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UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

EXCLUSIVE: C. Thomas Howell (Obliterated) and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) have been cast opposite Ryan Phillippe and Amélie Hoeferle in the feature One Mile and its sequel, One More Mile, from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Paramount's Republic Pictures. Adam Davidson is directing…

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy Award winner Bad Bunny is the latest to join Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky's crime thriller Caught Stealing for Sony Pictures. Aronofsky will direct the pic, which is based on the book by Charlie Huston. The script will be written by Huston, with Protozoa producing. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple and Skydance’s youth empowerment tale Way of the Warrior Kid, based on the 2017 novel by Jocko Willink, has tapped 14-year-old Belfast breakout Jude Hill for its lead role, also bringing on three-time Emmy nominee Linda Cardellini (Dead to Me) for a role. Hill plays Marc, a…

Peacock’s upcoming limited series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy has added Gabriel Luna (The Last of Us, Terminator: Dark Fate), James Badge Dale (Savant, 1923), Michael Angarano (Oppenheimer, This Is Us), Chris Sullivan (This Is Us, Mercy) and Marin Ireland (The Irishman, The Umbrella Academy) to its…

EXCLUSIVE: Piper Curda (May December) is set for a key recurring role in Matlock, CBS' upcoming drama series inspired by the classic TV series of the same name, starring Kathy Bates. From Jennie Snyder Urman, Matlock stars Bates as Madeline "Matty" Matlock, a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved…

EXCLUSIVE: David Koechner (Anchorman) has been tapped for a major supporting role in Tender, a crime thriller from writer-director Adam Hoelzel (Beast of Burden), currently shooting in Los Angeles. Specifics as to Koechner’s role are under wraps. As we were first to report, Jesse Garcia and Jess…

EXCLUSIVE: Molly Gordon (Theater Camp), Logan Lerman (We Were the Lucky Ones), Geraldine Viswanathan (Drive-Away Dolls) and John Reynolds (Search Party) are set to star in Oh, Hi!, an indie comedy written and to be directed by Sophie Brooks (The Boy Downstairs), who conceived the story with…

Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman) has joined the cast of Italian drama The Kidnapping of Arabella by Carolina Cavalli, as it begins shooting in northern Italy this week. The movie stars Benedetta Porcaroli as a young woman convinced she is the wrong version of herself, until she meets a 7-year-old…

Joel McHale (Animal Control) is set to guest star in the third season of Showtime’s Emmy-nominated series Yellowjackets for Paramount+ with Showtime, Deadline has learned. Details as to the role McHale is playing are being kept under wraps. Equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and…

EXCLUSIVE: Mare of Easttown star Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn (Ella McCay) are leading a UK-set romcom for Focus Features, Working Title and Parkville Pictures. CC: Emily is the debut directorial feature project for Alicia MacDonald, who has helmed episodes of Lena Dunham’s Too Much, Stephen…

A seismic shift is about to occur in Port Charles: Kelly Monaco, who plays Sam McCall, is leaving General Hospital. Deadline has confirmed that Monaco, who first joined the ABC sudser in 2003, will leave sometime this fall. Monaco has shot more than 2,200 episodes of GH and has received two Daytime…