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Godfather On The Croisette - After a feverish courtship of Francis Coppola between the organizers of the Cannes, Venice and Toronto film festivals, his Megalopolis has been locked in for a gala premiere next month on the Palais, where Coppola's Apocalypse Now won the Palme d'Or in 1979. >>>Competition Slot
Deadline's Contenders Television - More top talent has been confirmed for Deadline’s Contenders Television, which will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. The new names in the lineup include Jodie Foster, Kurt Russell, Quinta Brunson, Owen Wilson, Tyler James Williams, William Stanford Davis, Chris Perfetti, Aaron Moten and Ella Purnell. They join a previously announced roster featuring Tom Hiddleston, Nicole Kidman, Brie Larson, Kristen Wiig, David Oyelowo, Jimmy Fallon and many more. >>> RSVP And Find More Details Here Biblical Thriller - Filming has recently wrapped in Morocco on under-the-radar Biblical thriller Mary , starring Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins as King Herod and emerging Israeli actress Noa Cohen as Mary. In the coming-of-age story, the title character is shunned following the otherworldly conception of her child and forced into hiding. King Herod’s relentless drive to maintain power at any cost ignites the murderous pursuit of the newborn child that he believes is a threat to his reign on the throne. The film sees the young Mary and Joseph on the run and having to hide their baby, Jesus, at all costs. >>>Pastor Joel Osteen Involved
Royal Role - BBC News is close to crowning its first royal editor after narrowing the field of candidates down to a final two. Deadline understands that the prestige on-air role is expected to be offered to either Mark Easton, BBC News’ home editor, or royal correspondent Daniela Relph. >>>Critical Moment For The Monarchy
'The Crow' Flies To August - In advance of its big slate presentation tomorrow at CinemaCon, exhibition sources say Lionsgate is making a few release-date changes. >>>'Saw XI' Moves, Too
Jewelbox Opens - Maude Apatow and Olivia Rosenbloom have partnered to launch Jewelbox Pictures, a film and television production company with an eye towards bold and complex human stories, which already has three films in development. >>>Directorial Debut In Works
'Kiss' And Tell - Artists Equity has come on to back Kiss of the Spider Woman, serving as the main studio and producer of the feature adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical based on Manuel Puig’s landmark 1976 novel. >>>Bill Condon Directing |
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2 Broke Girls star Kat Dennings is returning to broadcast and the multi-camera comedy format as the co-lead opposite Tim Allen in the ABC pilot Shifting Gears (WT). Dennings also will be a producer on the project, from 20th Television.
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Julianne Moore has been tapped to star opposite James McAvoy in Control, an action thriller from StudioCanal and The Picture Company.
Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger has closed a deal to reprise the title role in Universal Pictures and Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
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Paul Bettany is set to star opposite Will Sharpe in Sky's limited series about composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He will portray Antonio Salieri in Amadeus, with Sharpe playing Mozart.
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Colin Farrell continues to build on a busy dance card as the Oscar-nominated actor is set to star in Netflix‘s The Ballad of a Small Player, with Edward Berger directing. |
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✍️ Prominent Black actors including No Time to Die star Lashana Lynch and Enola Holmes’ Susan Wokoma have signed an open letter decrying the abuse faced by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers after she was cast in a West End theatre production of Romeo & Juliet.
🛑 The potential Game of Thrones sequel headlined by Kit Harington is no longer in development at HBO, the actor and main driving force behind the project said.
🏆 George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 25.
🥶 While mid-April temperatures average in the mid-to-high 80s in Indio, the first weekend of fabled Coachella Music & Arts Festival will see them dip dramatically, with potential 30 mph winds.
🤖 SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the WGA and the DGA have united behind a legislative move to put up some new and slightly punitive guardrails around Artificial Intelligence. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Edgar Burcksen, a veteran TV and film editor who won an Emmy for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, worked at Industrial Light & Magic and was a longtime American Cinema Editors board member, has died. He was 76. 🕯️ Richard Leibner , a pioneering talent agent who represented such notable broadcast news journalists as Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Andy Rooney, Norah O’Donnell, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer and Fareed Zakaria, died today at his home in New York City. He was 85. 🕯️ Hollywood & Media Deaths: A Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Wed - WBD town hall; Universal presentation at CinemaCon
Fri - Coachella begins
Sat - Deadline's Contenders TV; Ryan Gosling hosts SNL
Sun - Deadline's Contenders TV; The Masters final round
Mon - Trump NY criminal trial starts |
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Love Sweet Love - The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux debuted at CinemaCon and as Deadline's Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione write, "It's about mad people — in love," and set to Burt Bacharach's beautiful, “What the World Needs Now (Is Love Sweet Love).” |
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