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'The Flash' Falls Short - There were many reasons Warner Bros. DC’s $200M The Flash, opened to $55.1M over 3-days this weekend at 4,234 theaters, well below Warner’s $70M-$75M 3-day expectations. Three-day projections just kept losing speed for this Andy Muschietti-directed movie, which faced numerous obstacles. >>> Troubled Star & A Low-Wattage Superhero
The Film That Lit My Fuse - Deadline's ongoing video series aims to provide an antidote to industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. This week’s subjects are The Flash filmmakers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti. >>>Watch The Conversation
Queen Of The Nile - Newen Studios is jumping on the Cleopatra bandwagon by leading its Sunny Side of the Doc slate with a documentary about the last queen of Egypt. Cleopatra: Cracking the Enigma heads an eight-strong slate being shopped this week at the La Rochelle confab, as Newen attempts to extend itself in the international doc market. >>>Full Slate
A Fresh Face, Circa '1923' - Newcomer Aminah Nieves plays Teonna Rainwater, a student — or rather, prisoner — of a Catholic boarding school in 1923's Montana. “I was scared a lot,” the actress recalls of her first season. “I wanted to make sure I was honoring every single human, every single family member," says Nieves.>>>"Heavy And Triggering" Role |
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Droughtlander is finally over and fans of the Starz series Outlander have been reunited with Claire and Jamie Fraser, played by returning leads Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan. The Season 7 premiere titled “A Life Well Lost” picks up after the crazy events of the Season 6 finale that revealed Malva Christie (Jessica Reynolds) had been murdered and Claire was arrested for the crime. The first two episodes of the new season will mostly tackle the mystery though little remnants will be sprinkled through the remaining episodes. Balfe weighed in on the confession during a chat with Deadline alongside Heughan about the premiere and what fans can expect for the remainder of the season. >>> Read The Interview |
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During the Tudum global fan event in São Paulo, Brazil, Netflix dropped the first names joining Lee Jung-jae for Squid Game Season 2. Jung-jae will be reprising his role of Gi-hun with Hwang Dong-hyuk returning to direct and executive produce the sophomore season of the series that will start production later this year. New players joining the game are Yim Si-wan (Unlocked), Kang Ha-Neul (Midnight Runners), Park Sung-hoon (The Glory) and Yang Dong-geun (Yaksha: Ruthless Operations).
Linda Hamilton is joining the cast of Stranger Things for the fifth and final season. Netflix announced Hamilton’s casting during the streamer’s fan event in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday. No details have been revealed regarding Hamilton’s role.
Wednesday star Emma Myers is to lead the BBC’s adaptation of Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Myers, who plays Wednesday’s werewolf roommate Enid Sinclair in the Netflix smash, will star as Pip Fitz-Amobi. Myers stars opposite newcomer Zain Iqbal, who plays Ravi in the adaptation of Jackson’s best-selling mystery thrillers. Red Rose’s Poppy Cogan is writing and Dracula star Dolly Wells is directing.
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Zimzon Zion has joined the cast of ALLBLK’s Double Cross as a series regular for Season 5. He will portray Detective Tate, a noble man with a strong sense of morals and ethics. As Deadline revealed exclusively on Thursday, Double Cross was renewed by the AMC streamer for an all-new season alongside other hits Terror Lake Drive, Wicked City and Hush. |
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BY THE NUMBERS
$132,211 - The per-theater average for Wes Anderson’s‘Asteroid City,’ the strongest for any film this year |
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🛳️ After a submersible letting tourists explore the wreck of the Titanic went missing, the Coast Guard said five crew members were aboard the 21-foot craft, which dove to 13,000 feet. It usually has a four-day supply of oxygen. As a search continued, a CBS News video segment from six months ago went viral because reporter David Pogue had raised safety concerns while getting a tour of the high-tech minisubmarine.
⚖️ Creed III actor Jonathan Majors appeared in New York Criminal Court this morning. A judge set August 3 as the starting date for his trial on misdemeanor assault and harassment charges stemming from accusations by a 30-year-old woman.
