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Since Warner Bros acquired rights to make more Middle-earth films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s works and the canon established by New Line’s original trilogy, Peter Jackson and cohorts hovered over the proceedings for a long time as they mulled how to return and take another deep dive into mythology. Then they found their answer.

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‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ Release Set For Fall 2025; Take Two Interactive Stock Slides As Game’s Timing Dents Full-Year Outlook

Grand Theft Auto VI, the latest installment in the mega-selling video game franchise, will be released in fall 2025, parent company Take-Two Interactive has confirmed. The release news put a narrower range on the release, which had previously been projected to be sometime in calendar 2025. The update…

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Michael Bayer Launches True Case Films Banner And Film Fund With First Title Docuseries ‘Vanished -The Heather Elvis Case’

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Michael Bayer has launched True Case Films, a new production company based in Los Angeles, focused solely on producing and financing stories based on true crime. The newly formed company has secured IP and is actively seeking additional packaged true crime projects to finance, produce…

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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act starring Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel serving as the opening-night film. This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres like Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, Kevin Costner’s…

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Sony Dates ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ For Summer 2025

Sony announced on Thursday that its new I Know What You Did Last Summer film from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) will be released via Columbia Pictures on July 18, 2025. Scripted by Leah McKendrick (Scrambled), the film’s plot is under wraps for now, but stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and…

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The CW’s Affiliates Still “Absorbing” Network’s Makeover, President Dennis Miller Says; No Update On Fate Of NY Flagship WPIX Amid FCC Battle

CW President Dennis Miller acknowledges the revamped network must still “prove ourselves” to local affiliates, which are still “absorbing” the amount of change. Speaking to Deadline on Thursday morning, just prior to the annual upfronts-week meeting of the affiliates, Miller said the overall base is…

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‘Megalopolis’: What The Critics Are Saying

After months of speculation, the critical book has finally been opened on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The early word? Predominantly positive, with some very high highs and inevitably a few low lows. Below, we run through some of the first reactions. Deadline’s Damon Wise praised the movie…

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‘Detained’: Quiver Distribution Acquires North American Rights To Felipe Mucci’s Psychological Thriller Starring Abbie Cornish & Laz Alonso

EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution announced today the acquisition of North American rights to the upcoming psychological thriller Detained directed and co-written by Felipe Mucci (Two Deaths of Henry Baker) and Jeremy Palmer and starring Abbie Cornish (Amazon's Jack Ryan, Bright Star, Three Billboards Outside…

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My guest this week is Juliette Binoche. Binoche may have been busy this week participating in the opening ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival, but a few days beforehand, she called in from Paris to chat to us for this episode of 20 Questions on Deadline. With more than 60 films to her name…

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EXCLUSIVE: Amelia Isaac Jones has signed with Inspire Entertainment. The in demand actress, who had been taking a ton of meetings with other reps, can currently be seen as the lead in season three of Neil Forsyth's BBC series Guilt alongside Emun Elliott, Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives. The series is…

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‘Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot’ Review: Rithy Panh’s Return To The Killing Fields Spotlights Importance Of Today’s Conflict Journalists – Cannes Film Festival

Rithy Panh has dedicated the lion's share of his career to interrogating the genocidal Khmer Rouge era in his native Cambodia, and it is no trivial obsession. Panh fled Phnom Penh when he was just 11, and after his family was devastated in the Killing Fields, he escaped to a Thai refugee camp at 15. Now…

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The most awaited film this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, had its world premiere Thursday night, with the dystopian epic decades in the making landing a seven-minute standing ovation. Coppola, the 85-year-old director and five-time Oscar winners, bowed as the…

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‘Shōgun’ To Continue: FX & Hulu Eye Two More Seasons Of James Clavell Adaptation

Shōgun is a limited series no more: FX is gearing up for more installments of the historic drama. The renewal was expected and foreshadowed by star-producer Hiroyuki Sanada closing a deal to continue as Lord Yoshii Toranaga. Also back are co-creators, executive producers and writers Justin Marks and…