Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest film continues with Nickel Boys, the feature directing debut of Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening filmmaker RaMell Ross, who with longtime collaborator Joslyn Barnes adapted Colson Whitehead…

Even though there’s still $2 billion-$3 billion missing in the post-Covid domestic box office, there was plenty to be thankful for in 2024, which is coming in at an estimated $8.72B, off 3% from 2023’s $9B. That figure is factored from Comscore and Deadline calculations. First of all, many were…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Fire Inside, the boxing drama directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison in her feature helming debut from a script from Oscar-winning Moonlight screenwriter Barry Jenkins. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Culpa Tuya (Your Fault) premieres on Prime Video on Dec. 27 and writer-director Domingo González promises it is a step up from the hit first film, Culpa Mía (My Fault). The good news for fans of the YA franchise is he claims the third installment, Culpa Nuestra (Our Fault), which will land in…

Powerful performers punch above their weight in this otherwise by-the-book boxing drama. Based on the record-setting back-to-back Olympic victories — in 2012 and 2016 — of professional boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, who came from a poor background in Flint…

Long drawn to filmmaking as an artistic medium cultivating “a radical form of empathy,” cinematographer Jomo Fray took that concept in an immersive new direction with Nickel Boys, the first narrative feature from Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross. The drama for Amazon MGM’s Orion…

Matthew Warchus (Matilda: The Musical) is set to direct the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reimagining in the works from Amazon MGM Studios and EON Productions, Amazon said Thursday. Warchus will work from a script by Enda Walsh (Small Things Like These). The film, which Deadline told you about first, is in…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest films continues with Amazon MGM Studios and Actors Equity’s Unstoppable, the inspirational sports drama directed by Oscar-winning Argo editor William Goldenberg in his feature helming debut and starring Jharrel…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is hatching big plans to match its international originals with major brands after handing new roles to Ludovic Attal and Ned Mitchell. Prime Video’s Head of International Originals James Farrell outlined the move in a note to staff seen by Deadline, with Attal taking on…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed the pitch Stand-In, with Rudy Mancuso attached to direct and compose the film’s original soundtrack. Mancuso will also write the script alongside Dan Lagana, from a story by Andy Muschietti. Andy and Barbara Muschietti will produce the film, which follows a…

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone’s favorite Mercedes chassis/World War I fighter plane is getting a tune-up as Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson’s Eon Productions are in development with Amazon MGM Studios on a reimagined film adaptation of the classic Dick Van Dyke family pic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Sources say…

Typically there’s one odd duck out when it comes to the movie studios at CinemaCon, but this year with box office climbing back post strikes and Covid, there are no plans for any to sit out. The exhibitor-studio confab runs March 31-April 3 at The Colosseum of Caesars Palace. For the first time as…