Author: Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: 24-year-old multi-hyphenate Jillian Moray has wrapped on Pismo, a coming-of-age comedic drama marking her feature directorial debut, in which she stars opposite Nuha Jes Izman (Yellowjackets), Madeline Popovich (Murdaugh: Death in the Family), Lindsey Normington (Anora), Jack Irv (The Sweet East), and Kentucker Audley (Strawberry Mansion). Shot on 16mm, with Pismo Beach, CA as its setting, Pismo follows three best friends as they reunite for a party-filled weekend, only to have their night spiral into danger and self-discovery, drawing focus to the sexual pressures teenage girls face. Alexis G. Zall (Coin Heist), Ashlin Teague (Lady in the Lake), Holly…

The director of The Devil Wears Prada 2 admits that he did want to sprinkle a little Nate into the much-anticipated sequel. David Frankel told Entertainment Weekly that he considered “sneaking” Adrian Grenier in for a surprise cameo. Unfortunately for Nate fans, “it was just too late in our production schedule to make it happen.” Frankel wouldn’t share how he had hoped to incorporate Andy’s old chef-lover into the sequel that reunited Anne Hathaway with Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. But he added that “I’m thrilled that he [Grenier] did a Starbucks commercial, which was really funny and…

EXCLUSIVE: Helena Bonham Carter will not be starring in Season 4 of HBO‘s The White Lotus. The two-time Oscar-nominated actress has departed the upcoming France-set installment of Mike White‘s popular murder mystery series. The news comes a little over a week after production on the new season started on the French Riviera. “With filming just underway on Season 4 of The White Lotus, it had become apparent that the character which Mike White created for Helena Bonham Carter did not align once on set,” an HBO spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. “The role has subsequently been rethought, is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Ireland’s Bow Street Academy acting school is heading to LA’s West Hollywood with Bow Street Academy Los Angeles, its first overseas campus. At the center of the expansion is Gerry Grennell, the veteran and respected performance coach who has collaborated with stars including Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Oscar Isaac. Grennell also collaborated extensively with the late Heath Ledger across multiple projects, including The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain. Grennell is joined at the LA school by co-founders Kirsten Sheridan and Shimmy Marcus. Sheridan is the Oscar and Golden Globe–nominated writer,…

Studiocanal has teamed with Flora Films on The Road Home starring Emmy, Grammy, Tony winner and three-time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo (Wicked, Harriet), multi-award winning South African actor, writer, director and producer Thabo Rametsi (Silverton Siege), and Academy Award Nominee Guy Pearce (The Brutalist). Oscar winner Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls, Kiss of the Spider Woman) will helm from an original screenplay by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian, United 93), from a story by Michael Bronner and Zakes Mda. Exiled from his native South Africa, trumpeter Hugh Masekela (Rametsi) is pulled between two worlds when the Anti-Apartheid Movement, led by his mentor fierce anti-apartheid…

Wednesday brought the first look at Coyote vs. Acme, the long-anticipated Looney Tunes live-action/animated hybrid, which hits theaters August 28. SNL alum Will Forte stars in the film, from director Dave Green, playing an attorney representing Wile E. Coyote in a court case against Acme Corp. While Warner Bros. long ago completed and tested the film, also starring John Cena and Lana Condor, they shelved it all the way back in the fall of 2023 amid rampant cost-cutting efforts led by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. The move ignited outrage not only among the film’s key creatives, but across…

The critics are weighing in on big-budget Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which releases globally this weekend. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan, the movie covers the Jackson 5 period in the early ’60s through to the iconic singer’s early solo career. The ‘King Of Pop’ is played by his nephew Jaafar Jackson in his film debut with support from Nia Long, Laura Harrier, Miles Teller, Colman Domingo, and more. While the film is seemingly on course to do some strong box office and can call on a huge built-in fan base, the Lionsgate musical is encountering some…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy has joined the starry cast of Morten Tyldum’s Ibelin, re-telling the inspirational true story of late disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen, as production gets underway in Norway. The Oscar-nominated actor (Living) joins previously announced cast members Charlie Plummer, Stephen Graham, Toni Collette, Isabela Merced, and Maisy Stella. Further cast additions include Ekow Quartey (The Arbiter), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry), Ivanna Sakhno (M3gan 2.0, John Bradley (Game of Thrones) Jax James (Grantchester), and newcomer Clodagh Bhalla. Kirby Howell-Baptiste, John Bradley, Ekow Quartey, Jax James, Ivanna Sakhno Larry Fields, Rachel Sherlock, Arthur John Wilson, Matt Nalton, Alexandra Arnold Born with Duchenne…

It was announced during Disney’s presentation at Cinemacon that Joe and Anthony Russo’s theatrical re-release of Avengers: Endgame will feature previously unreleased footage, but there was no signal of what that footage might entail.  Saturday night at the Sands Film Festival in St Andrews, Scotland, however, Joe Russo revealed, during a session with Deadline’s Mike Fleming and Angela Russo-Otstot, Chief Creative Officer at the Russos’ AGBO, exactly what audiences can expect to see on the big screen on Sept. 25 when Endgame is re-released.  “It’s critically important to re-release the movie, and, in fact, we’ll be re-releasing the film with footage…

With the AI discourse spreading in Hollywood, Reese Witherspoon seems intent on making a seat for women at the table. The Oscar winner and Hello Sunshine co-founder recently explained why she’s taken it upon herself to “learn as much as I possibly can about AI,” claiming that women’s jobs are three times as likely to be automated by AI. “We don’t want to be left behind. So…do you want to learn with me?” Witherspoon captioned a video in part. “I think it’s time to learn about AI,” she prefaced in the clip. “I was with about 10 women at a…