Author: Deadline

Sunset Studios plans to launch a group of standing sets at the Sunset Las Palmas Studios lot in Hollywood catering to the fast-growing vertical format. It’s partnered with short-form studio Knockout Shorts on the design and construction of the initial sets, which it called “versatile, production-ready environments … designed to meet the evolving needs of modern content creators” as microdramas and short-form video explodes. There was news earlier today that former executives from TikTok and Tribeca are working on America’s first microdrama festival for fall of 2026. The sets include a pre-lit grid and a range of camera-ready environments including…

Albert Wolsky, a two-time Academy Award-winning and Tony-nominated costume designer whose many high-profile credits include his Oscar-taking work on All That Jazz (1979) and Bugsy (1991), died Saturday, May 23, at his home in Hollywood. He was 95. His death was announced by friends and colleagues on social media and confirmed by Deadline. Born on November 24, 1930, in Paris, Wolsky had moved to the United States and attended City College of New York when, at age 30, he switched careers from the travel industry to pursue costume design. An early entry-level position for the legendary costumer Helene Pons came during the original Broadway…

Jaws star and Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss has canceled a scheduled appearance at a cast reunion event for the seminal blockbuster, citing “circumstances completely beyond my control.” The veteran actor was slated to appear at a Burbank, Calif. fan convention, Hollywood Show, May 30. “To all the incredible fans, my JAWS cast family, and everyone involved in making this reunion possible — I want to share how deeply grateful I am for the love and excitement surrounding this special event,” he wrote on Instagram. “It truly breaks my heart that I won’t be able to attend the reunion at The…

French actress Noémie Merlant was one of last guests to stop by the Deadline Studio in Cannes this year to discuss her role in Bertrand Mandico’s zany comedy-drama Roma Elastica, opposite Marion Cotillard. Oscar-winner Cotillard stars as jaded star Eddie who heads to Rome for what may be her final role, with Merlant lending support as her “hairdresser,  friend and bodyguard” Valentina. Fiercely protect of Eddie, Valentina even goes as far as to bite a Vogue Italian journalist who pesters her friend in one scene. “I never bite anyone. It was the first time… I also had in that scene…

The rumors are currently swirling about which film delegations have been called back to the Cannes closing ceremony this evening. The buzz is strong that Minotaur, Fjord, The Dreamed Adventure, Fatherland, La Bola Negra and La Gradiva are among those that have been told to return to the Palais. Below, Deadline’s critics reflect on this year’s potential winners… PETE HAMMOND There are a number of ways the jury can go, and based on past experience it is almost impossible to predict the mood. We can suggest that, because Park Chan-Wook is leading the jury, the Palme d’Or might go to…

South Korean director Na Hong-jin has returned to Cannes for the fourth time with his long-awaited sci-spectacular Hope in which a remote hunting community, situated on the edge of the untouched forests of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, is terrorized by the arrival of aliens. With its tone taking inspiration from Hollywood hits such as Jaws, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, the picture is two-hours and forty minutes of near non-stop action. South Korean mega-star Hwang Jung-Min leads the cast as hapless police chief Boem Seok, opposite Squid Games breakout Hoyeon, as a steely younger officer, and Zo In-Sung in role…

Asia Argento returns to the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight psychological thriller Death Has No Master. In the movie from Venezuelan filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand, Argento plays an immigrant heiress to a colonial cacao plantation in Venezuela. She ventures to the country to claim her inheritance, but she’s forced to confront the land’s current occupants as well as its dark, violent legacy. The role was no walk in the park for the Italian multihyphenate, who purged herself of her darkest emotions. “When we were shooting, I was feeling this threat,” she tells Deadline, “My character was very fragile.” “I…

Jenna Ortega has been announced as the star of Leos Carax‘s upcoming seventh feature film Lily May B ahead of its shoot next spring. The official synopsis reads: “Once upon a time, there was a little girl, a young woman and a young boy. They each held a secret too heavy to bear. They met in an ‘end-of-the-world’ world, and together rode a big motorcycle (through empty cities, deserted freeways, immemorial forests). On their journey, they encountered many dangers, but kept going. In search of who they were; in search of a place to B, maybe?” “Once upon a time, this…

Nine years since his last film, several of them spent slowly recovering in Germany from a bout of Covid that all but extinguished his lungs, Andrey Zvyagintsev, the greatest of all the living Russian directors, is back in Cannes with a chronicle of crime and — for the rich, the influential and the crafty – the conspicuous absence of any punishment. Zvyagintsev has never cast himself as a dissident; his dense stories of corrupt authority and moral turpitude could arguably be told anywhere. Indeed, Minotaur, in Cannes’ competition, is actually based on a French film, Claude Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife,…

EXCLUSIVE: 20TH Century Studios won a heated auction for Persona, a novella by Marc Guggenheim, co-creator and EP of Arrow and one of the architects of the Arrow-verse franchise. Paul Feig, the Bridesmaids helmer who is coming off the hit The Housemaid, will direct. Deal is 7-figures. Studio is keeping the concept under wraps, but Deadline hears this is a Fatal Attraction-style thriller with a very modern twist. Guggenheim lands his second 7-figure deal in the past half year; he co-wrote and is EP on An Innocent Girl, a movie filming now and starring Keri Washington, James Marsden, Chloe East…