For the first time in exactly 40 years, Amy Madigan is back in the Oscars race. She’s nominated for Weapons, and with her turn as Aunt Gladys, joins the pantheon of actors nominated for iconic horror performances — Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs), Kathy Bates…

It's one win after another for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Anderson took home awards for Best Screenplay and Best Director after also taking both categories at the Critics Choice Awards last weekend.  In his speech for Best Director, Anderson…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season's most talked-about movies continues with Warner Bros’ Weapons. Writer-director Zach Cregger described the writing process for the horror mystery as “writing on a tightrope,” entering the script without knowing…

Netflix’s Frankenstein, Universal’s Wicked: For Good and Warner Bros’ Sinners, One Battle After Another and Weapons lead the nominations for the 2026 MUAHS Guild Awards with three apiece, the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild said today. Netflix’s Stranger Things 5, NBC’s Saturday Night Liv…

EXCLUSIVE: Weapons star Amy Madigan has found another psychological thriller to sink her teeth into, as sources tell deadline the Golden Globe nominee is set to join the Apple Original Films thriller Sponsor, with Jason Segel set to star and James Ponsoldt directing. Apple Studios will also…

EXCLUSIVE: The Costume Designers Guild on Friday dressed up the nominations for its 28th CDGAs, with titles on the movie side ranging from such big hits as Wicked: For Good, Sinners, One Battle After Another, Weapons and F1 to specialty fare including Hamnet, Hedda and Bugonia. Also in the mix are…

“It’s a very personal movie,” says Zach Cregger about his auteurish horror blockbuster Weapons. “Weapons is autobiographical in a lot of ways,” he tells us on the latest episode of Deadline’s Crew Call. How’s that for a movie about a twisted, witchy aunt (Amy Madigan’s sublime Gladys)…

Amy Madigan tells me people think they recognize her and ask, “Oh, are you still acting?” The answer to that is an affirmative yes. She has never stopped, whether it be movies, TV or stage, but the great roles are hard to come by. Exactly 40 years since…

This weekend, Ryan Coogler's genre-stretching box office smash Sinners, starring not but two Michael B. Jordans, returns to cinemas for a limited engagement, ostensibly for the creepy holiday season — but could Warner Bros. have an ulterior motive for the re-release? Although Coogler's movie debuted…

New Line Cinema's original horror movie, Weapons, will finally stream on HBO Max on Oct. 24, and air on HBO linear on Oct. 25, 8PM ET. By the way, that’s a 77-day theatrical window to HBO Max. The $38M Zack Cregger-directed horror movie, which received a rare A- for the genre, was moved…

With one of the biggest horror movies of the year, Zach Cregger wants his upcoming prequel to Weapons to be its own beast. The writer/director recently teased the spin-off about the mysterious Aunt Gladys (Amy Madigan), which he confirmed last month is in development, admitting he’s considered…

Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger confirmed he and Warner Bros. are in talks for the prequel movie centered on hair-raising villainess Aunt Gladys, played memorably by Amy Madigan. "It is real and I've been talking to Warner Bros. about it,” the horror helmer told magazine Fangoria ahead of the…