🧾 Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, plans to plead guilty to tax and gun charges following a Justice Department investigation. Biden will plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax and will enter a diversion agreement related to a charge for possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
🤥 Donald Trump offered a fusillade of unfounded claims and falsehoods in his Monday night interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. Baier wasn't having any of it. When Trump started to talk about ballot box stuffing, Baier told him point blank, “You lost the 2020 election. There were recounts in all of the swing states. There was not significant widespread fraud." When Trump tried again, Baier fired back with more facts, including that "fewer than 475 cases of voter fraud were found in six battleground states."
📒 UTA has acquired executive search and consulting firm James & Co., which operates in the sports, media, entertainment, digital and consumer sectors. Founders Michele James and Roysi Erbes will continue to co-lead the company as a new division within UTA.
🖤 The cast of Wednesday made a video appearance at Netflix’s Tudum global fan event in São Paulo, Brazil, and teased that a new Addams family member was joining in Season 2. The cast confirmed the news that viewers would get to see more of Wednesday’s family but did not reveal who it would be. Ortega said she “would love to see Cousin Itt” while the other cast members said they wanted to see Grandma Addams.
✂️ APA’s Head of Music Bruce Solar is among a few music agents who are leaving the agency. A replacement for Solar will be announced shortly. The departures come as the writers strike nears its 50th day. APA last week laid off several assistants. APA and Verve, which has laid off most of its assistants and three agents, also are the two known agencies that have implemented temporary salary reductions for top agents and executives. |
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Trending  Vanderpump Rules sure was a ratings boon for Bravo and Peacock. More than 115 million hours of Season 10 have been watched to date across both platforms as well as on digital apps. The season reached more than 11.4 million total viewers. Its 4.6 million total viewers across all platforms through 3 days make the first reunion special (May 24) the most-watched Bravo episode of any series in over nine years and the most watched Vanderpump Rules episode of all time.
🔻 By 2027, total pay-TV penetration is projected by consulting firm PwC to sink to to 49.9 million — down from almost 100 million as recently as 2016 — which means it will be in just 38% of total U.S. homes. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Brett Hadley, best known for his longtime role as Genoa City police detective Carl Williams on The Young and the Restless, died Wednesday, according to Soap Opera Digest and his longtime friend, photographer Mary Ann Halpin, who shared the news on Facebook. Hadley was 92. 🕯 Paxton Whitehead, the prolific and acclaimed actor whose career stretched from 17 Broadway productions, a recurring role on the hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You and a memorable turn as a snooty professor who takes an instant disliking to Rodney Dangerfield’s crude self-made man in 1986’s Back to School, died June 16 at a hospital in Arlington, VA. He was 85. 🕯 Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker as a “pusher” trying to sell an unusual Madonna souvenir, died Sunday of lung disease, her former bandmates announced. She was 60. 🕯 Daniel Ellsberg, a onetime advisor to Nixon Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and RAND Corp. analyst who leaked the 7,000-word secret history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post, has died. He was 92. 🕯 Carol Higgins Clark, author of the best-selling Regan Reilly series and an actress in several television series and made-for-TV movies, died June 12 in New York of appendix cancer. She was 66. 🕯 Veteran Houston rapper Big Pokey (aka Melvin Powell) died Saturday night shortly after collapsing on stage during a Beaumont, Texas performance. He was 45 and the cause of death has not been determined. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths in 2023: A Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Tue - Gracie Awards luncheon
Wed - Secret Invasion premieres
Thu - Just Like That S2 premiere; NBA draft
Fri - DGA membership vote closes
Mon - Emmy voting ends |
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When In Rome... - Tom Cruise and the Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One cast walked a red carpet that stretched up Rome's famed Spanish Steps on Monday at the film's world premiere. Joining Cruise were, from left to right in front: Shea Whigham, Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and Vanessa Kirby; from left to right in back: Cary Elwes, director Christopher McQuarrie, Esai Morales, Greg Tarzan Davis, Simon Pegg and Henry Czerny. |
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