EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Emmy winners Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah), Chris Messina (Argo), Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Danny Huston (The Cons…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has won an auction and is in final talks to turn the upcoming Caro Claire Burke novel Yesteryear into a film. Anne Hathaway is attached to star and produce. Sources in the publishing community said the film deal landed in the area of $450,000 against $2 million. The studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Our sister publication Variety last Friday published for clicks what it called an exclusive video of Francis Ford Coppola kissing Megalopolis extras, along with crew members who detailed what they called unprofessional behavior on set. The story did not get much traction, though it caused pain…

EXCLUSIVE: I Am Legend screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman teased yesterday there would be big news soon relating to the Warner Bros sequel with Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan, and what we hear is that the studio is taking an interest in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts filmmaker Steven Caple Jr…

After serving as Joaquin Phoenix’s sidekick in Gus Van Sant’s black comedy To Die For, Casey Affleck got in the car alongside brother Ben, Matt Damon and Yellowstone‘s Cole Hauser in Good Will Hunting. After getting Damon & Affleck’s script to Van Sant and essentially enabled the film to happen, Casey…

Already a beloved figure among the San Diego Comic-Con set for fixture for his work as the title character in Marvel’s The Punisher, Thomas Jane is back. This time, he's armed with news he is bringing his horror comic book series The Lycan to Comixology Originals. Jane is doing it through Renegade…

UPDATED: Amazon MGM has confirmed the Scott Stuber hire. Find their release below Deadline’s break on the story. PREVIOUSLY, 7:55 AM PT: Former Netflix Chairman Film and Universal Vice Chairman Scott Stuber is near a deal to revive United Artists under the Amazon MGM umbrella, sources…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has won a spirited auction to land The Corsair Code, an original feature film set to star Chris Hemsworth. The film is based on a short story by Jonathan Tropper, which he brought to Hemsworth and his producing partner Ben Grayson. Hemsworth and Grayson will produce…

In front of the camera since he broke in as a child actor in the 1970s, Giovanni Ribisi made a detour and makes his debut as a cinematographer in the JT Mollner-directed Miramax film Strange Darling. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest to strong reviews, has a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and gets…

EXCLUSIVE: In the kind of brisk battle over a book we would often see yesteryear but not so often lately, a ferocious auction is underway this week that has names like Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Banks in the mix. This is for Yesteryear, a novel by Caro Claire Burke, who has had work published in The Atlan…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has won a five-way auction to land Sasha. Producers attached to the psychological thriller package include Berlanti Schechter Films' Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Mike McGrath and These Pictures' Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn.  Micah Schraft is…

EXCLUSIVE: Before you watch the Oz Perkins-directed crafty serial killer thriller Longlegs that won last weekend, you have to first go through a dizzying parade of derivative horror film trailers. Genre is hot again, especially titles with proven concepts. Author J.D. Barker is using that opportunity…