Ryan Coogler On Sundance & ‘Fruitvale Station’ A Decade Later & How ‘Creed’ May Be The Most Park City Franchise Ever

There’s a change at the top of Banijay’s Americas operation.

EXCLUSIVE: Johannes Roberts — the filmmaker behind the shark thrillers 47 Meters Down (2017) and 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) — is reteaming with Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group Motion Pictures on a new film in the genre titled The Red Triangle.

EXCLUSIVE: William H. Macy, Anja Savcic, Andrew Santino, and Lex Scott Davis have joined the cast of Prime Video’s Ricky Stanicky, alongside previously announced cast members Zac Efron, John Cena, and Jermaine Fowler. Details regarding the roles they will play remain under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Adele Lim’s feature directorial debut Joy Ride from Lionsgate will make its world premiere at SXSW on Friday, March 17 at 9pm at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX.

Almost two years ago, Major League Wrestling founder Court Bauer had quite literally buried his face in the sand after learning that Tubi had walked away from their deal to broadcast his sporting events.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing a series adaptation of non-fiction book Empty Mansions, about a wealthy recluse.

TV host Maria Menounos and her husband Keven Undergaro are expecting a child.The 44-year-old Extra veteran and her 55-year-old spouse - who were seen last month after a workout - are using a surrogate, they shared with People on Tuesday.They started IVF in 2012 but it did not take, so they turned to surrogacy several years ago, and after a hiccup, they feel confident they will be parents this year.'Just after a decade of trying everything, we are so grateful to the beautiful family helping us conceive our baby,' she told the site on Tuesday. 'Keven, my dad and I are all beyond excited for this soul to come into our lives.

 Ellen DeGeneres was seen for the first time since renewing wedding vows with wife Portia de Rossi in a star-studded ceremony officiated by Kris Jenner and attended by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The 65-year-old former talk show host was seen without her 50-year-old Ally McBeal actress wife on a solo shopping trip in Southern California on Sunday.Ellen looked casual cool in a green flannel over similar colored top, light grey jeans, and blue sneakers.She accessorized with a black baseball cap over her signature blonde pixie cut and donned a pair of sunglasses. This is the first time the media mogul has been seen since she and wife of 14 years said 'I do' all over again in front of pal Kris Jenner who served as officiant, as well as Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle as guests in their new home on Friday. Big week: Ellen DeGeneres was seen for the first time since renewing wedding vows with wife Portia de Rossi Loved up: The power couple tied the knot again in a star-studded ceremony officiated by Kris Jenner and attended by Prince Harry and Meghan MarkleIt has been 15 years since they first tied the knot at their home in Los Angeles.Portia sweetly was wearing her old wedding gown from when she walked down the aisle to Ellen in 2008.

Onyx Collective has landed a pair of documentaries including Questlove’s upcoming Sly Stone film.

Sheba, a one-hour-scripted drama series, from Chantelle Wells (Yellowjackets), Azie Tesfai (Supergirl) and Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media, is being developed by Onyx Collective for Hulu. The project was announced Saturday during Onyx Collective’s panel at the Sundance Film Festival.

While honoring director Luca Guadagnino at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Dakota Johnson made a joke about his Call Me By Your Name collaborator Armie Hammer.

“I prefer to speak through my movies,” Ryan Coogler told a well-heeled crowd tonight at the late night A Taste of Sundance dinner.

Little Richard left this mortal coil in 2020, but tonight the architect of rock’n’roll is coming to shake up the Sundance Film Festival.

As sellers and buyers roll into the chilly climes of Park City and Sundance starting tonight, a batch of promising films await. Along with hopes of all nighter auctions and the opportunity to find the next CODA. . After a number of conversations with vets on both sides, the simple truth is, we won’t know if there’s a towering deal ahead, until some of the top titles his the screen over the next week.

At today’s opening day Sundance press, Director of Programming, Kim Yutani announced the addition of Doug Liman’s first documentary, Justice, about Brett Kavanaugh.

Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen is on a roll – his English-language debut Drift is premiering at Sundance Film Festival, he has Chinese-language drama The Breaking Ice being readied for festival play later this year, and several other directing projects in different languages at various stages of development and pre-production. 

Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is heading to Utah, not for a game against the Jazz but an event in an entirely different arena: the Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival is still on, but tickets for the Park City shindig aren’t available, at least for now.

EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Logan and Jeri Ryan have joined the cast of Dark Winds, AMC’s Western noir thriller series based on Tony Hillerman’s popular Leaphorn & Chee book series. Logan joins as a Season 2 series regular and Ryan in a recurring role opposite Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon in the series from creator Graham Roland and executive producers George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford.