‘Diablo:’ Action Pic Starring ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Actor Scott Adkins Lands NA Rights Deal And Adds To Cast

Darryl Hickman, a child actor in Leave Her to Heaven and The Grapes of Wrath, died at 92 on Wednesday, May 22, his family said. No cause was given.

The Match Factory has finalized a raft of international deals for Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes Palme d’Or contender The Substance, following its buzzy premiere over the weekend in the presence of co-stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid.

Kristin Chenoweth is dishing on the upcoming Wicked movie!

Fans of Clarkson's Farm were gobsmacked when Kaleb Cooper, the show's 25-year-old farming sensation, posted a clip of his little one, Oscar, taking over the tractor controls this week. Kaleb has become a familiar face on Jeremy Clarkson's hit Amazon Prime Video series, which follows the TV personality's foray into farming in Oxfordshire.

EXCLUSIVE: One of the market’s biggest-budget projects, the Will Smith action-crime thriller Sugar Bandits, has sealed multi-million dollar deals across the world for AGC ahead of a planned September start date.

Michaela Zee A24 is closing an eight-figure deal to acquire the U.S. rights to Ruben Östlund’s “The Entertainment System Is Down,” Variety has confirmed.

You know a movie has left a big impression at Cannes when the applause explodes in the press room as the cast files in. Such was the case Sunday morning for Emila Pérez.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Focus Features has bought international rights to “Hamlet,” Aneil Karia’s London-set modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s famed play starring Oscar winner Riz Ahmed. Morfydd Clark (“Saint Maud,” “Rings of Power”) and Joe Alwyn (“Kinds of Kindness”) also star in the film, which wrapped production at the end of last year and was acquired by Focus Features some time ago. CAA is repping North American rights, while WME Independent handled international sales.

Marta Balaga Spanish director Jonás Trueba wants you to celebrate the endings, not just the beginnings. That includes the demise of a serious relationship, because Ale and Alex (Itsaso Arana and Vito Sanz) have been together for 15 years. Now, they want only two things: to go their separate ways and to have a proper fiesta.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Johnny Depp-directed film “Modì,” about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, has secured a distribution deal in Italy, where it will be released by emerging production/distribution player Be Water. Above is a first-look image from the set of the film, which is now in post.

EXCLUSIVE: The novel Next to Heaven hit the market this week. Written by Anonymous, it’s a social satire that is being shopped by WME simultaneously for both a publishing deal and a film/TV deal. The TV deal has just closed, and the publishing deal will be next.

The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) has appointed Neishaw Ali, President of SPIN VFX, as its new chair and added Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro to its executive board.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter It’s been less than two years since the close of Nexstar’s acquisition of The CW and the network’s primetime slate could not look more different. In addition to the broadcaster’s shifted focus to sports, unscripted fare and foreign imports/co-productions, The CW will soon be getting into the original TV movie business.

Ariana Madix teamed up with Duracell once again to take another swipe at her ex-boyfriend, Tom Sandoval, in a commercial. But she got the help of a special guest this time!

At the beginning of the year, Chad Stahelski signed a deal with Lionsgate to be the creative leader of the “John Wick” franchise and any spinoffs that will be coming. We already know that “The Ballerina” is on the way, but it looks like Stahelski is ready to unveil the newest spinoff from his incredible action franchise.

Donnie Yen has inked a deal to reprise his role as Caine, the highly skilled, blind assassin introduced in John Wick: Chapter 4, in a new film from Lionsgate set to shoot in Hong Kong next year, the studio announced on Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group is launching international sales on the action film Alarum starring Sylvester Stallone, Scott Eastwood, and Willa Fitzgerald, which has just wrapped principal photography. 

The finale of the new NBC series Deal or No Deal Island aired this week and the winner was revealed. There was even a twist at the end!

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Facinelli, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Stephen Dorff, Neal McDonough and Nathaniel Arcand have boarded Marc Furmie’s sci-fi action thriller Viper, which is being sold in the Cannes market by Solone.

Director Brian Levant reveals in a new interview that John Goodman did not want to reprise his role of Fred Flintstone in a sequel to the 1994 film, The Flintstones.