‘Soul’ Director Pete Docter & Producer Dana Murray Pay Tribute To Music Teachers & Jazz Musicians After Animated Oscars Win

Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton) has been eager to tell the story of a music-loving kinkajou since 2009. Miranda wrote many of the songs for Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming animated film, Vivo, over a decade ago and then recently reunited with his In the Heights co-writer, Quiara Alegría Hudes, to pull together Vivo’s story.

Tiffany Haddish and LaKeith Stanfield are in talks to star in Disney's remake of 'The Haunted Mansion'. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 'Girls Trip' star and the 'Knives Out' actor are in negotiations to play a psychic who can communicate with the dead and a tour guide in New Orleans’s French Quarter, respectively.

It is turning out to be quite a year for Lin-Manuel Miranda. His Tony-winning In the Heights hit movie screens, his Hamilton has 12 Emmy nominations including one for him, his directorial effort Tick Tick…Boom is about to take off on the fall festival circuit, and he has two animated films including the fall release: Encanto for Disney and the August 6 Netflix release of Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo, for which he not only wrote all the songs but also voices the title role of the lovable kinkajou. If this delightful Latin-flavored toon was his only project, I still would say this has been a very good year for the prodigious artist.

Awkwafina, Sam Rockwell and Anthony Ramos are lending their voices to 'The Bad Guys'. The trio lead an all-star ensemble for the DreamWorks cartoon action-comedy, which is slated for release in April 2022. Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Zazie Beetz, Lilly Singh, Alex Borstein and Richard Ayoade round out the cast...

DreamWorks Animation set its main cast for its upcoming animated action-comedy The Bad Guys. That cast includes Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Anthony Ramos (In the Heights), Marc Maron (GLOW), Craig Robinson (The Office), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2), Lilly Singh, Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Richard Ayoade (Paddington 2).

Bruce, a previously announced new musical based on Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s 1975 memoir The Jaws Log, is resurfacing: Seattle Rep will stage the world premiere next May, the regional theater company announced today. Featuring music by Richard Oberacker and book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor (the team...

EXCLUSIVE: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s leading man Sebastian Stan will star alongside Oscar winner Julianne Moore in Apple Original Film and A24’s Sharper, we can tell you first. Sharper follows a con artist, played by Moore, set in Manhattan’s billionaire echelon. The pic is based on the spec...

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s...

Ever since Guardians of the Galaxy turned him into a superstar, Chris Pratt has almost exclusively tended to operate in the realm of broad, crowd-pleasing blockbusters. There’s no doubting his talents as an actor, but it would also mark a refreshing change of pace to see him do something other than rely on his natural charm, comic timing and charisma on the big screen.

On Saturday, nine local country musicians joined together for a Country Music Songwriters in the Round event, a reccurring event which focuses on different established country artists, at Southern Brewing Company to play songs inspired or performed by both Hank Williams Sr. and Jr. The performers included Rans Thomas, Holman Autry band members Joshua Walker, Brodye Brooks and Casey King, as well as Todd Cowart, Clay Leverett, Adam Poulin, Bo Hembree and Curt Spell, and included both original songs from the members as well as the hit of the two Williamses.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first look at Luzifer, Peter Brunner’s feature inspired by a true story of an exorcism. Dog Days filmmaker Ulrich Seidl produced the movie. Franz Rogowski and Susanne Jensen star in the pic, which follows Johannes, a man with the heart of a child who lives secluded in an Alpine hut with his mother. Daily life is governed by prayer and rituals. But suddenly, modernity intrudes into their world of nature and divine worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.

It has been a tumultuous day in the superhero and sci-fi space: We’ve seen a Black Widow lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson, a Doctor Who shake-up and the UK premiere last night of Warner Bros.’ The Suicide Squad, all of which we talk about on this week’s podcast. We also have producer Peter Safran on how he worked with James Gunn to bring his zany Dirty Dozen-inspired vision for The Suicide Squad to life.

As the pandemic wreaks havoc on festival and release schedules, the box office has returned in fits and starts, but the fall 2021 season brings a feast of plenty. The studios and specialty distributors saved their best for last, from the last Daniel Craig as James Bond event, “No Time to Die” (October 8, MGM/UA), directed by never-nominated Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve’s $165-million space epic “Dune” (October 22, Warner Bros./HBO Max), starring Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Timothée Chalamet, and Zendaya, to Steven Spielberg’s update of the 1961 musical classic “West Side Story” (December 10, Disney), starring Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler. We can count on all three directors bringing their usual visual panache to the big screen.

There was a moment after intermission at Cynthia Erivo’s Hollywood Bowl show when she returned to the stage with no shoes on. She wanted her feet to touch the ground. She was taking everything in, and that called for her heels to come off. Until last week, Erivo had never even set foot in the iconic Los Angeles venue, let alone performed in it.

EXCLUSIVE: Portal A, the production company backed by Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse, has been producing digitally native content for over ten years. The company, founded by Nate Houghteling, Zach Blume and Kai Hasson, now hopes that a deal with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street Films and producing one of Snapchat’s biggest originals to date can help take it to the next level.

EXCLUSIVE: BET Her has acquired festival hit I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking), setting an August 7 premiere date. The SXSW Special Jury Award winner examines the harsh reality of homelessness amid the Covid-19 epidemic. Its protagonist is Danny (Kelly Kali), a recently widowed hairdresser who finds herself living on the...

In the new, six-part documentary series Watch the Sound, Oscar and Grammy Award-winning music producer and artist Mark Ronson dissects the process and evolution of sound creation. He sets the stage by declaring how obsessed he is with how things sound. “Whenever someone sits down to play me a song....

EXCLUSIVE: Korean director Lee Na-Jeong has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for management. Considered one of Korea’s leading female directors, Lee most recently helmed the 16-episode first season of South Korean television series Mine, which is currently streaming on Netflix. Per the logline, in Mine, encaged in a gold-clad life of secrets and lies, two women in a conglomerate family seek to topple all that stands in their way of finding true joy.

Tom Hanks has joined the next Wes Anderson film, Deadline has confirmed. The movie is expected to shoot in Spain. Already on board are Adrian Brody, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton. Anderson will write and direct. First up for Anderson though will be the Oct. 22 release of Searchlight’s The...

In an interview with AARP magazine, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that her 25-year-old child with acclaimed director Christopher Guest is transgender. With their daughter's permission, Curtis made the revelation to the magazine. "We have watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby," the Halloween series star,...