Tom Cruise gave Todd Field advice on how to save his film from the grips of Harvey Weinstein

Tristan Thompson is sharing the depth of the grief he is feeling over his mother’s death last month.

Lady Gaga thanked the Academy for nominating her song Hold My Hand from the film Top Gun: Maverick for Best Original Song on Wednesday.This marks the first time any artist has been nominated in the Best Original Song category three times. Gaga, 36, won the Oscar in the same category for her 2019 hit Shallow from A Star Is Born.'Thank you so much to the Academy for nominating my song 'Hold My Hand' for an Oscar this year,' wrote Gaga. Grateful: Lady Gaga took to Instagram on Wednesday to thank the Academy for nominating Hold My Hand for Best Original Song.

EXCLUSIVE: After a fierce bidding battle that followed the rousing premiere Sunday Sundance premiere, Apple is closing a deal for Flora and Son, the John Carney-directed film that stars Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Oren Kinlan and Jack Reynor. Streamers Apple, Amazon battled to the end, and Netflix and Searchlight were all in the mix. Haven’t got a final number yet, but the bidding landed in the vicinity of just under the $20M Netflix paid for Fair Play, I’m told.

Lady Gaga and Rihanna have received nominations for Best Original Song at the 2023 Oscars.

The nominations for the 95thAcademy Awards were unveiled this morning, and while for some like Everything Everywhere All At Once, All Quiet On The Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin  the race to Oscar glory is on, there are some who never made it off the starting line.

Working at the opposite end of the spectrum to Baz Luhrmann, Ireland’s John Carney seems content to make low-key, localized musicals that are almost custom-sized for Sundance. True, some fingers were burned when, perhaps emboldened by the slow-burn success of 2007’s Once, he hired a big star (Keira Knightley), filmed in New York, and endured the full horror of a hands-on Harvey Weinstein release for the bigger-budgeted follow-up, Begin Again, in 2013. After whatever went down on that film, however, he returned to Ireland with a bunch of largely unknown actors for his next and arguably best so far: Sing Street (2016), an underrated romantic comedy about a young man (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) trying to find his identity through his love of music.

Time’s Up is halting operations and shifting its resources to its legal fund. The organization confirmed they were shutting down via their official website and directed survivors of workplace sexual harassment or violence to their legal defense fund site.

Judd Apatow has signed on to host the 2023 DGA Awards set to take place February 18 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. It will be his fourth timing hosting the annual awards show after taking the stage in 2018, 2020 and 2022.'I am so honored to host the DGA awards for the fourth time. If I was ever nominated, I would stop,' the Knocked Up director said in a statement released Thursday.

When you trace the filmmaking career of Todd Field, you start to see how the filmmaker has had just an incredible number of projects fall apart or just not come together. This is shown in his filmography, where there are huge gaps in his output.

If you don’t know the story of filmmaker Todd Field, who directed the critically-acclaimed “Tár” (our review) this year with Cate Blanchett, it goes a little bit like this. An actor in small indies, and some blockbusters (Jan De Bont’s “Twister”), Field moved up to writing and directing and knocked it out of the park on his first try.

Todd Field is recalling the moment he found out that Harve Weinstein’s Miramax had acquired his debut film In the Bedroom at the Sundance Film Festival and how Tom Cruise’s advice saved him.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.

The Screen Actor’s Guild had their year-end say at sunrise and a few hours later, the Directors Guild of America revealed their own nominees for the 2023 DGA Awards. For the most prestigious honor, Theatrical Feature Film, the nominees are Todd Field (“TAR”), Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”), Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) and Steven Spielberg (“The Fablemans”).

The Directors Guild of America has nominated Tár‘s Todd Field, Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joseph Kosinski, Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, The Banshees of Inisherin‘s Martin McDonagh and The Fabelmans’ Steven Spielberg for the top feature film prize at its 75th annual DGA Awards.

Leah Remini gave a big thumbs up to the Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael on Tuesday after he referenced a controversy close to her heart.The 35-year-old comedian delivered jokes during the ceremony aimed at Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise, who had previously returned his Globes to protest the Globes' lack of Black voters, while also referencing Scientology leader David Miscavige and his wife Shelly Miscavige.Shelly has been alleged to be missing and has not been seen in public since August 2007, though police have been satisfied that she is not missing.Remini — who previously filed a missing persons report for the long-unseen Shelly — tweeted her support for Carmichael's joke, which occurred just before he introduced members of Top Gun: Maverick's cast. Pet issue: Actress and Scientology defector Leah Remini, 52, gave Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael, 35, a thumbs up after he poked fun at noted Scientologist Tom Cruise and Scientology leader David Miscavige's allegedly missing wife Shelly on Tuesday; seen in 2019'Backstage, I found these three Golden Globe awards that Tom Cruise returned,' Carmichael said while carrying the awards in his arms.The comedian — who began the show by poking fun at the Hollywood Foreign Press's race issues — added: 'I’m just the host… but I have a pitch. I think maybe we take these three things and exchange them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige.' Cruise did not attend the ceremony.  It's not clear if Carmichael was insinuating that Cruise might have some knowledge of Shell's whereabouts.

The host of this year’s Golden Globes took a shot at the Church of Scientology and referenced its longtime leader’s allegedly missing wife on Tuesday night.

Back in action! The Golden Globes are returning to NBC after the 2022 broadcast was pulled amid controversy.

Cate Blanchett has been promoting her new film Tár which is up for many awards this year.On Monday the beauty looked stunning on the cover of one of W Magazine's Best Performances issue covers. In the interview, the actress, 53, rocked a chic black dress and a messy blonde bob as she spoke about Tár.After the release last year, she was rumored to be landing her second Oscar award for Best Actress as her performance portraying Lydia Tár - a brilliant composer and conductor in the psychological thriller drama.

The National Society of Film Critics has named Tár as Best Picture in the group’s 57th annual vote Saturday. The results were announced on Twitter.