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EXCLUSIVE: Milana Vayntrub has boarded the Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming movie Project Hail Mary, joining previously announced cast members Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directing the film from a script by Drew Goddard. Producers include Amy Pascal via Pascal…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Challengers. Luca Guadagnino, director of Challengers, inadvertently linked his latest film to the Spider-Man universe by having Zendaya be that connection. Zendaya plays MJ opposite Tom Holland in the latest Spider-Man movies, and she is…

Zendaya landed her big breakout film when she was cast opposite Tom Holland in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. However, producer Amy Pascal said neither she nor Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige knew who the star was when she auditioned for the role of MJ. "She was wearing no makeup and she was…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and producer Amy Pascal have emerged victorious in a spirited book-rights auction for How to Rule the World: Yacht Parties, Culture Wars and the Downfall of a President at Stanford. Written by Theo Baker, book tells his story of being an 18-year-old freshman at Stanford who wrote a…

The Costume Designers Guild has fitted Andrew Garfield for its 2022 Spotlight Award, and Spider-Man producers Amy Pascal and Rachel O'Connor will receive its Distinguished Collaborator Award at the 24th annual CDGA next month. The guild also said today that Emmy winner and two-time Oscar-nominated costume designer…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This week, interviews with Amy Pascal, Daniel Craig and Cary Joji Fukunaga on finding elusive Oscar love for the two buzziest blockbusters of the year, plus why Oscar screenplay frontrunners aren’t eligible for the WGA Awards, and why March is…

With Spider-Man: No Way Home now out in theaters, Disney and Sony are “actively beginning to develop” where the web-slinger’s story goes next, says Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. Feige’s comments came in an interview with The New York Times published Friday, for which he sat down with former Sony exec and…

Tom Holland will be trading his webbed Spider-Man suit for a pair of dancing shoes to portray Fred Astaire in a new biopic from Sony, the English actor revealed. According to sources, deals for the project are still being finalized. Sony declined to comment. “Oh, I am playing Fred Astaire,” Holland told the AP while…

Spider-Man producer and former Sony Pictures Boss Amy Pascal says that a new Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man trilogy with Tom Holland is in the early works, one that keeps the Culver City lot and Disney’s Marvel working together beyond their already contracted Spider-Man: No Way Home which is poised to be a…

EXCLUSIVE: With her Emmy-winning show Pose coming to an end, writer/director Janet Mock looks to have found her follow-up feature. She has signed on to direct and rewrite The International Sweethearts of Rhythm for Sony Pictures. A previous draft was written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks with Amy…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has purchased screen rights to The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, the new book by Michael Lewis about several U.S. heroes who, in the early days of Covid-19, tried to sound the alarm about the dangers of underestimating the deadly seriousness of the killer virus. Phil Lord & Christopher…

A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy of destructive cyberattacks including of Sony Pictures Entertainment, AMC Theatres and Mammoth Screen. The list of crimes cited by the Department of Justice includes the cyberattack on Sony…