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Even Josh Peck couldn’t see himself as the lead in Twilight. The Drake & Josh star talked about his audition for the teen vampire romance on a recent episode of his Great Guys podcast. He claimed that he actually got “close” to playing Edward Cullen in the series before — spoiler alert — the role…

David Fincher isn’t quite ready to give a “like” to the concept of doing a sequel to his 2010 Academy Award-winning film about the founding of Facebook, The Social Network. Fincher, 61, talked about it with The Guardian in support of his new movie with Michael Fassbender, The Killer. "Aaron…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA and the studios don’t have a deal, but they are planning on talking more. Any agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the studios to end the 106-day strike by the 160,000-strong guild looks almost certain to not be coming tonight, though the two sides are still in deliberations right…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear and BlockFilm — the new production label of former Miramax boss Bill Block — are set to heat up the AFM market some more today with action movie Levon’s Trade, which will star Jason Statham (Fast & Furious franchise) and be directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad) from a screenplay…

UPDATED with latest additions: SAG-AFTRA, which launched a strike against Hollywood studios on July 14, launched its interim agreements program that allows independent productions with no direct ties to members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to continue filming. The guild…

A handful of theaters across the globe have imposed their own intermission on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Deadline has confirmed, leading to intervention on the part of the Apple pic’s primarily theatrical distributor, Paramount, and international partners. While intermissions were…

Richard Moll, best known as the towering bailiff “Bull Shannon” on the long-running NBC sitcom Night Court, died Oct. 26 at his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif. He was 80 and no cause was given by his family. Standing 6'8″, Moll was a character actor, but worked steadily during his career. Night Court…

Taylor Swift, whose ultra-lucrative Eras Tour is still going, has officially become a billionaire. According to a new analysis by Bloomberg News, the 33-year-old pop superstar now has a net worth of $1.1 billion. The tour is a major component of her fortune, with about $700 million in ticket sales…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Courtney J. Camerota has wrapped production on her first feature, Dead Guy, a dark comedy shot under an Interim Agreement that will be introduced to buyers at AFM by CAA Media Finance. Among those in the starry cast are two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (The Bikeriders)…

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: It’s the biggest result ever seen at the end of October, with Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s eyeing a $34M Friday after an Oppenheimer-sized Thursday night of $10.3M for a massive $68M opening. That’s with theatrical day-and-date on Peacock. It’s the biggest result for…

Matt Damon will join Mark Ruffalo and Missy Yager in a special benefit reading next month of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, the acclaimed play that premiered Off Broadway in 1996 in a production starring Ruffalo, Yager and Josh Hamilton. The reading will be directed by Mark Brokaw (How I Learne…

Former ESPN President John Skipper, who led the effort to secure the current NBA rights deal, says incumbents Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have no choice but to re-up with the league. “These are existential rights for ESPN,” he said during an episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, a podcast…