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After spending almost a decade defending the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow, the bat signal may be calling Scarlett Johansson for DC Studios’ latest chapter in The Batman series.
While it is unknown where things stand in the dealmaking process, sources tell Deadline that the Oscar-nominated Johansson is in final negotiations with the studio and director Matt Reeves for one of the new roles in The Batman Part II. If a deal closes, she would join Robert Pattinson, who is set to reprise his role as the Caped Crusader in the upcoming sequel that Reeves is writing and directing. >>>Busy Shooting Schedule |
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Leonardo DiCaprio Q&A - Leonardo DiCaprio discusses Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another, his commitment to sophisticated, auteur-driven adult movies and the outlook for drawing in theatrical audiences. >>>Origin Of "Thank You, Sensei"
Changes In The Corner Office - Scott Mills, President and CEO of BET Media Group, which includes the BET cable network, BET Studios and BET+, is departing after 23 years. BET‘s President of Media Sales Louis Carr will now lead the cable network where he has been for 39 years. >>>Reports To George Cheeks
Yonatan Dor & The Search For An AI Movie - You are unlikely to know the name Yonatan Dor, but there’s a good chance you will have stumbled across his work when roaming the internet. His generative AI creations racked up half a billion views last year alone. Dor says Hollywood studios have now fixed their eye on his output, and he is closer to realizing his ultimate ambition: an artificial intelligence movie. >>> Interview
UK Equity Ballot - Thousands of UK actors could refuse to be digitally scanned on set as the Equity union makes history by holding a ballot of its members from the film and TV industry. As Equity and trade body Pact remain deadlocked over guardrails for AI, the union is taking things a step further by introducing an indicative ballot over the next fortnight for around 7,000 actors. >>>Strike Action Not Being Ruled Out
In Brief - Grasshopper in deal for Adam McKay-produced docu You Need This... Sugar Ray Leonard signs with Paradigm... Jason Momoa joins Luciane Buchanan's Oscar-contending short as EP... Dean Fluker joins WME |
For Chase Infiniti, the future truly is limitless. The 25-year-old Indianapolis native has achieved two major feats in the last two years: holding her own alongside Ruth Negga and Jake Gyllenhaal in Apple TV+’s Presumed Innocent — her first onscreen part — and then playing a key role in her first feature, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor.
Infiniti credits the “sheer determination of a 10-year-old” and living in a “creative-forward household” for setting her on this path. “I never wanted to do anything else,” she says. >>>Interview |
Exclusive After working with them on multiple projects, A24 is now looking to team up two of the town’s biggest rising stars. Civil War star Cailee Spaeny and Queer star Drew Starkey have signed on to the studio’s adaptation of the Holly Brickley novel Deep Cuts.
Exclusive Charlie Plummer (The Long Walk) will star alongside Angelina Jolie in Sunny, the dark thriller riffing on classic mafia films from Norwegian filmmaker Eva Sørhaug (Tokyo Vice, Yellowjackets).
exclusive WWE Superstar and actor CM Punk (WWE Monday Night Raw, Zootopia 2) has joined the cast of the Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki-led Netflix rom-com, based on the Katherine Center novel The Bodyguard.
Andrew Scott has joined HBO comedy series The Comeback's third season. |
QUOTABLE "A torture ritual" - Actress Madelyn Cline on shooting certain scenes of 'Outer Banks,' S5 |
MORE NEWS
📺 CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss will moderate a town hall next week with Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, for a town hall event that will air on the network on Dec. 13.
🧑💼 Adam Aron, CEO of top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment, suffered a minor stroke on Nov. 17 but expects to make a “speedy and full recovery,” the company said Thursday.
✍️ Jon M. Chu has signed a first-look three-year producing deal with Paramount to develop and produce feature film and television projects for the studio. The deal goes into effect January 2nd, 2026.
🏈 This past Thanksgiving, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in what is now the most-watched regular season NFL game of all time, averaging 57.2M viewers on CBS. Per Nielsen, viewership peaked with 61.3M viewers for the game’s thrilling final minutes.
⚖️ One of the doctors who dealt drugs to Matthew Perry just before the Friends star’s OD death over two years ago was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison. With Perry’s mother and half-sister in attendance, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett hit Salvador Plasencia with 2.5 years behind bars and a $5,600 fine.
👀 Donald Trump granted Tim Leiweke a pardon just five months after his administration’s Justice Department charged the live entertainment executive in a scheme to rig the bidding process for a public arena in Texas. Leiweke, a longtime executive in live sports and entertainment who once ran AEG, was charged with a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It carried a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. |
BY THE NUMBERS $616.7M - Global B.O. to date for 'Zootopia 2' |
OBITUARIES
🕯️Steve Cropper, the iconic and influential guitarist who starred with Booker T. & The MG’s, played on many Stax Records hits and with The Blues Brothers band, died Wednesday in Nashville. He was 84. 🕯️Tammie Rosen, who ran communications for Tribeca Enterprises and the Sundance Institute and was known widely in the film and entertainment community, died early Wednesday at 49. 🕯️ Criscilla Anderson, dancer and star of Netflix reality series Country Ever After, has died of colon cancer. She was 45. 🕯️Hollywood Deaths Photo Gallery |
ON THE RADAR
Thu - Red Sea Film Festival begins; Versant and Imax investor days
Fri - Critics Choice Nominations
Sat - Deadline Contenders Film: International; Melissa McCarthy hosts SNL
Sun - Contenders Film: Documentary; Kennedy Center Honors
Mon - Golden Globe nominations; UBS Global Media & Communications Conference begins |
'Jackson' 8 - Daniel Diemer, Aryan Simhadri, Walker Scobell, Ayo Davis, Karey Burke, Leah Jeffries, Charles Bushnell and Dior Goodjohn at the season 2 world premiere of Disney+ original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians held at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |
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