Peter H. Hunt Dies: Tony Award-Winning ‘1776’ Director, Uncle Of Actress Helen Hunt Was 81.... Peter H. Hunt, who won a Tony Award for his direction in 1969 of the now-classic musical 1776, helmed the 1972 film version and numerous episodes of CBS’ Touched By An Angel, died Sunday at home in Los Angeles from complications of Parkinson’s disease...

‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ Joins Pack Of Pics Heading Early To Homes.... TruTV’s surprise winter feature sleeper Impractical Jokers: The Movie will be available on Wednesday, April 1, April Fool's Day, just five weeks after its theatrical play due to the national shutdown of cinemas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Again no sho...

Ryan Gosling Tackling Universal’s ‘Wolfman’ Remake.... Ryan Gosling is sinking his teeth into Universal’s growing monster universe titles. The two-time Oscar nominee is attached to star in a Wolfman remake which was written by Orange Is The New Black scribes Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. The last...

Larry Kramer Dies: ‘The Normal Heart’ Playwright, AIDS Activist Was 84.... Larry Kramer, the playwright whose righteous fury over a lackluster governmental – and societal – response to the early AIDS crisis fueled his groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal Heart and an activism that led in the 1980s to both the Gay Men’s Heal...

Amazon Studios Acquires ‘Run Sweetheart Run’ From Blumhouse & Automatik.... EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse and Automatik’s supernatural movie Run Sweetheart Run, which made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is heading to Amazon Studios and Prime Video, Deadline has learned. The streamer picked up the movie, wr...

‘Honey Boy’ Opens Sweet And Strong, ‘The Kingmaker’ Debuts Solid – Specialty Box Office.... After its buzzy festival run, Shia LaBeouf’s semi-autobiographical Honey Boy finally debuted this weekend with four runs in Los Angeles and New York to strong and confident numbers at the specialty box office. Alma Har'el’s directorial narrative featu...

China Coronavirus: High-Profile Film Productions Shut Down As Quarantines Spread.... As the coronavirus continues its rapid spread, China continues to struggle with consequences of the disease on myriad levels. The updated count of confirmed cases has crossed 6,000 on the mainland, with 132 people dead. Separately to the tragic human toll...

Oprah Winfrey To Deliver Commencement Address For Virtual Graduation Event On Facebook & Instagram.... Oprah Winfrey will be the featured commencement speaker for#Graduation 2020: Facebook and Instagram Celebrate the Class of 2020, a multi-hour streaming event set for May 15 on both platforms. Aimed at this year’s seniors whose commencement ceremonies ha...

Pauly Shore Has Richard Simmons’ Phone Number, Plans To Win His Blessing For Film Portrayal.... Pauly Shore feels it’s time for a Richard Simmons biopic. “I’ve noticed all the reactions to me playing Richard Simmons in a new biopic,” the Encino Man actor wrote in a social media post. “So I reached out to him. I heard he’s living de...

SAG-AFTRA Staff Authorized Notice Telling Members Not To Accept Jobs Without Union’s Approval During Pandemic.... SAG-AFTRA's unprecedented step of instructing members not to accept offers to return to work during the pandemic without first getting the OK from the union was authorized by top-level staff, according to a spokesperson for the union. Thursday's urgent sa...

The Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2019: Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament.... Deadline's annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year's most profitable films. For a third year in a row, we decided to look at the ones that amounted to a big swing and a miss. Here are the movies our experts said posted th...

‘Birds Of Prey’s Wings Clipped To $48M Overseas & $81M Worldwide Launch – International Box Office.... SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Flying in well below pre-weekend projections, Warner Bros’ Birds Of Prey has landed an estimated $48M bow from 78 international box office markets. Combined with domestic‘s disappointing performance, the global opening is $81...

Sergei Bondarchuk Doc In The Works From Son Fedor’s Art Pictures; Celebrated Russian Filmmaker Directed Oscar-Winning ‘War & Peace’.... EXCLUSIVE: Celebrated Russian filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk, whose classic 1966 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace was an Oscar and Golden Globe winner, will be the subject of a documentary telling the story of his life. He also helmed the 1970 epic...

