'28 YEARS LATER' IS THE BIGGEST ADVANCE TICKET SELLER FOR A HORROR PIC THIS YEAR |
In its first day of presales, Sony Pictures’ 28 Years Later has become the best horror ticket pre-seller of 2025, outstripping advance tickets at the same point in time for Sinners and Final Destination: Bloodlines.
B.O. momentum for Oscar-winner Boyle’s auteur horror film began when its first trailer gained 60.2 million global views in its first 24 hours, becoming the biggest horror trailer launch of 2024, ahead of A Quiet Place: Day One (46.6M views), Smile 2 (33.1M views) and Nosferatu (26.4M views). The compilation topped the Golden Trailer Awards and won in three categories, including best of show. >>>Cillian Murphy Is Back
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The Great Race - Amazon MGM Studios has landed a film and docuseries package on the legendary Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race with two movie stars at the center of it. Channing Tatum is attached to star in the film about the motorcycle races. A corresponding docuseries was filmed during last year’s TT races with never-before-seen access to the riders and the races. >>>Pitt's Plan B Among Producers Tony Predictions - Sunday's Tony Awards will put a bow on Broadway‘s 2024-2025 season. The year has been marked by Hollywood stars (George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook among them) and record-setting box office, but more than anything the sense of humor onstage. Shows like Oh, Mary!, Eureka Day, Death Becomes Her and, in its tender way, Maybe Happy Ending all supplied audiences with something in very short supply outside the theater this year: Laughter. >>> Greg Evans' Take
'Hal & Harper' Find Home - Mubi has acquired rights to Hal & Harper, the acclaimed indie TV series from actor-filmmaker Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth), for streaming in the U.S. and France. The series premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival. The eight-episode family drama, co-starring Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo, will premiere exclusively on the service this fall. >>> Another Win For Indie TV
Samuel L. Jackson & Taylor Sheridan - Samuel L. Jackson is the latest marquee star to enter the TV world of Taylor Sheridan. The Oscar-nominated actor is poised to lead his own Paramount+ series for the prolific creator titled NOLA King. Written by Dave Erickson (Mayor of Kingstown), it is being plotted as a spinoff from the Sylvester Stallone hit Tulsa King. >>>Crossover Potential
Falcon Set To Fly - Cuban-American drug kingpin Willy Falcon is finally poised to tell the story of how he built the billion-dollar cocaine empire Los Muchachos. Entertainment A.R.E.U., the company started by Ozzie Areu after he left as longtime president of Tyler Perry Studios, has acquired the exclusive life rights. >>>"The Unfiltered Truth"
It Starts On The Page: 'The Diplomat' - Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Drama) features standout drama series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention. The Diplomat creator Debora Cahn loves a cliffhanger. After leaving multiple major characters’ fates up in the air at the end of the first season of the Netflix thriller. Here is the script for the Season 2 finale, “Dreadnought,” with an intro by Cahn, in which she describes how she tried to do a “non-sh-tty” version of the idea for a big finale plot twist. >>> Read The Script
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Director Jamie Lloyd is, to say the least, very busy these days. This weekend his radical, magnificent Broadway reworking of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd. will be competing for seven Tony Awards, including one for his direction.
Then there’s Evita, another Lloyd Webber classic getting the Jamie Lloyd treatment for a June 14 preview date at the London Palladium. That one has Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón.
And of course there’s Waiting for Godot, set for Broadway this fall at the Hudson Theatre. The stars? None other than Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
Deadline asked Lloyd about these projects and more. What’s up with Norma’s bloody face? Will Evita come to Broadway? Whose idea was Godot? >>>Read The Interview |
exclusive Nick Jonas is near closed on a deal to star as KISS lead singer Paul Stanley in Shout It Out Loud, the McG-directed film about the formation of the venerable hard rock band in the 1970s. The film will go into production at the end of the year or in early 2026.
Monica Bellucci, Salman Khan and Max Huang have been confirmed as cast members in 7 Dogs, a Saudi Arabia-shot action thriller from Bad Boys duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.
Tom Felton, who played young Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movie franchise, is reprising the role as an adult in Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton) has been tapped for a recurring role on Imperfect Women, Apple TV+'s upcoming limited series starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington. |
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📺 In an interview with Deadline, George Clooney said the path from feature film to Broadway for Good Night, and Good Luck‘s has been a "natural" trajectory. He also believes it found a natural TV home on CNN, which will broadcast Saturday's stage performance live. “Obviously some of the networks aren’t really up for the idea of doing this right now. I think they’re all a little shell-shocked from tariff talk and lawsuits and everything else,” he said.
⚕️ Shari Redstone, who for months has been leading the charge to merge Paramount Global with David Ellison’s Skydance Media has, at the same time, been fighting a more personal battle with thyroid cancer. 🚎 Off Broadway hit Kowalski is aiming for a Broadway transfer this fall, producers have announced. They’re on the lookout for a venue for Gregg Ostrin’s comedy. Directed by Colin Hanlon, Kowalski is set in a Provincetown beach house and imagines the real-life 1947 meeting of A Streetcar Named Desire author Tennessee Williams and his future Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando.
⚖️ Sean “Diddy” Combs might be barred from his own trial, the judge said Thursday in a bombshell moment. Judge Arun Subramanian warned defense attorneys in a sidebar that he might exclude the defendant from the Lower Manhattan courtroom if he continued to look, nod or make facial expressions at jurors, CNN reported.
🕸️ Dakota Johnson starred in Madame Web, which was a box office flop amid the discussion of superhero movie fatigue. “It wasn’t my fault,” Johnson told The Los Angeles Times. “There’s this thing that happens now where a lot of creative decisions are made by committee. Or made by people who don’t have a creative bone in their body. And it’s really hard to make art that way. Or to make something entertaining that way. |
| Obituaries 🕯️ Longtime Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-president Jason Constantine died June 3 at his home after a long fight with cancer. He was 55. Constantine has been an executive at Lionsgate nearly since its inception, starting his career more than 25 years ago as a director of acquisitions at Lionsgate’s predecessor Trimark Pictures. 🕯️ 2025 Hollywood Deaths Photo Gallery |
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Sat - French Open Women's Championship Final
Sun - Tony Awards; French Open Men's Championship Final; Annecy International Animation Festival
Mon - Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference
Wed - Snow White drops on Disney+ |
"Keep Believing" - Tyrese Haliburton did it again. After trailing the entire game, the Indiana Pacers supserstar made the winning basket in last night's Game One of the NBA Finals on ABC with just .3 seconds remaining. It's Haliburton's third game-winning basket in the last minute of regulation during this Finals run, the first time any player has ever done that. Asked after the game about the mantra behind his team's comeback mentality, Haliburton said, "Keep believing." |
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