and producer Glennon Doyle, and Olympian, author and soccer star Abby Wambach are joining Sara Bareilles: Good Grief as executive producers ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at Tribeca Festival. The film directed by Josh Alexander documents Grammy winner Bareilles as she’s joined by close friends and fellow musicians to record her first album in seven years, an intimate set of compositions that emerged from a period of profound personal loss and grief. “What unfolds in front of the camera is the incredibly raw experience of mining one’s own pain to create art,” notes…

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars star Sasha Pieterse is set to lead psychological thriller Rosemary, which will recount the tragic story of Rosemary Kennedy “from her perspective”. Kennedy was the sister of President John F Kennedy and senators Robert F and Ted Kennedy. As a child, she reportedly exhibited developmental delays and in her young adult years is said to have developed behavioural issues. In response, family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr arranged a lobotomy on her when she was 23 years old, a procedure which left her permanently incapacitated. She spent most of the rest of her life being cared…

AI on the Lot, which has grown from a half-day conference for 600 in 2023 to a two-day draw for nearly 2,500, delivered another dose of techno-optimism this year. Hollywood, however, still has reservations. Amazon MGM Studios hosted the event on its Culver City backlot and served as title sponsor. Prime Video, AWS and other Amazon operations and projects were woven through the programming. To walk the lot and the neighboring Culver Theater, taking in panels and hearing the views of participants was to fully appreciate the intensity of creative appetites for exploring AI. The technology was largely depicted as…

As friends, family and Star Wars fans mourn the death of editor Marcia Lucas, Lucasfilm has shared a statement. The production company, founded by Marcia’s ex-husband George Lucas, paid tribute to the Oscar-winning editor of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), who was also nominated for American Graffiti (1973). “Lucasfilm was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Marcia Lucas,” they shared in a statement. “The 80-year-old was one of the three editors to take home an Oscar for 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope.” Laying out her storied career, which also included work on Alice Doesn’t Live Here…

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Hechinger (Gladiator II) has landed a key role opposite Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson in The Cackling of the Dodos, Netflix‘s new film directed by Jason Bateman. Character details are under wraps, but we’re told the film is a three-hander led by Rockwell, Harrelson, and Hechinger. Others newly aboard include Academy Award nominee Michael McKean (Better Call Saul), Esther McGregor (Babygirl), Jenn Lyon (Claws), and Emy Coligado (Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair), whose roles also remain a mystery. Based on an original screenplay by novelist Rye Curtis, The Cackling of the Dodos centers on George, a small-town farmer whose discovery…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate will be adding its library to digital movie locker, Movies Anywhere next month. The studio joins those studios already on the service, Sony, Universal, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery. The Movies Anywhere app and website allows consumers to keep the digital movies they purchase in one personal cloud. In the initial launch phase, 225 of Lionsgate’s most high-profile films in including Hunger Games, John Wick, The Housemaid, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, La La Land, Rambo, Dirty Dancing, Passion of the Christ, Knives Out and Quentin Tarantino movies Django Unchained, the Kill Bill franchise and Reservoir…