EXCLUSIVE: Positioned just before the final voting begins for the Best Picture Academy Award, the Producers Guild Awards long have been an important indicator of what’s to come. Aside from evaluating who is eligible to accept the top Oscar, the PGA navigates industry turbulence on behalf of those…

Film Independent has named Brenda Robinson its Acting President, with Eric d’Arbeloff stepping up from Board Vice Chair to Robinson’s previous role of Acting Board Chair. These temporary shifts in leadership at the nonprofit come following the December 31 passing of longtime Film Independent…

A Deadline FYC screening event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood this week brought together Emilia Pérez director-screenwriter Jacques Audiard, stars Zoe Saldaña and Adriana Paz and artisans…

Bill Skarsgård (Nosferatu), Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus), and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) are new additions to the cast of The Death of Robin Hood, the new film from writer-director Michael Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One), to be distributed in the U.S. by A24. Hailing from Lyrical…

EXCLUSIVE: Owen Wilson is set to star opposite Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in Runner, an action drama helmed by Scott Waugh (Need for Speed, Expendables 4) and getting underway in Australia. The  Black List script is written by Tommy White and Miles Hubley. Runner follows Hank Malone (Ritchson), a…

RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive the Writers Guild of America West's 2025 Paul Selvin Award for their work as the screenwriters of Nickel Boys, the Amazon MGM Studios drama they adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning book. The honor will be bestowed during the guild’s WGA…

EXCLUSIVE: Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks) is the latest star to join Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz in the Lionsgate pic Day Drinker. Marc Webb is directing the pic. The film is produced by Thunder Road's Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who produce the John Wick franchise for Lionsgate, and Adam…

For editor Myron Kerstein, Wicked was a project he’d been “training for,” for all his life. Recently scoring his second Oscar nomination for his work on the film, directed by Jon M. Chu, he came to the project after working on feature musicals ranging from Hedwig and the Angry Inch and tick, ti…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar- and Emmy-nominated production company Aircraft Pictures and Dolphin Entertainment have teamed for a reboot of 1986 hockey drama Youngblood. Cameras have just rolled on the movie in Hamilton and Barrie, Canada, with Hubert Davis (The Well, Black Ice) directing. Youngblood…

EXCLUSIVE: The name Walter White isn't as familiar to Americans as those of Thurgood Marshall or W.E.B. Du Bois, but it should be – to anyone who cares about history, and the cause of racial justice and equality. The civil rights activist led the NAACP for a quarter of a century, helping achieve…

EXCLUSIVE: Badlands, the recently launched indie genre label of longtime Sony exec Strauss and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road, has acquired Jayson Rothwell’s pitch for Lions, Tigers, and Bears, a film inspired by a true story from 2001, involving a lion, tiger, and bear rescued from a drug…

The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards are set to take place Friday, February 7 in Santa Monica, marking latest step along the path to the Oscars. The Critics Choice Awards were originally scheduled to take place January 12, but was pushed first to January 26 and then tonight after the L.A. wildfi…