'Lilo & Stitch' Sets Holiday Record; Netflix Buys ‘Nouvelle Vague’; 'Last Of Us' Creators & Star On S2 Finale

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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. 'LILO & STITCH' LIGHTS UP BOX OFFICE HOW DISNEY'S BLUE ALIEN TOOK ON TOM CRUISE — AND WON Disney's blue agent of chaos landed in cinemas over the weekend and its take of $183M proceeded to smash the box office. Lilo & Stitch's Saturday’s haul of $47.5M, a record for Memorial Day weekend, buries that of Top Gun: Maverick’s Saturday ($38M) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($37.7M). Tom Cruise's (supposedly) final M:I movie, Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning, managed $77.5M over the weekend up against Lilo & Stitch. It was clear that Disney had a hit on its hands back at CinemaCon, when a sizzle reel showed Stitch popping up in several Mouse House movies. >>>Mega Millennial Love Related: Summer Bound For $4.2B After Record $326M+ Memorial Day Weekend Christopher McQuarrie Shares Updates On Upcoming Tom Cruise Collaborations, Says ‘Top Gun 3’ Is “Already In The Bag” Cannes Coverage Exclusive Netflix Buys Richard Linklater’s ‘Breathless’ Homage & Love Letter To Cinema ‘Nouvelle Vague’ In Record Domestic Deal For A French-Language Movie EXCLUSIVE Jia Zhangke’s Unknown Pleasures Pictures Acquires ‘Sentimental Value’ & Two Other Cannes Pics For China Cannes Winners Are Again Good For Neon But Create Confusing Picture For Oscar Race – Which Films Could Place In Both? Neon Shines Brightly With Six For Six Palme d’Or Winners After Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Breaking Baz @ Cannes: “Even If I’m Fired, I Stay,” Declares Defiant Thierry Frémaux; Festival Victors Dance The Night Away After Strongest Selection In Years Cannes Winners: Palme D’Or Goes To Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Cannes Film Festival 2025 In Photos: Awards Ceremony, Movie Premieres, Parties & More Deadline Exclusives & Originals The Wait For 'Watson' - CBS series Watson just wrapped its 13-episode first season. But fans will have to wait a bit to see what follows the season finale revealing Moriarty’s fate. Deadline spoke with the network’s Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach about the decision to hold Watson until midseason. >>>Lack Of Schedule Space Rodnyansky's Roots - Ukraine-born producer-director Alexander Rodnyansky is returning to his documentary roots and has nearly wrapped filming on Notes of a True Criminal. The Leviathan producer's next project will combine elements of doc movies he shot at the end of the Cold War coupled with more recent footage from the war in Ukraine and WWII footage obtained by his family. >>>Long Line Of Documentarians 'Eureka Day' Playwright On Getting Canceled By Trump - Eureka Day was due to be staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Then along came Donald Trump in February, taking over as the Kennedy Center chairman and filling the board with his acolytes. Scheduled shows began disappearing and one of the first to go – for “financial reasons” – was Eureka Day. >>>Jonathan Spector Relieved Cameron Pictures Hire - Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent maker Cameron Pictures has hired Pier 21's Karen Tsang as Vice President of Creative Affairs. She's taking on a slate of original scripted series, having previously been exec producer of Run the Burbs. >>>New Role      The Deadline Interview ‘The Last Of Us’ Creators Break Down Season 2 Finale And Tease What’s To Come For Ellie & Abby The Last Of Us Season 2 has come to an end, but Ellie and Abby’s story is far from over. Sunday night’s finale ends on quite the cliffhanger, but it is a 50-minute episode filled with action that needs to be unpacked before we get to that ending. Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann reflect on their HBO series. >>>Spoilers Ahead Related:  'The Last Of Us' Star Bella Ramsey Discusses How Ellie's "Monomaniacal Need To Kill Abby" Leads Her Down A Dark Path Throughout Season 2 Finale Quotable   "No, no chance. He’s a machine."  - Tom Cruise's longtime stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood on whether the Hollywood star will retire from physical action Renewals, Cancellations & Pickups exclusive 'The Wheel Of Time' Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons exclusive Netflix Greenlights New Argentine Films As Ricardo Darín & Juan José Campanella Movies Begin Production 'CoComelon' Animated Series Moving From Netflix To Disney+ Casting About   exclusive Ram Kapoor, one of India's leading actors who has starred in series including Kasamh Se and Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, has landed the lead role in Mistry, the JioHotstar adaptation of Monk. T'Nia Miller is set for a major role in Marvel's Vision for Disney+. She is believed to be playing one of the leads opposite Paul Bettany, who is reprising his titular MCU character in the WandaVision spinoff. by the numbers   $4.2B  - Comscore's estimate for the summer box office, a 14% uptick from summer 2024 More News 📻 NPR and three Colorado public radio entities filed suit against Donald Trump and other administration officials today over the president’s executive order to cease federal funding for the media outlets. 🎵 Billie Eilish led the winners at the 2025 American Music Awards, the largest fan-voted awards show, which returned with host and performer Jennifer Lopez in Sin City's Fontainebleau luxury resort following a two-year hiatus. ⚖️ Rust armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was granted parole this week and released on May 23, having served 85% of her 18-month sentence for her role in the tragic on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. 📽️ Argentine cinema goers were subject to an unfortunate example of life mirroring art when the ceiling of the Cinema Ocho in Buenos Aires collapsed during a screening of Final Destination Bloodlines. One cinemagoer is planning to sue the theater after sustaining injuries from falling debris. Obituaries 🕯️ Sacha Jenkins, a hip-hop journalist and documentarian known for Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men and Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues died aged 53. 🕯️ Les Dilley, the Oscar-winning production designer of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope died Tuesday May 20 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84. 🕯️ Mara Corday, the showgirl, Playboy playmate and star of cult film Tarantula, died of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease at her home on Feb 9, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. 🕯️ Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has died at the age of 79. The Duck Commander patriarch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's last December. 🕯️ Marcel Ophuls, the director of seminal 1969 movie The Sorrow and the Pity died at his home in France over the weekend. He was 97. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery On the Radar Tue - The Handmaid's Tale finale Wed - Television Academy Honors Thursday - ATX TV Festival begins Mon - Gotham TV Awards Photo of the Day Fashion Show - American Music Awards host Jennifer Lopez wowed with a number of eye-catching outfit changes. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Deadline Hollywood, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 11355 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA, 90064 View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Your Privacy Rights | Ad Choices | Terms of Use | Unsubscribe