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EXCLUSIVE: Poorna Jagannathan (Never Have I Ever, Defending Jacob) has joined the cast of the untitled Apple Original Films thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt from writer, producer, and director Jon Watts. Hailing from Apple Studios, the thriller follows two lone-wolf fixers assigned to…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy audition process, sources tell Deadline that Euphoria actor Austin Abrams has landed a coveted role in the untitled Apple Original Films pic starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt with Jon Watts writing, producing and directing. Amy Ryan also recently joined the cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of his breakout comedy Palm Springs, director Max Barbakow looks to have found his next big studio film as he has boarded the Warner Bros. comedy Disaster Wedding. Dave Holstein is currently rewriting the script. The previous drafts were penned by Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Watts has withdrawn as the director of Fantastic Four, the reinvention of the venerable Marvel Comics series at Marvel Studios and Disney. Watts just directed Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film that grossed $1.89 billion to become the sixth highest-grossing film of all…

In the wake of his $1.5 billion grossing Sony Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, filmmaker Jon Watts is boarding New Line’s Final Destination 6 as a producer. Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick are writing the screenplay from a story by Watts based on his treatment. The sixthquel is destined for…

UPDATE, writethru: Sony/Marvel's friendly neighborhood webslinger now leads the No. 4 movie of 2021 worldwide, as Spider-Man: No Way Home overtakes F9 with $751.3M through Tuesday. At the international box office, Peter Parker has also leapt to a new milestone, topping the $400M milestone with yesterday's grosses for…

2ND SATURDAY UPDATE, writethru: Adding another estimated $67M overseas on Friday, Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home has grossed an amazing $181.4M at the international box office through yesterday. With domestic's $121.5M Friday, the second biggest opening day of all time there, the global total is already across…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Studios has landed yet another high-caliber movie package, making a deal for an untitled film that Spider-Man director Jon Watts will write and direct, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt starring. The film will get a robust theatrical release as part of this. The film will be produced by Watts…

Deadline has confirmed that a Jon Watts-directed thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is being bid upon by an array of studios including Sony, Lionsgate, Annapurna, MGM, Universal and Warner Bros on the theatrical side and streamers Apple, Netflix and Amazon. Watts is set to write, direct and produce with…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony is guaranteed to have a huge hit on its hands with Spider-Man: No Way Home this coming December. Like, really huge. After dropping the teaser at CinemaCon and on social media Monday night, the trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home racked up an-all time viewership record of 355.5 million global views in…

Marvel Chief Kevin Feige announced on Thursday that a new Fantastic Four movie is in development with Spider-Man Homecoming filmmaker Jon Watts. 20th Century released three Fantastic Four films starting in 2005. The latest installment in the Fantastic Four franchise which Fox tried to make anew in 2015 with director…

EXCLUSIVE: With Sony and Disney/Marvel having agreed to co-financing terms on the third Spider-Man Homecoming movie Friday, it should come as no surprise to hear that Jon Watts is in talks to return to the $2 billion-grossing franchise he directed. This is great news for fans of the series as it means continuity. The…