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The terrifying first trailer for The Exorcist: Believer has been released!

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks after signing on to lead Reminders of Him, Universal’s adaptation of the novel from It Ends with Us scribe Colleen Hoover, Maika Monroe has found another new project in Place to Be, the latest indie drama from Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó (Pieces of a Woman).

Naman Ramachandran Cannes laureate Kornél Mundruczó is juggling multiple high-profile projects across different continents. There’s the Ellen Burstyn-starrer “Place to Be,” currently filming in Australia, “At the Sea” featuring Amy Adams and now post-production, and a revival of his long-dormant “Elephant Man” adaptation that promises to transform the Victorian classic into a “colorful summer story.” The Hungarian filmmaker, who won the Fipresci prize at Cannes for “Delta,” and the festival’s Un Certain Regard prize for “White God” and gained further recognition with Venice winner and Oscar-nominated Netflix feature “Pieces of a Woman,” is clearly continuing to diversify his portfolio.

EXCLUSIVE: The cast for Kornél Mundruczó’s next feature drama Place to Be, continues to grow, with Primetime Emmy winner Lena Waithe joining Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi, Pamela Anderson and Edgar Ramirez, all of whom we previously told you about.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actor Edgar Ramirez is joining Place To Be, the drama from Kornél Mundruczó, the filmmaker of the Oscar-nominated Pieces of a Woman. The film also stars Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi and Pamela Anderson. Cameras are rolling in Sydney.

Pamela Anderson has found her next role!

EXCLUSIVE: Following her comeback role in the awards season sensation The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson has found her next feature project, and that’s Kornél Mundruczó’s poignant drama Place to Be.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi are set to star in Kornél Mundruczó’s feature drama Place to Be.

Law & Order: Organized Crime is almost back for season five!

EXCLUSIVE: Gail O’Grady, three-time Emmy supporting actress nominee for her role as Donna Abandando on NYPD Blue, has signed with BRS/Gage Talent Agency for representation.

Deadline, which first reported her death.Lavin grew up in Portland, Maine, and moved to New York City after graduating from the College of William and Mary. She sang in nightclubs and in ensembles of shows.Iconic producer and director Hal Prince gave Lavin her first big break while directing the Broadway musical “It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman.” She went on to earn a Tony nomination in Simon’s “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” in 1969 before winning 18 years later for another Simon play, “Broadway Bound.”In the mid-1970s, Lavin moved to Los Angeles.

Nicole Kidman has subtly called out Martin Scorsese for not making enough films that centre on female characters.The actor was being questioned by Vanity Fair about the directors that she would still like to work with in her career, and the Killers Of The Flower Moon filmmaker was one of the names she came up with.However, it appeared to come with a sly comment about his propensity to make predominantly male-centric movies.“I want to work with Martin Scorsese,” she said. “If he does a film with women.”Scorsese built his reputation with a series of films that explored the psyche of complex male characters, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nicole Kidman went viral earlier this year when she was awarded the AFI Life Achievement prize and used her acceptance speech to list every director she’s worked with in her career. It was a remarkable roster of talent, from Stanley Kubrick to Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sofia Coppola and more. But Kidman recently told Vanity Fair that her wish list of directors to work with remains quite long.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Two high-profile UTA execs — partner Andrea Nelson Meigs and co-head of sports Andrew Thau — are leaving the company. In addition, UTA has made a small round of layoffs among its agent ranks. Both Thau and Nelson Meigs will be exiting UTA at the end of 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Talent and literary agent Andrea Nelson Meigs will be leaving UTA at the end of the year. Nelson Meigs, who joined UTA in October 2020 as a Partner following her 14-year run at ICM, is expected to take a hiatus before pursuing opportunities outside agenting, her career for the past 25+ years.

Variety reported Sunday.Just one month before his death, the Golden Globe winner put his ranch on Northern California’s Mendocino Coast on the market for $17.2 million, per The Sacramento Bee. He announced his retirement in a 2021 statement issued by his management, revealing that he had slowly stepped back from the spotlight.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Director Niclas Larsson didn’t hold back when he approached the reclusive Lara Flynn Boyle about appearing in his new film “Mother, Couch.” “I needed someone for the character to be broken,” Larsson says. “Instead of faking a broken person, I did some research of who is really broken, and this is something I’ve been very open with Lara about.” He continues, “I went back to the ‘90s. My mother was a hairdresser and always had all these celebrity magazines.

The Exorcist directed by William Friedkin and written by William Peter Blatty is considered, still, perhaps the greatest horror film of all time, certainly the most popular. The 1973 movie was even nominated for 10 Oscars and won two, unheard of in the genre at that time. It has been endlessly imitated for the past half century right up to now, recently and notably David Gordon Green’s critically reviled 2023 reboot The Exorcist: Believer, which even brought original Exorcist star Ellen Burstyn back into the fold after all these decades. But the OG is impossible to touch, so what was going through Joshua John Miller’s mind when he decided to take on a new film so closely linked to it?

The Exorcist universe is expanding.

Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.Corman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, his daughter Catherine Corman said Saturday in a statement.“He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” the statement said.

CGI movie technology, it is getting harder and harder to deliver that true spine-chilling internal fear that makes horror films so great.Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids may arrogantly scoff at retro scary movies, but it hasn’t always been this way.There was once a time when picture-goers were so viscerally terrified by what they were seeing on the big screen that it would trigger powerful physical reactions right there in the theater.During Jaws (1975) people fainted and vomited in the cinema during some of the gruesome scenes, while others stopped going swimming in the ocean altogether out of pure fear.Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho (1960) sparked mania during the infamous shower stabbing scene, with reports of people hyperventilating and passing out in their cinema chairs.However, one of the most horrifying movies to ever hit the big screen, causing widespread panic, fear and repulsion, is William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).Based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, the film follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.With some wildly disturbing scenes, including some bizarre 360 degree head spinning, eerie spider-walking on the stairs and some disgusting projective lime-green vomit, it shocked those 1970s audiences to their core.One particular vulgar scene involving a crucifix — that is too crude to describe here — shocked and upset many, especially considering the percentage of people who were religious back then.The flick was so scary that even renowned Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert was at a loss for words about how it made him feel.“I am not sure exactly what reasons people will have for seeing this movie; surely

Renowned genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Life of Chuck) is in talks to direct the next Exorcist film for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures, sources have confirmed to Deadline.