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While playing the same character at different ages as his real-life son Wyatt Russell in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Kurt Russell admitted after watching Wyatt at work that he realized just how good of a performance his son was delivering, and he'd better bring his own A-game to match it. Russell…

EASTER SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Legendary and Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire stomped all over expectations with an $80M opening, the second best start of the year so far, $2.5M behind the $82.5M opening of Legendary’s other big pic this spring, Dune: Part Two. No one saw this coming. As we told you…

Nothing says Easter tentpole quite like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which is set to conquer the world with a box office debut around $135M, bolstered by 63 foreign markets and 3,850 theaters stateside. Warner Bros had great fortune in releasing the Legendary IP during Easter 2021 with Godzilla v…

When movies come out, we grade them with reviews, define them by box office returns or eyeballs on streaming services, and maybe trophies down the line. But every successful, ambitious film starts with a dream, followed by compromise and adversity. Deadline offers the occasional peek into the creative…

Nearly 74 years after the Producers Guild of America was formed, its members learned Sunday night that they finally be getting closer to getting healthcare coverage. PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line announced at the trade organization's 35th annual Award ceremony that the group has…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell Deadline that Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment are in negotiations for an untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu film starring Tom Cruise. The project would mark Iñárritu’s first English-language pic since his 2015 smash The Revenant. The film is produced and directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: The Book of Clarence, the Legendary and Jay Z-produced adventure-comedy, won’t be released in UK cinemas this week as planned.  The biblical epic has quietly dropped off the UK release schedule at the eleventh hour after initially being lined up for a January 19 release by Sony. UK…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear on good authority that Peacemaker star Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen are joining the cast of Warner Bros and Legendary’s Minecraft movie. Jared Hess is directing the Jason Momoa-starring feature take on the classic computer game. Brooks will play the role of Dawn…

Legendary Entertainment has acquired the film, television, and ancillary rights to Paolo Coelho's novel The Alchemist and will steer the feature film development of the project with Sony's TriStar Pictures and Palmstar.  Jack Thorne, who adapted the family hit Wonder, and Netflix’s Enola Holmes, is…

San Diego Comic-Con Hall H had been reserved two Saturdays from now for a presentation by Legendary, which I hear was to strut out Dune: Part Two and the studio’s next Monsterverse movie. However, that’s not happening now due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. UPDATE: ABC’s Abbott Elementary has also canceled…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it's ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track… S…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Sorry to Bother You‘s Jermaine Fowler has been cast in Legendary Entertainment’s redo of 1978 horror movie, Faces of Death. Fowler joins Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah and Charli XCX, who are on sent down in Louisiana on the Daniel…