News from Deadline - March 30, 2025

John Oliver Responds To Signal Group Chat Leak With His Own Emojis: “Go F— Yourselves, A–holes, Love America”
Just as the fictional Logan Roy once decried his children as “not serious people,” so too did John Oliver blast President Donald Trump’s administration as woefully incompetent, especially in the wake of the Signal group chat leak, revealed by a...
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As ‘The White Lotus’ Nears Its Season 3 Finale, Things Get “Tense” At A “Dope” House Party
SPOILER ALERT: This piece discusses plot points from the seventh episode of The White Lotus. The White Lotus is entering its violence era and things are getting “tense” at Greg/Gary’s fancy party. The penultimate episode is dark with various threats...
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Michael Mann Says He’s Handed In His ‘Heat 2’ Script To Warner Bros.
After confirming late last year that he was close to finishing his screenplay for Heat 2, Michael Mann said he has officially turned in a draft to Warner Bros. In a Q&A with Vulture, the stylistic director behind the Robert...
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Trump Now Claims A Third Term “In A Way Is A Fourth Term” Because 2020 Was Rigged Against Him – Update
UPDATE, 5:48 PM: Donald Trump seemed to joke around with gallows humor before about never leaving the White House now he’s back in power. Today, with some new math deployed, the current President of the United States started sounding like...
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Matthew Lillard On Being “Slightly Terrified” To Return To ‘Scream’ Franchise: “Hope I Don’t F It Up”
Ghostface might like a game of questions here and there, but actor Matthew Lillard is not playing about his return to the Scream franchise. Joining original castmates David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, Dermot Mulroney and Skeet Ulrich earlier today at Hartford’s...
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‘Satisfaction’ Review: Emma Laird Leads Writer-Director Alex Burunova’s Hauntingly Beautiful Portrait Of Trauma — SXSW
Although Satisfaction isn’t always an easy film to watch, it remains steeped in uncomfortable beauty even at its darkest moments. In writer-director Alex Burunova’s feature debut, Emma Laird and Fionn Whitehead star as couple Lola and Philip, two British composers...
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A Star Is Born In ‘Flophouse America’: Captivating Mikal Navigates Poverty And His Parents’ Drinking In CPH:DOX World Premiere
“Who spilled vodka on the cat?” are words that, to my knowledge, have never been spoken in a movie before. Until now. They are uttered by 12-year-old Mikal in the documentary Flophouse America, which just made its world premiere at...
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‘The Encampments’ Documentary On Gaza War Protests At Columbia University Sets Milestone For New Indie Label – Specialty Box Office
The Encampments has turned out looks like the highest per-screen average opening for a documentary with an anticipated $80k+ and sold-out screenings at an exclusive run at the Angelika Film Center in New York. It’s a major step for indie...
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Carrie Coon Says Her Character’s Child In ‘The White Lotus’ Was Written To Be Nonbinary, But Mike White Cut The Scene Following Trump’s Election
Carrie Coon, who portrays one-third of a toxic female friend trio known as the “Blonde Blob” on Season 3 of The White Lotus, said her character Laurie was initially written to have a nonbinary or trans child, but that the...
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Richard Norton Dies: ‘Mad Max’ Actor, Fight Choreographer & Hollywood Trainer Was 75
Richard Norton, a legendary Hollywood trainer and bodyguard, fight choreographer, stuntman and actor in the Mad Max franchise, has died at the age of 75, his wife Judy Green announced on Instagram. “I am numb and devastated, I have no...
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