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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
Wildwood review counts four Laika Oscar nominations, but the studio is five for five
Deadline's London Film Festival review leaves out The Boxtrolls. It also misspells the book illustrator's name and calls Caleb Deschanel new to animation.
October 15, 2026 12:43 pm
Resident Evil overtakes Weapons as Zach Cregger's biggest hit, but only worldwide
China lifted Resident Evil to $320.2 million worldwide, $8.5 million of it from Australia. At home and against its budget, Weapons still leads.
October 14, 2026 11:38 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
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
Busan's top prize now qualifies a film for the Oscars without its country selecting it
Busan opens on Monday with A-list status and a new power: its top prize now qualifies a film for the international feature Oscar without any national committee selecting it. Two countries with films in this year's competition did not submit to the Academy at all.
October 1, 2026 4:47 pm
The Oscar international deadline closes today and nobody can agree how many countries entered
Submissions for the international feature Oscar close today. Depending on which tracker you open, either 68 or about 87 countries have entered, and four of the biggest film-producing nations in the world are not among them.
September 30, 2026 4:12 pm
Universal passed five billion dollars and two thirds of it came from outside North America
Universal became the first studio to pass five billion dollars at the 2026 global box office. Nearly two thirds of that money came from outside North America, and the studio's own announcement undersells one of its biggest films by sixty million dollars.
September 29, 2026 4:23 pm
San Sebastian gave its Golden Shell to the one competition film three festivals had already shown
San Sebastian gave its Golden Shell to the one film in competition that everybody had already seen. Mike Leigh's Tender Loving Care premiered at Telluride on 4 September, played Toronto and New York, and then took three prizes in Spain on Saturday night.
September 28, 2026 3:27 pm
San Sebastian’s Director Said Three Donostia Awards Were Ideal. He Is Leaving With Two
San Sebastian's outgoing director said in July that three honorary awards were the ideal. His farewell festival closes on Saturday having given two, and nobody has explained why.
September 23, 2026 5:52 pm
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
Martin McDonagh Has Never Won a Golden Lion, and One Live Report Still Says He Just Did
A report published five days ago says Wild Horse Nine won the Golden Lion at Venice. It did not. Martin McDonagh has never won a Golden Lion, and the article is still up with no correction.
September 21, 2026 8:02 am
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
Lee Chang-dong Was Away Eight Years, Not Sixteen, and Burning Was Never Nominated
Lee Chang-dong came back to Venice after eight years and took the Grand Jury Prize. Half the coverage says sixteen years, and the Oscar claim attached to his last film has been wrong since 2019.
September 16, 2026 7:08 am
Venice Gave One Film Two Prizes, and the Rulebook Says It Can
Woman Unknown took the Golden Lion and Best Actress at Venice. The 'first woman to win' line now circulating is wrong by six predecessors, and the double award was not a jury error.
September 15, 2026 1:38 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
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