IMDb Launches ‘Movies That Changed My Life’ Podcast; Guests Include Jeffrey Wright, Kevin Smith And More.... IMDb is jumping into the podcast game with its first-ever podcast Movies That Changed My Life. The weekly podcast, which will kicked off with guest Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), will feature celebrities and filmmakers discussing the movies that inspired the...

Shari Redstone Says ViacomCBS Stock Undervalued, Shares Pop.... Shares of ViacomCBS are surging 10% Monday, way outpacing an already buoyant market, as chair Shari Redstone told the company's annual meeting that she's committed to boosting shareholder value and a stock that's been under immense pressure for months. Th...

‘Military Wives’: Bleecker Street Movie Marches Into Homes.... Bleecker Street is releasing its Peter Cattaneo movie Military Wives starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan into homes on May 22. The pic was originally expected to get a limited theatrical release over Memorial Day weekend, but that’s not poss...

Trevor Noah And The Daily Social Distancing Show Talks Working From Home Perks....   Twitter has told its employees that they can continue working from home as long as they like, even after the pandemic eases. To Trevor Noah, that brings some advantages – and one big problem. “I hope more companies follow suit,” he said. The good...

Cartilage Films Takes Global Rights To Ryan Martin Brown’s ‘Free Time’.... EXCLUSIVE: Cartilage Films has taken worldwide rights to Ryan Martin Brown’s feature directorial debut, Free Time for a 2024 domestic release. Pic stars Colin Burgess as Drew, who is approaching the end of his twenties and, with it, his relative y...

Mayor Eric Garcetti Pushes Back Against Trump Admin. Assertion L.A.’s Coronavirus Stay-In-Place Order Is Unlawful.... In a letter to Los Angeles officials, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Eric Dreiband said L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s recent comments suggesting that stay-at-home orders may stay in place longer in Los Angeles “may be both arbitrary and unlawful.” Gar...

British Film Chief Ben Roberts Reveals Biggest Coronavirus Worry, Changes To Indie Financing & What London Film Festival Might Look Like – Guest Column.... Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for...

‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Stomps To Pre-Thanksgiving 2020 Weekend.... Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong is heading to Nov. 20, 2020. Warner Bros. already had the pre-Thanksgiving frame on hold for a major release, and well, this is it.  The pic directed by Adam Wingard will be released in 3D and Imax. After the...

Daytime Emmys To Air Live Virtual Ceremony On CBS In June; Nominations Coming Thursday.... The 47th annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air on CBS as a two-hour live show on Friday, June 26, returning the awards show to broadcast primetime for the first time since 2011. The ceremony, to run from 8-10 PM ET/PT, will air as a virtual event after orga...

Seth Rogen’s ‘An American Pickle’ Movie Gets HBO Max Premiere Date.... An American Pickle, the Seth Rogen-starring comedy that moved from Sony Pictures to HBO Max, has lined up an August 6 release date on WarnerMedia’s streaming service. The pic, from Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures, will world premiere as...

Stephen Hawking & Mike Tyson Documentaries Lead Sky Unscripted Slate.... Sky has unveiled a slate of nine documentaries that will populate the Comcast-owned broadcaster’s new UK channels: Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature. The channels launch on May 27 and will be the beneficiaries of a £30M ($37M) a year factual content fun...

‘Equalizer 3’ Team On Dialing Up The Action For Denzel Washington Franchise – Crew Call Podcast.... In a cinema that has plenty of offerings when it comes to guys with guns, what gives Sony and Escape Artists’ Equalizer series with Denzel Washington that extra zhuzh? Action sets, but with a character bent, unlike those in Fast & Furious…...

Bad Robot, Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Family Foundation Makes 5-Year Pledge Of $10 Million To Anti-Racist Agenda Organizations.... Bad Robot re: Bad Robot and Katie McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Foundation just announced in an Instagram post that they will donate $2 million annually over five years, a $10 million total investment to organizations and agendas committed to anti-racist...

‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ To Step It Up With $60M+ Early Offshore Bow – International Box Office Preview.... Sony's Jumanji: The Next Level opens early in 18 overseas markets this week, beginning today in France and including Netherlands, some of South East Asia and, notably, China, through Friday. This is a different rollout pattern to 2017's reboot, Jumanji: W...

Motion Picture Academy CEO Bill Kramer And Fellow EGOT Chiefs Say Strikes Are Just Their “Latest Pivot Moment,” Express Optimism For Settlement In Rare Joint Appearance.... In a rare joint appearance, the heads of the organizations behind the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Grammys expressed optimism about strike talk progress and also tackled the task of producing live events. “The planning continues,” Bill Kramer, CEO of...

Freeform Orders ‘None of the Above’ Twentysomething Friends Comedy Pilot From ‘Black-ish’s Kenny Smith.... EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has given a pilot green light to None of the Above (working title), a single-camera comedy written and executive produced by Kenny Smith (Black-ish). None of the Above, from from ABC Studios and Tornante TV, is a single-camera comedy a...

‘Fuller House’ Sets Premiere Date For Final Episodes.... Netflix’s Fuller House will drop the final episodes for season five — and the series — on June 2. The spinoff sitcom from the original Full House premiered its fifth and final season on December 6, 2019. And now, come June, we will say goodbye to...

Judge Orders Transfer Of Devin Nunes’ CNN Case From Virginia To New York.... A federal judge has delivered a victory to CNN in its defense against a $435 million libel lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne wrote that the Richmond, VA court “is not Nunes’ home forum, and therefore there i...

‘Run’ Season Finale: Creator Vicky Jones On Season 2 & How Billy & Ruby’s Journey Could Have Ended Tonight.... Warning: The following interview contains spoilers from tonight’s season finale of Run, “Trick”, on HBO In just seven episodes, HBO’s first season of Run has reached the end of the line with Billy and Ruby (Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever) fina...

‘Midway’ Surprise Attacks ‘Doctor Sleep’ At The B.O. With $19M+ Opening.... 2nd UPDATE: Wow, this wasn’t expected Roland Emmerich’s Midway is overperforming apt to beat Warner Bros. Doctor Sleep, $19.2M to $17.2M. Good for Midway, really bad for Doctor Sleep which cost in the $50Ms. $7M today for Midway, and $6.6M for Do...

‘Frozen 2’ First-Day Advance Ticket Sales Set Animated Film Record.... Further evidence that Disney’s Frozen 2 is going to be a gargantuan hit at the November box office: Both Fandango and Atom Tickets have announced that the first day presales for the Chris Buck-Jennifer Lee-directed sequel have eclipsed those for all oth...

‘Mr. Iglesias’ Gets Premiere Date For Season 2 Of Netflix Series.... Class will soon be back in session for Mr. Iglesias. Netflix has set June 17 for Mr. Iglesias Part 2, starring stand-up favorite Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias. In the series created by Kevin Hench, Iglesias stars as Gabe, a good-natured public high school tea...

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ First Trailer Out – Ending Seems To Confirm Release Will Be Coming To Theaters.... Christopher Nolan’s eagerly awaited film Tenet has its first trailer out, and the end of it seems to confirm speculation that it will be released in theaters on July 17. Tenet is an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage. Nolan...

‘Magical Girl Friendship Squad’: Quinta Brunson & Anna Akana Lead Ensemble Cast Of Syfy’s TZGZ Anime-Inspired Comedy.... EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has set the full ensemble cast for the TZGZ anime-inspired comedy Magical Girl Friendship Squad. Led by Quinta Brunson (A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Anna Akana (Let It Snow), series regulars also include Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live,...

‘Ferrari’s Adam Driver Proud To Represent A Movie “That’s Not Part Of The AMPTP” – Venice.... Michael Mann's epic historical drama Ferrari will drive onto the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival this evening, one of the major titles in competition here on the Lido. It's also one of the key films to secure a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement, allowing...

