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…

They hated each other. Now they love each other. That’s the story Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone copped to this evening during an interview on The Graham Norton Show. The two action stars were often sniping at each other in the press, to the point where Stallone said that "even…

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 theatrical distributor, Paramount. While intermissions were reportedly put in place at one…

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…

Fuse always fetes the Halloween holiday with great makers of genre fare, and we’ve had the likes of John Carpenter, Stephen King, James Wan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mike Flanagan, Darren Lynn Bousman and Eli Roth grace us in the past. Today, we look at a producer and studio chief who has influenced the genre…

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)…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex Associate editor and film writer at Deadline! Now I've been off and on for a while, personal tragedies, the actors and writer strike, other work projects held me back for a bit, but I am back with a whole new lineup of guests. Today…

Teamsters, IATSE, the WGA West and SAG-AFTRA joined forces today to distribute boxes of food and other necessities to industry workers whose lives have been upended by the strikes that have shut down most production. Volunteers held the drive-thru distribution event at Our Lady of Perpetual Help…