EXCLUSIVE: Madonna’s successful rollout of her new album, Confessions II, has generated a new TikTok record. The tech company tells Deadline its live event on July 2, the day before the album’s release, drew more than 2.1 million viewers worldwide on TikTok Live, the most ever for a stand-alone…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to genre title Bagworm, the feature debut from director Oliver Bernsen and writer Henry Bernsen. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Sitges Film Festival, where it won the Panorama Section Audience Award, before making…

From Sacramento to Albany and several state capitals in between, regional attorneys general are steeled to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery in an antitrust lawsuit that could hit the courts Monday. Coming as barbed threats circulate that the David…

Warner Bros has just dropped the first trailer for the Tom Cruise-starring, Alejandro G. Iñárritu-directed Digger, and, well, buckle up. Ala Cruise’s major studio boss Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, the actor transforms into another kind of opposite once again: a very blunt Southern-talking, older…

The Peaky Blinders team has paid tribute to Sam Neill after his unexpected death. In a post on the show’s official Instagram page, producers said they were “devastated” by the actor’s passing at the age of 78. Neill starred in the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders as Chester Campbell, an…

Venice has locked the jury members for its Orizzonti and debut film competitions.  The Orizzonti competition will be chaired by French director, actress, and screenwriter Valérie Donzelli, with jury members including American film distributor Peter Becker; the Hong Kong-American director Elizabeth Lo…

The Netflix doc series about legendary football manager Jose Mourinho will launch globally on August 11. In a teaser trailer released today, the same day he begins a second spell as Real Madrid coach, the Portuguese star seen in typically boastful action as he looks through his personal trophy room…

Stephen Chow's first film in seven years, Kung Fu Soccer, scored a mighty opening at the China box office this past weekend grossing $73.6M (RMB500.3M) in just two days (July 11-12), according to figures from Artisan Gateway.  The spin-off of 2001 hit Shaolin Soccer follows an all-female soccer squad…