Cast
Slow Horses adds five actors for season seven as season six wraps on Apple TV
Slow Horses has added Varada Sethu, Ethan Moorhouse, Tuppence Middleton, Merab Ninidze and Joshua McGuire for season seven, with James Callis back as Claude Whelan. The new season adapts Mick Herron's Bad Actors, and season six was scheduled to wrap on Apple TV on October 21.
October 22, 2026 10:34 am
Keanu Reeves is in talks for The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, seven years after the remake was announced
Keanu Reeves is in talks to star opposite Ma Dong-seok in James Wan's remake of the Korean thriller at Paramount, seven years after the project was first unveiled. Trade reports say the original debuted at Cannes. By the time it screened there, 1.9 million Koreans had already seen it.
October 21, 2026 11:53 pm
Paul McCartney texted Sam Mendes that Paul Mescal looks too short next to the other Beatles
The complaint came after the cast recreated the Abbey Road cover in August. Mendes told him it was just the stride.
October 20, 2026 10:09 am
Miami Vice '85 adds Haley Lu Richardson to a film built on a pilot that aired in 1984
Joseph Kosinski's film with Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler is shooting in New Jersey for a May 2028 release, nine months later than first planned.
October 17, 2026 11:54 am
Penélope Cruz says she and Javier Bardem rarely work together, yet Bunker is their sixth film
At Deadline's Contenders London, Cruz explained why she and Bardem keep work and marriage apart. Florian Zeller's Bunker is the sixth time they have shared the screen.
October 13, 2026 12:17 pm
Greig Fraser says Project Hail Mary was harder to shoot than Dune or The Batman
The Oscar-winning Australian says Project Hail Mary beat Dune and The Batman for difficulty. The $200 million film, built around a puppet on tiny sets, has made $684.5 million worldwide.
October 12, 2026 11:27 am
Bloodaxe sets a January premiere on Prime Video, with season two already filming
Michael Hirst's Viking saga, with Australian actor Levi Miller as Haakon, arrives on January 20, 2027. Amazon renewed it in June, before a single episode had aired.
October 11, 2026 12:41 pm
Michael Douglas was Fox's third choice for Gordon Gekko, and the studio said he was too young
Douglas's new memoir says Warren Beatty and Richard Gere came first for Wall Street, and Fox thought he was too young. It also confirms Gekko never said "Greed is good" in that form.
October 10, 2026 11:14 am
Tom Cruise's Digger takes fourth place by just $1,771 as loss estimates double
Iñárritu's political satire edged out an A24 film for fourth place on its opening weekend. Published budgets run from $125 million to nearly $180 million, and the loss estimates doubled in a week.
October 10, 2026 3:05 am
A Netflix Series Is Competing for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell, and It Drops Today
Pablo Larrain's Mis muertos tristes is competing for San Sebastian's Golden Shell as a feature. It arrives on Netflix today as four episodes, two days before the jury decides.
September 24, 2026 10:18 am
Angh Did Not Take India’s Oscar Slot. The Academy’s Rule Says “In Addition To”
A Konyak-language debut from Nagaland won TIFF's Platform Prize and was reported as seizing an Oscar slot India had already given to another film. The Academy's rule says the word 'addition' and nobody quoted it.
September 21, 2026 5:24 pm
Fatih Akin Opens San Sebastian With a Festival Record There of Exactly Nothing
San Sebastian opens with Fatih Akin's Ghost Song. He has a Golden Bear, a Cannes screenplay prize and a Venice jury prize — and, at 52, has never once competed for the Golden Shell with a feature.
September 19, 2026 3:49 am
TIFF Just Closed Voting on Its Most Predictive Award and Will Never Tell You the Score
Voting for TIFF's People's Choice Award closed at 4am. The festival has never published a single vote total in fifty-one editions — and the Oscar statistic attached to the prize counts films that did not win it.
September 18, 2026 6:18 am
Warner Bros. Lost a Fortune on The Bride! and Signed Its Director Again Three Months Later
Maggie Gyllenhaal is presiding over the Venice jury this week. Six months ago her second film, The Bride!, opened to $7 million and a C+ CinemaScore on a budget somewhere between $80 and $90 million. Warner Bros. absorbed it and then, three months later, bought her the next one.
September 14, 2026 1:30 am
A Film About Refusing a Fortune Premieres at TIFF, and Nobody Can Say What the Fortune Was
I Play Rocky premieres at Toronto on 12 September — a film about a broke actor refusing to sell his script at any price. Sylvester Stallone says he had nothing to do with it and was never consulted. Peter Farrelly says he asked permission in person at the Beverly Hills Hotel and got it. And nobody can say what the money was.
September 13, 2026 1:25 am
Venice Picks Its Golden Lion Saturday, and the Frontrunner Story Falls Apart on Inspection
Venice awards the Golden Lion on Saturday. Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine is being written up everywhere as the frontrunner, on the strength of a standing ovation nobody can source and an awards conversation about a different prize entirely — while two films in the same competition are rated higher.
September 12, 2026 1:20 am
Korea Spent Its Biggest Budget Ever on Hope. Na Hong-jin Made More Money With $8 Million.
Na Hong-jin has not released a film since The Wailing in 2016. His return, Hope, opens in the US on 9 September on the biggest budget in Korean cinema history — and has so far taken less money at home than the film he made for a fraction of the price.
September 10, 2026 1:10 am
Ryan Reynolds' Best Reviews in a Decade Depend Entirely on Which Website You Open
Ryan Reynolds' Mayday landed on Apple TV at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes — his best score in about eleven years. On Metacritic the same reviews produce a 60, which is lower than Deadpool. Both numbers are real. Only one of them is being reported.
September 9, 2026 1:15 am
Two Star Wars Films Just Reappeared on Paper. Neither Has a Date.
A trade listing dated 3 September put both Star Wars: New Jedi Order and Dave Filoni's long-dormant crossover film back on paper — the first sign of life from either in about a year. It is not a greenlight, and Lucasfilm has said nothing. But these are the two films Kathleen Kennedy pointedly did not discuss on her way out the door.
September 8, 2026 1:10 am
Band of Brothers Turns 25, and the New Documentary Can Only Interview the Actors
Band of Brothers turns 25 on Wednesday, and HBO is marking it with a documentary called Legacy. In 2001 the series came packaged with a film in which the real men of Easy Company told their own story. This one interviews the actors. Not by choice — there is nobody else left to ask.
September 7, 2026 1:05 am
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