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Christmas has come early for genre fans this year with the release of MaXXXine, the third and perhaps not-so-final part of a horror trilogy that began in 2022 with X, a splatterfest set in the '70s porn industry. Mia Goth was director Ti West's leading lady, playing both Maxine Mink, the leading lady of…

Ti West's decades-spanning horror trilogy, which began in the late '70s with X (2022) and then jumped back over half a century for the same year's WW1 prequel Pearl, now fast-forwards to the mid-'80s with a capper that requires a little more thought than its gory, crowd-pleasing predecessors. You'd be…

EXCLUSIVE: After spending the past year terrifying audiences and wowing critics, Pearl and X star Mia Goth looks ready to take her talents to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as sources tell Deadline she is set to join Mahershala Ali in Marvel Studios’ Blade. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness premiere of the genre film Pearl, writer-director Ti West has signed for management at LBI Entertainment. He continues to be repped by UTA and lawyered by Stephen Clark. West made some headlines during his Pearl TIFF premiere when…

Monday PM: TriStar’s The Woman King stayed on track with its Sunday AM estimate, coming in at $19.05M. It’s another great example of how Sony continues to win over adult audiences with non-tentpole fare. Pre-pandemic, TriStar had Little Women in December 2019 which posted a 3-day of $16.7M and legged out to $108.1M…

Brett Morgen's kaleidoscopic ode to David Bowie landed at no 10 in North America this weekend, singing up $1.225 million on 170 screens – exclusively Imax (159 U.S. locations, 11 in Canada). The $7,207 PSA for the Neon distributed Moonage Daydream – expanding to about 600 screens next week — was the best of the ten…

A steady flow of specialty films starts this weekend with the return of a key player to cinemas and a broader arthouse slate that will expand steadily into awards season. This is still a weird theatrical landscape but independent distributors and theater owners have agreed for months that there’s no recovery without a…

Ti West's Pearl is full of twists and turns, so it was perhaps no surprise that its star, Mia Goth, chose her words carefully when explaining the film, in which she plays the title character. "Pearl is a young woman who’s quite naïve," she told Deadline's TIFF Studio. "She’s got a lot of ambitions, and as we follow…

The Viola Davis African warrior epic The Woman King —a flashback to the type of historical epics Columbia Pictures has had a long history of notching Oscars with– is looking at a $12M opening this weekend, per Sony, while rivals have it in the $13M-$16M range. While adults made their way back to the box office this…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Ti West tonight unveiled to Toronto viewers at the Midnight Madness premiere of Pearl that there will be a third installment of his hit cult favorite franchise that began with X. Deadline sniffed out that there was a third movie, that will be called MaXXXIne from A24. We are able to give Deadline…

What's the matter with Pearl? Plenty, as it turns out in Ti West's terrifically enjoyable postscript to his spring release X, which saw a 1970s film crew fall brutally afoul of an elderly farmer and his wife while shooting a porno in their barn. Unusually for a horror film, X had the same actress — Mia Goth…

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its second big wave of programming for the 47th edition, a 54 feature title lineup across its Discovery, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths sections. Twenty-six countries are represented in the three programs with the Discovery opening night film being Elegance Bratton’s…