UPDATE, 6 AM: A longer trailer for the Zendaya- and Robert Pattinson-starring The Drama has arrived, giving more context to what may have unsettled the pair leading up to their characters' wedding. Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Pattinson) are preparing for the big day by taking dance lessons…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters), Danny Huston (The Aviator), Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!), and Ulrich Thomsen (Lanterns) have joined the cast of The Riders, A24’s new film from Academy Award-winner Edward Berger, based on the Tim Winton novel of the same name. Taking place in multiple…

A24's The Moment with Charli xcx delivered a major limited opening, grossing close to $428k on four screens for a per theater average pushing $107k. That’s the third biggest limited debut post-Covid after Marty Supreme and Asteroid City and in the top three ever for A24 alongside the Timothée…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has won the multi-party bidding war for US rights to Olivia Wilde and Annapurna's buzzy Sundance Film Festival film The Invite. The title was won with a highly competitive eight-figure deal after a 72-hour marathon bidding battle. The bids started at $10 million and climbed upward…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s taking a little longer to sell Olivia Wilde’s hot sexual comedy The Invite, we hear, and that’s because Warner Bros’ new contemporary film label headed by former Neon marketing guru Christian Parkes put in a last-minute bid against A24 and Focus Features. Now it’s a three-horse…

We’re getting the first look at HBO’s new late-night original series Neighbors. The premium cabler released the first trailer Tuesday ahead of its February 13 premiere. The six-episode half-hour show will air weekly at 9 pm on HBO and will stream on HBO Max. “When you buy a house, you’re…

UPDATE: NEON has made it known that it has acquired the worldwide rights to writer/director Adrian Chiarella's' feature-length directorial debut Leviticus. NEON will release the film theatrically later this year. EXCLUSIVE: Word will be happening soon from NEON that they’ve secured global on…

Warner Bros. Discovery's strong start to the year has continued apace with the studio landing the most BAFTA Film Awards nominations Tuesday, all down to One Battle After Another and Sinners. Sinners couldn’t quite match its record-breaking Oscar feat of 16 nominations but landed 13 noms today…

John Oliver is back with more ludicrous observations and laughs next month. HBO has set the return of his Last Week Tonight as it also prepares to launch new late-night series Neighbors. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will return for Season 13 on February 15. There's nothing unusual…

EXCLUSIVE: With a slew of crowd-pleasing fare at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, studios are buying movies again. We’re hearing at this point in time that bids for Olivia Wilde’s latest feature as director, The Invite, have exceeded $10 million. Following the world premiere of the sexual rom-com…

Horror is such an overworked genre these days with every possible variation tried and tried again, every successful franchise running through countless sequels before starting all over again a la Scream, Halloween and more. The “found footage” sub-genre…

After landing her first Oscar nomination for her starring role in A24’s dark comedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Rose Byrne spoke with Deadline about the timeline for production on Platonic Season 3, her new Peacock series The Good Daughter, tackling her first play in around five years, and…