The 19 films competing in the Official Selection of next month's 77th Cannes Film Festival were revealed this morning by festival officials. Familiar names launching new works in the Competition include Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprentice, a feature pic about the early life of Donald Trump. Andrea Arnold returns with Bird, starring Barry Keoghan and Jacques Audiard’s latest, Emilia Perez, a musical with Selena Gomez will also debut in competition. Elsewhere, American filmmaker Sean Baker brings Anora to the Croisette. Poor Things filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos will launch Kinds Of Kindness, his latest collab with Emma Stone. David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds, and Paul Schrader will debut Oh Canada, starring Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman and Richard Gere.
Several big-ticket items, including Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, will also premiere out of competition. >>>The Full Lists |
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'Melrose Place' Revisited - Three original Melrose Place cast members, Heather Locklear, Laura Leighton and Daphne Zuniga, are reuniting for a followup to the 1990s staple. A Melrose Place reboot, with the trio attached to star, is in development at CBS Studios. >>>Being Shopped Ditto 'Heroes' - Tim Kring‘s Heroes is eyeing a second encore with Heroes: Eclipsed, a new incarnation of the popular 2006 superhero drama series. >>>Being Pitched To Buyers Now
"Fat Guy With A Cane" - Thomas Mooneyham never heard Sylvester Stallone or the director on Tulsa King utter disparaging words about background actors, but he’s convinced there were comments directed at him personally after he read allegations on a private Facebook page for BG actors. >>>Feels Singled Out
'Bluey': Big-Screen Ambitions - In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Bluey creator Joe Brumm addressed the future of the Australia kids TV juggernaut, and it sounds like 30-minute special "The Sign" — four times the length of regular episodes — will play a key role in what shape the story of anthropomorphic Australian sisters Bluey and Bingo takes next. >>>Read The Q&A
Planning For The Zombie Apocalypse - While Danny Boyle is set to return to direct 28 Years Later, the first film in a new trilogy based on the iconic horror films he helped launch, Sony Pictures is already lining up the helmer for the second installment. While a deal hasn’t closed, sources tell Deadline that Nia DaCosta is in talks to direct. >>>Back-To-Back Shoots
Electionline's View From Abroad - UK podcasters Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel beat their country's major news networks in gaining access to Mar-a-Lago on Super Tuesday. They entered Donald Trump’s Florida estate with a simple ambition to test the mood inside the ex-president’s camp, but ended up being told to “f*** off” by Marjorie Taylor Greene. >>>Interview
Changes At The Academy - The Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, historically given to those whose “humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry,” is now described as recognizing those whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit “by promoting human welfare and contributing to rectifying inequities,” according to a recent internal message to members. >>>Michael Cieply's Column
Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: ‘Girls State’ Directors - Just as Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss prepared to shoot their new documentary Girls State about hundreds of young women in Missouri assembling for an annual exercise in mock government, the draft Dobbs opinion leaked, signaling the U.S. Supreme Court’s intent to reverse Roe v. Wade. McBaine and Moss join Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss how the Dobbs ruling impacted the high school-age girls' approach to the exercise. >>> Listen |
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The Conners celebrated a big milestone, getting to 100 episodes, by doing what it does best: telling stories about small-town life and reminding folks that it has one of the most experienced ensembles on broadcast TV.
Here, executive producers Bruce Helford and Dave Caplan talk about their six-season odyssey and whether it’s time to start planning for a seventh year on ABC. >>>Read The Interview |
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Jurassic World: Dominion actress Daniella Pineda and Allison Robertson, Robert Morgan and Grant Harvey have joined the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios and Artists Equity feature The Accountant 2, the sequel to the 2016 thriller.
AMC has announced an extensive guest cast for Dark Winds Season 3, led by Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) and Bruce Greewood (The Fall of the House of Usher). |
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📣 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said advertising on Prime Video, introduced earlier this year, is "growing quickly and is off to a strong start." The exec took stock in his annual letter to shareholders, which was released along with details of his 2023 compensation.
🎞️ Tribeca has slated its first European festival, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from October 17 to 19. Whoopi Goldberg and filmmaker Patty Jenkins are among those confirmed to appear.
⚖️ In a filing to dismiss Gina Carano's wrongful-discharge and sex-discrimination lawsuit related to The Mandalorian, Disney maintains that the former MMA fighter lost her job in 2021 because her decision “to publicly trivialize the Holocaust by comparing criticism of political conservatives to the annihilation of millions of Jewish people." |
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BY THE NUMBERS
10.72 million - Viewers for the final installment of a three-episode tribute to 'The Poseidon Adventure' on '9-1-1' |
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On the Radar
Fri - Coachella begins
Sat - Deadline's Contenders TV; Ryan Gosling hosts SNL
Sun - Deadline's Contenders TV; The Masters final round; WGA Awards; Salman Rushdie on 60 Minutes
Mon - Trump NY criminal trial starts |
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'Wicked' Cool - Universal brought a a colorful spectacle worthy of a wizard to its CinemaCon presentation for Wicked this year. Every attendee at Caesars Colosseum was given a faux tulip that lit up in varying colors, in particular pink and green, creating a great visual before Jeff Goldblum — aka the Wizard — took the stage. |
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