Natalie Sitek

Sam Esmail's years-in-the making adaptation of Fritz Lang's classic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis became one of the first major casualties of the 2023 Hollywood strikes. Seven weeks into the WGA work stoppage, the UCP studio, where Esmail has been under an overall deal, pulled the plug on the big-budget…

Sam Esmail, the director of the Netflix post-apocalyptic film Leave the World Behind, spoke to Deadline Wednesday night on the red carpet at the film’s AFI Fest premiere. Leave the World Behind, which starts streaming Dec. 8, stars Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la and Kevin Bacon…

SPOILER ALERT: The post includes information about the playlist in the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film. The live shows in Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour last about 3h 15m. Being about 30 min shorter, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film inevitably skips over a few performances (as well…

UPDATED: Taylor Swift arrived tonight in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles for the premiere of her Eras Tour concert film premiere at The Grove, generating more noise and glitz than an Oscar Best Song performance atop the Academy Museum. Heck, the fountain at the outdoor luxe Rick Caruso-owned mall was…

Laughs blended with tears tonight at the Beverly Hilton as many in Hollywood remembered late MGM Theatrical Distribution Boss and big screen champion Erik Lomis who was lauded posthumously with the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s Pioneer of the Year award. Lomis passed suddenly at 64 on…

The 11x Oscar nominee remembered the late distribution boss Erik Lomis on Wednesday night at the Will Rogers Pioneers Dinner, the two having worked together during the latter’s time at Weinstein Co. with The Master and at MGM with Licorice Pizza. Paul Thomas Anderson had the first 70MM made movie in…

Kevin Feige made an appearance at the Loki Season 2 launch event in Hollywood where fans got to see the first two episodes. The Marvel head addressed the audience in attendance and mentioned the actors’ absence as the SAG-AFTRA strike continued. “Obviously our cast is not here tonight,” Feige…

The 40th anniversary 4K-cut of Stop Making Sense continues to make a lot of cents. In the wake of the Talking Heads A24 re-release racking up the biggest grossing Imax live event ever with close to $641K, we’re hearing that showtimes for this weekend’s Imax run are already selling out. Move…

Throughout an entire junket day as well as a special screening tonight at the TCL Grauman Chinese Theatre, The Creator filmmaker Gareth Edwards showed his solidarity for the pic’s cast as the SAG-AFTRA strike continued into its 67th day. Earlier today in a series of press video interviews at the…

When it comes to Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchise filmmaker David Yates returning to the Max TV series, he tells Deadline, “Never say never.” Yates was at our TIFF studio talking up his new Netflix movie, Pain Hustlers, starring Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, which made its world premiere…

The TIFF Tribute Awards took place and Pedro Almodóvar acknowledged the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes while accepting an award. “I hope that you find solutions for everybody involved,” Almodóvar said during his acceptance speech. Such were the words of Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar at tonight’s TIFF…

A24 after a raucous Midnight Madness premiere of Dicks the Musical brought the funny again tonight with the world premiere of Kristopher Borgli’s Dream Scenario, another ode and self satire of Oscar winner Nicolas Cage if there ever was one. Cage said onstage tonight that Dream Scenario was one of a…