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Disney‘s shuffling of its communications team under new CEO Josh D’Amaro and his communications chief Paul Roeder continues. On Friday, the company said that Nastasya Morauw, VP, Communications & Awards at Disney’s Searchlight Pictures, is moving to become VP, Communications at Walt Disney Studios. In the new role, she will be the primary comms lead for Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios. Related Stories The move comes after Roeder, who is Senior EVP and Chief Communications Officer at the Walt Disney Company, set his team earlier in the week. They include his direct reports David Jefferson, EVP, Communications; April Carretta, EVP, Communications; Carrie…
Two movies redefined superhero cinema forever in the year 2008. Coincidentally, both movies found spots on the domestic PVOD charts this week, as they prepare to celebrate their 18th anniversaries. Nearly two decades have passed since the films’ release, so audiences who remember seeing them in theaters may be surprised. Both movies complemented each other, primarily because they took diametrically opposite approaches to the genre. While one was a colorful, quip-a-minute throwback to the blockbuster cinema of the 1990s, the other was an epic crime drama modeled after Michael Mann’s Heat. The more accessible of the two is Iron Man,…
John Nolan, a British stage and screen actor whose career spanned decades of theater, television and film — including roles in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy and the CBS drama “Person of Interest” — has died at 87, according to the Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald. Born in London on May 22, 1938, Nolan built his foundation in theater, training at the Drama Centre London before launching a career that would take him across some of Britain’s most respected stages. Early on, he toured with a traveling Irish theater company and appeared as Romeo opposite Francesca Annis at Richmond Theatre. Nolan later joined the…
With the second season of Apple TV and Hello Sunshine’s The Last Thing He Told Me drama series drawing to a close today, it only made sense that Deadline got to chat via phone with Lauren Neustadter, President of Film & TV at Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine, about more upcoming shows — book adaptations and not — as well as films in the works, from production on The Nightingale set in Budapest earlier this week. The Tristar feature adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s best-selling novel is another project that took time to pull together with a deal first put…
Will the Coen brothers ever reunite? It’s a question that many fans have been wondering for nearly a decade now after Joel and Ethan Coen went their separate ways following the 2018 release of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. For 30 years, the pair of incredibly talented siblings worked alongside one another, bringing audiences some of the greatest, unique, and well-crafted pieces of modern cinema, but these days they both seem content doing their own thing. What started with the 1984 neo-noir flick Blood Simple quickly blossomed into an empire, with the duo continuing to deliver hit after hit through…
Released in 1940, Pinocchio was Disney’s second animated feature. It tells the story of the title character, a puppet made by the kindly Geppetto and brought to life by the Blue Fairy after he wishes upon a star. Jiminy Cricket, who witnesses the magic, is assigned as Pinocchio’s conscience as he is told he must be brave, truthful, and unselfish if he is to become a real boy. However, temptation makes his path more complicated. Boasting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, it remains one of the best-loved Disney movies, because of its technical wizardry, its moral message, and its classic music.…
Though it was not entirely without precedent as the progenitor of faux-found-footage horror, few films have been more widely imitated than 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project” — if only because its premise was so, well, economical. With no pressing need for FX, sets, name actors or stunts, just about anyone could make a marketable knockoff. Unfortunately, almost everyone did, creating an overtaxed genre where mediocre, sometimes barely-watchable titles far outnumber the few inspired entries. A notch above-average on that narrow scale, but still falling a bit short, is Canadian actor Markian Tarasiuk’s feature directorial debut. “Hunting Matthew Nichols” earns points…
Whether it is a new series like The Madison starring Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer, or Marshals starring Luke Grimes, or more established shows such as the hugely popular Landman, Tulsa King, and Mayor of Kingstown, there’s no escaping the fact that Taylor Sheridan is the king of Paramount+. That being said, the man himself is now set to leave the streamer, officially heading the way of NBCUniversal under a massive long-term film and television deal. Will his shows still prove popular on the streaming site? Most likely, but it will be fascinating to see what happens in this next…
It’s a big week for Barbie Ferreira, who delivers powerful leading performances in two drastically different new movies. With horror reimagining Faces of Death now in theaters, and music-driven romantic comedy Mile End Kicks premiering April 17, the actress spoke to Deadline about “spreading my wings” after leaving Euphoria back in 2022. “It just felt like for me, what I wanted to do is act and be able to do different roles, and if Euphoria was going to serve that for me, I would have happily done it forever, however long it would have been,” she explained. “But It wasn’t…
In an age where it’s far too common to conform to mediocrity and sell out, you have to respect Kevin Costner’s ambition. When he embarks on a new project, he goes for broke. In the case of Horizon: An American Saga, Costner put his money where his mouth was. The actor-director’s audacious vision can amount to unlikely triumphs like Dances with Wolves or grave follies like Waterworld and The Postman. But with each project, he always did it his way. With Horizon, we have yet to see Costner fulfill his vision due to the financial and critical disappointment of Horizon:…