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In Challengers, Luca Guadagnino serves up a film that is as much about the volleys of human emotion as it is about the physical rallies on the tennis court. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist and penned by Justin Kuritzkes, the film…

Amazon and Lionsgate have struck a content deal in the UK. The partnership will see a wealth of Lionsgate and Starz content featured on Amazon streamer MGM+ including Outlander, Power Book and The Serpent Queen. It is the third instalment in a series of content deals that MGM+ has closed recently…

The Gladiators reboot, which has proved a huge hit for the BBC, has been handed a second season. Ahead of this weekend’s final, the BBC said its first episode is now its biggest entertainment launch for nearly a decade and has almost reached 10M viewers after 28 days. The first series hosted by…

"I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice," Patrick Swayze's James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989. That line from the screenplay co-written by David Lee Henry may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists on Tuesday with a new…

ITV has struck what it says is a first-of-its-kind deal for James Bond movies with Amazon MGM Studios Distribution. The deal will see 25 James Bond movies available to view on both linear and then for 30 days on streaming platform ITVX, and the pics will air multiple times a year. ITV said the…

EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this morning, Amazon revealed that it was laying off several hundred employees across Prime Video and Amazon Studios as part of a review of its business. Details have emerged about the cuts, which were described by one source close to the company as a "bloodbath". Senior execs let…

Prime Video and Amazon Studios will see layoffs affecting several hundred workers, according to an internal memo this morning from SVP Mike Hopkins. In Hopkins’ memo, provided to Deadline by Amazon (read it below), he alludes to a review of the company’s business operations across all of its…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival Everett's 2021 novel Erasure, American Fiction emerges as a hard-hitting commentary on identity…

The indie box office busted out this year, hitting is stride post-Covid with an eclectic string of releases that made a splash artistically and financially. Independents and mini-majors saw $1.47 billion in box office receipts as of Dec. 27, up from $811.7 million in 2022, according to…

Josh Kramer, who produced Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden and Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan and later led sales for Capitol Films before becoming Head of Motion Picture Business Operations at Amazon Studios, has died. He was 67. Kramer died November 27 in Santa…

The first trailer for director George Clooney’s Christmas Day release, The Boys in the Boat, dropped today. The Boys in the Boat is based on Daniel James Brown's #1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics…

Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax have released the trailer for The Beekeeper, the action film that teams star Jason Statham and director David Ayer. The film hits theaters January 12, 2024. Statham stars as a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers." He…