As the returning production designer from the first film, Nathan Crowley had a lot of new areas to explore in Wicked: For Good. From the seemingly floating castle Kiamo Ko to Elphaba’s forest hideaway, and even new locations within The Emerald City like Glinda’s apartment, Crowley’s work in the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Pictures has acquired Portrait of God, a spec from emerging filmmaker Dylan Clark that expands on the world of his viral horror short of the same name. Written by Clark and Joe Russo (The Inheritance), the film will mark the first collaboration of…

RuPaul Charles is headed to theaters with Stop! That! Train!, the Adam Shankman-directed action-comedy from Bleecker Street, Universal Pictures Content Group, and World of Wonder. Bleecker Street will release the film theatrically in North America on May 29, 2026. The film wrapped production in…

On the heels of six Grammy nominations for her seventh studio album Man’s Best Friend, pop star Sabrina Carpenter has inked a deal to star in and produce an untitled musical, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, for Universal Pictures. For Carpenter, the project will mark a first…

Universal Pictures has set a wide release for Moonbug Entertainment and Flywheel Media’s CoComelon: The Movie for Friday, February 26, 2027. Currently, there are no other films occupying that date. Disney’s Ice Age: Boiling Point opens February 7, 2027, with Paramount’s Untitled K-Pop Project…

Universal Pictures is returning to one of its most beloved action-adventure franchises, with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in discussions to return for a new Mummy movie, presumably reprising their roles from the studio’s Mummy films of the ’90s and 2000s, multiple sources tell Deadline. Reps…

Molly Ringwald (Feud: Capote and the Swans) and LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow) have joined the cast of Universal Pictures' One Night Only, which hits theaters on August 7, 2026. They join the previously announced leads Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. The screenplay is a rewrite of Trav…

Colman Domingo has been tapped to voice The Cowardly Lion in Wicked: For Good, Deadline has learned. The news was announced on the social channels of both the film and Domingo on Monday morning. In Jon Chu’s second of two Wicked films, based on Tony-winning Broadway musical, the Gregory Maguire…

EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way Productions, the production company of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, has teamed with producers Alex Cutler and Darryl Marshak to develop a Universal Pictures biopic of Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian star of stage and screen who originated the iconic role of Dracula both…

Wicked: For Good will feature new original songs for Ariana Grande's Glinda and Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba, which will expand their stories beyond their original stage play narratives, director Jon M. Chu said this morning during a session at Deadline's Contenders London.  Speaking with Deadline's…

Universal Pictures has pushed back the release of Other Mommy, its horror film from Atomic Monster, based on the novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (Bird Box). Previously set for May 8, 2026, the film now is poised to open wide on October 9, 2026. In its move to fall, the film…

Frank Price, a writer and Emmy-nominated producer who rose to chairman and CEO of Columbia Pictures before becoming head of Universal Television, died Monday. He was 95. His son, former Amazon Studios president Roy Price, said his father died in his sleep. Born on May 17, 1930, in Decatur, IL…