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Afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here. Cannes is wrapping and we have the very latest from the Croisette, plus a hell of a lot more in this week’s deep dive. Read on. Au Revoir, Cannes Cautious optimism: Diana Lodderhose here, back with week two of our Cannes roundup. For most, this year's festival will be remembered…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Reiner has offered a satirical response to being banned from Russia by Vladimir Putin. The veteran filmmaker, who was a surprise inclusion on a list published by Russia over the weekend, quipped to us: "No comment. Except to say that I'm heartbroken and will have to live with the disappointment." ‘Spinal…

Because the Kremlin apparently has no other pressing issues at the moment, more than 960 Americans have been “permanently banned”  from entering Russia. The list includes such seeming no-brainers as Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, but there’s no shortage of eyebrow-raising names as well. No longer…

Fresh with an injection of $170 million in Castle Rock financing with a lead equity investment from Derrick Rossi — the stem cell biologist who is co-founder of the Moderna vaccine — Rob Reiner is here at the Cannes Market for myriad reasons. One of them is to shoot Sharon Stone in Cannes this week, as part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Cannes Market package for the sequel to the famed rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap is a bigger deal than I originally reported when Deadline broke the story. I’ve learned that CAA Media Finance will be selling rights to the original film as well. The filmmakers hope that both films will be available…

EXCLUSIVE: After relaunching its film division last October, Castle Rock Entertainment has set a first project out of the gate that will have a familiar ring. It’s Spinal Tap II, a sequel to the fabled rock mockumentary that set the film company on a run of hits, many of them directed by Rob Reiner. He made his…

Castle Rock Entertainment, which was co-founded by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rob Reiner, is relaunching its feature division with a $175M film fund under which the studio will develop, produce and finance quality movies for global audiences. Reiner will continue on as Castle Rock CEO, with Michele Reiner and Matthew Ge…

EXCLUSIVE: The Random House imprint Ballantine Books has acquired and set a November 30 publication date in the U.S. for the Mel Brooks memoir All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business. The iconic director, producer, writer, and actor has also recorded an audiobook version that will be released simultaneously…

Archie Bunker might call this “Meathead vs. MAGA.” Rob Reiner said in an interview today that he is working on a “10- to 13-episode” TV project about the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Watch a clip from the sit-down above. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind films ranging from This Is Spinal Tap…

Scripts, notes, photos, film, correspondence and other numerous other artifacts of the late Carl Reiner – some stretching back to Your Show of Shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and earlier – have been donated by Reiner’s family to the National Comedy Center where a new multi-media exhibit on the comedy icon is planned for…

The team behind the iconic 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap — Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest — are getting back together for a virtual reunion/fundraiser October 14 to benefit Pennsylvania Democrats. “Every dollar raised goes directly towards ending Trumpism by winning…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob and Michele Reiner have signed a multi-year overall production and directing deal with Warner Bros Television via their newly formed production company as the duo is reviving the Castle Rock banner. Reiner co-founded indie production company Castle Rock Entertainment in 1987. The company’s more than 125…