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The nearly two-year old dogfight between Paramount and the family of the writer of the 1983 article that inspired the franchise is over, at least for now. In an order released late on April 5,  U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson grounded the copyright infringement, breach of contract, and…

Lewis Hamilton is producing a Formula 1 movie with Joseph Kosinski starring Brad Pitt. The British racing star could have worked with the filmmaker on Top Gun: Maverick had it not been for his conflicting work schedule. In a new interview, Hamilton revealed he lobbied Tom Cruise to star in a…

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: Christopher McQuarrie has major change in his representation. He has left CAA, his longtime manager Ken Kamins at Key Creatives, and his attorney David Fox. I’m told he will be represented by Matt Galsor at Greenberg Glusker. He is the attorney for Tom Cruise, with whom McQuarrie has been a…

The closest comp to Ed Zwick’s new memoir Hits, Flops And Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood is William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade, where he posited a definitive piece of advice on the elusive formula for hit making: “Nobody knows anything.” Although he didn’t create the…

Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning will begin streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday, January 25 in the U.S. and Canada. The film, which has a slight title tweak with Part One dropped, will premiere in additional Paramount+ international markets beginning in February 2024. Directed…

Even though Tom Cruise inked a non-exclusive pact at Warner Bros earlier this week, it looks like he’ll continue to be busy with Paramount for some time. Reports tonight are that Top Gun 3 is in development at Paramount with Top Gun:Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger currently writing a draft. The word…

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and the Motion Picture Group's co-chairs and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have hammered out a new strategic partnership deal with Tom Cruise that takes effect this year. The $13 billion-grossing star and producer will develop and produce original and…

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham has “no time” for those who would denigrate Tom Cruise. Waddingham has been filming scenes with Cruise for the concluding installment of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which is set to be released in 2025. Appearing on the ITV series James Mar…

Rebecca Ferguson has joined the long queue of co-stars and creators lining up to doff their caps to Tom Cruise's extraordinary work ethic. Ferguson has become a fixture of the Mission: Impossible franchise since 2015, starring as daredevil secret agent Isla Faust in Rogue Nation, Fallout and Dead Reck…

Word is circulating online that A24 wants Darren Aronofsky to turn the Walter Isaacson authorized biography on Elon Musk into a feature film. This comes as Apple is working toward the same goal with fallen cryptocurrency kingpin Samuel Bankman-Fried based on the subject-friendly Michael Lewis book Going…

UPDATED with church response: The relations between Leah Remini and her former friends in Scientology have been bitter for a decade, as the actor's harassment lawsuit against the church this week made clear. On Thursday, in an invective-filled response to that suit, the David Miscavige-led…