First Back? Tyler Perry Sets July Production Restarts For ‘Sistas’ & ‘The Oval’ At His Atlanta Studio.... EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Perry was one of the first Hollywood producers to come up with a comprehensive plan how to safely restart TV production. He is now the first to set start dates for U.S. shows filming in North America. On July 8, Perry’s two BET series,...

Eric Garcetti’s Coronavirus “Chaos” Media Tour Hits ‘The Daily Show’; Masks Now Officially Required For LA Residents.... Relentlessly in ever expanding damage control mode after the explosive remarks yesterday by a top health official that Los Angeles could be under lockdown until August, Mayor Eric Garcetti went for the fake news crowd tonight, seriously. "You can kill peo...

‘Terrace House Tokyo’ Canceled Following Hana Kimura Death.... Fuji TV’s Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020 has been canceled following the death of pro wrestler and star Hana Kimura. The Japanese broadcaster announced the news Wednesday evening in a statement via the show’s website. "We would like to express our sinc...

The Show To Watch This Week: ‘Snowpiercer’, ‘The Great’, ‘Hightown’ & ‘DC’s Stargirl’ Reviewed.... It's the weekend before the big long weekend of the Memorial Day holiday and while coronavirus restrictions are lifting all over California and the rest of the nation, there is some serious TV dropping – which of course poses the question of what is the...

Los Angeles City & County Extend Curfew With 9 PM Start After Santa Monica, Beverly Hills & Culver City Set Lockdowns – Update.... 3RD UPDATE, 1:56 PM: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has extended the city’s curfew for a fifth, this time starting at 9 p.m. The lockdowns have kicked in at 6 p.m. the past two nights.\ L.A.'s curfew starts later tonight, at 9 p.m., and lasts until 5...

Sarah Jones’ Parents Urge DGA To Remove Randall Miller From Guild After Learning Of His New Film.... EXCLUSIVE: The parents of Sarah Jones are calling on the DGA to kick Randall Miller out of the guild after learning that he recently directed a new movie, Higher Grounds, in Serbia and Colombia last summer — this despite the special conditions of his p...

‘Frozen 2’ Still Poised For Thanksgiving 5-Day Record Of $129M+, But Turkey Day Sales Fall -16% For All Films.... 4th Update Black Friday: Even with Disney’s Frozen 2 on the marquee and poised to do a record amount of business for the 5-day holiday with now $129.7M, beating Hunger Games: Catching Fire Thanksgiving run record of $109.9M, tickets sales for all title...

‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ A Hail Of Bullets & Bucks At No. 15 On Deadline’s 2019 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament.... When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancill...

#ScoobDance TikTok Challenge Rises To 2B+ Views Before Pic’s Home Debut.... Just because Warner Bros.’ Scoob is heading into homes on May 15, doesn’t mean it’s not notching out an event pic marketing vibe. The #ScoobDance challenge, launched on May 3 by 14-year-old TikTok celebrity dancer Jalaiah Harmon with original musi...

Lea Michele Loses Sponsorship Deal After ‘Glee’ Co-Star Samantha Ware Accuses Her Of “Microaggressions”.... Lea Michele has lost a HelloFresh sponsorship deal after her former Glee co-star Samantha Ware made accusations about her on set behavior while filming the Fox show. On Twitter on Tuesday, Ware bristled at Michele tweeting her support for the Black Lives...

Hulu Updates Its User Interface, Aiming To Improve Film And TV Discovery.... Hulu has updated its user interface with the goal of improving content discovery and providing a more consistent experience across the other services included in its bundled offering with Disney+ and ESPN+. The new look and feel starts Wednesday on Roku a...

Peggy Pope Dies: ‘9 To 5’, ‘Soap’ & Broadway Actress Was 91.... Peggy Pope, who played a secretary in the 1980 movie 9 to 5, appeared in dozens of TV series and acted on Broadway, has died. She was 91. Her family said Pope died May 27 in Fort Collins, CO, but did not give a cause of death. Born Florence Pope on May 1...